VALANTINE PHOTOGRAPHY GRAND OPENING!

I decided a few weeks ago that I needed to revamp my studio for a more professional look and feel now that my work is getting more noticed. By that i mean new name, new logo, new website, new business cards! So for the last 3 weeks thats what i've been doing! 

so with out further adieu may I present my BRAND NEW studio! 

ValantinePhotography.blogspot.com

If you have my old photography blog listed or tagged on your blog would you please update to this new address :) 

THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE & SUPPORT!

Love, Megan!

p.s  special thanks to my cousin CALI who helped me achieve my new look! 

thanks for all the tips cali your the best!

SPRING BREAK!

Brandon and I went to ARIZONA for spring break!! He has a bunch of mission buddies there and we also wanted to check out some med schools.

We left monday and drove the Hooverdam way which was WAY sweet cause i'd never seen it and it looked JUST like it does on Transformers!We also went to the Mesa Temple I guess i'd never seen it because I GASPED when i saw it! IT WAS SO PRETTY!! I could shoot weddings there for the rest of my LIFE!WENT TO A CUBS GAME!!! they summer train there so that was fun!

we went to the SWEETEST water park EVER!! (i know we are ten years old...) It was by far my favorite thing we did! WET N' WILD I suggest it strongly...

We went and checked out A.T Still and Midwestern Medical schools while we were there too, both had the most BEAUTIFUL campus!

We went shot gun shooting one night with the Meileys (mission comp and his wife) he had some pretty big guns so it was fun. after that we met up with some more friends and had a camp fire. I took this while we were watchin the sun go down. It was SUCH a nice break! I'm so used to going on spring break with 7+ girls so this was very different with just one boy but it was JUST as fun! The only problem is now i'm twice as hungry for summer and half as dedicated to finishing school :)

p.s dear mom, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE NEW LENSE I LOVE IT!!!!!!

dear blogspot, you make my photos look low quality and crappy... stop it!

The Anderson Train Wreck

So for Christmas my mom asked me to take our family pictures! Naturally I was WAY excited and scouted out a cute colorful rusted building down town to shoot them at!! Then of course a blizzard came that day and shatter all plans for the colorful wall and obviously we couldn't do them outside. My mom insisted we still do them, but just inside the house... ( I was not thrilled about that one...) so we shot them in our MOST yellow room (which if you do photography you know is a mistake to bounce light off yellow... especially when your skin is already a yummy custard yellow color from the winter sun) and against a wall that was too wide for my lense but not long enough for my family to fit (thus equaling a lot of floor and head space) that and we had one VERY uncooperative 10 year old on scene as well which put us all into histarics! Needless to say it was hard to get a good shot... after the photos were taken I was so flustered and mad (when my photography doesn't turn out EXACTLY how i pictured it i get frustrated) so i put them on my computer with out even looking at them and swore i'd NEVER touch or look at those HORRIBLE pictures... well today I opened that file for the first time and I started CRACKIN up! These are our best 2 I think...

Baby Makin!

HA HA HA HA I'm sorry about the title but I just had to :)
so the other day a friend of mine told me about this hilarious website! "makemebabies.com" it takes you and your husband (or anyone for that matter) and they combined your pictures together and create what your baby is going to look like! she and her husband had been doing it all day and they all were turning out hilarious! So while I was at work I did it and (TA DA!) this is mine and brandons baby! ha ha ha ha ha they FOR SURE got the hair right on but i'm not TOTALLY sure why our baby came out half black??!!!

anyways- it's way fun! if you don't already know what your babies are gonna look like go try it out! makemebabies.com (try a bunch of different photos so you get a lot of different outcomes, it's a killer good time)