Moving Time Zones | Oahu to Missouri
Moving time zones, life as a Saint Charles Photographer
Moving Time Zones | Oahu to Missouri
Moving my family from the beautiful island of Oahu was difficult, not only because of the whole moving part, but because over the last few years my business has truly flourished into what I love. Adventure, families, women, small businesses, connecting and having fun with people. So moving and starting all over in a community is difficult, plus the water here isn’t salty.
But, like all things in life… well in mine at least, I hold my head high and trek forward. We will be moving into a cute house with an actual yard in St.Charles here in a few weeks. Before that I move into my first LEGIT office, yes I’ve had my own spacious home office for years, but a place that I don’t have to quickly vacuum up gold fish crumbs and throw all the kids toys in their room, holy crap the excitement is UNREAL! Not only that but its a co-working space in Cottleville, it is GORGEOUS. I knew the second I walked in that this was right, from the warm friendly front desk gal to the other friendly people co-working, I felt right at home and hadn’t even signed my lease.
Next I worked on locations, I was able to find a few beautiful green spaces in St.Charles that are perfect for lifestyle family sessions, couples, and women’s sessions. Then down on Main street St.Charles there is beautiful old buildings, brick, cobble stone roads, and this charm that I can’t describe but will show you when I photograph there! It’s perfect for lifestyle families, couples, and small businesses!
I’ve been super lucky and found amazing people to model for location scouting and can’t wait to check out some more spots around St.Charles, St.peters, and Cottleville!
So if you’re looking for a photographer in the area, contact me, I would love to meet and chat about your photo session!
Here’s a slideshow from a recent session with a very amazing dog named Charles!
Amy & Williams Engagement Session | Kualoa Regional Park | Oahu | Chelsie Trendley Photography
Amy & Williams Engagement Session | Kualoa Regional Park | Oahu | Chelsie Trendley Photography
First of all, how cute are they?! Secondly, this location is seriously my favorite, its so perfect for a huge range of photo needs. I love that I was able to do their engagement session here and get a few different looks for them. Congrats to these two!!!
If your looking for some fun and romantic couples photos, this is the perfect spot!
Oahu Family Photographer | Splash Session | Amazing Family
I generally leave a photo session and have a feeling of excitement. I love working with families. This session I did stands out, I try not to "play favorites" but this one, this one is my favorite.
At the time our newest child was about 3 months old. So I brought the whole family to base and dropped my husband and our three daughters off at the park. I then headed to my session. I listen to the radio and did my usual pre photo shoot car dancing. I pulled up and immediately my clients pulled up next to me. I don't know why but this felt like a great sign. Since we were both about 10 minutes early. Right away I felt a connection, the Mom Shelby had the same hair style and hair color as me! I complemented her AMAZING style. We walked down to the beach and I really let myself be me at the session. I joked with them, we chatted, the kids played, splashed, and then although I have suggested before at sessions, I highly encouraged them to get in the water. The results were amazing. I also got in the water, I was soaked up to my belly button! Best of all I knew I made friends for life.
After the session I was on cloud 9, it was amazing, I kept looking at the back of my camera and felt so much pure excitement. Upon getting home, I started my usual post session uploading and all the behind the scenes work.
When they came over to see everything, again, it was just an amazing environment. Their kids played with my kids while we looked through their photos, I may have teared up because I'm always emotional when people love the photos. She may have too, I don't remember, and I didn't want to look and her see my all teary eyed.
Then I found out the family was MOVING away from this beautiful island Oahu. So I ordered everything with rush shipping because I love hand delivery/pick up!
Anyways, I absolutely loved that session. That session is now my samples for basically everything in my studio. Here are a few of my favorites.
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