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My name is Rachel Henderson and I'm a stay-at-home mom and a professional photographer. This is my blog. Here you'll find tons of pictures, mostly of my two kids Winfield and Harriet, as well as professional shoots, photography tips, and much more. Please bookmark me, or if you're a RSS user, my feed is located here or just plug my blog address into Google Reader or any other feed reader.

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Professional Work:

I currently shoot a limited number of weddings each year, so contact me as soon as possible to inquire about your date. I have a few openings left for 2008, but these will likely be filled by early spring.

I also shoot high-school seniors, families, babies, and businesses. Visit my professional portfolio or get in touch with me by clicking here. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Mexican Jumping Baby

Here’s a little window into Harriet’s life. She does this a lot.

Have a nice day!

Tan and Fit

My skinny tan parents have returned from their winter home in Arizona.  This was the first year that they wintered in AZ and I don’t think that it will be their last.  They are tan fit and full of stories of the fun that they had.  Missing their grandkids, they came up for a short weekend.

We walked down to the Tulip Time parade.  Pictures courtsey of my parents

Harriet enjoyed playing with my dad.

Win couldn’t take his eyes off the parade.

My sister and her husband drove over from GR.  Here we are fooling around with some squirrel oven rack openers that we made on 7th grade shop class.  My mom is cleaning house and we inherited these.

Here I am instructing my mom in the basics of using my camera.

She did a pretty good job!

We all went out to our favorite Chineese buffet.  Win ate so many fresh strawberries that his stomach hurt.  He’s a little like his mom.

Noon Sun

Noon sun is very challenging light to photograph. I made Hattie model for me. I needed the practice after a Michigan winter of very little direct light. Thanks Harriet.

jason + lisa

On Sunday I had the pleasure of photographing Jason and Lisa’s engagement pictures. They are getting married on 6-7-08. Fun date huh!? :-)

I first met Jason in 1997! He has been a close friend of Jared and mine ever since. He met Lisa in the summer of ‘06 and within weeks of their relationship’s start our friends were taking bets as to when they’d get engaged. They are PERFECT for each other.

You can see why Jason got a ring on her finger fast. She’s gorgeous, inside and out! She’s getting a great guy too. I can’t imagine a more loyal, kind, and thoughtful groom, and I know Jason pretty well. I’ve marked my calendar for the 7th of June, 2058. I plan on photographing their 50th anniversary. Nothing me doubts that they will be anything less than 50 years and 1 month more in love.

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If you’d like to see the rest of their engagement pictures check out their slideshow.

Jared and Harriet…

…have a very special little relationship.  I love how he loves her.  And she adores him.

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While emailing with a groom…

…whose wedding I am photographing this summer, I was explaining to him that photographers are what artist/geeks do with their interests.  Photography is fabulously geeky, and nothing brings out the geek in a photographer more than gear.  While others are dreaming of new shoes (ok, the artist in me loves new shoes too) photographers dream small, expensive, black item whose value is determined my a string of numbers that only other photographers understand.

So anyway, yesterday I got a couple of new toys.  They are little, but they bring out the geek in me.  I got a 800 speed firewire CF card reader and 2 4GB 300x CF cards.  Yeah…exciting…I know!  Basically, now I can get the images from my camera to my computer in a jiffy, which makes the reception slideshows much quicker to process.  :-)

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