March 29th, 2010
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SARA Sanctuary


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A few weeks ago i went out to volunteer at the Sara Sanctuary in Seguin, Texas with some friends from Pug Rescue Austin. Since i can't say it better than they did on their website i will copy their mission statement:

"what is SARA's mission?

SARA's mission: love, life, food, shelter

Southern Animal Rescue Association, SARA, provides homeless companion animals with unconditional life - food, shelter, love and life in a permanent, safe, and healthy environment, despite special health needs or temperament. We seek loving adoptive homes for our animals, but when adoption is impossible, the animals live the rest of their natural lives at the sanctuary in the company of other animals and human caregivers. "

what a great time we had, and what an interesting place! i have to admit, i spent most of my time taking pictures instead of any doing real work. we were there for most of the day and i had a really hard time narrowing down images for this blog post. Here are some of my favorites and i'll elaborate more on individual images...

P.S. Tracy just gave me an update after seeing my post:

the pig with the cats has since slimmed down and been moved to a pen with a pig friend.

the pit bull kristen is wrangling has been neutered.

the little black puppy has been adopted! and so have the donkeys, they are now living with a zebra!

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i believe this was Molly, she rubbed up against me in the first 10 mins we were there trying to get me to pet her!

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Axel!! we fell in love with him - the large pit bull that is a greeter at SARA... i was a little timid around him at first but soon found out he is a total lover and also an escape artist... he can scale the 8ft. fences so he gets to roam free! smart boy. he's also quite beautiful and we starting calling him a Liger because of his coloring... he needs someone to adopt him too!

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Axel's siblings... his litter of 6 was left on SARA's doorstep.

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this cat was determined to climb Kristen... and he succeeded... he was so sweet, someone needs to adopt him!!

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the original owners of this pig let him get so overweight that really all he can do is sleep until he slims down... so he says in with the cats... no one seems to mind!

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i LOVED this puppy!! so sweet and cute and needs a home.

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Jaime, the funny little chihuahua... the owner of SARA kept telling us he was a pug and trying to get us to take him ;)

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there are hundreds of feral hogs out there - apparently they come in from the woods all the time...they are no dummies, they know their friends are getting fed!

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this is Petunia, a cute little potbelly pig that i fell for immediately...

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Kristen wrangling a new puppy that just came in and didn't know how to walk on a leash yet...


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March 25th, 2010
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bill and laurie's wedding


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I had so much fun photographing Bill and Laurie's wedding! Bill and i graduated Westlake High School together (a really long time ago! :( ), and he is also a photographer, so i was honored when he chose me to photograph his wedding! It was at Star Hill Ranch, one of my favorite venues - it was a little cold (ok, it was A LOT cold) but at least the rain let up and gave us a break. Everything still turned out beautifully and i hope you guys are enjoying some warm weather on your cruise!

here is a link to the engagement session!

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March 6th, 2010
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ashley at highball!


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so many things i loved about this bridal session:

A. look how cute Ashley looks!!

B. we shot at the highball - home of my most favorite drink of all time (the heirloom) and just a very cool place in general

C. Carmela of InStyle Weddings is coordinating Ashley's wedding and she came along on the shoot and then took us to lunch at Bess's Bistro afterwards to celebrate Ashley's birthday

D. my good friend Stacy of SMS photography came along on the shoot to help out, and because it sounded fun!

and it was!! :)

Ashley and John's wedding is coming up April 24th at Star Hill Ranch, so stay tuned for pics!

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March 5th, 2010
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bill and laurie


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so it's been kind of reunion week, not only did i have the shoot with a childhood friend and his wife but i also shot bill and his fiance laurie's engagements. bill and i graduated from high school together and i haven't seen him since then - he found me thru our 20 year reunion (ugh, i'm old!) site and hired me to shoot his wedding! we had so much fun on the shoot! i got to shoot at new places and drink some great wine (one of my favorite things) and hang out with bill and laurie, who were a blast. the wedding is coming up on March 20 at Star Hill Ranch - and i'm thinking it's going to be a really fun time!

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