Stories from Amy Martin

Finally: Louisiana Wedding Photographer

Ok I finally got my Love  site finshed. I had done it myself and all of the settings were wrong. Check it out and let me know what you think or if you notice anything else that needs to be fixed. Lets face it I did it myself so there is bound to be some mistakes :) 

Coming Soon

Coming Soon to a desk near me :)

 

I just ordered a 24-inch: 3.06GHz iMac

I was wanting to buy a new camera I was about to purchase a Canon 5d when I got the email that the 5d Mark ii was released. It isnt available to purchase until Nov 1st, and I was going to need a new computer to handle those enormous files anyway! So I purchased it first! 

Now if anyone would like to make a donation to the "5d markii fund" feel free to mail me a check! 

I know this new camera doesnt mean too much to you but you will love your family portraits in 21.1 megapixals!

Thoughts

I have an obscene amount of blogs that I read/look at, most of them are photographers both near and far. I could stay up all night just looking at them! Not to really get new ideas, or to copy something, or to be critical. But for inspiration, to make myself smile, to appreciate someone else's art. One of those is Jesh I have never met this person, all I know of him I read on his blog. His thoughts are similar to mine. He writes the most awesome things I have ever read. I heart him...well his blog at least :) The most recent one I just love.. I am copying it below in case you don't go to his site.

I think this is a great thing to live by.... I know it is long but I promise it is worth the read! 

He Writes:

tonight, i die to the past. 

i die to the past, and am born to this present moment - 


this gift, this fresh rain-smell, this empty box, this early morning, this child's laugh, this midnight snow, this quiet stone, this single star, this shared look between friends, this warm promise. 


it is not that i do not honor the dead, i do. i am thankful for the path i have walked to here, and every colored stone it was set with. 

i may, now and again, fondly recount these steps - the conversations, the laughing, the hurting, the joy - embracing their memory like an old friend.

but i was born to be no grave-robber. i will not dig up what time has past and try to give its chalk line shape a place among my current dreams. 

and i will not play the puppeteer - working hard to carry both sides of a conversation no one is having.

my friends, my loves - these cannot be hidden from me. i will know them always when i see them.

the measuring stick? i threw it out. i burned it. it was made to calculate finite things, and so always gave an inaccurate reading when i tried to use it to measure life. 

now, i keep an eraser, held loosely in my pocket. each morning before i speak, i erase the boxes my mind drew around everything lovely day before. 


i am newly in love with everything i love. this is me crying from seeing its beauty for the first time, again.

i am newly alive, with all the wonder and magic due those who have just come from a long darkness. 

i am newly alive, unbound, unchained.

i am new.

i am. 

Doll

Isnt she a doll? I photographed this little girl in Austin last week. More to come soon :)

Alive and well and soaking up the Texas sun!

 

Well the storm has passed. We had electricity through much of the storm....lost it around 1:30. We lost three trees in our back yard but thankfully none fell onto our house. After prancing about in the rain and getting my house messy beyond repair, the kids were finally hot and board. We bar bqued and slept in the car, with it running all night for the AC. My back still hasn't recovered! We decided to get into the car and at least drive aroundd the neighborhood around 1pm on Tuesday and noticed that much of Zachary was flooded and we decided to leave. After a LOOOOONG ride in the car with 3 kids 2 dogs and myself and my husband sleep deprived. We arrived in Austin at midnight. We will be staying here until we get electricity at our house. Hoping to return sometime Sunday evening. 

Anyway we woke up the next day to the most perfect weather! I went outside and layed on a blanket in the shade, looking over the lake feeling the cool breeze. I felt a little guilty knowing that all of my friends and family were so miserable. But it has been very nice. As the sun set I grabbed my camera and shot a few pictures of my girls frolicking in the grass..... I wanted to bring Payton out there the next day to get some of him, but there was a man with a tractor mowing it this morning.... My first instinct was to run over there and beg him not to... but I refrained