Caudle Photography

I've had these words on my mind for the past few days and I hope that I can express them as deeply as I feel them. When the news came that school would be suspended for the rest of this year, my heart sank, my gut felt sick and my eyes welled with tears.  I felt such disappointment; not so much for my kindergartner or my 2nd grader,  but for anyone who is in a transition year right now.  To the 5th graders, 8th graders and High School Seniors, my heart aches for you.  There were experiences you were waiting for, things you were so much anticipating and now those things will not be happening and for that I am so sorry.  I wanted you to have them!  I wanted them to be part of your story.  20 years from now I wanted you to look back and smile because you remember how fantastic these days were. But here's the thing..I don't want you to get stuck here.  Getting stuck in disappointment will rob you of so much more than this loss every will....

You know... I have been REEEEALLY really good about this whole Shelter in Place stuff.  I accepted the severity of the situation early on, I quickly came up with a game plan for my family (keeping in mind how I ideally would like to end this ordeal), I grieved for my business, my clients, and my brand new studio and then carried on.  For the most part, I have kept it together with some good old fashioned prayer and LOTS of laughter.  I am a firm believer that those who can keep on laughing can thrive through some pretty tough stuff. So to wake up this morning and see THIS going on in my backyard...on APRIL 17th, was like a gift from GOD!  How can you seriously not just be delusionally laughing at this point?  This is like...comic gold. I knew I had to do something fun to share with the world (who needs a serious dose of laughter these days if I do say so myself).  But what would it be?  My options were endless!  Should I throw on a bathing...

I want Raw Emotion + Dramatic Scenery Let's go to the hill!  My favorite sunset hill, that is! You guys...I freaking LOVE this spot.  Why? UHHHHH have you seen that sun hitting the horizon?  😍 I have been photographing at this particular spot for the past 3 years now and never have I ever had the same experience.  Sometimes the sky is clear with only a big bright light source and sometimes it's 100% cloud coverage.  My favorite nights are the ones when there are chunky clouds in the sky, giving the sun some nice definition as it peeks it's bright rays around each ball of fluff.  This particular night, we had these nice hazy clouds.  These nights are nice because they diffuse the light, kind of like a screen, giving you a nice outline of the sun as it slips down below the horizon.  This is my favorite part of the sunset because as it does this, it casts all kinds of beautiful colors across the sky like a pallet of watercolors.  Th...