Melissa & Tristan!

Cutest thing EVER : Melissa and Tristan's very first kiss on the lips will be at the altar on their wedding day! When Tristan told me that, I thought "oh my gooooodness, how am I gonna do an engagement session with NO kissing?!" Anyone who's visited my site knows I loooove kissing pictures. Lucky for me, they DO kiss on the cheeks, foreheads, noses ... just no lips. They're the first couple I've ever even met that has waited for marriage to kiss and I think it's the SWEEEEETEST thing I've ever heard. How cool is it that I get to record their very first kiss on their wedding day. (No pressure, right?!)

So here's some of my favorite shots from their engagement session. I have to say this was one of my favorite sessions of all time! The love between these two is so genuine - it's easy easy easy to get amazing photos of them. Plus they were down for anything, so we ended up walking around downtown Austin, barefoot, looking for backgrounds. I think the results are some of my favorite pictures ever.

Mixed in are some more "Jesh Inspired" textured photos. Leave me some comments to tell me what you think of them! (My new favorite wedding photographer, Jesh deRox, is an amazingly talented artist living and working in Canada. Visit his site here : Jesh)

So here are my favorites :

I looove this mural ...





Three of my faves with texture ...





Sooo in love!










A couple more with texture ...




So so so so cute :)







Thanks Melissa & Tristan! I'll see you soon :)

Darlea and Grant!

Darlea and Grant are such a great couple! Their wedding is next weekend in Austin and I'm so looking forward to it. Here are a few of my favorite photos from their session ...

Kids Site Special

$50 off all portrait sessions booked today through Friday! Summer sessions are the BEST! Email me today for more info : sarah@roxyandkai.com

Happy First Birthday Kai!

Kai, a year ago (with big brother Danny and sister Esty) ...



Kai, now ... ONE YEAR OLD!








It's all going by sooooooo fast ...
I love you Kai! Happy Birthday Baby :)

Kids site is LIVE!

For those of you who haven't visited the "real" site lately ... the KIDS site is now up and running!

Head over to http://www.roxyandkai.com and click on KIDS to check it out. Look at all the awesome jewelry I'm now offering while you're there. You're gonna want some, I PROMISE!

In other kids news, my art show opening at Blue Star last week went GREAT! BIG thanks to all of you who made it out to the opening of "Mamarazzi!" For those of you who couldn't make it, the photos will be hanging all of May. Head over there for lunch or dinner and check 'em out. The Brewery is smack in the middle of the Blue Star complex, underneath the Bike Shop. All prints are for sale - email me for details!

JENNIFER WINS!

Congrats to Jennifer and the AWESOME photo of her dad. She's the winner of my first ever blog contest and gets an awesome green apple bracelet from Jessica Hughes. Thanks to everyone who submitted photos and to everyone who voted. Here's a breakdown of votes :

#1 got 25 out of 88 votes!

#5 came in second place with 19 votes.
#3 was in third with 15 votes.
#8 had 13 votes.
#9 had 7 votes.
#2 had 5 votes.
#6 had 3 votes.
#10 had 1 vote.

Email me Jenn and I'll get you all the details!

The winning pic ...

Submitted by Jennifer : "This is my father as a kid, it makes me giggle to see him this small but I love his little car and his facial expression just rocks."



The PRIZE ...


Photo on tile by Candy Avera

Vote for your favorite old photo!

Thanks to everyone who submitted an old photo for the contest! Here are the entries. Vote by leaving a comment with the number of your favorite (YOU CAN LEAVE A COMMENT BY CLICKING HERE). Voting will be open for ONE week only, so forward the link to all your friends so they can vote, too! The winner gets an awesomely cute bracelet from Jessica Hughes. You can see the original contest post here : (CONTEST)

PHOTO #1

Submitted by Jennifer : "This is my father as a kid, it makes me giggle to see him this small but I love his little car and his facial expression just rocks."



PHOTO #2

Submitted by Lisa: "This is a copy of my Grandma (Juana Castro, front row, far left) from 1933, when she played banjo in a big band. Even though she never smiled in photographs (unless we could catch her off guard), and we never saw her in the vicinity of a musical instrument, she was the most delightful and generous person I've ever had the privilege of knowing."



