ROOTS 'N BLUES 'N BBQ

Every fall Columbia, Missouri plays host to the Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ festival. A 2-day event full of great bluegrass, blues, country, and folk music paired with a delicious BBQ competition. This year I had an opportunity to photograph the festival through Recess, Inc. My boss, LG, assembled a crew of 6 local photogs...dubbed the Photo Kingpin Crew and assigned us all specific bands to cover. I was lucky enough to photograph my new obsession Those Darlins and another great band (from Brazil!), Garotas Suecas. It was such a blast to get to go backstage to photograph the shows, being able to walk around freely and take pictures so up close. I didn't even have my pass at the time...I just put on my biggest lens and walked right through security and no one even questioned it. AHHHH-mazing. I caught some other acts while I was enjoying the festival, including the one-mic wonders the Del McCoury Band...they were awesome. After all was said and done I got to hang backstage, drink some beers, and 'shoot the shit' with Tab Benoit and Anders Osborne. Couldn't have been a more perfect end to a great night of amazing music. Here are the pics:

Nayvi & Chris: An Engagement Session

So when I asked Nayvi how she found out about my photography she said it happened kind of randomly through a little facebook "stalking"....we all do it, you know it's true. After stumbling upon my site and liking what she saw she got ahold of me and an engagement session was in the works. I met the couple by the columns on the MU campus and we started taking photos all over the quad. After a quick outfit change in the studio we set out downtown for some more photos. I made them walk all over the place and I stood in the street in the middle of traffic a handful of times, but everyone survived and the photos turned out GREAT. Here are some of my favorites below:

Not web savvy...

So, I'm in the process of creating a better, newer, more awesome blog....BUT, I'm not the brightest when it comes to setting all that stuff up. The instructions are throwing around words like: domain server, FTP, shell, php....WHAT NOW?

So I've called in the reinforcements and asked every tech savvy friend I know for help. Until then I'm just going to update the old, not-so-fancy, blog.

"So Lauren, what have you been up to?" You ask. WELL, LOTS!

Let's recap.
Last Wednesday I had an engagement session with Nayvi & Chris.
Friday I photographed Roots 'N Blues
Saturday I shot Chris & Rachel's wedding
And Sunday I had a senior session with Kyle

WOO! Busy! But I prefer to be busy. Each of those events above I'm going to give their own blog post. So here goes....

The Susan Family

A trip to longtime L. Frisch Photography clients Amy & Bogdan's house is always such a treat for me. As I look around their house I see my photos EVERYWHERE. It's so cool. I know that sounds nerdy, but it's not often that I get to see how my clients use their pics once I give them away. I mean, how often do you get to see a family pic that you took blown up to 36"x48" hanging right over the fireplace?! Pretty rad. You can't NOT notice it :)
So as Summer rolled around it was time for another (even bigger!) family pic to replace the one above the fireplace, because a new family member, sweet & smiley little Rocco was born. So here are a few of my favs from the session. Adorable children! And notice the styling...see? That's why I had Amy style the Inside Columbia fall fashion feature. She knows what she's doing!

Brimer Family

I have known Faline and John since I was 16 years old! Back then I was an overly tan (hey! I was a lifeguard), bleached blonde (like platinum..almost white, it was ridiculous) shy little teenager with high voice who had just started taking her first photography classes. At that time they were dating, Faline was finishing up school I believe. I remember that I thought John was one of the funniest people I'd ever met (still true. he's pretty quick with the wit).  As time went on the two got engaged, married and started their lives together, living happily in Liberty, MO. We lost touch for quite some time when I moved to Columbia for college but recently reconnected when I had the opportunity to photograph Faline's sister Ashley's wedding this past April. It was John who sent Ashley my way, so, THANKS JOHN! Faline rocked her bridesmaid dress at Ashley's wedding, baby bump and all, as the matron of honor. After all was said and done Faline & family were so happy with Ashley's wedding pics that they asked me to take photos of the whole family when the baby was born.
On August 14th Harrison was born, and on September 12th I made a trip back to Liberty, MO to take some lovely photos of the family. Here are some of my favorites from the session: