Last year I offered coverage at sporting events for parents to capture their kids in action!

I will be doing the same again this spring – based on availability!

Contact me @ dcbarden@gmail.com for rates and details!

I love taking shots of this beautiful planet!

I love this time of year!

BARDEN PHOTOGRAPHY : BEAUTIFUL is officially over!

Congrats to Jackie Ogdon & Morgan Hafer on winning the FREE photo session!

The submissions were amazing and I had the hardest time picking the two winners.

Jackie, her husband, and their son were submitted by her friend Annie – thank you Annie!

Morgan submitted her family – mom, dad, and 3 sisters!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for sharing your hearts and lives with me!!

We spent the EASTER weekend with my parents.

They are starting a farm and we spent some time with their cows!

We love our pup!

My mom and her baby calf!

At the request of some of my readers – I will be holding a contest every month!

For the month of April it will be the color YELLOW!

The color yellow must be in the photo in some aspect – that is the only rule!

Submit up to 3 photos for the contest! If you use a watermark or logo – feel free to keep that on the photo.

You can submit your entries to dcbarden@gmail.com with the headline – YELLOW.

The contest ends April 30th!

I need at least 10 people to enter the contest – and there will be a prize for the winner!!!

What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to leave as your impression on this earth? On people’s lives?

What are your goals – have they changed with each year you’ve grown older – each year you’ve discovered new joys – new heartaches?

I’ve been inspired to make a list of the things I’ve wanted to accomplish in life : some very much under my control – most of them completely out of my control. Some can be checked off and some are still waiting.

Fall in love with a boy.

Get married to said boy.

Fly.

Own a photography business.

Learn to play the piano.

Learn to play the fiddle.

Ski.

Touch a manatee.

Be published in National Geographic.

Be published in a wedding magazine.

Conceive a child with above mentioned boy.

Give birth to a happy, healthy baby.

Introduce Jesus to someone.

Travel to Africa.

Photograph in the Amazon.

Enjoy cooking.

Photograph a wedding in Europe.

Dance with my husband in the rain in Times Square.

Listen to my child sing her love to Jesus.

Own a store front in Mansfield with a small studio.

Hope. Completely.

Sleep on a beach under the stars.

Sing on a CD.

Enjoy running.

Introduce Jesus to everyone.

Those are just a few I can think of – what are yours?

I met Jessica at the BRIDAL EXPO and then we became FACEBOOK friends!

She needed some photos for her baby girl’s FIRST birthday!

She is a mover!

LOVE THAT SERIES!

I LOVE THAT ONE!

Jessica – thank you so much for having me photograph your sweetness!

Can’t wait to photograph your wedding next year!!

I am loving this JERK CHICKEN NACHO dinner!

I made it again and forgot the peppers – but it was still YUMMY!

Might be my new specialty!

Jared’s parents adopted a kitty – rather – it adopted them!

It was intended to be an outdoor kitty but has found it’s way inside and inside their hearts I think!

She is a sweet kitty!

Dave Fitzgerald is a childhood friend of Jared’s. We spent a week with Dave and his wife in Florida while we were engaged. They are great, fun people!

Dave was in our wedding and is one of those friends you could call in the middle of night and he would be there at a moment’s notice.

Dave has just released a worship album – HOPE OF HEAVEN!

Make sure to visit www.davefitzgerald.com to get yours today!

Thank you Dave for your willingness to serve God and your friendship!!

I have been listening to this album non-stop and it’s one of those albums that I feel God put on Dave’s heart to speak to Jared and I at this moment in our life!