Jennifer Wu

I traveled to the Woodlands on Friday for Jennifer Wu’s bridal portrait. She has such a great personality. We had a lot of fun!

Erin & Keith

Erin & Keith are getting married this November. I had the pleasure of doing their engagement portraits at Rice last week. Here are a few of my favorites.

Gavin

My nephew Gavin spent the night with me on Thursday and we spent all day Friday together while my brother Albert went back to work Post-Ike. We napped, played, ate, napped again, watched tv together, and all the fun stuff in between. We even had a little time for a few photos. My sister Theresa came by just in time to help me get Gavin out of the bathtub. Trying to hang on to a 5 month old in a regular bathtub slipperly and all has it challenges. Anyhow, I loved this image from the moment I snapped it. No flash…all window light. I really enjoyed the day. It was great practice!

Yikes IKE!

Ike was brutal! I was here during Hurricane Alicia in 1983, however I was only 7. I don’t remember it being so scary. I probably slept through the whole thing. I didn’t get hardly any sleep through this. Our house has many many windows, and I just knew that at any second one of them would break. The skylight didn’t help either, which helped amplify the sound of all that wind! We had power until around 4:30 am. I don’t know how Rob slept through some of it, it was so loud. At the end we managed to luckier than most sustaining only minor roof damage & leaks throughout 3 rooms throughout the house. Now is the fun part of waiting for an insurance adjuster to call us. Our phone service is spotty at best. Our damage was nothing compared to those on the coast. The Kemah boardwalk suffered a great deal of damage. Those that are familiar with it might recognize that the photo at the top of this blog was taken in the carnival section on the carousel with of my mother with my niece Jada. I saw this particular ride yesterday on the news…there is hardly anything left of it but part of the frame. Two weeks ago, my sister Theresa celebrated her 30th birthday at a beach house on Gilchrist. For those of you who are familiar with Bolivar or who have watched any of the news over the past few days, you know that Gilchrist was wiped off the map. There is only sand and part of the main road left. It is very sad. I took just a couple of photos while we were there. We left a little early from that trip because of Gustav…Ike was still just off the coast of Africa at that point, who knew that that would be the storm to take out the beach house and the hundreds surrounding it. We were one of the last to vacation on Gilchrist. My mother was talking to some people on the beach that morning to a couple of people that lived in Gilchrist that said they weren’t going to leave, despite evaucation orders (again this was for Gustav). I hope they had a different choice when Ike came. Apparently the coast guard reported over 150 people were rescued from Bolivar before Ike made landfall. Let’s hope that if they ignored evacuation orders, they were able to be rescued.