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Yes, you enter in the credit card and it dumps you into the paypal I think...I can't get in and do a dummy one to double check... If you have problems email her, she's very very good!

are you in the shopping cart on her site? just click through and it'll boot you in there

They are too adorable! How could you not just scoop them up and cuddle them to bits???

OK, my new Kelly Moore bag is winging its way to me as we speak! wheeee I never buy fun stuff like this I'll have photos and a review once I get it but I have to say that Kelly and her husband have been fantastic to deal with. I had a question that was answered promptly. I ran into problems with PayPal and nothing was working so I emailed her for options and she got back to me cheerfully and said she could do it over the phone. Rang this morning (actually had my friend in the US do it for me) and Kelly's hubby was friendly and had my details right there ready for my call so dealt with the processing quickly and efficiently. Customer service so far 10/10. btw Paypal kept telling me that paypal couldn't ship to Australia with my country of residence. I tried an Australian paypal account and a US one - both got the same response. My US friend tried from the US and still got the same message. It's not the first time this has happened. Hopefully you all will have better luck. If you run into problems, Kelly's number is 318.513.9881 - they are in Louisiana so do the time change thing before you call

I'm sorry to hijack, but PooMother, I would so highly recommend that you extend your photographer's coverage. The ceremony is the smallest - visually - part of the wedding. Having a pro around will capture all of those moments that happen through the whole day. And I'm sharing this not as a tog but as a bride who misses having shots she was looking forward to. one of the major reasons I bit the bullet and became a wedding tog is because BOTH of my wedding photographers were dismal and I wanted to make sure that didn't happen to others. My favourite shots aren't from the ceremony, they're from the "action" before and after the ceremony - all the expressions of family and friends, interactions with them, shots of the happy couple and/or other players in scenes of the wedding day. All of those things make looking through the photos a real joy. That's both from my own and from those I shoot. If I had mine to do again, I'd make sure that my tog got both bride & groom getting ready (so many neglect the groom as usually he's like "I don't care about photos" but his interaction with his boys can often be great, not to mention extremely rare!), the ceremony, the "formals" and then a little bit at the reception. I wouldn't have the tog stay for the whole thing, but if I had any special things planned I'd have her stay for those (my tog completely fubard my dad's speech and I'll never forgive him for that...or about a million other things he cocked up or plain missed).

bec - aww, that's sweet, thank you! Always happy to help other people spend money

Miss Orange's yawn is too cute!

We are on Payne St, just down from the public pool. Right behind the Potshot Resort

The spangled emperor are so cool! Glad you had a good time - sorry we didn't meet up while you were in Exmouth.

LOL maybe we should get different ones and trade them off every few months - like divorced parents swapping the kids for holidays!

Fuchsia is in my top three. I can't decide between the two crocs and the fuchsia one. I keep going back and forth!

I am so tempted to splurge. I've looked at the JillE bags in the flesh before and they're OK but I've heard a lot of people say they aren't constructed well and don't last very long so I've steered away from them. I've been looking for a "nice" going out bag for a while and a friend sent me the link to the discount code yesterday so it was good timing. I can't decide on a colour, though

+1 for what Ash said plus as a daughter, I want my mom with me at my wedding and having a good time at the reception. I don't want her buried behind her camera

Erin - I can get all that in my Fastpack by Lowepro. Lenses mounted on cameras and I put one in "backwards" and one in ready for fast access. Flash can be either in the main camera pocket or in the upper "extras" pocket with room to spare for lots of other stuff. The Crumpler 7 MDH will probably take that, too, if you want a messenger bag style. I can get my smaller laptop in my small Lowepro Flipside, I just put all the camera gear in and then put the laptop on top & zip her up. Works slick and the Flipsides are so nice and streamlined. I love mine. Poomother - what's shipping look like on those...maybe I need to do some shopping and maybe if we got two we could split the shipping... ugh, must stop buying camera bags!

