behind the lens

West County Kids.

Earlier this year, I was interviewed by West County Kids magazine. The article they wrote about my photography is in the summer issue, which is on newstands starting today!  It's a great magazine, and the summer issue is loaded with information about raising children in St. Louis, summer camps, plus all the other fun activities available to them this summer.  They're also giving away a free playroom makeover from The Container Store...so go get your copy today, and enter that contest!!  You can pick one up at schools, restaurants, book stores, community centers, libraries, child care centers, fitness centers, doctors' offices, coffee shops and many other family-friendly locations across West County and surrounding areas (and at selected family attractions in the city of St. Louis).

with loving anticipation

I loved working with this couple!  They're so good together, and the bond between them and their baby is already so strong.  I hope I was able to capture that for them.

twins.

Some sweet little newborns I photographed -

 

gratitude.

I planned on posting this image for Easter.  It's not a new image of mine, but it's one of my favorites from a trip to an Arizona mission a couple years ago (or so.)  Looking at it makes me grateful.  For what He endured for me.  Happy belated Easter, everyone!

This last week, I had a hard drive failure, but it gave me more to be grateful for.  I have some people I'd like to publicly thank.  My computer is NOT up and running yet, but it's getting there.  I've been really good about backups, so no worries.  If you're waiting for prints from me, you will still get them....the images are not lost.  But the thought of any miscellaneous files I might have missed in my backups, and the thought of reinstalling my operating system, all of my applications, and configuring everything the way I had it was daunting.  So I was almost ready to pay for data recovery.  Almost.  The fact that it costs an arm and a leg made me cringe.  I actually got a quote from one company for $10,000 to $25,000.  Yeah right. 

Well, thanks to Pam Biasotti, a fellow photographer in San Francisco, I didn't have to go that route.  She suggested I have someone take a look to see if the drives would boot with a good motherboard, and if so, to get the data copied onto an external drive.  So there's thank you number one...THANK YOU PAM!  My second thank you goes out to Kris at the Circuit City on Brentwood.  He went out of his way to get the work done quickly and at a great price.  Nothing near what data recovery would cost.  His employer needs to pay him well because I wouldn't doubt if he regularly gets job offers from customers!  So THANK YOU KRIS!

I'm working on getting the computer up and running, hopefully by tomorrow.  And the best part is, I don't have to reinstall everything.  I just have to copy it onto my new drives.  Anyway, lots to be grateful for.

Go Red.

So for the Cardinals' home opener tonight, I thought I'd dig up a photo from last year's parade.  I don't know how you top a season that brought a new stadium and  a World Series Championship, but I don't think it matters.

spring, maybe?

cold hands, warm heart.

Winner!

Thanks for the emails.  Can you believe I collected yours but I never made any resolutions for myself?  I have one now though.  I'm going to avoid high-fructose corn syrup, and meats/dairy products with hormones.  Or at least try.... ;) This does of course involve spending more money and taking the time to cook good meals.  Money, time....two things in short supply around here.

Anyway, we have a winner!  Suzanne from Creve Coeur wrote that her New Year's Resolution was to leave her laptop at home during vacations from now on.  Well, I think that's easy to say now that smart phones give you all that in a smaller package, but hopefully she meant she'll stop working on vacations!  I think all the working vacations she's already put in are deserving of a Spoiled Rotten Massage!  Runner up was Linda from Chesterfield, who plans to eat more chocolate.  LOL!  Linda gets a $30 gift card.  I'll be sending the gift cards out in just a couple days.

resolution.

What's my New Years resolution?  300dpi.  hehe.  What's yours?  We're wondering what everyone is planning for the 2007.  Email us your resolutions at resolution@lauribakerphotography.com, and we'll read through them during winter break.  We'll post the one we think is either the funniest, or the most original, or whatever else we deem to make it worthy of posting, and if we post yours, you'll win what every resolution-maker needs in late January...some pampering.  A gift certificate for a Spoiled Rotten Massage (a $70 value) at Go!Spa, voted St. Louis' #1 spa.  And while we're at it, if there's a good runner-up worth posting, we'll give away a $30 gift card to Go!Spa, which is enough to pay for one of a variety of 20-minute treatments.  Tension trouncer anyone?  Heel help?  It's all there...so send us your resolutions.  In the meantime, enjoy a little frost.  It's better than a thick coat of ice any day!

holiday.

We will be closed for the holidays from now until January 18th.  All pre-scheduled newborn sessions will take place during that time, but all other sessions are being scheduled into February, March, and April.  Have a wonderful holiday!!