I love the holidays. I love the end of a year. The chance to reflect back on the life you lived over the last 12 months, and to start thinking about what kind of life you get to live in the next 12. It’s a beautiful thing.

It’s such a busy time for so many of us, and I always fall victim to the clock and the date book! So, I figured I’d share “what’s on deck” over here at Kimberly Hurst HQ. Posting and sharing photos might be slower than normal what with all the fun trips, visits and parties that are starting to pop up between now and the start of the new year.

A couple things I am looking forward to sharing with you all include:

1. Reviews and photos of my new sample albums! I’m now offering three options for albums, and I have to say, I am stoked about all three! I think I’ve got a pretty great trifecta for whatever your desires in a wedding album may be.

2. I have some vendor reviews and wedding related photo shoots coming this way! I was so very lucky to get to work with House of Telsa AND Pebbles and Paisley and will soon share some killer images of their beautiful offerings, so stay tuned!

3. Besides taking my beloved photos for my clients (and I can say that because I really do LOVE taking portraits of people), I still strive to take time out of my schedule to photograph “for myself.” I’ve never been one to classify my personal photography. I just love making pictures. They tend to be quiet little moments and I don’t share them all that often on the blog anymore…some of you may have wandered over to my Flickr page and could have landed on some of my art images over there though. So, I’ve had a few people along the way ask me if I sold prints. And I’ve always meant to! But never took the time to develop an inventory and present them for sale. Well, I’ve been working on said inventory, and am getting close to launching my little Etsy shop. I realize this will probably launch as soon as the holidays are OVER, but hey, better late to the party than never showing up!

So, I will be around soon with some of the goodies I’ve already talked about as well as a couple other fun things I have up my sleeve (hint: some stop motion vlogging!).

Just so this post isn’t totally boring (aka, no picture!), I thought I’d share a recent photo I snapped of myself on Thanksgiving. I’ve recently lopped off all my hair! I am still getting use to the cold breezes of winter kissing the back of my neck, but I am starting to dig short hair.And anyone looking to rock a new point and shoot camera, I can’t recommend the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 enough. I carry mine around everywhere I go. Finally a point and shoot for photographers! I can shoot manually, shoot in RAW mode, change my aspect ratio, record HD videos. It has a lovely little 24mm wide angle Leica lens, 10.1 megapixels, 3200 ISO sensitivity, a nice BIG LCD display, and on and on. Just an awesome little machine. And it’s cute to boot!

Run on over to Style Me Pretty and enjoy the posts on the “secrets for getting stunning images of you and your soon-to-be on your wedding day.”  It’s chock full of great tips from some of the biggest names in the industry.  Really, not only are these tips for your wedding, but you could even see some of these as rules to live by!

You wedding day is about the joy of being in love, of having found the love of your life, and declaring that commitment to one another forever.  Just please don’t sweat the small stuff.  Enjoy all the hard work you put into planning and all your family and friends being so close,  And hey, your awesome new spouse!  And it’s pretty much a guarantee for stellar photos.

Tips I

Tips II

Tips III

I just love these tips and hope you do to!

I just thought I’d take a minute to update everyone on what I’ve been up to lately. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me and I’ve been working my tush off trying to get jobs edited, galleries posted, albums designed and printed, and at the same time plan my husband’s 30th birthday party, attend a workshop, and get ready for house guests and in-laws coming to stay!

I’ve been busy, but it’s been great getting work out the door and into the hands of my clients! And Kyle’s party is finally here! This Saturday my hubby turns the big 3-0, and I’ve got about 3-0 people descending on our home for some food and cocktails! I’ll try my best to be a happy hostess as well as photographer extraordinaire and hopefully share some of the fun here on the blog.

In that regard, I will probably be away from my computer and email and all that fun stuff for most of the weekend. So, please know I will get back to you as soon as I have a moment to collect my thoughts. Also, if you are waiting on your job to be completed, just know it’s coming real real soon.

Hugs to all, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GUY, Kyle!

Lastly, I am skipping town this weekend. I have a date with a photographer! My girl Cynthia That-Cacopardo of That Girl Photography is taking some portraits of me for this here little blog and for my website!  So, I won’t be super close to a computer that much this weekend, but will check email from my iPhone.  Just know I am going to be busy looking fabulous.  I kid, I kid.

This here old blog, will be the only thing up and thriving through the changes.

But once kimberlyhurst.com is back up and running, a brand-spanking new blog will have been born. The brainchild of Nicole Balch of Making It Lovely and her design company Smart and Lovely and myself, it’s totally rad and makes me giddy just thinking about it!

If you need to be in touch with me over the next couple of days, try my email address kim at kimberly hurst dot com. If I don’t get back to you within a reasonable amount of time, you can try my old email address kimbermiller at hotmail dot com.

Let’s hope this goes smoothly and I will be back in touch in a few days with a hot, new, updated website, a rad new blog, some sweet photos, and a lovely little slideshow.

Anyway, there’s lots of new and exciting things happening here, so stay tuned for all of it! As well as some photographs from a darling outdoor wedding in Rochester, NY this past weekend.

Have a lovely weekend! Hope your bbq, beach, or backyard plans are full of fun and sun!

Friday, February 2nd, 2007- Salt of the earth.

Spending the night driving up to Rochester. By the time we hit I90 we ran completely out of windshield washer fluid. It was the most bitter cold we’ve felt in a very, very long time when we stepped out of the car at the gas station.