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Love you.
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I found this soo...interesting. The world, the future, where do we fit in, you tell me?
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I really don't have much to say because I am totally speechless after this shoot. Alyse is gorgeous and fun and she was up for getting kicked of government property to get this shot. I can't believe how well it turned out. I cant wait for the wedding...and I absolutely cannot wait for you (Alyse) to see how beautiful you look.
Catherine:
This is such a beautiful picture! It has such a nice ethereal quality to it.
(03.02.09)
Becky Young:
This shot honestly took my breath away. Fabulous lighting and processing, I LOVE it!
(03.05.09)
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I wanted to announce the winners of the Free Couple's Photography Contest. This couple saved all there love letters and sent me a bit of the love for me and everyone to read.
I am pleased to announce that the winners are..... Ashley Gutierrez and Dustin Siler
Here is there entry...I cannot say it better than they did themselves....so here goes:
Here is there entry...I cannot say it better than they did themselves....so here goes:
Hi, we’re Dustin and Ashley (or Dubby and Aye, or Baybuh, depending on who wrote the love letter you’re reading). We tried to tell you why we love each other, but we just couldn’t get the words on the page. So we thought we’d give you an insider’s view to what we tell each other. What you see below are excerpts from our love letters. Ashley’s saved every single one Dustin’s ever written her, and Dustin has a huge stack on his desk that Ashley writes while she’s in Mississippi for grad school. One of our favorite poems (by e.e. cummings) is written as a lover would write to his love: “ i carry your heart with me(i carry it in / my heart)i am never without it.” One way we carry each other’s heart is through the writing and reading of these letters. They speak our hearts, and we want to share them with you.
4/19/07: What kind of magic are you working on me? I can’t stop thinking about you, can’t stop waiting just to be near you…I want to give you my world, Dustin Siler, and I want to be a part of yours. --Ashley
4/20/07: I’m crazy for you. XOXO—Ashley
4/26/07: How are you able to make me feel so beautiful? You look at me like I am a new creation; when there are so many things you could ask me to change, you look at me and say “perfect.” I feel too beautiful for the earth in your presence. --Ashley
?/?/07: If you’re even a tenth as smart as you are gorgeous, you’ll make an “A!” –Dustin
6/22/07: I think you should know a few things. One—I am ridiculously proud of you and could not be happier to have you as my one and only… Two—There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t thank my lucky stars for the way we fit together. We’re once in a lifetime, babe. Three—I’m so glad I don’t have to be a pretentious fool around you… Four—You’re a good man, Charlie Brown. I’ve wrapped myself up in you, and couldn’t be happier with who we are together. --Ashley
10/8/07: I have found happiness, and it’s your lips no longer able to hold a kiss for smiling. –Dustin
11/?/07: I love life, I enjoy each day, and your presence in my life multiplies that happiness. --Dustin
?/?/07: After waking up at 1 PM, I realized that…I LOVE YOU! –Dustin
2/15/08: Thank you for being absolutely adorable. Thank you for attending one of my favorite plays with me. Thank you for enjoying life in all its quirky silliness. Thank you for being mine. Thank you, my love, my beauty, and most importantly—my friend. Thank you. –Dustin
3/3/08: I have grown so close to you, your touch so familiar that I can’t imagine a day without you. You are everything that’s important to me, everything I need. You make up my fondest memories—thank you for giving me such broad smiles…Know what I’ll remember when I’m 93 and senile? Us buying $18 of junk food at 11 p.m. Your goofy smile as we pass the “18 miles until Columbia” sign. Those quick kisses in early springtime sun. The way your strong arms feel when you cradle me. The way “I love you” sounds in my ear coming from your lips. –Ashley
3/21/07: Okay, first thought here, post stifled giggles in attempt to remain professional at work. you're a dork. or dorque. basically, you're quite possibly more goofy than me. Which is fantastic. Who's your particularly fine ladyfriend? Is she hotter than me? I’ll punch her in the nose. --Ashley
3/27/08: My baybuh looks exceptionally gorgeous tonight! I want to kiss her muchly! –Dustin
?/?/08: Thank you for taking care of me last night! I can never love you enough, but I keep trying. –Ashley
4/9/08: Whether it turns out like a pop-up book or a sappy dime store romance, our story will be retold every time we kiss (be it now or a grey toothless tomorrow). I love mah baybuh! –Dustin
4/28/08: When we’re old, decaying, and senile, complaining of “back in the day” when we had to walk uphill both ways to send a text message, I’ll still love you more than the midnight Zebra Cake run. I hope you’re having a wonderful birthday! –Dustin
4/?/08: This past year has made me realize that as long as I’m with you, I’ll be happy. –Dustin
