Annoucing my.......................

new name  for the lil business i am trying to grow.............

Smiles & Memories Photography  is now.......................

Priscilla Christine Photography

I was originally going to go  with JaDale Photography( my 2 boys names morphed together)
but decided  not too

I have been hearing for weeks , the last time  i heard it was from Lindsey  Adler  on  Creative Live  that you need to  have all your names online lead back to you and associate the photography name with you for instant,  smiles & memories could be associated with anyone....anywhere of the world.

So since i have 2 middle names and Priscilla Marie  is taking and Olivia Marie was taken, i decided to use my late mothers  middle name as part of my new name- hence  PRISCILLA CHRISTINE

I will  slowly be changing everything , branding and getting a newq website and possibly a new blog too...

For now  stayay awesome and Happy Tuesday! If you are in Cali make sure you go  out and VOTE!!!!!!!!!!

M y domain issue.. is resolved!!!!!!!!!

Well  , here what happened when  i  went to  purchase the new domain,  i misspelled the email addy and the domain name so  i got it all figured out now.. LOL  Only i could  do  something like this lol....So i  offically have my new domain,  cant wait to get the website,  n blog  and branding up...Hopefully   my face book fan page will be changed soon....I already made a temperary  watermark  fo  putting them on my immages wheni  edit.I am glad  i  am changing  the name Smiles & Memories just didnt fit ME  anymore...

Wow What a year.......

I  cant believe  this time last year  i  was in Michigan  getting ready to capture  my first wedding. I was a bundle of nerves  and  really Stressed out.. I wanted  a wedding  BADLY  and  no one had yet to give me a chance  to either capture a wedding or 2nd shoot a wedding.When my friend Lisa asked me  to  be her photographer for her wedding i was so  HAPPY , finally i was getting my chance.This wedding i felt was either going to help take off my " business" or  it was going to be and EPIC FAIL. Sadly because of this wedding i gained nothing but  the  experience  from it and meeting my good friend and making new friends with her friends.I  know  that the  couple   loved the  pictures BUT for myself  only a few i like and  that i think turned out good. .The  others i'm rather  not happy with .I guess i am being too hard on myself  but  at the end of the day i know i did my best and that you gotta start somewhere.Lisa and Kevin t hank you again  for entrusting me  on your special day.HAPPY ANNIVERSARY


In honor of thier wedding here is a  video slideshow  i made......

i think you may hove to  copy the url or  see the video below (  the previous blog post)
http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=10ed19f7fc63ba2f3c94927&skin_id=601&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

Happy Monday!
xoxox

Priscilla

LISA &KEVIN GET HITCHED! 5/28/2011 at OneTrueMedia.com

Make a video - it's fun, easy and free!
www.onetruemedia.com

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okay so i  am gonna try to blog everyday and sometimes i will need to  compose the blog the night before or whatever so i  am rtesting out how to set up a blog post to post a certain day and time here goes lol

Finally Resting...........

We were finally able to  to have my father buried with my mom on Monday , May 14th, 2012  64 days after he allegaidly died.It was bittersweet and gave us some much needed closure.Although I'm not really sure you can get closure when you are the family of  someone who has been murdered.Having him  finally put in the ground was  a huge weight lifted because we have been holding onto his remains and it was  very hard to bear that we had to cremate him rather than have him buried. the way he wanted and had planned for.....Funny how life throws you such curve balls.i'm only sharing this because  this is me, this is real and im not ashamed to say whats on my mind

Life after The Fix & THE FIX.....In SF

Wow so  this blog post is way overdue..  But you know  what they say better late than never. LOL.

Here's a little history behind how I discovered Jasmine Star.I got my first DSLR in March  2010,  In June  of that year we took  a day  trip  to  San Fransico .We went to  go  eat at SAM WO and the next table across from us , there was 2  gals with thier cameras ( mind you i had mine too) , we made small talk and they asked me if i was a photographer and i said no  i  just had my camera a couple months I'm still learning, they said they were and that they were going  to  a workshop soon  .At this time i just shrugged off the whole workshop thing and told them I was hoping to become a pro.So we exchanged numbers and i found Stephanie on Facebook when we got home that night, Well on her page was a pic of her and Jasmine Star so I'm guessing  that's whose workshop they went too. I had never heard of her before so i  either googled  JASMINE STAR  or  looked her up  on Facebook via her fan page.I can't even tell  you how long I  looked at her STUFF,   I was in awe!!!!!!So that's my history.  I have been a fan of hers  since then....

