Evelyn Laws.

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THE LOGO. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING.

So, do you all remember the mindless chatter that I managed to throw into my scantily clad blog in recent months about a new logo/brand with some restructuring?  Well gang....I have managed to pull through and find my place in the branding world after a very long 12 months indeed!!  I have worked tirelessly getting to the point that my brand would speak to my clients about me and my art.  After going back and forth and back and forth with my design team (err....me and my closest friends. heehee.) on colors, layout, tagline, packaging, etc. and designing and redesigning..........I FINALLY DID IT!  And it's HOT, HOT, HOT.....just like our summer. (ok, that was cheesy but i find humor in the silliest places, i'm afraid.  cracking myself up on a regular basis keeps me sane. i'm cajun. what can i say. and frankly, the heat IS getting to me.)

It has been a glorious (i like to decorate my words sometimes. wink.) process and a learning experience to say the least.   It is without a doubt clean, modern, organic, and SIMPLE.  With a tad bit of whimsy.  I truly feel as though my work is lifestyle art at it's core and is how I shoot and how I live.  Bringing your life together with style in my images will create ART for my clients.  Lifestyle Art.

And THAT is why I do what I do.  Life is amazing.  And it should be captured.  What a privelage it is for me to be able to give something so special to those who value the passing of time.  To able to look back in years to come on such a small, yet priceless time is something that no one would ever regret doing.  To preserve that little slice of life in an image is miraculous to me and is why, I guess, God has given me this talent to share with others.

This color scheme and logo will be infused into EVELYN LAWS PHOTOGRAPHY from here on out.  Red, Grey, White......and Pink will dot the landscape of my packaging and marketing materials. I will admit, that change is something I crave.  Seeing so many cool photogs with amazing branding sometimes has my brain itching to switch......but the time has come to embrace some stability. HeeHaw!!!   My color above doesn't look exactly the way I would like AND I might chang up the font a bit (there goes that change again. ugh.) AND the new blog is not yet designed.......BUT it's a start so let's all CHEER!!!!!  YIPPPPPPEEEE!!

 

I have designed some luscious new marketing peices and will be ordering all new packaging for the NEW and improved Evelyn Laws Photography.  Along with this new change, will come new pricing and and WHOLE NEW way of doing things.  More news to come on that front soon.  Exciting new logo design and colors as well for the wedding side, LA182, to show next week.  AHHH.....so many wonderful things happening all the time.......oh, what the heck....i'll just show the BACK of what will be my 5x5 flat double sided, all white business card!  It's a little hard to get the full effect with the white background here, but picture a white PEARL finish on a square card.

YUM.

I am off to shoot a wedding tomorrow in the great city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the old Governer's Mansion and will be blogging about that next week as well!

 

I was hoping to introduce the new ELP (evelyn laws photography) on the NEW BLOG, but I just couldn't wait.  I love it so much and was so happy to have something to share.  I've posted a few photographs from recent weddings and a shot of Pensacola's Joe Scarborough from MORNING JOE on MSNBC with his adorable baby girl.  More on that shot next week.....and on being PUBLISHED!!!

Have a fabulous Father's Day weekend.......I'll be back Sunday!

E.

A video for the Sanders!

Yes, I know it's been a whole MONTH since I've blogged....but I'm waiting on the new one to be designed!  All new colors that will be gloriously simple, clean, and modern! I will be changing names to combine both my individual portrait and joint weddings businesses so that everything will be housed in one place.  SIMPLIFY  is the work of the year for me!  I will be busy the rest of the year with two more weddings and the Christmas season portrait frenzy but mostly with restructuring, branding, and getting organized for 2010!

For today though, as I sit at this computer for the umteenth hour, I thought I would share this adorable video of my session with the precious Sanders Family back in November of last year.  This precious family isleaving Pensacola for the great city (well, I wouldn't know but am itching to find out!) of Nashville! I know so many people are so sad to see them go.  We wish you all the best in your new life in Tennessee and hope to have you return sooner than later!  It has been such a pleasure knowing you guys and am especially thankful to Dr. Sanders for his complete dedication to our Autism Community.  His soft spoken nature coupled with his dedicated passion that this man has to help our children is truly amazing.....and completely heartwarming to someone like me, who lives with this disorder every day.  I wish nothing but the best to Abby, Kevin, Eliza, and Alex on your new journey.  I hope to capture more wonderful moments of your family in the years to come. Nashville or not!  Enjoy the slideshow....

e.

Wedding, Dane Sanders, Graduation, Wedding.

 YUP.....you read right!  I have the pleasure of shooting the wedding of Doctors Michael Caluda and Shannon Scheuffler this weeekend at Christ Church in Pensacola with the Reception being held at the Pensacola Country Club. 

