Happy Belated New Year Everyone!

O.K. I know that I told you guys that I was going to try and be a little more consistent with the blog entries but....... that's not happening. Let's just say that getting better with the blog is one of my resolutions for the new year (it may be more realistic than losing weight anyway). I have thrown in a few cool shots from the last couple of months. We have had a ton of cool people come through the doors in 2008 and I am excited for the coming year to see who I might get to meet and photograph. May everyone's 2009 be the best year yet! Andy and Kelly's wedding is this Valentine's Day and it should be a lot of fun.

This little girl was part of a family photo session and decided to take a moment to enjoy the finer things like kicking back in the grass.

Ragan and Chris were inspired by one of my shoots back in 2006 and decided to try downtown Brownsville as their engagement shoot destination. They didn't have any problems making it their own as you can see.

Kenneth Saxon is a concert pianist who doubles as a professor at the University of Texas in Brownsville. If you would like to hear him play, join the crowd...... right now I think he's touring in Japan.

Newborns are a trip! Check out Aiden enjoying a killer toe stretch.

Gualberto and Rocio were super nervous when we first started, but about half way through you would have thought they were born to be photographed.

Richard Parker Photography featured in "the knot"

We have been so busy lately, that I have let the blog entries slip. So to those of you who follow the blog I apologize, but I am going to try and catch up in the next few weeks.

Many of you who have spent any time around the wedding industry know about "the knot." If you are a new bride or are looking for ideas for a wedding in the future, it is one of the more popular wedding magazines across the country and has plenty of articles and photos to wrap your brain around. Because it is one of the more regarded wedding publications in the country, we are really pleased to announce that one of our weddings was featured in the Spring/Summer issue of 2009. This is a huge honor and we couldn't be more excited. Congratulations to Margaret and Buddy who I know are as ecstatic about the article as we are. Above is the cover and the feature.

More shoots and entries to come.

Cool Surprise

I got a cool phone call last week from the Brownsville Herald (the local newspaper) saying I had won the reader's choice award for favorite portrait photographer. I didn't even realise there was such an award so I was naturally surprised and elated. For those of you who voted I would like to thank you very much. It made my week for sure.

Happy Birthday Hannah!

Today was Hannah's Birthday. We had a small party with both sets of grandparents and mom and dad. I certainly hope she had as much fun as we did.

Hannah seems to have an infatuation with ducks so as you can tell ducks is what she got.

Hannah assessing the mess she had got herself into. Probably not the last time either.

After we got her cleaned up it was time to conquer the small mountain of presents. She was definitely up to the challenge.

Valley Wedding Pages Feature

The Valley Wedding pages is a local wedding guide that is well known to most of the vendors as a top notch publication. As well as being printed on fantastic paper, it is extremely easy to navigate for our local brides and has a lot of great information for a time when there are a lot of questions. In the past the Valley Wedding Pages has used their own resources to provide a cover image. Recently though, they decided to start featuring local photographers for the cover and I was super excited to get the call that they were interested in some of my work to be the first. It is a great honor and I really am proud to get one of our brides on the cover of such a great magazine. Above is the image they chose.

Still trying to get caught up!

Since Page, Hannah, and I got back from our latest trip to Oklahoma I have been desperately trying to get caught up with everything. The move to the new office has been quite an adventure as well, but when it is all done, I know it is going to be worth it. We have also added a new gallery to the website that features some of my maternity and baby photography. So check it out when you get a chance. Above is a picture of my girls in front of the new office. Have a safe and fun labor day weekend everyone!

10 Days Left

There are only 10 days left to save $2,000 off of your wedding package.  If you have a wedding in the coming year there is no better time to save money than right now.  We have never offered a discount of this amount before and we want everyone to capitalize on the savings if possible.  Feel free to call or email with any questions or to book your date.