Brooke Turner Photography

One of the fun things about working for myself from home is that I’ve always got my music blaring.  I am a huge fan of playing the music LOUD and I’m pretty much always singing. I just love love love good music!!  I’m a little odd about music though. I am attracted first to the lyrics, and then the rhythm and tune.  If the lyrics speak to my soul, you can bet I’ll come to love the rest of it. 

Here are the tunes on repeat right now. Consider it the soundtrack of this season of my life:

Hungry - Kathryn Scott

My Desire, Beyond Measure - Jeremy Camp

Cry in my Heart - Starfield

Divine Romance - Phil Whickam

Arithmetic, CS Lewis Song -Brooke Fraser (pretty much constants on the soundtrack of my life!)

Here’s my favorite - Brooke Fraser singing Arithmetic. Pretty much my life story set to music-

“I won’t find what I am looking for, if I only see by keeping score.

For I know now You are so much more than arithmetic.

cause If I add, if I subtract, if I give it all try to take some back,

I’ve forgotten the freedom that comes in the fact

that you are the SUM, and you are the One I want.”

May He be your SUM today.

What songs are on repeat for this season of your life?

AND………

it’s time for a new contest!!  

Here’s how it works:  anyone who comments on this post will be entered to win a $20 STARBUCKS gift card!!  Y’all know me so well …several of you guessed the prize in my last post!   I’ll choose the winner on Wednesday!   

Have a great weekend! Love you all!

2 Bridal Portraits

1 Maternity Portrait

This video has been circulating around the internet - it is worth watching!!

Check out the senior adult choir at our own First Baptist church of Columbia…they can get down! My favorite is around 3:13 - “don’t you wish your girlfriend was FUN like me”

Hilarious!!

I have so much to blog about, including Jo Ashley & Ryght's wedding on Saturday.  I am so far behind and my to-do list seems a mile long and gets longer every day.  It is hard for me to focus on anything except my dear friend Katherine.  Katherine was one of my best friends in college and I love this girl so much.  She lost her husband Chris unexpectedly last Friday.  I drove to Georgia yesterday to attend the funeral and spend the afternoon with her.   It's so so sad.

Last night was one of the best nights I've had in a long time!  Wedding Planner Melanie Murphy, of By Invitation Only  hosted "Unveiling the Best", a black tie event for some of the top wedding vendors in Columbia.  The event was held downtown at 701 Whaley, which is going to be an amazing space for receptions and other events once it is completed (almost there!).  

My husband didn't exactly seem thrilled at the idea of networking with other wedding professionals, so I left him at home and went with my sweet friends & fellow photographers Kathy Powell of Moore Photography and Brantley Freeman of All Dressed Up Photography.  We had such a good time hanging out, and maybe a little networking thrown in too.

Afterwards our husbands met up with us at Saki Tumi which of course was awesome!   Some people think its odd that three "competitors" can be such great friends (since we are all Columbia photographers) but they have truly been such blessings in my life and it is so fun to have friends that understand whats its like being a wedding photographer.  Plus we can back each other up and share ideas/challenge each other, which just makes us all better photographers!

Here are some shots from the night:

Kathy, me, Brantley at "Unveiling the Best"

The whole group at Saki Tumi afterwards 

Me and Justin at Saki Tumi

…and I didn't even realize it until just now!  My sweet photographer friend Brantley just called me because I wasn't responding to her emails, and she knew that wasn't like me!   I checked it out and yes, in fact my website is down, which means my email is down too. 

I just thought it was a slow email day…..

So, PLEASE re-SEND ANY EMAILS YOU SENT TODAY TO BROOKETURNERPHOTOGRAPHY@YAHOO.COM

Everything should be up and running by tomorrow I hope!