The rehearsal dinner was last night at the fabulous Jackson's Restaurant in Downtown and I just had to post a few sneek peeks!  I don't have time to post many now and haven't gone through most of them but just had to grab a few to show.
The church does not allow photography during the wedding, so I got some fun shots of them rehearsing and they are adorable!

  I just LOVE this one of Colin below.  When everyone bowed their heads to pray before Father Hill started the rehearsal, he sat in the back alone and I just thought this image was priceless.

So, I'm on a wedding, workshop whirlwind and until JUNE 1, I am above and beyond what the word busy embodies. Seriously.   After the wedding today, I'll be flying out to Houston to participate in Dane Sanders' Fast Track Workshop and then will fly back to attend my baby boy's PRE-K Graduation!!!  After which time I will drive back to New Orleans to shoot Mrs. Caluda's adorable sister's wedding!  WHEW.........More on on that later.....

Shannon and Michael,

The most sincere and best wishes to you now and always!  THANK YOU for allowing me to capture what I know will be one of the best days of your entire lives.  You have an obvious love for each other that I know will last forever.......through it all, you have found one another and will get to share this love with your children, family, and friends for a lifetime.  I look forward to this afternoon....it's going to be FABULOUS!!! 

BABY G........life.style.art.

For some reason, I just had to post these very "LIFESTYLE" portraits that were done THIS MORNING (yes, i know...can you even believe it?  me either) because I was so fascinated and humored by big sister's expression in photograph #2.........see, big sis really wanted nothing to do with little sis or being in front of the camera. I was afraid that with her lack of interest (rubbing off on the little one, might i add!) that we might not get a really good family shot with her in it. But, much to my surprise........

VOILA!  The perfect family photograph that is nothing short of adorable and timeless and HYSTERICAL.  Absolutely NOT your typical, stiff portrait......but this is the essence of what I do.  These photographs totally characterize my style.  They are validating and uplifting. And that makes me HAPPY.

I am still very much struggling with my branding and colors (Fast Track Photographer Workshop...here I come!) and the like, but the more that time goes on, the more I really enjoy my little slogan.........because I really feel like my images are full of life, graced with style (some of mine, and most of my clients), and it is my art.  That becomes yours.  To share with the rest of the world.  Moments are created every day. Time can never be relived. Moments happen that will never be again.  Photographs truly are a gift.  A prized possession that gives you back memories of a time that can never be experienced again. But the photograph.....will let you visit for a short while. It will jog your memory of what was.  Of what was a part of you.  Your family.

Take photographs of your family.  Enjoy the tears, the smiles, the growth, the triumphs, the milestones, the wrinkles, the imperfections, and the laughter.  This family below was the best. So calm. So true. So gracious. They are moving from Pensacola in ONE WEEK.  They had this precious new bundle ONE WEEK AGO. But still.......in the middle of what should be complete chaos......took the time to capture this moment.  These moments.  They made photographs that will last a lifetime a priority smack dab in the middle of the mayhem that we call life. Mom described this time as , "Moments we can't ever get back!"

Pretty Amazing.

Thank you Strickland family.  You were wonderful.

E.

Beautiful baby J

Pure. D. Cuteness.  What can I say???  I just wanted to stop in for a bit to say hello and to post some photographs of the beautiful and miracle baby J.  I had the wonderful pleasure of meeting this family who is related to a best friend of mine that lives in Pensacola.  This family just returned to Cajun Country from California (how's THAT for change? heehee.) and called me up to do some photographs of their precious new angel.

 

Apparently the first three months for the wee little princess were a bit rough, and coming up for air is hard to do sometimes.  I know, I did it.  Sometimes you get a fussy/colicky baby and sometimes not.  When you do......well.........I'll leave it at that.  The session went great and mom and dad are OOOOOOZing with love for little miss.  Truly one of the most precious and sincere families that I have had a chance to photograph.  Thank you, Thank you for allowing me to capture such a precious time in your child's life.  It was an honor.

Cajuns Return to Pensacola.......

 Fat. Stuffed. And Happy.

 

And ready for a routine!  Spring Break was a wonderful time spent shooting a wedding on an amazing plantation, another bride, babies, and more cajun babies........and of course, eating crawfish and chocolate around the clock with my wonderful and adorable family. I miss them so much it hurts sometimes.  The autism hurt a lot this time too.

 

 It doesn't always, but this time it did.  The 5th birthday is fast approaching and it's got me twisted. Things aren't clicking for him now, but I know soon we'll break through again and will feel more triumphant than I did before.  The outburst and tantrums are driving me in the ground. For now, I'm exhausted with a list I'll never finish and a grand plan to FIX my baby.  To help him enjoy all of the things that everyone else gets to enjoy. Organically.

