On the road

I'll be out of town for the weekend with limited email access. All emails and calls will be returned on Monday. Thanks for your patience!

Newlyweds: Lee Ann + Herlin

I had a fantastic time this past weekend second shooting a wedding for my dear friend Suzie Seagraves, who specializes in children and family portraits.

The twilight, candlelit ceremony took place at the Maitland Art Center and was followed by a gorgeous reception at the Winter Park Farmers Market.

And the winner is...

(yeah, yeah, so I'm a little late announcing it - sorry about that!)

Alison & Ross!

There were so many great stories, but how could I not be swayed by this:

"Why do I think I should win? Come on...I took him to a strip club. What good Catholic girl does that?"

Good Catholic girl, indeed! Maybe we'll shoot their e-session at a strip club ;)

Me day

Nothing like a "me" day to do a girl some good. November and December were nuts. Portraits, reprints, weddings. Oh yeah, and those holiday thingies. Shopping, cooking, all that good stuff. The early part of January has been spent on back end business stuff (those things that ya'll don't see and I won't bore you with). Today, I finally had a "me" day. Got a haircut, bought some shoes, ate some junk-a-licious food. Good for the soul, ya know?

Miscellaneous Sunday

Special thanks to all the lovely ladies who partook in yesterday's boudoir bash - we had a blast!

As a reminder, the final day to enter the free engagement session is coming fast! January 15. So send your story today!

Email is back online & Friday Faves: Movies

Thanks for your patience while my tech crew got it sorted out!

Apologies for the blog silence - I'm laying low, trying to fight off a cold (hey, it got down to like 25 degrees here in Florida, it's no wonder people are getting sick left and right!

On to my Friday faves - movies!

I'm one of those kind of people who has a new favorite movie (song, food) every other week or so, so if you ask me my all time favorite movie ever, you'd get a different response if you ask me again later. But in the spirit of faves, I give you my two favorite Vegas movies ever:

Leaving Las Vegas
Oh I know, it's depressing as heck, but it's a powerful story and it's beautifully filmed. Plus, for some bizarre reason, I've always found Nic Cage kinda hot (I know, ew).



Casino
Gruesome? Well, yeah. Talented cast? Heck yeah! And again, amazing cinematography and really strong story. Plus, I have a slight obsession with all things old-school Vegas.


So there ya have it! Happy weekend ya'll!

Email is down - sort of!

I'm receiving incoming emails, but it appears that my outgoing mail hasn't been working properly on and off for the past few days. Please use lbarbely@gmail.com until further notice while I deal with my web host and try and get this resolved. And if you've tried to email me in the past few days, please try again at that address! I apologize for any inconvenience!

Free engagement session contest!

Happy 2008! Sheesh, wasn't it just 1999/2000 and everyone was freaked about the whole millennium crisis? Time flies! Hope you all had a fantastic New Year's Eve and are as excited as I am about 2008!

To celebrate the new year and the host of engagements that tend to happen over the Christmas holidays, I'm giving away a free engagement session! The prize is a 1 hour session on location in the Orlando area and includes 1 8x10 print. To enter, send an email telling how you and your fiance met and why you think you should win. It's that easy! The deadline to enter is January 15, 2008 and the winner will be announced here by January 20, 2008.

What are you waiting for? Tell Lori your story now.

101 goals in 1001 days

last updated 4/23/08

1. Buy a house
2. Visit Jen in North Carolina
3. Complete a 365 days project
4. Revisit my history of photography book and check out some classic photographers
5. Start exercising on a regular basis
6. Break my soda addiction
7. Take a photo road trip
8. Go to Thailand
9. Shoot a destination wedding
10. Visit family in NJ
11. Take photos of my grandmother
12. Buy and use a Holga
13. Get a shoe organizer from the Container Store for the hall closet
14. Get into WPJA
15. Build a darkroom. An actual film darkroom. Black and white, of course!
16. Actually use the Learn Italian CD I got.
17. Go to Italy
18. Attend a workshop by a photographer I admire
19. Clean out my closet, make donations to charity
20. Go see Kater in Spokane (or where ever the heck she moves to!)
21. Go to Burning Man
22. Go to the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival
23. Go back to Maui PLANNED FOR JULY!
24. Have my images displayed in an art gallery
25. Go to the Orlando Museum of Art
26. Update my wardrobe
27. Buy a Prius
28. Visit the Big Island of Hawaii PLANNED FOR MAY
29. Go to a state fair or other traveling carnival type event
30. Get my hubby to roll over his 401k into an IRA
31. Organize my office closet
32. Learn how to drive a stick shift
33. Start playing tennis again (at least twice a month)
34. Get monthly pedicures
35. Keep more up-to-date on the news
36. Start cooking dinner on a regular basis again (at least 3x/week)
37. Go to an Olympic Games I PHOTOGRAPHED AN OLYMPIAN, DOES THAT COUNT? :)
38. Grow, and keep alive, an herb garden
39. Read at least three non-fiction books every 6 months
40. stop biting my nails
41. Learn how to make sushi
42. Learn how to scuba dive
43. Cut as much junk food as possible out of my diet
44. watch at least 3 classic movies I haven't seen
45. read at least 3 classic books I haven't read
46. make a pinhole camera out of something odd
47. Visit New Zealand
48. Learn how to knit
49. catch up with old friends
50. Take my vitamins every day.
51. have my car detailed
52. Get our wills done
53. Perfect the art of the double cheek kiss greeting without looking/feeling like an awkward spaz
54. volunteer at the animal shelter
55. Go camping
56. Lower my cholesterol
57. Pay off debt
58. Keep it paid off
59. Ride in a hot air balloon
60. skydive
61. party like it's 1999
62. get my teeth whitened
63. dance in the rain
64. photograph lightening
65. Go to Key West
66. Plan something special for our 10th anniversary (11/7/2012)
67. buy a new mattress
68. spend the day lounging in bed, just because
69. have a Lord of the Rings marathon
70. go antiquing. buy something cool for the house.
71. floss daily. Ok, at least 3x/week.
72. Brush up on my art history
73. Max out my IRA contributions each year
74. start a personal photography project
75. bake bread from scratch more often
76. watch a shuttle launch from Port Canaveral
77. see the goat races in Tobago
78. keep a travel journal
79. organize my own personal photos
80. use sunscreen religiously
81. keep my visual journal updated
82. do a last minute weekend trip - literally buy a cheap ticket to where ever on a Thursday and head off for the weekend
83. visit the 4 Corners area of the US
84. hire an assistant
85. have lunch with Amy
86. Jellyrolls
87. take a day off (once in a while!)
88. Get a new P&S
89. 2nd shoot a wedding with a photographer I admire
90. Join toastmasters
91. go to wppi
92. speak at a workshop
93. mentor young women in photography
94. visit my San Fran peeps PLANNED FOR AUGUST
95. go to the beach more often (except during the Red Tide!)
96. shoot an urban trash the dress
97. start marketing senior portraits
98. call Robert
99. update my vendor list
100. learn how to surf
101. visit each continent

Updated 9/6/08