DOUBLE FEATURE! - Top Honor & Top 10 - Weeks Ending 11/13/2014

I want to thank everyone for being so patient as busy season has caused me to get a little behind! The positive is this double feature with a LOAD of amazing images! The first top 10 included were chosen by our stunning guest judge, Michelle Cordner Photography! We want to thank her for being our guest judge for week ending 10/30/2014! She even left nice comments about each image that she chose (they are below each image!). If you haven't already, check out her page and show her some love. The second top 10 was chosen by me. :) The blogs are now caught up, thank you again everyone! Now for some eye candy! 

~*Top Honor*~

Congrats to Melina Nastazia Photography on being chosen by our guest judge for the top honor image! This image is absolutely STUNNING! I want to hang it up in my kitchen hehe! 

Message from our guest judge, " This image is stunning by Melina Natazia Photography. I am a big fan of her work."

~*Top 10*~

(in no particular order)

Tammie Louise Photography

"Love this! Lego is a regular feature in my house!"

Stim-photography

"this sums up beautiful chaos perfectly I think!"

Amanda Dora Photography

"Ohhh, that beautiful light. Love it"

Tiffany Erb Photography

"I can so relate to this! Love it."

Allyson Wasmund Photography

"Really like the simplicity of this image and the story it tells."

Melissa Clemons

"brilliant capture!"

Danielle Waage Photography

"Love the simplicity in this beautiful image"

Privizzini's Passion Photography

"Love the fun feel of this image"

Gracelyn Photography And She Did

"love this warm window light and the natural feel of this image."

Brittany Leigh Photography

"love the light in this image"

~*Top Honor*~

Congrats to Charming Hearts Photography for being chosen as top honor image!! This is one of the most adorable shopping images I have ever seen! Wonderful capture!

~*Top 10*~

(in no particular order)

Morgan Webb Photography

Mel Karlberg Photography

Rebecca Waldock Photography

Aisling Images

KRJ Photography LLC

Red Mountain Studio

Sonia Epple Fotografie

That Wild Road

Danielle Waage Photography

Tiffany Erb Photography

Feature Photographer: Michelle Cordner Photography

It has been a long past 3 weeks, but finally I am able to catch up. Starting with a feature post of this amazing photographer! Check out more about her below and view some of her stunning images! 

Tell us a little about yourself (family, hobbies, etc.)

I am a mum of two gorgeous and completely crazy children named Harrison and Millie and I have been married to my husband Adam for 9 years. I feel very blessed to have a healthy and happy little family and they are my everything! 
I go to the gym 3 times a week - begrudgingly! - So that I can eat naughty snacks without feeling too guilty about it! I also write in a diary every few weeks so that I can re-read things over the years as my memory is not the best! I always jot down little things the kids say and do so I can look back and remember that Harrison used to say "Notorbikes" instead of "Motorbikes" and that Millie had to sleep with two dummies years after these things have been forgotten.

What got you started in taking lifestyle images (or photography in general)?

I have always found photos very precious. My Dad passed away when I was only 7 and as my memories of him started to fade over the years the photos that I had became very important to me. I only really started to think about getting into photography myself when I had my children. When my son was born I wanted to document everything! Photography became my visual diary, capturing not only the obligatory first of everything shots but the day to day moments that shaped my life at the time. After that I quickly outgrew my compact camera and the compact DSLR that followed before making the leap to a full DSLR two years ago.

Any photographers that you look up to?

 I have so many photographers on here who I follow and who are a constant ispiration to me with their amazing work. One of my favourite photographers is another UK photographer - Tammie Louise Photography. I totaly adore and relate to Tammie's style and the proffesional, approachable way she comes accross in her blogs and updates is also very inspiring.

What is in your camera bag?

My camera bag currently has a Nikon D7000, SB600 flash, 24-70mm 2.8, 35mm 1.8 (Love this for lifestyle shots indoors!) 85mm 1.8 and I still keep my 18-105mm kit in there as a back up.

If you could capture anybody in the world, anywhere, who and where?

If I could capture anybody anwhere I would probably travel back in time to get more lifestyle photos from my childhood. My memories of that time are so faint nowdays, I would love to go back and take photographs of myself and my twin sister Gemma with our parents and grandparents and capture the mischief we made as young children.

So beautiful! You can check out more of Michelle's stunning images one her Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/MichelleCordnerPhotography, or on her website, http://www.michellecordnerphotography.com!