 I wanted to share some of my edited fotos from my family time and have many more to show from Josh and Robin's wedding and from my sessions with little Miss Julia (3 months).  Here are some of our Chauvin babies and of course, our newest little Chauvin.......Noah. (also 3 months, who is without a doubt....NOT LITTLE. the rolls are endless.)  who I just cannot resist posting about tonight.  The cuteness of his little face just wears me slap out. TRULY.  I think he just reminds me so much of Lily when she was a baby.....I don't know......but someone help me out!!!

 

And here's one more of my baby JohnDavid "wrastling" with my Lawsy boy.  This photograph is not only one of my all time favorite but is a memory and a moment that is so profound. So simple. So mundane. But SO profound. This moment is a glimpse of normalcy for Laws. For me. For us. 

A photograph like this could never have a pricetag in my book. Never.  Up until now, Laws has been afraid of JohnDavid. He winces and puts his skinny little arms up at the rambunctious, vivacious, and tough little 2 year old cousin who tries to enter his personal space much to much for his liking.  He has started to actually enjoy it and we are teaching him to really fight back and stand up to that little 2 year old cajun who has stolen the heart of everyone around him. 

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Hickman-Hebert Wedding Sneak Peek below.........Nite Nite!!

BOO!

 

Scared you didn't I?  And it's not even Halloween! (much to the dismay of my little Rain Man of a son who becomes regularly OBSESSED with pumpkins every November. And for the next 6-8 months afteward. Only to do it all over again the next November.)

The poor. Wretched. little. Neglected. BLOG.  Let me just say a few words without any more explanations that no one will believe anyway....(insert chuckle)

1. I'm "working" on new branding.

2. And two new blog (s).  Yes, two of them. Working is sort of a relative term at this point. But working, nonetheless. Wink.

3. I'm going to be published.

4. I've traveled to DC twice in 3 weeks. Being published is associated with said traveling. Modern Portrait Workshop is also associated with said traveling. 

5. I've traveled TWICE since my kids were born.

6. Not really. That was a sarcastic joke. But you get the point. ;)

7. Being published took me by surprise.  And I love it. More to come.....on that front. Soon. 

8. I'm booking weddings left and right. 

9. I think I'm going to LOVE shooting weddings. A year ago, I said you couldn't pay me enough money to shoot them. Go figure.

10. I have a pet mouse. 

11.  Ok. So that was a joke too. He lives in my office. I think he may have friends. I'm reconsidering the office/studio. ;)

12. And not reconsidering the dog. Franklin. Still love the dog. Very much a miracle, I tell you.

12. Still haven't found a suitable Kindergarten for my Kindergarten age son. He doesn't fit in. Anywhere.  Too autistic to be typical. Too typical to be obviously autistic. Well, sometimes anway.

13. The Modern Portrait Workshop in DC rocked. I can't wait to implement ALL of what Justine and Diana taught. The journey is just simply....so much fun. :) 

14. I am sick of taxes.  DC was a reminder.

15. I love watching my children roll around in the bed together. Happy. Happy. Happy.

16. I will post photographs below.  Random favorites from recent.  Aside from the amazing bridals at Houmas House in Baton Rouge. More on those once the wedding is over. This next weekend!

17. I feel like a real photographer. Finally. Now only if I would also feel like a business woman......wonder when THAT will happen?

18.  I love other people's babies. Infants, I mean. Well, you know what I MEAN!!  They are just so dang soft and squishy and fragile and precious and for someone ELSE! One of my BFF's had her darling and ever so beautiful daughter on St. Patrick's Day. We welcome you Miss Rice!

19. They named her Eleanor. Here she is.....

 

Makes me grit my teeth. Hard.

 

 

20. Speaking of gritting my teeth.....have you ever in your life seen a cuter or fatter 4 month old. EVER?  I received this photo from my brother a few days ago and I have not stopped chuckling since. Well, more like......laughing until I choke. But that's beside the point.

 

We love you Noah Man....we are coming to squeeze your guts out soon. Very soon.  We will hurt you, I'm afraid!!  So get ready, my little cajun Chauvin bebe!

e.

Slideshow Awesomeness!!

Just to say...I'm here!

Thought this little fun video would be a nice, simple little hello to all of you.  First time creating one of these and didn't turn out quite like I had anticipated, but for now it's good! It's all GOOD.

More to come from my travels as of late and some exciting news to mention.....can't wait to share......with all of you.  So many amazing photos to post and thoughts to spread around!  It's after midnight. I'm going down.....NITE!