PHOTO #3

Submitted by Donna : "The attached picture is of my Grandma and Grandpa on their wedding day. My Grandma died when my Mom was 8 so I never met her but if she was half the Mother my Mom is...She was a wonderful lady! My Grandpa raised my Mom (8), and two aunts (5 years old and 2 months old) by himself in the late 40's and early 50's. I think this image was probably taken late 1930."



PHOTO #4

Submitted by Teresa : My Dad has held all kinds of jobs throughout his life, he was a photographer for the army and then for General Dynamics, he was a sign painter for over 20 yrs, he currently installs septic systems. This picture is from when he worked for a fake old western town. The gun is loaded w/ blanks and he had just come from a fake gun battle.



PHOTO #5

Submitted by Courtney: "This is my Naunie, Frances Lee Berry, when she was a young woman. She and I share a middle name with her father. I just think she was so beautiful in this picture. It's actually a photo I took of the original, which is hanging in my mother's house. Naunie died when I was 8, but I remember her as a very loving woman. And my mother is so much like her it's scary! They're both wonderful grandmothers, artists and gardeners."



PHOTO #6

Submitted by Dorinda : "It's me and my brother playing at Hemisfair Park. My mom used to make our clothes. Notice my slick striped pants."



PHOTO #7

Submitted by Christin : "this is my grandmother. I live behind her. It just makes me wish I knew what she was really like back then. When I was in 7th grade I did a biography on her and blew this picture up real big for the cover."



PHOTO #8

Submitted by Catherine : "Who's in this photo? We're not sure. This photo is from my great-grandmother's photo album. The photos had been glued in a black paged album and a lot of them were torn out several years ago so the back of the photo is just black paper, the place that might have had written info! We think it's my mothers', mother's, father's friends... =) It was taken in the early 30s in western Oklahoma. I was given a rather large stack of very old and battered photos in hopes that I would be able to restore some of them and this one is by far my favorite.
I love it because it's real and sweet and reminds me of a simpler time. The baby and mother smiling at each other is so cute. The dog looks like he's going to pounce on something in the dirt. The clothes on the mother, the little bear feet of the baby..all reasons I like it. What we can see of the house also reminds me of my paternal great grandfathers simple country home."



PHOTO #9

Submitted by Katherine : "Here's my favorite photograph of my Grandfather Gerald Shipley, he was a photographer and lived in Nicaragua, Cuba and Panama before he married. He was the first photographer in the family and traveled around documenting his world with an old Graflex. My Aunt got the prints but my Mom got the big negatives (3 x 5) so I've been busy scanning and re printing them. Here he is modeling for a friend drinking out of a coconut!"



PHOTO #10

Submitted by Mariah : "My dad and me when I first came home...I love it because my dad actually has hair :)"



PHOTO #11

Submitted by Kristin : "Here is one of my favs. It's a picture of my fraternal grandmother on her confirmation. I love it because she just looks so young and beautiful."



Thanks again to everyone who entered! It was GREAT hearing from all of you and a joy to see all your favorite old photos! Keep visiting the blog for more contests soon!

ART SHOW!

Okay, here are the details on my upcoming photo art show at Blue Star. I hope to meet LOTS of new friends at the opening! Anyone who can make it, please, please come! :)

Here's the flyer (front and back). CLICK on it to make it BIGGER!

Kristel's Senior Session

Some of my favorites from last weekend's senior session at the McNay ...












Thanks Kristel! You were a GREAT model! :)

Jesh Inspired

I have a new favorite photographer ... Jesh de Rox. He's AMAZING with texture and light and emotion. I told him I'd pay him a thousand dollars for him to take just ONE picture of me and I totally meant it. Check out his work here : Jesh's Site

So my art show at Blue Star is next month! I'm so excited. After spending hours looking at Jesh's stuff, I decided to do a textured photo for the show. Here's what I've done so far ... I'd LOVE some feedback on these. I think I'm definitely gonna get the first one printed up. Not so sure about the second one. Is it toooooo grungy?

Leave me some comments and tell me what'cha think! It would be much appreciated!

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