 here's a  pic i  took  that day   in SF( excuse the bad picture quailty) LOL 

So fast foreward to  Jan/Feb 2012 -I like many other avid Jasmine Star  fans heard  that she was going on on a 12 city speaking tour.I hoped that 1 of the 12 cities  She  was  coming to was near me ..My choices were either SF OR LA .So i was determined that's what  I wanted for my 35th birthday a ticket to  THE FIX  in  SF.The SF date was  3 days before my birthday.I knew i  had to wait for my taxes to  be available before i  could by  the ticket .Well  that day came  and I  frantically went online to  try and get my ticket.. anddd  the dreaded SOLD OUT  was smack dabbed right in  frount of me on the computer screen.I was crushed ,  So now IF  wanted  to  go to  the FIX  now I was gonna have to  go to it in  LA and i  knew there was no  way i  was gonna get my hubby to agree to that.So  i started  thinking  how am i gonna get my ticket to SF.  I luckily was able to find 1 for sale.,now my next obstacle  was how was i gonna get there??? driving my car was out, him taking me was out  because of the kids.. SOOO. luckily a fellow photog from Chico area was selling her ticket and a girl commented that she might want to  get it ,  I messeaged her and said if you are able to  get  the ticket can i ride with you and i'll  buy you lunch and pay 1/2 of the gas, SHE SAID YES  and  So  she got it (the ticket)  and i got my ride..  TY Cynthia! We decided to  meet beforehand ,so it wouldn't be so awkward  , you the whole rifding with a complete stranger bit  LOL. We met the thursday before the FIX..

THE FIX was so  amazing , we made it  into a day trip because we had places to go and people to see, LOL. We went to an amazing bread place and had some amazing clam chowder, looked at lenses,  then went to the TACO  BAR get together  at Robyn's loft.. that was an amazing time too.  We  met alot of awesome people  that we had been talking to online via the SF FIX Facebook group.

The last year or so, i  have been so self concious  about  myself , mainly because of my looks and my weight issues.I  was really intimadated to  put myself out there to  talk to  Jasmine or other photographers just because in the past i  have pretty much been shot down So the whole idea of going to  the fix and the meetup, etc makes me nervious.I literally had to  get  on my big girl panties and just do it and  I'm glad  i   did.I feel i  have made a few new friends along the way who share my passion and that's all I've really wanted since  i started this journey  and time  and time again i have had the worst luck  ever befriending   fellow photographers.I have never had  this much of a hard time making friends before and its been extremely  stressful trying to make friends with fellow photogs,  that was until the FIX....

A few things i  took away from the FIX is the fallowing:

Practice, Practice, Practice.....DUH WINNING... lol - I am so guilty of  of saying i'm gonna practice but actually not doing  it LOL...

template emails- CAN I SAY  LIKE TOTALLY  AWESOME!   this is something i plan to put into use very soon!

What  can i  learn from my struggle?  EVERYTHING!
another highlight from the FIX  was our surprise FLASH MOB!!!!! I still can't believe I was a part of that LOL.....

AFTER THE fix , I was literally on a " Jasmine Star  High" I had to  work the next morning &  I was bouncing around and giddy like a teenybopper  who  had just met Justin Beiber  LOL.I   had  intended  on  submitting my video for a chance to go to   JASMINE STAR'S CREATIVE LIVE'S WORKSHOP. I had  exactly what i was gonna say and my hubby was gonna help  me make it on Thursday  , 3 days after the FIX, we were gonna make it before i went to work , But 2 days after the FIX . i  recieved the worst news ever concerning my dad,  My 2 day jasmine star  high was over,  everything as  i  knew it was diffrent, for a few weeks after the news about my dad and the FIX  i  felt that all  my friendships were put on hold, everything as i knew it stopped...I had  a few practice sessions and they all but 1 fell thru. A part me started feeling like people were somewhat avoiding me like the plague or something. I know it was  probley more in my head than anything LOL. I have gotten back out and started shooting and practicing again.I don't wan to  be pityed and i don't want  people to feel  sorry for me. this is my 3rd person  I have lost, well 4th  now .. My dad would not want me to just stop everything, He would want me to get out and enjoy life and do what i love  I guess what i'm trying to get across is Life is too  short....As frustrating as it was to lose potential sessions i  know when the time is  right i will have sessions again until then i will just find me an orange tree :)

JASMINE, if you are reading this I am so grateful  and honored I got to meet you and JD .It was the best birthday presant ever.So glad i celebrated it early like i did LOL. Thank you for being you,  for  being real and  for being so awesome! I hope our paths cross again soon!

Here are some pics from  our day in SF AND THE FIX...

Mark   is so awesome!  he was one 1 of the 6 lucky ones who will be with Jasmine this weekend for her workshop in Seattle..Yes I'm green with envy LOL j/k!

Me when i first met  Jasmine.... xoxox

Andddd that would be me and Jasmine! WOOT, WOOT! XOXOX

My friend Cynthia with Jasmine

Me and JD  (  her hubby) 

Jasmine doing her thang!

THERE YA HAVE IT, THANKS FOR READING!

XOXOXO

Priscilla