It's the Final Countdown!

Less than a week until I head to Australia & NZ for almost 6 weeks! My new client coordinator Kristy will be handling email and bookings while I'm gone, but if you specifically need to talk to me about anything you better do it soon. I'll have occasional email access while I'm there, but I'm not spending my vacation tied to the computer :)

My friend Sarah put together this lovely collage of the 5 of us that are going:



Going clockwise from the left, we have Jaime (who likes to run), Ben (who apparently has a lot of money, haha), Katie (who I haven't met yet), Sarah (with the surfboard), and I'm in the middle with what appears to be a left-handed digital rebel... Down in the corner with the balloons we have party boy Corey, who we've decided we need to track down to help us out with Sarah's 25th birthday while we're there, haha :) If you haven't seen him on the news, check out the video below:

Meaghan + Sam

Last weekend I headed to Bend for Meaghan and Sam's engagement session - in the snow! We ended up doing the shoot at Shevlin Park/Aspen Hall, where their wedding will be held this June. Needless to say it was pretty cold outside, so we actually didn't spend a lot of time - especially after I kept making them sit on wet surfaces, haha!

Here are just a few, it'll be interesting to compare these to the summer photos at the same location :)











This one just cracks me up

Recent Seniors

If you are a 2008 senior who still needs photos, contact me soon to schedule your session! I don't have any availability until late March, and spring dates are already being booked.

Just a few from two boys that I photographed last week -

Nate:

Anders:

Samantha

Last week I met up with Samantha for a quick senior portrait session - she currently holds the record for the senior who's traveled the farthest for their session, coming up to Corvallis from Rogue River (about 200 miles away)! Okay so she was also here to tour Oregon State (go Beavs!), but she could have chosen someone much closer to home so let me have my moment :)

It was pouring outside, but we managed to find a spot to get some shots for the yearbook. We'll be doing an actual outdoor photo session this spring, which I'm already looking forward to - she's very photogenic!

101 in 1001

I've never been into New Year's resolutions - I don't think I've ever made one, and if I did it was probably something like "become 6 inches taller." This year I decided to create a list of "101 things to do in 1001 days," as better described here.

I'll mark off completed tasks in this entry as I make progress. Right now it's in completely random order, maybe someday I'll organize it into categories but I wouldn't count on it. Without further ado, here's the list!

Start date: 1.6.08
End date: 10.3.10

Kacy Jo's 101 in 1001 (in no particular order) - completed items in turquoise

1. Solve a Rubik's cube
2. Visit New York City at Christmas time
3. Stay at a hotel with a round bed
4. Volunteer for the Humane Society
5. Go on a cruise
6. Buy the 50mm 1.2L
7. Buy an iMac
8. Pay off my truck
9. Pet a kangaroo
10. Have personal photos printed and put in albums
11. Send Christmas cards
12. Buy a house
13. Watch the Bourne series
14. Have a new logo designed
15. Learn to cook... something
16. Disneyland (for only the 14th time)
17. Live somewhere that can act as a place to meet clients
18. Can't say here or I'll ruin it :)
19. Save 20% of net income for one year
20. Go to the dentist...
21. Visit Alaska
22. Throw an 80's prom
23. Severely downsize all of the "stuff" that sits in closets, sell/donate
24. Go to bed by 11pm for a full week
25. Get out of bed by 7am for a full week
26. Give tomatoes (which I despise) an honest try
27. Dance on the bar at Coyote Ugly (just for you Suzy!)
28. Take the train to a Seattle Seahawks game
29. Send flowers to someone at their work
30. Get a boating license
31. Camp on the beach
32. Play the Wii for an evening without being sore the next day, haha!
33. Create an idea book for portrait sessions (photos of new locations, pages from magazines, etc)
34. Pick up the bill when I'm out for dinner w/ a group of 8 or more
35. Send a postcard to PostSecret
36. Have photos taken with my sisters for our parents
37. See a concert at the Grand Ole Opry
38. Take another trip with the girls - farther away than the West Coast :)
39. Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
40. Read/audiobook one business book a month
41. Don't buy any new clothes for 3 months straight
42. Buy a sleep number bed, or some other way better mattress system than what I have
43. Go to a drive in movie
44. Visit the Grand Canyon
45. Go to the waterfall in Utah on the cover of that Sunset magazine I have somewhere
46. Organize closets
47. Organize desk and paperwork
48. Move all computers/equipment out of my bedroom
49. Score over 180 in bowling again
50. Jump to next tax bracket
51. Get life insurance
52. Write a will
53. Donate photography to Art for Animals (fundraiser for Greenhill Humane Society)
54. Stay the nite in a yurt
55. Pet a tiger
56. Learn to do something to my hair besides put it in a ponytail
57. See Conan O'Brien live
58. See David Letterman live
59. Eat at Rupert Jee's Hello Deli
60. Loan money to someone on Prosper.com
61. Get my concealed weapons permit
62. Buy a self-cleaning litter box
63. Convince someone else to make one of these lists so they can appreciate how long I took to write it
64. Write a letter to Doritos regarding their discontinuation of Black Pepper Jack, their best flavor ever, yet leaving it listed under "flavors" on their web site as if it is current. I'm not bitter.
65. Throw a surprise party
66. Take a trip with my sisters and mom
67. Buy the turquoise dinnerware set I want from Target (okay it was given to me for my birthday)
68. Go to a non-photography related business event or workshop
69. New business cards
70. Make mini albums for a few of my favorite wedding vendors
71. Ride an elephant
72. Improve SEO on web site
73. Bake a cake from scratch
74. Get a group to rent a house at Sunriver for a weekend
75. Pay off credit cards
76. Spend a week computer-free
77. Can't say here or I'll ruin it! :)
78. Stay at a W hotel
78. Keep track of personal expenses (using Mint.com, which so far is awesome)
79. Improve my Spanish
80. Learn to whistle
81. Attend a One Light workshop
82. Donate $5 to charity for every item not completed at the end of the 1001 days
83. Implement off-camera lighting into senior shoots (outdoor, on location)
84. Ride the Napa Valley Wine Train
85. Visit a new continent
86. Outsource more areas of my business
87. Submit photos to a magazine
88. Take someone's dog to the coast (since I won't be getting a dog anytime soon)
89. Aim my headlights down a little so people quit flashing their brights at me!

90. - 101. Reserved for future ideas :)

Print Order Blackout

Happy New Year!!

I hope that everyone had a great holiday season!

I wanted to make everyone aware of an upcoming "print order blackout," for lack of a better term. I will be gone visiting Australia and New Zealand from February 1st thru March 11th, and will be unable to process orders during that time.

If you want or need to receive any prints before March 31st, they must be ordered by midnite on January 16th! Orders received after this date won't be processed until I return, and won't be delivered to your door until early April.

All expired galleries have been re-launched with a new expiration date of January 16th, so if you want a few more prints here's your chance! Click here to view galleries.

Please email me at kacy@kacyjo.com if you have any questions!