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This is Me

Hi there! I am Missy Cochran and I love photography, I fact, you could say that I am obsessive. It all started when I got married and had my wonderfully awesome grandpa take my pictures. He was a professional photographer and I thought all photographers were the same. After the wedding, I got the pictures back and they were all very traditional. Not grandpa’s fault, but mine for not knowing what I wanted. Anyway, I realized too late that I had actually wanted something different than what I got. Since my wedding is all over, I now get to live vicariously through my awesome couples. Other stuff about me is that I make a goal every three months to run regularly, but haven’t yet quite found my mojo. I think I like the idea of being a runner but maybe I am not really one at heart! I love sweets and I love my church and doing things that add joy to my life.

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Photo by DIANNE BENTZ

I bring you, THE BEACH WEEKEND…(finally)

About a month ago (wow, had it really been that long?)  a bunch of us local photographers went to Sara Grey’s Beach house at the coast for four days.  It was a photographer’s dream!  We talked shop almost the whole time except for when we didn’t talk shop.  I felt like I was in middle school have a huge sleepover with all my girlfriends without a lot of sleep.  Every day we went to the beach and took pictures of each other and we even had good weather most of the time.  The pictures I took were a new kind of experiment since it was the Fuji film’s version of a Polaroid camera.  I looked like a kinder-gardener walking to the beach with this huge plastic camera because I cannot yet be trusted with a real camera.  Yah, I got a lot of flack, but it was so fun and such a different experience to shoot with a VERY limited number of pictures that I could take.  I think I had 20 frames for the whole weekend.  Here is what I got…

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Erica Ann knocked my socks off with her super sweet posing skills!

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These girls thought I was taking a picture of their feet and they are bopping to the song, Under my umberella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh which was stuck in my head the whole next day.

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Sara Gray sporting her canon in the cutest way.

Fun Photographer's Beach Weekend

Dianne Michelle looking amazing

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My sister, Melanie Jade (I call her Mel)

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My camera really surprised me when the flash popped.  I didn’t even know it was there!

Fun Photographer's Beach Weekend

Taylor, I love her biker chick self juxtaposed with her sweet personality (Taylor, I don’t have your link!  If you send it to me, I will insert it.)

Fun Photographer's Beach Weekend

Jenni Carmon twice

Fun Photographer's Beach Weekend

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Sara Gray again

Fun Photographer's Beach Weekend

Melissa looking fierce

Fun Photographer's Beach Weekend

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Me.  Mel took it

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Erica Ann again

Fun Photographer's Beach Weekend

My piggies

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It’s me again.  So long.

Deyla Huss - LOL love these, Such a fun weekend!!!May 27, 2009 - 12:06 pm

Amy Nieto - radness.May 28, 2009 - 12:06 am

Jen - Hey - you got them scanned! Fun! Love the first one...May 28, 2009 - 1:07 am

Katie Anderson - Ah! So many great ones! I like the first one, the one of Dianne looking amazing, and Jenni in the grass. Awesome!May 28, 2009 - 6:26 am

Rebecca - These turned out so freakin' awesome Missy!May 28, 2009 - 7:44 am

lorna - How fun! These are great-my favorite is the first one of Melissa in the water.May 28, 2009 - 8:59 am

Erica Ann - Thanks Missy! These are beautiful. You seriously need to figure out a way to incorporate the plastic beast into your weddings!May 28, 2009 - 10:57 am

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