Thanks so much for stopping by! I'm Megan Boone, a lifestyle photographer from Southern Oregon. This blog was designed to be a sneak peek into both my professional and personal life. If you are a client I hope that it will give you an understanding of my business philosophies as well as my personality and style of work. If you are a family member or friend it will just be a good way to check in on our daily adventures. My goal is to keep things interesting so aside from my photography, you can expect to find everything from recipes that I'm loving, books and music to check out, to anecdotes about weird looking bugs that I find in my bathtub. So please take the time to utilize your bookmark function, or you can subscribe to the RSS feed at the bottom, if that is the sort of thing floats your boat. If neither of those options made sense to you, then you need to pull out a piece of paper and write down meganboonephotography.net with a pen, then stick the note to your computer screen for safekeeping. In the meantime enjoy the rest of the blog. Oh, and my genius blog designer Brock Martin has made it incredibly easy to leave comments. So let's all take advantage of that shall we?
See, look what I've gone and done! I promised myself that no matter WHAT, no matter how crazy this home renovation and settling in got, no matter how hectic the "on season" would be- that I would not, could not ignore this blog. But, I did, and instead of apologizing for the umpteenth time I'm just here with flowers, or well, a flower, promising that it just won't happen again, baby.
I have sooooooo many things to tell you about and soooooooo many pictures to show you. So, I'll go work on them so that I can share them soon.
So, there is this actress named Megan Boone that I was made aware of long ago when I was trying to secure meganboone.com as a domain. I think that got us off to a bad start - I mean, not only did she get to my name first, but she also snatched my preferred site address. I have since come to forgive and more realistically, forget her. Until a few months ago when she landed a supporting role in a slightly popular movie.
Since then, her website has gone defunct (at least last I checked) and therefore all of her creepy fan mail is coming to me. Maybe creepy is a bit of a harsh verb to use, BUT it is weird. My original plan was to post snippets of a few, but after further consideration I'm thinking that I don't want antagonize any of the authors.
Seeing that this is my first batch of fan mail to ever get, I've learned some surprising things about it. Namely, that for fan mail, it sure is massively self-centered. I mean, WOW, these people go on and on about themselves - their vocations, locations, mother's fibromyalgia. Only rarely, do they drop in a few kind words about my acting skills and beauty. What is even more rare is when they comment about how wonderful it is that such a beautiful woman could take such beautiful pictures. Even though these statements are completely skewed, they are still nice to read. It still strikes me as weird, though, that people would think that an actress in Hollywood would moonlight as a wedding photographer in Oregon. Here is where I'll refrain from saying impolite things about other people's intelligence. I'd also like to add, just to be fair, that spell check caught that I didn't spell intelligence right; I'd like to hope that it was just a typo, but one can't always be sure.
There is this running joke that I have going with my friends and husband about how gorgeous all of my clients always are. It really is uncanny. Virginia and Peter are no exception. In fact, after I first met with them, I ran into a friend in the parking lot that asked, "Oh, you're meeting with clients? Are they really, really, ridiculously good looking?" The answer is, always, yes. For the most part, I don't display any other signs of the "luck of the Irish," unlike my brother, who is notoriously lucky. He can walk past a Coke machine and press a button and one will inevitably fall out. However, when it comes to clients, I ALWAYS get lucky.
We had fabulous light for this shoot.
For those of you not in the area, this is the Nunan Estate. They are going to be getting married on the steps, and it is going to be one GORGEOUS wedding. On a side note for the brides, Nunan is pretty well known to have the best wedding cakes around...
Surprisingly, this is the first shoot where a couple asked if they could bring their dog, I was so excited that they did - Bear made a great addition. I was going to say prop, but that would make me sound like a bit like a robotic, heartless photographer.
So, I was planning on telling you how bitingly funny these two are, the only people in fact, that have made Laser Cats references to me, aside from my husband. I figured it might just bum you out though, that there are people in the world that can be so good looking AND intelligent AND funny.
When I saw that the awesome, yet mostly creepy, traveling fair was back in town, I just knew that I would have to talk a couple into going there. David and Kate were happy to oblige me, and boy oh boy am I glad that they did.
Not only did we have a great time and get great shots, but I proved to myself that I can indeed take pictures while being propelled into nauseating circles.
Kate won.
The nauseating ride was totally worth it for this:
Doesn't Kate have the BEST smile?
Thanks for the great time, guys! Can't wait for the wedding.
This is David & Kate. They are my two new favorite people.
The first time that I talked to David, he said something about crossing gig paths with Radio Dept. The fact that I had met someone that had actually heard of Radio Dept. in Oregon made me instantly like him. After I listened to some of his work, he took up permanent residency in my personal Hall of Awesome.
I knew that anyone marrying him had to be of equal of greater value in awesome, and Kate IS. I mean for starters, her name is Kate, and anyone that has some sort of variation of my mother and grandmother's name gets the initial good first impression. The thing about Kate that I liked the most though is that she is so pretty. I don't mean just the superficial aspect, which, obviously, yes, she is but by pretty I really mean that her whole disposition is just very pretty. Like a Disney princess, but without the singing and talking to forest animals, no WAIT, she does do that.
They had the great idea of starting the shoot in their kitchen making lunch. I really love it when couples "do" something, especially if it is something that they usually do.
Lovely.
Given that there were too many good pics to choose from, coupled with the whole blog challenge that I've forced onto myself, I've decided to continue with part two of the shoot tomorrow. If you consider this cheating, then I will direct you to my grandaddy's favorite quote: "This is my ranch, and I'll do as I please."
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