Angela McCormick Blog

Miss Satori in a new dress

angela — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:53:26 +0000

Satori modeled a clothing line tonight for me, but first, we had to model one of her latest favorite outfits! Naartjie just came to Flatiron Mall and we love their outfits! There was a pink dress, pants, and hat she literally wore 4 days in a row until I made her don this crimson outfit which is equally cute!

I know I haven’t kept up with my photo blog the past week, the birthday was alot to plan for, then the exciting day when our presidential candidate was elected! I am now catching up on editing a bunch of shoots, so look forward to a flurry of blog updates this week!

Satori’s Birthday Party

angela — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:02:39 +0000

My daughter turned 4 today! Yesterday we celebrated in a big way, starting with face painting, parachute games, and ended with a dance party and the adults playing Rock Band!

The new owner of one of my all-time favorite baby carriers - the FreeHand Mei Tai! (I used to sell these in our baby sling shop, they did very well!)

Little puppy face…

And her doggy family:

And this cute little Fuchsia girl, with a fuchsia butterfly of course!

It was so much fun that the adults participated in the face painting.

The dragon family:

My shy little princess who hates to be sung “Happy Birthday” too. (She had to recover by hanging out on our deck by herself for 20 minutes.)

And dancing with bubbles is always fun!

Gross Reservoir

angela — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:08:04 +0000

On a spur of the moment decision, we took a trip to Colorado’s Gross Reservoir just at the perfect time - sunset. Nice golden glow… and the weather was perfect! Satori and Maddie had fun running around, although mother was a bit nervous with such steep slopes down to the water!

I have an extremely busy week (end of October), preparing for a HUGE birthday party for Satori, a few Halloween events and parents visiting from out of town, so I apologize for the lack of photos and blog updates. I will be posting a few as soon as I get a breather!

Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Patch

angela — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:10:18 +0000

Trying to post some different photos today, other than just the typical cute Satori photos.

Finally it was a nice pumpkin patch kinda day. No rain, plenty of sun, some clouds (photographers love clouds), and a great time at our FAVORITE pumpkin patch!

Usually I’m stuck walking around with 2 cameras, one with a very LONG, HEAVY lens, with my Shootsac, but I got to go down the inflatable slide with Tori and David ended up with the heavy stuff for a while. Here he is having fun shooting Satori.

Kung Fu Girl!

angela — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:05:58 +0000

Here’s a very spontaneous photo shoot we did on the spur of the moment!

And just as spontaneously, I grabbed the wig of my mannequin to see how Satori looked with long bouncy hair!

Bought a membership to Denver Botanic Gardens

angela — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:03:01 +0000

This place is so beautiful, even in October. So today I finally caved and got a membership - enough to bring all my family and a few guests each time we visit! So that means I can bring clients if desired.

Although there wasn’t as much color and flowers as our last visit in the summer, I had a willing model and I can’t turn that down, so here’s a few photos of Miss Satori:

Aiden and family

angela — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:34:09 +0000

I got to see a beautiful part of the world tonight with Aiden and his family. Beautiful sunlit views around his house provided for some great landscaping.

What a handsome boy!

Walkin’ the dog above Nederland high

angela — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:05:08 +0000

Satori, Maddie our golden, and I hiked on a little trail above Nederland high school. We could hear the kids practicing football, it was about 6pm this evening.

Snippets of color amidst the first of the season’s snow…

Here was my “bribe” for the night. Satori got to wear her contrasty Hanna Anderssen dress with her matching doggie dress. A photographer’s nightmare, but luckily, most of the photos I shot didn’t have the dress in it.

The late afternoon fog set in, but here you see a hint of Eldora ski resort in the background..

Rained out at the Pumpkin Patch

angela — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:40:08 +0000

Colorado weather is getting cooold and rainy, it’s that time of year. We braved it anyway, and spent the afternoon at Chatfield’s Botanical Garden’s pumpkin patch! Amidst all of Satori’s favorite friends, everyone had fun getting cupcake frosting all over their faces!

Due to the inclement weather, I only could get a few closeups, and will have to try my luck at scenic “pumpkin patch” pictures next weekend!

And in these parting photos, you may be able to get a sense of how cold, muddy and freezing cold the day was!

A foggy morning with Kyleigh

angela — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:34:09 +0000

Early this morning I got to meet Kyleigh and family! The fog was pretty intense, but it finally lifted a bit. Kyleigh had fun throwing rocks in the water, and playing with her family dog!

As you can see, this family was a natural at posing!

Speaking from a compositional perspective, this strong “diagonal” line that the family naturally settled into appealed to me alot!

And this photo made me chuckle, right before Kyleigh popped up with a lollipop full of dog hair!