?/?/08: For everything you make me feel—loved, invincible, strong, humbled, comforted, joyous, peaceful—I love you. Forever. –Ashley
?/?/08: I love you. I love you beyond words, beyond cookies, and beyond (way beyond) dates that end too early. –Dustin
4/23/08: We're going to the beach!!!!! We're going to the beach! We're going to the beach! We're going to the beach! We're going to the beach! We're going to the beach! We're going to the beach! 42 days until the beach!!!! 4 days until my birfday! 16 days until my graduation! 42 days until the beach! 0 days until I love you more!!! I love you! –Ashley
5/?/08: Darlin, Sit down, lay down, rest. Don’t worry about anything—I’ll be home around seven to cook up Persian Chicken and Rice. There’s diet root beer to soothe any tensions, candy for any aches. I love you, and have missed you dearly. I love you—I can’t wait to slip my arms around you. See you around seven! –Dustin
6/25/08: Something I love about you: You reassure me that moving away only feels like the end of the world by telling me we're strong enough to handle it. –Ashley
?/?/08: You are going to make a wonderful husband, and I can’t wait to be a good wife to you. You’ve taught me that love is possible, even now, when there’s so much hate. I’m grateful for you. I owe you my life. –Ashley
7/?/08: When I think of you, I am happy. When I’m near you, I’m giddy. When I touch you, I’m the luckiest man alive. As an English major, I thought I knew what words meant. Comfort, Joy, Understanding—I was clueless until peering into your eyes over the past months. –Dustin
8/?/08: I love you, darlin. I’ll see you soon but not soon enough. Since you’re in for a bit, I’m having Oxford brought to you. Yours. –Dustin
8/6/08: I miss you! Blow me a kiss when you get this, please! --Dustin
8/7/08: I love you and I miss you. I seriously, crazily miss you. And I love you more. I am thinking about you all the damn time. Remember that. I love you. I love you. I love you. –Ashley
8/10/08: Baybuh, You were passed out and snoring by midnight (your time), so I went ahead and logged off Skype. I wish I could have been there to throw a blanket over you and turn out your light, and to fetch Mittens again (she jumped off your bed a few minutes before you started snoring loudly enough for me to hear you). And to hug you and kiss you and lay my head on your chest. I love you so much, sweetie, I hope you slept well. Yours. –Ashley
10/13/08: Hey Darlin! You can code a bit, and that’s really sexy! –Dustin
10/25/08: I don't think your parents caught me, but I had a Dustin-blush moment--a real blush moment. The "we're a family" part is what got me. I'm part of the family. I'm part of your family. That fills me with some sort of good emotion that I've never felt at such an intense level before. It's not just a happy, but an accepted, fulfilling, completing happy. I love you, and I love your folks, too. –Dustin
11/23/08: Darlin, ever since you were a little girl, you’ve looked for happiness in books. I hope you’ll find happiness in this one…Will you marry me? –Dustin
11/23/08: Of course! –Ashley
1/17/09: I miss you. I miss your heart next to mine. I love you, Ashley, and I always will. –Dustin
1/19/09: I miss you, too, sweetie, so much. If we were any other people, this wouldn't be possible. I love you. –Ashley
2/16/09: I’ve never had such a strong juxtaposition of feelings before. I’m incredibly excited to be finishing my degree to move the five-hundred miles to finally live with you once again, but it is torture being away from you for another eight months. We had planned for and expected the difficult year apart, but we really had no idea how tough the toll would be on us. Even now, though, I’ve never been more in love with you. I’ve always been a skeptic, someone who had to learn to trust people—but I’ve never once doubted you, or even us. Even though we’re eight hours apart, there’s nothing I believe in more than our relationship. The fact that we’re engaged is a significant part of all that, but it really is just a stepping stone along a path that I’ve had full faith in since the moment I finally allowed myself to utter the words “I love you”. –Dustin
2/17/09: In 672 days (yes, I’m counting!), we’ll be married. We’ll have stood in front of our family and said the words we already feel so strongly in our hearts. We love each other. I love you. I love you because it was you who encouraged me to go to graduate school, even when that meant we’d be 500 miles apart for a year and a half. You wanted me to go, even when that meant you’d have to leave your family and friends to move to a small town, where you’d have to make new friends and find a new job in the middle of a recession. I love you because you’re selfless in your support of me. I love you because you make me a good person. The goodness in you, the strength of your spirit and the bigness of your heart—your best qualities illuminate and encourage my own to grow. I love you because there are so many reasons to say “I love you.” --Ashley
Every day for the rest of our lives: I love Baybuh! –Dustin and Ashley
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A funny commentary on the mindstate of photographers, especially presently.
See more here http://whattheduck.net/
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Love this too!! Great work, what a pretty model!!
(03.12.09)