Heather Swanner Photography

The blog has a New Home!

As much as I've loved this blog, I decided that it was time to move onto BIGGER and better things.  So you can now find my blog at http://www.heatherswannerphotography.com/blog .  Please bookmark this page & visit me there!  I will keep this account open for quite awhile, as I know a lot of you like to go back & look at old stuff!  So, no worries!  It will stay here for awhile!  But visit me on the new & improved blog & let me know what you think!

A New Year, A New Me

I hope everyone had a wonderful and peaceful holiday!  I had every intention to post a few times over my vacation (which doesn't officially end until next week, so I guess this counts!).  However, I decided to take some time to actually put down my computer for a few days to just enjoy doing, well, nothing.  I don't know that I've experienced that feeling in years.  And truth be told, I kinda liked it!  :)

However, I realize that it's time to get back to work.  And while we are not officially back in the studio until next week, I have been a little busy bee this week pulling a new website together and well as working on lots of administrative-type things so that I am ready to roll next week.  

As I look back on the past year, I realize that 2009 was quite a year for me.  In so many ways it was wonderful.  I met and worked with so many new and awesome clients, and I moved into a new studio that I absolutely love.  2009 was also a year filled with a lot of emotion over the loss of my father.  Then it became a whirlwind of a year trying to jump back in and make up for the time that I lost from being off because of that.  2009 was also the year for rain....and rescheduling...and more rescheduling....and being disappointed because I just couldn't invent more days on the calendar to reschedule!  :)  2009 was also a year of learning and of trying new techniques...some that I loved and some that I didn't.  

I am so excited for a new year to do new things....and to start over in so many ways.  I have lots of new ideas for the studio that I can't wait to implement.  Expect to see my new website and new blog in the next couple of weeks.  Expect to see a little more organization in the way we do things (woo hoo!).  Expect to experience better customer service.  I would like to say to expect better weather for our outdoor sessions, but we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed this year!  :)  I can't wait to see you and work with your families this year.

With all that said, Happy New Year! (okay, I'm just a little bit late!).  If you've emailed me over the break, please give me until next week to get back with you when I "officially" get back to work!  :)

And I have to post these beautiful twin newborns that I photographed right before Christmas.  I included them in the slideshow before, so you may recognize them if you watched it.  I still plan to try to get caught up on the posting pre-holiday sessions!