Alison Portis Photography featured on Collages.net!!!

So I'm going to brag a little...This week my work is being featured on Collages.net Website of the Week! http://www.collages.net/site/Community/WebsiteoftheWeek/tabid/69/Default.aspx
Just a couple posts down I mentioned that this would be coming up. I am very excited that the great people at Collages enjoyed my work so much that they are featuring it!

In a few weeks we will be moving from Fort Knox, KY. We have loved living here (even if it was only for seven months); it has been a great break. I am however very excited to re-establish my business in our soon-to-be new home of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Being able to have more than seven months to set up my business will be very nice. We will be moving in mid April and from here we will be going up to Illinois for Casey and Rebakah's wedding (they are the couple who's session Collages.net featured), and then down to Texas to visit with friends and family for a couple of weeks. After that, we're headed up to Colorado Springs, CO to find a house and unpack (one of my least favorite things to do). Stoney and I love the mountains, Colorado, and being outside. We are so excited about this move!

I hope all of you get a chance to check out the link above.
Have a happy Monday!

The Lake

A couple days ago Stoney, Daisy and I went to the lake for a date (and to scout out some new places for a couples photo session I did yesterday). We always love going to the lake here at Fort Knox. I guess not many people know about it because we rarely see anyone. It's always nice to go out there and just get away from it all. Here are a few quick shots of Daisy and Stoney. Daisy loves to play with her bird retrieving dummy.
I will be posting the session I did yesterday at the lake very soon.

Rebekah and Casey

Several weekends ago I took our dear friends Casey and Rebekah's engagement photos. They are getting married mid-April in Indiana. I did this session in a great new location we recently found on base here at Fort Knox, KY. It turns out that the weather here is very similar to Texas weather in that it's always going from one extreme to another. The day we did the session the weather was gorgeous; however, just a week before there was a terrible ice storm (see pictures below). The day was perfect, my couple was perfect, and I think the photos turned out pretty great too!

Oh, and by the way, Collages.net will be featuring my photos of Casey and Rebekah's engagement session on the week of March 30th as their portrait site of the week! I'm super excited and I will be sure to post a link when it's up!

Happy Valentine's Day!

So, I truly believe that Valentine's Day is a conspiracy; a way for the restaurant and retail world to make money. However, I really like it. It's always fun to put on your fancy clothes (and by "fancy" I mean not jeans and a t-shirt :) and go out for a nice meal with your sweetheart. This evening Stoney and I went to a great restaurant in Louisville called L and N Wine Bar and Bistro. It had a great French Bistro atmosphere and we had an amazing four course meal paired with a great bottle of wine.

We have recently discovered a whole new side to Louisville...the local side. Since we are here for only another month or two before we move to Fort Carson, Colorado, we are trying to go to as many "unique to Louisville" places as possible. Last weekend we went out with some friends, Amanda and Joe, and Karissa and John to another "unique to Louisville" restaurant called Mojito Tapas. It was fabulous! AND, Karissa just happened to go into labor the next day and baby Caitlin was born the following day! Was it the tapas? We will never know!

I hope that all of you go explore and support your local restaurants, businesses, and neighborhoods. I believe that every city/suburb/podunk town has it's special places...you just have to open your eyes.

If you are from the Louisville area or plan to visit, check out this website. It has a great list of Louisville local restaurants.

Happy day!

Karissa's countdown

Here are just a couple pics I took a while back of my good friend Karissa. Her due date is today; however, baby Caitlin isn't here yet! Karissa is always beautiful and her baby bump makes her especially radiant. Stay tuned...maybe I'll be able to post some baby pictures of Caitlin soon. :)

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The snow and ice are melting now, but we hear that there's another storm coming in tonight. It shouldn't be bad though; just a dusting.
The tracks that I asked about below are squirrel tracks. Hah...you all were way off. It was a hard one though, I'll give you that. Thank you all for participating...I guess no one is getting a really big hug from me. :)

More cold weather

Here are more photos of our winter weather. We lost power on wednesday and it (thankfully) came back on, on thursday afternoon. I have now realized how much we take electricity for granted. Wednesday morning we woke up to a very cold house; our thermostat only goes down to 50 degrees and I'm sure we were well under that. There are so many people that not only do not have power (since tuesday) but also don't have water. Despite the disaster this ice/snow storm is causing for so many, the landscape here is unbelievably gorgeous. My photos don't come close to doing it justice.



This is the thick layer of ice that is covering everything.




All the trees are so weighted down with ice that they are bowing downward. So many of the trees can't hold the weight of the ice and just snap.




Can you see the two deer? Pretty good camo.


Kinda funny....





Trinity, this one's for you. His name is Snowball...later, Daisy ate him (see pictures below). I've never experienced frostbite, but I'm pretty sure Stoney and I had the beginning stages after making Snowball.









If anyone can guess what kind of track this is, I will give you...a big hug the next time I see you. Leave your guesses in the comments section below.

Brrrrr...We're not in Texas anymore!

Last night around midnight it started sleeting. The sleet turned to rain and the rain turned to layers, and layers, and layers of ice on the ground. Following the rain was some snow and then some rain again. All the schools are closed and they say it's going to be worse tomorrow. Our poor dog has no idea what's going on. Earlier she really had to go outside (for the restroom ;) and she slipped and slid around trying to figure out what to do...hah. All of you who are also experiencing this weather, be safe and stay warm.

Handsome headshots

So, a couple weeks ago I had a headshot session with Ben Hayes. He's a student at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He was so easy to work with and as you can see from the pictures, the camera likes him too. He is an actor and writer (Ben, correct me if I'm missing anything else). Remember his name because I'm pretty positive that he's going to be famous someday. Thanks Ben!

Headshots for Rebekah

So recently (being a month or so ago) I took some headshots for my friend Rebekah Ankrom. She's an opera singer. Yup, I said it...she sings opera. How cool is that?!? These are some of my favorites. More headshots to come.