Just Real Quick...

I know I have several of you still waiting for your sneak peaks...I promise I am working away at them. I feel like I have been a blog maniac with all the posts!  For those of you who have been following me on twitter (@blisswhitney) or facebook (whitney@blissstudio.net) you may have heard that we had an unfortunate event last night.  I had my camera gear stolen out of a friends car. His brand new car got a window smashed (sorry Pete) and my camera bag was snagged. Ironically we were only a few blocks from the car and the thief flew past us (almost ran me over) on his bike carrying my bag. Lovely. I tried to be thankful that it was only my camera bag as we had my purse, laptops and another bag in the car. But its hard to be thankful when you are upset and feel violated. The worst part of all of it was that I had images that I had shot in Reno in the bag. I was literally in tears. Gear can be replaced photos....not really. There is a happy ending to this story however...Despite all my tears a good Samaritan called me this morning and said my camera bag was found in the boys bathroom at the train station.  It was cleaned out of all the gear...but low and behold MY MEMORY CARDS WERE STILL IN THE BAG! The thief cleaned everything else out but left my cards. It has been a very emotional day for me but I can not tell you how thankful I am that I got that call this morning. I brought the wonderful girl who called me flowers and can not thank her enough for taking the time to call. My business cards (thank goodness) were still in the bag as was my drivers license.  Many thanks to Sarah and for making me see the "good" in people once again. So on this note...One of the memory cards that were only "sorta" lost was a shoot I did of my little sister Destiny in a vintage laundry mat. I was so excited for this session and had a vision in my head for it. I randomly grabbed one quick image and gave it the feeling I was going for and wanted to post it. Sorry this ended up being a bit longer than real quick but I thought I would share...

Here is my Beautiful Sister...Thanks for modeling for me!