the visual journal of Ars Magna Studio - fine art portrait & wedding photography
Even though we had several blissful hours in the sunshine enjoying DC, I took a break from shooting to take in the nation’s capitol. One image that I did manage to capture: Trent and Sadie in the shade of a curving colonnade.
Perfect image to show linear perspective – just in case any of my former students are reading this. [Jeremy? Shaz?]
A few images from our day enjoying the sun, as we got closer and closer to the Atlantic Ocean.
Sadie leaping over logs at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
Sadie, happy under the sun, enjoys some time outside of the car.
Sadie and Trent, after a week of driving under the clouds, finally see the sun.
High noon at Shenandoah National Park.
Not quite the Atlantic Ocean, but it felt good to see the Potomac.
A great dane investigates Sadie from a first floor window on Captain’s Row in Old Town Alexandria.
Self-portrait.
Relaxing in the grass. We have finally arrived on the east coast, and it’s springtime!
It was raining and we had very little time in St. Louis. But I did convince Trent is circle the Gateway Arch a few times, and I got this image at sunset.
Some landscape of of our time in Kansas, with the ubiquitous Sadie road trip portrait.
Flint Hills in Kansas
Windy.
Limestone in Kansas
Kansas landscape
Finally arriving in a very windy and cold Kansas City, after two long days of driving.
Dakota and Duncan Bellinger swimming at the dog park.
Sadie shaking off after her first fresh water swimming experience.
Thanks again to Joe and Skylar Bellinger for hosting us, and asking us to stay for Easter dinner, and hosting a beautiful afternoon at their Overland Park home.
Joe Bellinger, in his easter shirt, in his Overland Park home.
Basting the ham for Easter dinner.
Place setting and small bouquet at the Easter dinner table.
Grown folk table at the Bellinger’s Easter Sunday dinner.
Skylar Bellinger helping her husband, Joe, cook Easter Sunday dinner.
We met some very interesting entrepreneurs, and had a wonderful time visiting with Joe, Skylar, their friends and family.
Wichita, Kansas
Paula Kidd Casey, a Wichita based attorney, started her own law firm in 1986. Two years ago, she was on a golf course chatting with her college roommate Sue Burnett about what was important to them. Paula really wanted to do something for the environment, and she mentioned to Sue that she was looking for some kind of reusable shopping bag system, but couldn’t find what she wanted. Sue put the brakes on the golf cart. She had made the bag that Paula was looking for. After a few revisions on Sue’s initial concept, the Sackaroo was born. Soon after, Sackaroos Reusable Bags was incorporated and the Website launched.
Sackaroos is a reusable bag system, handmade in America. It is a compact shopping bag that hold multiple mesh bags. Rather than having a motley assortment of canvas bags in the back of the car, consumers can use the neat Sackaroo system that contains four mesh bags. You can see through the mesh so you know which bags contain which foods, and each bag hold the same volume as a traditional paper grocery bag. The outside pocket of the Sackaroo can hold keys, a wallet and shopping lists.
Paula Kidd Casey, co- founder of Sackaroos, author of Getting the Bigger Picture in Your Divorce, and attorney based on Witchita, Kansas.
Sue Burnett still handles manufacturing. Mike Casey, Paula’s husband, works on the customer service and marketing, though he admits he’s at the beginning of the learning curve in terms of social media marketing.
Having experience in her own law firm gave Paula an understanding of what it takes to start a business. She told us that she had no preconceived notion that they would be millionaires in the first year. She reminded us that “you have to be tenacious enough to stay with it and you have to be wiling to change when things happen.”
Paula Kidd Casey, co-founder of Sackaroos, and details of the reusable shopping bags.
Mike described Paula as having “a burning desire to do something other than practice law”. He went on to explain, “She never says we can’t. She says how can we? Grab hold, hang on and get out of her way.”
Paula has her own words of encouragement for burgeoning entrepreneurs, “Think outside the box. Be flexible with change. Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Paula doesn’t see herself as brave, she just wants new and exciting things in her life. She is afraid of being the kind of person that doesn’t have the initiative to follow through on her ideas. She doesn’t want to waste her passion.
In addition to her family law practice and Sackaroos, Paula has written a book, Getting The Bigger Picture In Your Divorce and it’s not the 60 inch TV. She also patented a magnetic counting bracelet called Counter Clock.
No passion being wasted here…!
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