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

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.

Sara Gray sporting her canon in the cutest way.

Dianne Michelle looking amazing

My sister, Melanie Jade (I call her Mel)

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

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.)

Jenni Carmon twice

Sara Gray again

Melissa looking fierce

Me.  Mel took it

Erica Ann again

My piggies

It’s me again.  So long.

This is their first glance seeing each other for the first time before the wedding.  Super sweet.

Becca’s two pairs of shoes.  I can’t decide which ones I like better.

My brother, what a stud.  Do you see the honey bee on his corsage?  He is really into bee keeping and there were decorative bees everywhere, the bouquet, the cake  and everywhere there were flowers. 

The make-up tool belt of power. 

Nicole the make-up artist is so beautiful!  She was even modeling her own amazing self!!

Isn’t Melissa cute in these?  So stylish.  These girls are so stylin!  Very inspirational to me because I am so casual all the time.  I wanna be stylish!

Here is Craig showing us how to use the light and then there is me shooting all natural!

Jenni, she is such a nut!  I love it!

So, the people on the bridge were participating too, fun!  People came up to us asking what was going on a lot.  I should have had some cards on me, but I didn’t.  Sometimes I just want to enjoy photography and not be on all the time.  So, it totally looks like this fireman is checking me out, but he is just laughing because a group of us gals were looking so silly getting athletic (a term coined by Jenni) with out cameras.  One of the firemen looks like he is posing for me.  Very nice

Jenni and Kim here.  Kim and I hung out for a little while before the workshop and we actually got to the workshop late since I forgot to change my watch from daylight savings.  We were thinking we had plenty of time to kill and instantly panicked when we figured out the folly of our ways!  While we were hanging out before I did a few pictures of Kim.  Fun fun.

After the workshop, we went to Red Robin and ate.  A bunch of us were starving, well I was because I had only eaten a little lunch and I was a clean plate-er!  Kim paid for me as a birthday present!  That was so sweet!  Thanks Kim!  Oh yah, yesterday was my birthday, good times.

Photos by Dianne Bentz

Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
my website ~ blog home

It’s a really weird things about photographers, we love taking pictures but very often feel uncomfortable in front of the camera. If you are camera shy, I totally understand the feeling! I am really trying to get over it and come out of my shell a little bit for your sake! I want you, my blog readers, to know who I am. No need to hide behind the camera all the time, right? Of course right!

Of course I used all my favorite editing programs to make myself a little thinner and a little prettier, ha ha!

Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
my website ~ blog home

It was a dark and stormy night. We creeped up to the sign in a car with the lights off. clickclickclickclickclick what the heck was that noise!?! Upon realizing that is was a mini portable tripod attached to our friend Chrissy’s camer, I whipped up into a cheesy smily pose while Mel looked cautiously around to see if anyone heard us or if anyone was coming. Chrissy set the timer on her camera, jumped into the frame, and “click” we instantly morphed into insane tourists trying to drive by the Roloff Farm at midnight. We were detoured by the “no tresspassing” sign on their long driveway and decided to go to WinCo instead for some juice.

A few days ago, out of the blue, my friend, Chrissy, called to say that she wanted to come over for the weekend. Anyone know knows me longer than ten years may also know Chrissy, since that is the last time I saw her. Ten years ago, living in Florida with my family, we had sleepovers all the time with Chrissy and my sister, Mel. Since a sleepover wouldn’t be complete without Mel, she came too!

We went to Qdoba right before Mel had to leave us, the day after we stayed up till an insane 5am. “What could we have been talking about till 5am?” You many wonder. The answer would be quite simply “Roloff Farms”. Once Chrissy found out that the stars of the reality TV show “Little People Big World” lived in my zip code, she became obsessed!

Me:”Man, it’s 5am, I am sure tired.”
Chrissy:”You know, I just had a random thought, ‘Roloff Farms’.” And that is about how the rest of our conversation went. The whole time.

I am a clean plater–like my momma taught me.

Here are some pics from our second outing to Roloff Farms, once again we respected the “No Tresspassing” rule all the while Chrissy wondered if telling the Roloffs that she was their “biggest”fan would be offensive.

This is the car that drove past us while were hoping to see some TV stars from our car. Unfortunately Chrissy’s rearview mirror hangy-thing was blocking the view and we never saw who left that day.

Once we finally gave up on Roloff Farms for the day, we went downtown and had some fabulous Thai food and I chased the meter maid who almost gave Chrissy a ticket. Probably the most productive thing I did that whole time was save Chrissy $25. I must also say that I have had my fill of Roloff Farms even though we didn’t see much. I am just glad Chrissy doesn’t live in Hollywood, she might just become a stalker or something. Oh, and if any of the Roloffs ever read this, no offence, but Chrissy is by far your biggest fan.

Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
my website ~ blog home