Learning Action Shots Location: Red Cat Jazz Cafe. Houston, TX. (Photos by: Pretty.Smart.Photography. 2010.)

Urban Market Houston – TheUrbanMarketHouston.com – Next Event: May 16! Location: The Heights. Houston, TX. (Photos by: Pretty.Smart.Photography. 2010.)

Location: Brazos River Pickers. Brazos Bend State Park. TX. (Photos by: Pretty.Smart.Photography. 2010.)

Fantastic day for a shoot outside – clear skies and happy animals. Location: Brazos Bend State Park. TX. (Photos by: Pretty.Smart.Photography. 2010.)

Sometimes the motion just makes you wanna get into it even more… Location: Lonestar Championships, Austin, TX (Photos by: Pretty.Smart.Photography. 2010.)

Attended Urban Market Houston – it’s always cool to take the camera out and find pictures where they may not have been any blatantly. Enjoyed working in a cloudy sky, indoor and outdoor, constantly trying new settings. I’m still getting used to being okay with taking a ton of pictures of something and not feeling…

Don’t know why, but these two bikes just looked in love. Couldn’t help but snap. Location: Rice University, Houston, TX (Photos by: Pretty.Smart.Photography. 2009.)

Thank you so much to the Bellahs for sharing their family with me. Two years old is a fantastic age and if I wish I had Brady’s energy for a day just to get my chores done! Was my first trip ever to Rice University after being a native Houstonian. (Don’t tell, they’ll revoke my…

Attended the Bayou City Art Fest. What a fantastic celebration of every type of art you’d want to see….also a fantastic place to practice seeing their art in new ways! Location: Downtown Houston, TX (Photos by: Pretty.Smart.Photography. 2009.)

This was my first stint at taking low light pictures. I’m pretty pleased for a first go. Okay, so it took standing so still I couldn’t breathe and about 40 shots in, I got it! 😉 Okay. So not forty, but enough to make a girl frustrated. I love it because each person is slightly…

I love taking pictures of textures. Fuzzy. Sharp. Slick. Rough. I like all the shapes a cool stack of sticks makes happen. Or the twisted barbs on wire. At first I thought it was merely to make cool desktop wallpaper. More often than not now I find ways to work them into my collection, sometimes…