Shingleur Photography: personal post

Hello everyone!

Lance and I have been waiting a lonnnng time to write up this blog post. We are so beyond excited to announce that Lance is finally a full-time photographer!

Some of you are probably confused because you just assumed that that was his full time job already, but it wasn't.

Lance has worked at Cathy's Flowers in Russellville, AR for four years. He discovered his talent with working with flowers very quickly after he was hired and has been going ever since. The amazing owners and the amazing Cathy's staff taught him so much and felt like family to both of us. When we started our photography business we knew that he would eventually have to pick between the both of them, but he held out as long as he could.

Our awesome family at Cathy's held a going away party today for Lance, and it was so much fun just like it always is around that crazy bunch. I'm sure this isn't the last they will see of both of us, you can't get rid of family that easily, haha.

This was the amazing cake that they had made by The Cake Place! So amazing!

We have prayed for the right timing for this very important step in our lives, and a bunch of you have prayed with us. So, thank you! We are SO excited about this new adventure!

In celebration of this new journey we are starting things off with a BANG! We want you to join in our contest for a FREE SESSION! All you have to do is like our photography page and post a selfie with the hashtag #shingleurphotography to enter. The contest ends Sunday, June 29th at 2:00pm. :D

Thank you!!! Since we will have much more time for photo shoots book yours now by emailing us at shingleur@gmail.com for pricing! We offer wedding packages, senior sessions, family packages and maternity sessions!

Happy, Happy Thursday (A.K.A The beginning of our adventure!) :)

Hey everyone!

Disclaimer: this blog post has nothing to do (almost nothing) to do with wedding photography or Shingleur Photography. It is only a little look into our lives and the thing we love to do almost most of all: travel.

Ever since we visited Cozumel, MX on our Honeymoon (a little over a year ago) we became hooked- hooked on traveling. For those of you who share this same addiction, you can sympathize with us as well. We were hooked on visiting places we had only heard about and seen on the internet, in magazines and from other people who had experienced it. We knew we wanted to be saving up for our 1 year anniversary trip but we just couldn't decide where to go. Finally, in January we decided on a resort location which was Jamaica! We knew several people who had gone before and said that it was gorgeous, and it actually turned out to be quite affordable.

We found a gorgeous resort on Expedia called Grand Palladium at Jamaica in Lucea (pronounced Lucy), Hanover, Jamaica. Every time I book anything online, despite all the hours of review reading, photo looking, and web-cam watching, I still have that nervous feeling as we step off the plane and head to our resort. Of course I'm thinking, does this place really even exist? Thankfully, our resort did much more than exist, haha. It was breathtaking!

We really enjoyed our little vacation, and we can't wait to go back some day. While we prefer photographing people, it is fun to do a little landscape photography, especially at such a gorgeous place as this.

This is right before we landed in Montego Bay (or Mo-Bay as they call it)

There were so many people outside and walking around all of the time. I don't think many have cars, and if they do they drive CRAZY! They drive on the left side anyway, which was weird for us.

This tree was right outside our Villa at the resort!

This is the lobby of the Grand Palladium at Jamaica. It's also connected to the Lady Hamilton Grand Palladium. It's lobby looks the exact same as this one.

This is the right side of the main pool beside the lobby.

Sunday night's dinner :)

Gotta love self-timer photos ;)

Since the resort was so big (one of the largest in Jamaica) it took a while to get anywhere. For dinner we had a shuttle come pick us up because there was no way I was walking that far in heels!

Main pool

Restaurants overlooking the main pool and the beach

This was on the main beach. It wasn't quite as rocky as the Cozumel beach, but there was a lot of coral you had to watch out for. The resort had four fairly large beaches that all looked totally different!

One of the gardeners walked by and asked us if we wanted to try a real coconut. (He of course wanted a tip, haha) He cut it open for us right there and gave us a straw. It tasted like 99% water and 1% coconut. It was really weird.

Caught him walking, hehe.

This was one of the villas.

This was coral beach and it was our favorite!

It wasn't busy and there was so much wildlife. Large coral reefs and crazy looking fish were one foot off the beach!

Monday night dinner :)

Looking at the main pool and restaurant at night. So pretty

On Tuesday we took a day trip down the northern coast to Dunn's River Falls and to shop at Ocho Rios. We have pictures on our phone and with our water camera, but we decided not to take the big one. :) This was Tuesday night's dinner.

This was their wedding gazebo. There were several weddings a day that happened up here. We were so tempted to sneak up there and photograph them all, haha.