Hump day blues....

Today has been a day of ummmm thinking. Trying my best to get my name out there for people to see and to enjoy my photos. So till the first of December I am having a special. Details below!

I will do the complete 2-3 hr Engagement or Trash the dress photo shoot.

Password protected online gallery for you and your family to view and/or buy more photos.

$200 setting fee which is credited if you want buy at least 2 albums or photo packages!

I keep rights to the pictures to use as promotional products for my photography business.

Here are a few package prices if you like the images:

Engagement Photo guest book $50 with 10-20 of your favorite images.

8x6 20pg proof book of most of your images $50 with custom cover of one of your images.

1-8x10 2-5x7 8-wallets professional prints $70

Disk with all your images unedited $100

Disk with all your images edited $150

Ben and Summer

Well long time no blogging...sorry for that been away from internet for a while... To those who have contacted me ....I will be sending out replies ASAP!

Now to see why I have been delayed in blogging here is some of my favorites from Ben and Summer's wedding. It was a beautiful day, though it was a bit warm, I was honored to snap a few pictures for some great new friends!

Referral Videographer!

I want to let any bride that is looking at my blog know that I will have a tag especially for the referrals recommend personally.

These referrals are someone that I trust and that will help you make your special day perfect!

Now my first referral, is a videographer!

His name is Kurt from www.pghtelemedia.com. His site is currently under construction. But you can email him directly at kurt@pghtelemedia.com.

Just tell him Shelly referred ya!

Side trip to Wheeling

Well things got turned around and I didn't go camping this weekend. Though I was on my way back home after I turned around and got rerouted through downtown Wheeling, WVA. Now let me tell you this town is just weird and interesting at the same time. Each block it seems is stuck in time. There was a section that look like the 50's and then the New Orleans section, and then like victorian... But for a photographer trying to kill some time it was very interesting to walk around and shoot pictures.

Out of town

Just to let anyone who wants to know I will be out of town from Friday till Tuesday and I will not have ANY internet access or cell signal... Going camping by my Mom's with my daughters out in BFE!

See ya all on Tuesday with some fun shots of my girls!

Pregnant man!?!?

I know or at least I think everyone is seen the news about the pregnant man. I think it was a miracle for this couple to have their own child in an unconventional way. But it really bugs me that these people are spreading their life out to the public. It makes me wonder what their motives are. He has been on Oprah and now he is going to be in People! Come on this kid is going to be picked on like a mother because his Dad gave birth to him... Now you are going to flaunt him all over the TV like some freak show at the circus!

UGH....my watermark...logo....or what ever it is

Ok so I am loving the new watermark thingy (yeah I am all about being technical). I love the Simply Shelly Lynn as a division of AT Studio Designs. I didn't want to give up AT because of the fact my soon-to-be husband is wanting to do something with me once I get this biz up and going and we can use AT and have our own little part of it... He likes to do the DVD slide shows so that might be his little job to make him part of the AT team! And I can be Simply Shelly!

Alright I will stop babbling and get to the point. I can not get consistency with the size of my watermark. Looking at my blog I see some are smaller than others. I am new to blogging so I need to find the right size pictures for my blog then make the watermark fit that size. I guess this is all a learning curve...Please be patient with me while I learn the world of blogging!

Polaroid of the day & boggy computer!

Here is my Polaroid of the day from this morning! I always have my camera sitting out on the table for shots just like these! Jim didn't want to show off his lovely bed head...Though Lucy was all about getting Daddy's coke after she finished her yawn!

Ahhhh!

Now...I have to whine about my boggy laptop... Yeah Yeah I know I need to get on the Mac wagon. But it will have to wait till I get a few other things first... UGH! So last night I was playing with some images that I shot at the dog park and my laptop while watching my new favorite TV show The Cleaner (I know kinda ironic LOL) on the trusty DVR. And pops up this little icon saying something about running out of space! So I go take a look at what is up and I had only 2.1G of my 60G hard drive free... OMG! So I went on a junk mission. First stop was deleting all the stupid programs that I tried and hated taking up space...Well that freed up about 6G. Now what???? So I go hunting through my document and low and behold I find a DivX file which had 8G!!! of BS tv shows I watched on tv-links.uk that got pulled after some higher up found out this dude had almost anything you could possibly want in TV shows and movies that you could think of. I used it a lot when I was traveling and the hotel tv sucked! But I didn't know that this thing downloaded the movie to my computer...oh well. So when all said and done I freed up 14G of space in a matter of 30 min and now my poor puter is running smooth again!

Lucy's first trip to the dog park...

Let me introduce you to Lucy (her nickname is Blue...story to come later) and her Daddy. (Jim doesn't have any kids so Lucy is his baby....I will tell ya about cheeseburgers later) For those who want to know Lucy is a Toy Fox Terrier and she is about a year and a half old. I rescued her from a shelter in Indianapolis, In after her mother had been in a puppy mill and the owner passed away. They sent the mom and Lucy to a shelter where I found her. When I brought her home she was only as big as a dollar bill! Look! (sorry bad cell phone pics)

















She is my best friend and a great model for trying out new ways to shoot with my camera. (she doesn't like the flash but she deals cause the treats are what makes her happy LOL)




So the other day Jim and I took her to the dog park. This was a fun experience for Lucy since she never usually gets off her lease at home. She is a runner! So off we go and she loved it except for the big dogs. I wish I could have gotten a shot of her playing dead anytime a big dog came around her. Or when the little pug mix decided Lucy was a tree and "made his mark" LOL. Oh well you will have to settle for her posed shots here LMAO!


Oh I got a kick out of the water fountain thing they have there (I had never been to the dog park either LOL) Take a look at the picture and see how ironic it is!

More of my favorites

A few of my favorite sunsets!

My mother's vibrant flower garden...This woman can grow anything!

Do you know what these berry things are... They are growing out of my rock wall in my back yard. They start out as purple flowers, then green berries, and they the berries turn red like little tomatoes. Who knows but they photography well!



I shoot a lot of inanimate objects that don't make any sense but the composition just catches my eye! Enjoy!