pure photography by april cochran-smith

ch-ch-ch-changes...

It's that time of year...  I just shot my last wedding until April & it's too cold & gross out for portrait work (well, "typical" portrait work, at least).  You think I'd be sitting here all bored and restless with nothing to do.  Well, you'd be wrong.  I've got about 5 million things on my to-do list before wedding season starts up again.  I'm in the process of updating both of my websites, creating new pricing for current & soon-to-be offered products AND getting ready for a fancy new blog.  Oh yeah, I'm excited.  I've been dying for a new one forever, but for some reason or another, haven't made the transition.  I figure now's a pretty good time, you know, with all of my free time and all.  It'll have my twitter updates, on-page commenting & REALLY BIG images!  Awesome, right?  I'm still trying to figure out how to transfer this blog over, but all in due time, I suppose.  It'll still be a little while before it's ready to go live, but I thought I'd go ahead and start building the excitement now.  

Now for the photo portion of this little blog post...

I bought Jack this firefighter jacket a while back & he loves it.  I could be biased, but I think he looks pretty cute as a fireman.  Judge for yourself...

Just in case you thought this was a real fire extinguisher, it comes with this warning: "This is a toy.  Do not use it to extinguish fires".  Good to know.

jack the master chef

Here's what Jack made us for dinner tonight...

I think I've taught him well.

myspace update

Happy Monday everyone!  Have you been a little surprised with how much I've been blogging lately?  Me too :)  Today, I just wanted to let you know that I got rid of my myspace page.  I never, ever went there, so it was just sitting there all neglected and alone in cyberspace.  I still have my facebook page & update & check it regularly, so feel free to hop on there and add me as friend if you haven't done so already.  The link's right over there on the left  <--------  

Of course, there needs to be a picture with this post, so here's one of my new favorite pictures of Jack, edited with some super fun new actions that I just got.  

christmas cards - in JANUARY!

Hello!  Since I took a mini break in December, I didn't get a chance to show you any of the cards that I did.  Our card was a 2 sided card on heavy, glossy cardstock.  The other 2 were one sided on photographic paper.  Enjoy!

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new year's eve - the slideshow!

So I was going to do a nice long post about our New Year's Eve photobooth & then I got lazy (or ambitious?) and decided to make a slideshow instead.  I'm actually planning on adding a photobooth option to my pricing, so this was a test to see how well it'd work.  I don't know about you, but I think it was a hit.  I'd love to hear some feedback on the photobooth idea!  Click here to open a full screen version.