Save $75 on the Kelly Moore bag with this code -> MCKMAMA it's only valid for the next couple of days, I think.

poomother - that's why I have an ever growing collection

OMG bags. I have a closet filled with camera bags because I hate dragging something that is too big when I only need minimal gear and I hate having to shove stuff in if it's too small when I need more and I hate having a messenger style when I'm carrying a long distance and I hate having the clunky of a bag that can take a lappie when I don't need it and on and on an on! There's no one perfect bag I've found - and it becomes a bit of an obsession. You have to start by narrowing it down to how you are going to use it. Do you want a stylish bag, a backpack, a rollerbag, a messenger bag? Is this to also store your gear or do you just want to throw a day kit in and go? Do you need access on the go or can you put the bag down to access it? Boda, ThinkTank, LowePro and Kata all make an excellent range of bags from the small to the very large. These are more "industrial" bags - they aren't frilly and girly. Usually they are black or a more subdued colour, very rugged and built to last. Great padding and have convertible bits in them so you can reconfigure the insides. Crumpler make very cool bags - backpack and messenger style. I have the six million dollar home and love it. It's usually my on location portrait bag and I can fit a ton of stuff in there but it also works pretty well if I just want to take one body, an extra lens and a flash. With a light camera kit, I can fit my laptop in there. I adore the colour choices - I've got periwinkle with bright orange insides For stylish bags you can check out Jill-E and Kelly Moore. Another option if you want stylish is find a big bag you like in the purse section of wherever you shop and then buy the laptop sleeve and insert it. You can get different sizes and you can get the little inserts, too, or make your own (they're easy to do even for me a total non-DIYer!). This is a great option as you can pull your inserts out of one bag and swap them straight into a different bag for a different look or size - and no one can tell it's filled with camera gear. Oh, and no one else will have one like it either. For a more unbostrusive bag that can go from sleek black to pretty much any style with its changeable flaps check out the Shootsac. This is not a two body bag, it is a lens bag. It's great for when you want something low key, want multiple lenses with quick access and something that hugs your body. Argh, so many choices!

LOL, yes, this is the SIGMA 70-200 Great start - you're going to go crazy waiting to get your own copy!

Awesome :D From everything I've heard from people who use it, including those who use to the edge of it's abilities, this is one very good piece of glass at an excellent price point.

Beautiful detail. I can't draw a stick figure and so I tend to get lost looking at drawings and paintings, just thinking Wow!

Aww huga - how gorgeous!

Smoothie - love that you're telling this story Cutest little bug yesterday Thursday's Thinking Out Loud post Thanks, Helen & Ash for the comments. I love comments! BTW - a great thing to do is to subscribe to different blogs as you then get notification when something new is up. GoogleReader is free and popular. On my own blogs Kristin's News has an RSS feed at the top right so you can click that and choose your settings; on my photo blog it's a blogger one so there's a button at the top

Just had a quick look back through some pages and wow, great selection of shots you guys!!

Like Ash above I have both www.blogspot.com and www.wordpress.org blogs. Blogger (blogspot) is so much easier and faster to use so far (I've only been using my WP one for a couple of weeks but it does take more time, I find). Both are free. WordPress also has special themes you can purchase should you not find what you're looking for on the freebies. Both allow you to customize your blog to suit your look and both have a good variety of plugins to expand the blog capabilities. Wordpress, I think, has more themes (the way your blog looks/what it does) available and more doohickeys. I'm a simple girl so I haven't delved into any fancy-schmancy stuff with either of them. I just want to be able to add content fast & easy then have it display the way I want it to. I'd probably suggest starting out with blogger. It's super simple to import your existing blog into wordpress should you ever want to make a change. I did mine all by myself and since computers hate me, that was amazing LOL BTW I blog every day on my personal blog -> Kristin's News so have not been putting those links here. I've been slack on the pro blog but hope to get better on that over the next little while, too.

Really depends on the lens for quality. And Sigma make lenses Canon don't (30 1.4 for instance) and vice versa. Often there will be similar focal length choices: Canon 70-200L 2.8 IS - $1799 - I have this and love it, though it's heavy and really stands out. Sigma 50-150 2.8 - I have this and it's a gem for the price Sigma 70 -200 2.8 II EX DG HSM AF $799 ... I have a friend who shoots in crappy lighting all the time and adores this lens. I've never tried it but those I know who have it see no reason at all to spend the extra on the Canon version. I love my Canon version but if I were buying new today, I'd be doing serious research on the sigma version to see if any of the "negatives" that it might have were things that would bother me or if they were worth the extra US $1000. Hell, I'd probably simply buy the Sigma and if it didn't live up to what I wanted I'd onsell it and get the Canon