Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
This was a very special engagement session because the groom is my brother! I’m so happy for him and just delighted to welcome Meredith to our family! Despite the freezing temperature and wind, we braved the French Quarter and City Park one Sunday morning and rewarded ourselves with beignets after. We spent a good deal of the session by Preservation Hall because of the couple’s love of music. I can’t wait for their wedding in November, and I’m so glad I won’t be photographing it! It will be nice to be a guest for a change. :)
Friday, January 27th, 2012
The official announcement
Wow, sometimes it is still hard to believe I am a mom! It has been almost 8 weeks since Josephine arrived. It is so hard but all worth it when she smiles, laughs, and even farts her little head off! We are truly smitten with her. In the last few weeks, we have been able to get out of the house a bunch and meet-up with other moms in the neighborhood and even venture into Manhattan for a playmate / photo shoot with an October 2009 bride of mine and her new daughter Meghan! (Pictures from that shoot to come!) I love wearing her in a wrap and she usually falls asleep pretty quick. (She is in it right now, looking so peaceful!)
I’m also excited to have been accepted into WeDo, a new networking group of wedding vendors in New York. The first meeting of the new year is next week and I’m in the process of finding a sitter. Almost wish I could just take her with me, but that might be a little unprofessional. :)
Here are just a few images from the first 8 weeks.
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Last January 1 I had no idea I’d become a mother in 2011. That was the biggest change for me this past year and I’m still adjusting to the idea that I have a daughter! I’m sure 2012 will have plenty of changes and surprises in store for us, personally and professionally, but I know it will all be sweeter because Josephine is in our lives. Somehow I will figure out how to run a business from home, take care of her and still make dinner. (I love to cook!) And hopefully still get to do some of the other things I like to do as well.
Professionally, I’m shifting my focus to weddings in the New York area. While I have loved returning to my hometown so frequently, having a kid will make that much harder. Not to say I won’t do weddings in New Orleans, but I imagine it will be less frequent. I’ve also been flirting with the idea of adding children’s photography to my business as well. (I always said I wouldn’t do that until I had one of my own!) We shall see what 2012 has in store!
For now, I am looking forward to photographing my first post-pregnancy wedding in February in New Orleans during Mardi Gras!
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Josephine May Chatelain
12/5/2011 at 10:47 am
7 pounds 8 ounces 19.5 inches
Our Christmas present came a little early this year! It has been a wonderful holiday season getting acquainted with our little girl and spending time with family and friends. Josephine is named for her great, great great, and great great great grandmothers! And also to honor her late paternal grandfather, whose middle name is Joseph.
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Don’t be like there guys during Hurricane Lili in 2002.
Growing up in Louisiana hurricanes were just something that happened. They were a bit exciting and everyone loved missing a few days of school. Then, there would be the damage tour around town in my Uncle Charlie’s big truck. We knew the areas likely to flood and it was always interesting to see how bad it was that time. I never remember being scared about a hurricane, we were prepared and didn’t live in a flood prone area. And those who chose to build in areas near the water built high up and knew the risks. It was just part of life living in South Louisiana.
I don’t remember many of the storms specifically until I was in college. Hurricane Georges messed-up my first few weeks at college in 1998. I recently found some photos I took of my family camping out in the house during the power outage, my grandmother Granny and Uncle Chris too, and the disaster tour that followed. It wasn’t too bad in our neck of the woods that time, save for a neighbor getting a tree hit and the usual flooding on the Lakefront.
After graduating, while working at the Times-Picayune as a freelance photographer, we had two hurricanes back to back, Hurricanes Isidore and Lili in 2002. (more…)
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