Okay, so I don’t quite have the flow of this blogging thing yet!  The new studio has kept me pretty busy and I’m trying to figure out when to get these blog posts in as well!  Being busy is a good, good thing–don’t get me wrong there!  A few weeks ago I had the most amazing week.  It began with a great newborn/family session in the new studio:

Soon I hope to have a slideshow feature so you can see more of the images from this shoot—it’s a great example of the capabilities of the new space.

Two days later I got to photograph the amazing birth of Evan, a 10.5 pound baby! Fast and beautiful (especially since I was using my new light with the “beauty dish“) It’s always an honor and a priveledge to be so close to the beginning of life.

And to finish the week off, I was asked to photograph my good photographer buddy Jane Lavendar’s union ceremony.  It took place on the top of the bluff at Capen Park at sunrise.  It was a beautiful ceremony full of love, friendship, kleenex at the appropriate moments and SONG!  All day long I found myself singing the ending song:  “I can see clearly now, the rain has gone…”

Here’s Jane and Sharon singing along:

What a week!  I think I have the best job in the world!

–Stacie

An amazingly fun, stress free photo shoot!  I should also mention we were at Shelter Garden, had a picnic dinner and a bottle of bubble solution.  I think there was also a promise to eat the ginger bread house if things went well….The evening was the first dry night in what seemed like weeks!  It was such a perfect evening for a picnic and for taking pictures.  This is a really fun family and I happen to know them all well.  Both sets of grandparents live out of state but come to visit often.  The family wanted to capture the overlapping visits this time and I think we did a remarkable job of capturing the love this family has for each other *and fun* they have together. 
  
This is one of my fav’s of the boys.  
 
You can just feel how much these guys love each other.

The middle image is Javier holding a HUGE chunk of smoked gouda. (I told you it was a good picnic!)

Love that bubble solution! So often, at a photo shoot, the bottle of bubble solution becomes a source of a power struggle….so I don’t pull one out very often. In this case-I couldn’t be happier that I had one with me.

In the past week, Isaac (our 3.5 year old) has captured (for very brief visits) 3 tree frogs and a toad.  The coolest thing about the tree frog was getting to see it’s throat blow up like a balloon when it “chirped”  Wow!  Yesterday he discovered a cocoon (egg?) of spiders just hatching.  It was amazing to see the hundreds of tiny -pin head sized- spiders all clumped together and then within hours they had constructed the most amazing ‘web highway’ all around the stump circle we have around our catalpa tree.  Just now, he brought me this lovely toad and I got a chance to take a few pictures this time.  Enjoy!       

I am so grateful to live in Columbia, MO.  Yesterday was so full of fun activities to do with my family!  The university had several different activities going on all day.  We could only go to two of them, missing the black and gold game.  We started by going to the Physics department open house where we marveled at so many cool exhibits that we could touch and explore, including the archimedes principle and a variety of examples of how different types of waves travel through space.  Next we enjoyed a cool and misty and sometimes rainy walk through campus to get to Adventures in Education hosted by the MU Graduate School as a part of Graduate Education Week 2008.  A big Thank You goes out to all the students and faculty who put this together.  We learned a LOT, had a bunch of FUN and got to eat free Icecream…what could be better?  Our favorite exhibit was, oddly enough, the one about inserting an arterial stint.  WOW, fascinating stuff!  Isaac also really liked that dog skeleton showing all the blood veins.  Linda and Joseph enjoyed learning about the green glowing pigs.  Also pictured in this collage are the greenhouses at MU–I had to put them in here as Linda told us this was the site of her decision to go into education instead of horticulture.  I’m glad for the difficulty she experienced in that greenhouse class…otherwise, who knows if we’d have ever met…

But, aside from all that really cool sciency stuff….the most fun we had was noticing all of the different types of manhole covers there are - on campus alone! We are very excited to start exploring the differences around the city, state, country…even the world! I see a children’s book in my future…

With everything else happening on the site, I forgot to get back to posting this image.  Several people have asked about it, so here it is—a beautiful image of one of the Graham twins’ hands.  I just love the way it’s all spread out!

With the recent publication of Columbia Home and Lifestyles magazine came a misconception that I only photograph babies.  Not true!  I photograph humans of all ages, shapes and sizes!  Check out the galleries and you’ll see I also have been known to photograph food, tall buildings and even some lovely belts and bows!  Why just this weekend I spent Saturday morning following around State Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Allemann and the afternoon wrangling approximately 100 student athletes from Mizzou into formation for a large group picture to be used next fall in a poster campaign:  ”intimidate your opponent, not your partner” students against domestic violence.  What fun!

We are getting so close to having this website up and running I can just about taste it….and it tastes good:  like a hot brownie following a veggie sub from subshop.  No wait, that describes the meeting between myself, my brother Hardy-web designer extraordinaire! and Dan-my graphic arts dude who has worked long and hard and ultimately typed out the most amazing logo for this blog!  (love you, Dan!)  Who knew those brackets would be so endearing.  That’s it for now, but more excitement is definitely coming as we are tweaking every last little thing and getting this thing going!

Okay, so that didn’t go so well.  I’ve figured out how to post and I’ve figured out how to snoop about my own website a bit….without breaking anything!  But, I am sure you are all just dying to see that image….well….I’ll keep trying and eventually, I’m sure I’ll get this figured. out.

…..ever.  So, welcome to my new website.  I hope you enjoy your time spent here.  This is definitely a learning experience for me.  My hope is to have new blog entries for each photo session and birth I do!  So check back often.  This will also be the spot to check for updates on the business, for new contest information, awards and show information, information on where to purchase greeting cards, and limited edition prints of “Oh Baby” the YouZeum mural.  Basically, the “Don’t say cheese” blog is going to be the place to go for all things Anastasia Pottinger Photography.  And now….for a test of my capabilities….I will now attempt to insert a picture here.  If everything goes as planned, there will be an image here from the session I am currently editing–it’s a hand of one of the beautiful Graham twins….drum roll please…

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