Senior picture time for this awesome college bound brother and sister duo! Lovers of all things patriotic, Captain America and apparently the color purple, meet Alyssa Joy and Andrew Charles, everybody! =)

Many people demonstrate beauty as one kind of person... .and then there those beauty fill many different kinds of shoes: artist, dancer, reader, musician, worker, sister, daughter, friend: Laura. =)

You learn something every day if you pay attention," says a Chinese proverb. Well, today I learned something new and it was simply by watching others with open eyes and an open heart! Today during this family's lightwriting session, I learned that love really is a gift, created in the moments that we forget to realize are even there until we look back and manifests itself in ways we forget to notice until they're absent. A C.S.Lewis quote probably best describes what I mean: "Isn't if funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different."

The task this morning was to capture some of the life in this beautiful family, twelve dear friends of mine who are moving this summer to Pennsylvania and to Idaho for work, for school and for college. We've been continuously looking back and seeing that our friendship and the vivacity of life in it is so different than when we first met, yet day to day when we see each other it seems like we've known each other forever and it's always been that way.  I was thrilled to capture some of the fun, the laughs, the funny quips and tricks, teamwork and the chaos of big family love! All the fun times we created are moments we often forget to remember until they are only our treasured memories. The future holds so much, and we can only choose to walk into it with excitement to create more life, love, trust, friends and memories!

Since each family member has their own story to tell, all the handsome big brothers and each precious little girl, their beautiful, faithful mother and their hardworking, loving father, this was my biggest lightwriting project yet, both literally with twelve people to position perfectly inside my viewfinder, and symbolically with this beautiful story!  However, together, this whole family's lightwritng story is greater than the sum of all its parts and I couldn't be more excited to be able to capture just a little bit of their story. What's your story? =)

In celebration of the happy new year 2013 and in honor of our first major milestone of 100+ likes on our Facebook page...   I'm going to host a a New Years giveaway contest!!!!!! The winner of this contest will receive a mini LiGHTWRiTiNG session {collection} for free! (Lifestyle LiGHTWRiTiNG session information)

To participate, you'll need to comment on the Facebook contest status with YOUR favorite story from the celebrations of the holidays: stories of your family, traditions, love, friends, Christmastime, resolutions, etc... that you believe should be treasured as a LiGHTWRiTiNG story! The story (comment) with the most votes ("likes") will win the prize! =) I WILL post a status on my Facebook page TOMORROW AFTERNOON (1/3/13) around 4:00PM (EST) for everyone to begin the contest with! 

Happy hApPy New Year! Have fun with this everyone! Don't forget to check back my Facebook page tomorrow afternoon @ 4:00pm! =)

Here are some of the favorites from a Christmas lightwriting session that I was able to capture for the cutest and sweetest kids, Joshua & Faith! They had a lot of fun doing this, even in the freezing cold and gusty winds outside! I hope you enjoy these as much as I did taking them! ~ Lexi

The best photos are the photos with meaning... I had a blast with the Scardino family, today! The 139 photos in 75 minutes are our proof! =) Jokes, Hugs, all-around fun, laughs, barks, cookies, cars, puppies, and stockings: they give a new definition to hilarious good fun! =). Below are a few favorites from the family lightwriting session today!  Enjoy! =)

The memories people have are irreplaceable, and they hold emotional value. 
What was that time when the kid you had a crush on as a little kid helped you on the playground, or that time Grandpa held you on his knee and said told you you were his special grandchild that he could be proud of, or that time when you stepped into a new school surrounded by unfamiliar territory and that one friend popped in your face saying, "HI!"! 
Life is full of moments like those: and there are certain photographers that strive to capture moments that are memories- moments that are stories-- moments that have value. My friend Wilfredo did that to me: and it opened up a floodgate of moments with treasured memories I shall never ever forget. <3 =)

At my highschool, Stratford Classical Christian Academy, I get to have the privilege of leading the Yearbook committee. Yearbooks are exactly for that purpose-- to make a photo history book of the school year. It has value, because people remember moments that trigger stories or events or emotions in their minds and hearts. It has purpose, because everyone is involved in it and brings the school together as one. It has a storybook value, for its layout and content tell a story of what the school's motto and goal is, and what the students are like-- what their goals are too as students. Moments are memories. Memories that are captured in each photo in a school yearbook are exactly the value that people treasure forever. What's your favorite high school memory, based on a moment in time that you remembered from seeing a photo of it? I love remembering past moments; Do you?