If I had my way...
Sep. 10th, 2022 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
simplyn2deepFriday was my birthday. I'm 40, ya'll!!
If I had my way, I'd be on a cruise with my BFF but things didn't happen that way. I'm still excited that she got to go, surprise that it was for her. We'll get that cruise/girls trip soon enough.
In place of going on the cruise, I had professional pictures taken! I haven't that done since senior pictures back in 1999/2000 or one of the dances that school year.
A friend from high school is a professional photographer and I love all of her wedding pictures, so I contacted her about a session for my 40th. And I nearly forgot to follow up with her to set the date for it.
We went with August 23, when I got back from family camp with my church (that will be a whole other post because I have things to say about that!). The location was the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)...more specifically, the Urban Light Display between LACMA and the La Brea Tar Pits. The time was during golden hour.
I had so much fun. There's a few things I'd do differently, but that's a me thing and not anything that the photographer had control of.
Anyway...after the photoshoot...like 2 hours after I got back to my friend's place (I used her car to get to the photoshoot location and Kim stayed with her), I had my proofs to look at! Talk about fast work! She said she couldn't wait to look at them and get them to me as I was on sort of a deadline to get the prints to my mom ON my birthday (my mom got them today)...and by the end of that week, I had my 15 poses that I picked. But wait! She said she included a few more poses that she really liked that I didn't pick so I ended up with 21 poses! Sweet!
On my actual birthday, I had cake, coffee and sweet bread at church following the movie night we had. That was fun, too. I invited my sister and niece, but only my sister came, which was nice. I'll have pictures/video of that in another post.
Tomorrow after church, a couple of friends are treating me to lunch. I think I told them Korean BBQ. Exciting! Will have pictures of that too.
If I had my way, I'd be on a cruise with my BFF but things didn't happen that way. I'm still excited that she got to go, surprise that it was for her. We'll get that cruise/girls trip soon enough.
In place of going on the cruise, I had professional pictures taken! I haven't that done since senior pictures back in 1999/2000 or one of the dances that school year.
A friend from high school is a professional photographer and I love all of her wedding pictures, so I contacted her about a session for my 40th. And I nearly forgot to follow up with her to set the date for it.
We went with August 23, when I got back from family camp with my church (that will be a whole other post because I have things to say about that!). The location was the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)...more specifically, the Urban Light Display between LACMA and the La Brea Tar Pits. The time was during golden hour.
I had so much fun. There's a few things I'd do differently, but that's a me thing and not anything that the photographer had control of.
Anyway...after the photoshoot...like 2 hours after I got back to my friend's place (I used her car to get to the photoshoot location and Kim stayed with her), I had my proofs to look at! Talk about fast work! She said she couldn't wait to look at them and get them to me as I was on sort of a deadline to get the prints to my mom ON my birthday (my mom got them today)...and by the end of that week, I had my 15 poses that I picked. But wait! She said she included a few more poses that she really liked that I didn't pick so I ended up with 21 poses! Sweet!
On my actual birthday, I had cake, coffee and sweet bread at church following the movie night we had. That was fun, too. I invited my sister and niece, but only my sister came, which was nice. I'll have pictures/video of that in another post.
Tomorrow after church, a couple of friends are treating me to lunch. I think I told them Korean BBQ. Exciting! Will have pictures of that too.
