Rodeo Weekend - Part 1

For me the rodeo events started on Thursday night with the annual cattle drive through town. I took my mom down to watch the action then we went and watched the carnival for a while. Saturday morning was the rodeo parade which I took way too many shots of and had to narrow down some to share on here. Some of my choices are because it's someone I know, some are because I found the subject a challenge to photograph.....I am NOT an events photographer! I love to take pictures of things like this, but I find my strong talents to be in photographing people. I had fun trying though!

Sherry's family

Sherry and her family are out here visiting from Texas and we did some family photos for her. It was great to meet her family. I have known Sherry since she was a little kid, in fact she went to school with my daughter. There were lots of images I really liked but I had to narrow it down to these as my favorites. We had a fun time, even if the darn sun wouldn't cooperate very well!

Achaia & Natalee dance 2009

I took dance photos for these two darling young dancers last year and we all had so much fun with it that we had to do it again this year. Really sweet girls and lots of fun to photograph. It's amazing how much they have changed in the past year. I look forward to doing this every year and watch them grow.