The Giveaway: I have made samples of each size using a few of my favorite pictures from recent sessions. Here is where you come in. Pick your favorite collage and vote using the poll at the end of the blog. The winner will receive their Collage Mount for FREE in whatever size it was designed for, up to a $140 value! You can vote once per hour, so spread the word! Voting ends in one week: Feb. 14 at 11:59.

2 quick things: 1 The black border will not actually be on the collage, it’s just for blogging purposes. 2 To purchase a collage of your own click here.

Kaileigh 8×10

Noah & Cassidy 12 x 10

Chas & Liz 12×8 w/Black Background

Caitlin 10 x 20

David & Molly 11 x 14

Baldridge Family 5 x 30

Stephanie & Trey 20 x 20

I even made the poll Valentine’s Themed. Aren’t I festive?! …go with me here

You can vote 1 time per hour, so spread the word and vote often!

Noah & Cassidy get an extra long blog entry because they deserve it for braving the freezing cold. Especially Cassidy. I don’t know how she was able to look so warm and comfortable! It was a cold and rather dreary day, but I’m so glad we went ahead with the session. Without further adieu…

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Cassidy’s hands were so cold!

This picture shows the true temperature of the day. I also feel like it belongs on a Ski Lodge/Resort advertisement. I’m not sure why, but it just has that feel.

Dogs and a field, two of my favorite things!

These pups are definitely lickers.

Just in case you need a closer view:

I love this picture so much. Mostly because I can totally relate to it. I have been licked many-a-time on the nose by my pups. The worst is when they aim for the mouth. Eck!

Happy family to be!

This next part is more of a PSA. The stockyards are not only useful for amazing backgrounds for engagement pictures, oh no my friends, they are also one of Fort Worth’s biggest attractions. So if you are new to the area or even if you’ve lived here your whole life (like myself), it’s fun to go. The rodeo/stock show will only be around for a little while longer (mid-Feb?). While I am not a “hardcore” Texan, I will say that I do enjoy the stock show and rodeo. In fact, we’re going with my family in a few weeks. Dan and I would really like to move out of the city and onto some land one day, possibly in Colorado, and have a few animals, so part of me enjoys looking at the animals as if we we’re actually about to buy a horse, cow, or chickens. HOWEVER, I must tell you that my absolute favorite part about the stock show is the Exhibit Hall, full of random crafts, As-Seen-On-TV items, and crazy salesmen giving away free things and trying to sell you the “World’s Best Knife.” And yes, as of last year’s visit to the stock show, I am a proud owner of the “World’s Best Knife.” It truly is amazing. If ever we find ourselves in an emergency, we can cut ourselves out of our house.  Can’t wait to see what this year’s great find will be!

I got distracted…ok, to re-cap, the Fort Worth Stockyards are open year-around and are a fabulous place for family portraits, engagement pictures or child portraits but the Stock Show and Rodeo is only here in January and February. The Stock Show itself is enough to fill an entire day, the Rodeo is just an added bonus at the end.

Fort Worth Stock Show

3400 Crestline Road
Fort Worth, TX 76107
(817) 877-2420

Fort Worth Stockyards

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“Snow!” We had wonderful weather for our session, but just a few days before the session somewhat of a blizzard blew through Fort Worth and left a few remains. Stephanie and Drew had driven up from College Station. We seldom have snow in DFW but apparently they have even less snow in College Station. It was quite exciting.

I loved this picture, so I went ahead and spruced it up a bit. I love designing. I had just finished designing a Baby Shower Invitation and I was in the mood so I couldn’t help myself.

This would normally be the end of the blog post…but, I’m having a delima. The blog is used for many things, and one of these things is it gives future clients an idea of what their photos will look like. For this reason I am a bit hesitant to publish the next picture. I do not usually edit photos in this manor so I don’t want to give the impression that this is the type of image one should expect from me. However, it fit this particular pose and so I did it. Some may think it’s cheesy…I don’t care. It has a 50′s motif that I had to embrace. I may even blow it up to movie poster size just for the heck of it. Without further adieu…

We are off to Colorado! We’ll be back soon…ish

David proposed in Waco on Baylor University’s campus.It happened to also be homecoming, so of course all of the flowers were green and gold.I was not allowed to use the flash. …for obvious reasons I guess…

Congratulations David and Molly, we are super excited to have another Leverenz!