Shawna Noel Photo Blog

November 16, 2010

A sunny photo for a cloudy day

Remember the sun? I do, sorta :)

A few weeks ago we were in Florida to photograph a wedding. Here's a quick snapshot from the sunset on the beach in Naples, Fl.

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October 31, 2010

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Halloween 2010

Happy Halloween! Here are a few photos from our annual Halloween pumpkin carving ... Miss Megan (my boyfriend's niece) turned 6 this October and was all excited about the pumpkin goo! She cleaned out all of the pumpkins and even helped Papa carve one.

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July 9, 2010

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Photo bomb

We have a crazy weekend schedule with lots of travel for weddings and portrait sessions around the state -- Fargo, Jamestown and Bismarck, here we come!

I'll try to update the blog from the road :) 'Til then, here's a photo bomb, thank to Kory.

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July 5, 2010

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Happy Fourth of July!

I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Fourth of July weekend! With my boyfriend, best friend and favorite friend out of town on the Fourth of July, I spent Sunday work-laxing (that's my word for casually working). In the evening I wandered down to the Grand Forks Greenway for the fireworks show.

First, there was a pretty sunset ::

Then I sat right here for exactly 42 minutes in a painful crouched position whilst being attached by mosquitoes whilst waiting for the show to start ::

Finally, the fun began ::

Black and white fireworks photo? Sure, why not ::

I love the car streak through this photo ::

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June 17, 2010

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An actual vacation!

I've been home from vacation for over a week and I am still trying to catch up on my email, blogging, editing, etc. Vacations are awesome, but catching up after vacation? Yeah, not so awesome :)

But, I am finally back to blogging after a long break. I hope you enjoyed Kory's posts (even though he didn't post anything embarrassing at all! I guess that's why he's such a good friend, right?). I'm excited to show you photos from my trip ... although I feel silly for posting vacation photos. Don't people usually hate looking through other people's vacation photos? Oops.

I feel like I always go on mini-vacations. You know: Four days here, a long weekend there. And those mini-vacations are usually because I am traveling to a friend's wedding or a family reunion or it is a work trip. I rarely make travel plans just because.

So, about a month ago the opportunity to go somewhere for a week presented itself and I thought "Wow, an actual vacation?" We packed our bags and tent and ...

we (that'd be me and the boyfriend) flew into Phoenix, Arizona then drove up to Grand Canyon National Park for three days of hiking and camping. It was breathtaking!

Here's our view from a hike down into the canyon ::

We were at the Canyon early enough in the season to still catch a few spring flowers ::

Being a tourist is fun!

Use this ::

To see this ::

The boyfriend enjoying the view ::

Photo of me taken by the boyfriend ::

More tourist ::

We attended a few sunset programs at the park. This one was pretty cool ::

After the Grand Canyon, we traveled down to Sedona for a day. Our hotel was right on this little babbling brook.

We eventually made our way back down to Phoenix and Scottsdale. We stayed in an amazing hotel -- that's our outdoor bathtub on the right and the gorgeous spa on the left.

The best part of Arizona? The sun shone every day we were there. Sure, it was freakin' HOT in Phoenix -- our rental car reported it was 112 one day! Despite the heat, I still loved seeing the sun each day. I may need to start wintering in Arizona ...