Finally, after two moved flights, and two more days of waiting, I flew out on Thursday.  It started with my flight out of Lexington being delayed by 30 minutes which was going to mean that I had less than 10 minutes to change flights in Chicago.  I was glad I had worn my Nike’s!  THEN when we get into Chicago we are made to wait on the runway for a good 15 minutes before we can taxi into the terminal to park.

God smiled on me though and magically, my flight TO Springfield was leaving from the SAME GATE that my flight into Chicago had come into.  I literally walked up the stairs, waited, and walked back down and out to the plane.  I was hugely relieved!

Flight was fine into Sprinfield, landing fine, was a little scared because their runways were still COVERED in snow!!!  They had piles of blown snow everywhere that were taller than me!  (Not hard to be when you are only 5’3″ but I digress).  The pilot turns to pull into the gate and “THUMP”  It felt like we ran over something but no one could really see what.  It wasn’t that we ran OVER something… we definitely ran INTO something.  Namely, a snowdrift / pile that was at least 4 ft deep.  And there we sat.  For 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and hour, 1 hour 15, 1 hour 30… FINALLY after much debate the airport officials decided that they would NOT be able to pull the plane out of the snow.  Enter men, and shovels…

(This pic was taken from the plane window the snow they were blowing was as tall as the plane shooting out of the machine… a wild sight I assure you!)

By this point people on the plane were less than amused. The people in my section were all joking around and saying we could call and order pizza.  Finally they realize that two men and shovels were not going to cut it through the FEET of snow.  The brought out a snow blower and managed to carve a path to the door of the plane.  They let everyone get off the plane walk down the aisle of snow (which was up past my CHEST) and then they escorted us via cars to the terminal.  Fun times was NOT had .. by all.

(Of note in this photo… do you see how the snow is ALL the way up to the nose of the plane?!!!  YIKES!)

I guess at the very least, I have a story to tell.  I mean I did get a newspaper byline out of it!  My first as a matter of fact.  Sad that my first byline came from an IPHONE pic I took as the officials were rushing us off the runway!

No one was in danger, thank God, was it was a huge inconvenience.  I landed in Springfield at 5:45 and after I got off the plane, and got our luggage (another long wait), and got to my friend’s house it was close to 9 pm.  Oiy… long day.  United Airlines… epic fail on your part.  Sprinfield Airport… even bigger epic fail on your part!  I never even SAW an official from your establishment.  Do better next time…

See the article below.  I was interviewed and landed in the paper.  Funny stuff!

I even got a blurb in the article… does that make me a rockstar?!!!  LOL

When this image came up in the download I knew that this was just “it” for me.  Lots of times couples will ask me how long with a session take to shoot and I always say “Until I get the money shot”… and that is the God’s honest truth.  When I look into that camera and see that one shining moment, which usually happens toward the end of the session, I know that we will not be able to top that for the rest of our and generally that is when I say “done!”.  All of my couples, I am sure will agree, that each of us can pick that ONE photo out of the crowd… this was it for Brittany’s session… Something about it made me say WOW!

Brittany, came prepared for our snowy adventure!  I always want my brides to know that I will never ask you to do anything that I would not do myself.  All the photos that you see on my site of people in water, snow, etc… I am generally in up to my waist with them!  I am not a sissy and I am also very careful to be gentle with my brides!  For that reason, when shooting in the snow, I do NOT wear a coat.  I have my mitten with no fingertips, but I try to dress in similar fashion to my brides and that gives me the ability to know when enough is enough.  I can gage how cold they are because I AM THAT COLD TOO!!!

After her session was posted on Facebook Brit gave me a compliment that brings tears to my eyes!  Brittany said:  “I thought it was the sweetest thing ever that my thoughtful photographer said that she didn’t wear a coat on the sessions so that she could tell how could it was and wouldn’t freeze her brides.  That is the nicest, most thoughtful thing I had ever heard!  Not only is she talented but she has a heart of gold!!!”

So yes, I do care too much sometimes! Sometimes that equals fevers, chills and a friggin cold after my snow sessions but its all worth to know that my clients have these amazing memories to treasure forever!

So I got this crazy idea that I would love to have a few pics of a BRIDE in this amazing winter weather we have had!  I am so jealous of my friends in the Dakotas and Alaska who have all these amazing snow images so… I made my own!

This shoot was in correlation with The Wedding Center Inc which is located on Plaza Drive off Southland here in Lexington.

Our models were TROOPERS.  When we were shooting the WINDS were 25 mph and in the SINGLE digits for temperatures.  I am pretty sure both I and the main model, Shelby, were frostbitten but it was TOTALLY worth it!  Check it out:

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