Trash the dress, a new way to enjoy your wedding dress forever!

Trash the dress:

A new way to enjy your wedding dress, and create fun memories!

Brides are increasingly deciding to do this kind of photography: instead of storing their wedding dress forever, never to be seen again, they are creating amazing art with it!

The term trash the dress can mislead to the thought of completely destroying your wedding dress...It usually gets wet, or dirty, but nothing that a good cleaning wont get rid off!

Trash the dress: To trash or not to trash?

Trash the dress:

To trash it or not?

Self Portrait Photography, and thoughts about New Year

Happy New Year to everyone!

Have a very blessed 2010!

Laura Tomb Photography
623-326-3009
latomb@cox.net

"What you see is only a small percentage of what is inside of every individual"

What a beautiful, good, bad, painful, miraculous, wonderful, scary, crazy year the one is leaving us! so much to be thankful for, so much to regret....

So much hurt, and pain and loneliness, and so much life, and sweetness, love, friendship and many, many miracles...

I owe this year two births: my beautiful baby Lauren, my personal bitter-sweet huge miracle and little hero that came into my life to rescue me from the burden of nostalgic and painful, even destructive mourning. I had to stand up and fight for my little girl's life, to keep her healthy, to keep her safe...and God knows that those scary moments gave me a miraculous strengh that I have never felt before. The second birth is this absolute overwhelming love for Photography, which keeps me focused and eager to learn, to discover, and to create.

These pictures taken the last day of 2009, processed at the same moment of the begining of 2010, (thanks Taty) want to express the beauty of loneliness and silence, of being alive, in the constant trip to our own self discovery. Even when we feel scared, sad, in pain, or rejected, it is all worth it, every single minute of our lifes, every feeling, every experience, even the painful ones are miracles, every breath we take is one...maybe not a miracle for ourselves (sometimes we are so bussy we can't perceive it), but maybe a miracle for someone else, that is the beauty of love (the biggest miracle of all).

New Year Resolution:

-live

- stop surviving, and just live!

-be more thankful (for the little tiny-everyday-usually-taken-for-granted-kinda-things)

-laugh more

-live....

Gracias Senor por mis brazos buenos, cuando hay tantos mutilados; por mis ojos buenos cuando hay tantos sin luz, por mi voz que canta cuando tantos enmudecen, por mis manos que trabajan, cuando hay tantos que mendigan: por conservarme siempre con salud, por el pan nuestro de cada dia, por guiarme por el buen camino. Es maravilloso Senor, tener un hogar donde volver cuando hay tanta gente que no tiene a donde ir. Es maravilloso amar, sonar, sonreir, cuando hay tanta gente que se revuelca en pesadillas y tantos que mueren antes de nacer. Es maravilloso Senor, sobre todo, tener tan poco que pedirte y tanto que agradecerte.

Ana Maria

(A few days ago I found this prayer in a letter that my mom wrote in 2001...it brought tears to my eyes, a smile in my face, and a deeptly thankful heart!...needed to share this prayer with all of you!)

My Family- Outdoor Pictures

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."-- John Bowring

I have 2 little angels in my life...And now, just now that I am a mom can understand my own. Now I know what "Having children is like letting your heart walk around outside of your body'' really means...I will never have a break from worrying for them, even now that they are little, I know my life have change forever.

Please look at the following picture, and how peaceful and tranquil my little Leah Marie looks, just watching the water...

...well, 2 minutes later she had fallen inside the little fountain and scratched herself!...she is a tough girl though, but she loves adventure and bouncing around!!!!

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...you make me happy when skies are gray. You'll never know dear, how much I love you...Please don't take my sunshine away."

This is my sweet and calm Lauren, she is a cuddler, and LOVES watching her sister play around.

Lauren is my personal little hero, she came to my live to save me from the feelings that brings a great loss, and gave me the courage to live! She was born with a severe Protein Allergy that really scared us, but now she is doing much better!

Mark, thank you for the camera you bought for me; thank you for believing in me and my artistic abilities once again! (He gave me all his support and encouragement me when I left a structured job for the adventure of having a mural business!) Thank you for our little girls, for your everyday help, for being sweet, and caring, and so, very patient! Thank you for being by my side in the hardest moments of my life. I love you, and I always will!