mountains

A few landscapes from the south island of new Zealand, around the Milford Sound area. 

Beautiful.  

birthday girl

Somwhere is the midwest, on a hotel bed.  Our sweet, generous six year old Izzy.  

We'll share her real birthday shoot soon.

Food, glorious food!

In Singapore, I spent 4 days wandering around, occasionally taking some family pictures for clients, eating good food, and basically just really really missing my family.  It was very hot and humid, so I broke every hour down into 30 minutes of walking around outside and 30 minutes of inside, air conditioned relief. 

Sometimes as I walked around Singapore I'd suddenly come out of my thoughts and find myself in another gigantic, super posh shopping mall. Shopping is what people do in Singapore, besides sweat, and the malls can get overwhelming. Especially for somebody like me, who is a recovering shopaholic and who doesn't have the space for much. I kept wondering why I was always ending up in a danged mall. 

Then I realized, as I once again found myself on the 4th floor or the basement of any given ginorma-mall, that it was the food courts that were beckoning me in. The day I came to this realization was the day I ate 4 lunches. In different malls. 

And those were some super delicious lunches. You can't beat a Singaporean food stall.

exhausted

Another goPro weekend is over. We had a terrific time with our attendees and each time we are grateful for the new relationships formed over such a small period of time.  We stayed up way too late and worked really hard in the day- as a result our family is beat. 

Off to Ottowa and Toronto- then to possibly our most favorite destination: NYC.  

Speaking of New York City.... check these photos out!

FYI:  our Summer Camps are filling up! Email us at info@bluelilyphotography.com if you want in, read about them here!

And our next goPro is going to be in August, in Salt Lake City on the 17-18th! Awesome party house as usual, $898 for the two days.

Summer Camp! a workshop for every woman

You know how we do these goPro workshops every so often and we come back from them and say what a good time we had, it was so awesome, etc.?

Well, now we're launching a new kind of workshop called SUMMER CAMP.  It's an overnight retreat for women where ANYWOMAN, even the most beginning-est of beginners can come and enjoy the benefits of practicing and learning more about photography.

The first SUMMER CAMP we're holding is in Park City, Utah, on June 22-23rd.

The second will be in the Philadelphia, PA area on Sept 21-22nd.

Tyler and I are so excited about this because readers and clients have expressed interest in learning about photography, but have any number of reasons why the goPro isn't for them. Either they don't know much about the art of photography, they don't understand the technical side, they don't actually want to go Pro, or they simply don't have a "good enough" camera.

If you feel like you might be that person, this Blue Lily Summer Camp is for you!

So here's the lowdown on Summer Camp.

What you'll learn:

How to use your camera (any digital camera)

How to take portraits

How to use free editing softward like iPhoto or Picasa

How to manage/import/store your images

How to take great vacation pictures

How to create better family videos

Indoor photography with natural light

What you'll experience:

A positive, supportive, creative learning environment

improved knowledge of all things photo related

an overnight stay in a beautiful retreat house

good times with women of similar interests

lots of fun together in a gorgeous setting

A gourmet French meal for you to enjoy with your new friends

We want you there!

Price is $495, which includes all food and housing. You can choose to stay one more night at the retreat house for only $50. 

If you have any questions about the SUMMER CAMP just email us at info@bluelilyphotography. We are happy to answer everything.  And please come, we'd be so thrilled to meet you and share our love of photography. 

 

From Sydney, Australia. *sigh*

ALSO announcing the next goPro workshop in Salt Lake City this summer! This one is for those wanting to... go Pro.  August 17-18th.  2 day workshop for $898 not including housing at $50 a night. 

the song that never ends

This weekend is our Washington DC goPro-  first goPro workshop of ours to be held on the east coast. Today we will head across lots and lots of states- playing legos as we go. Wish us luck!

Images from Perth, Australia.

As always you can check out our instragramming @bluelilyphoto in case you are not getting enough of a travelogue here.