The Cute Contest!

We are on the third day into the voting and we have a couple of kids breaking away from pack. But this in no way means that they are going to win. Catching up and getting ahead are as easy as sharing the album of images and asking your friends to vote for you! Even better is to go to your picture or pictures in the album and share them as well. What else can you do? Ask your friends to share the pictures on their page too and get the facebook party started!

Make sure you tell them to like the fan page first or they won't be able to see the options to "like" or "comment. Get the action going and get the votes in...who knows what might be added to the winner's prize...or maybe even WINNERS.

Click the picture above to go to the Facebook album

Easter and Rain

With all this rain coming down I wasn't very hopeful that the sky would let up and we would get to hunt eggs outside. But it did! There was all kinds of family and friends getting ready to watch the hunt!

With snake boots on Zach trudged out into the light rain and hid the eggs for kids. Right as he was getting down the rain stopped and out we ran to not waste the opportunity for a some what dry hunt. Well I guess I should say we didn't get rained on. Every ones feet got wet, but I think that it was more than worth it! Around 300 eggs were hidden and about that many were found...I think the lawn mower will find the rest.

Bellies full, eggs found and Tangled on for the kids...it was time for a nap!

The NEW WEBSITE is up and going! Check it out and get booked...you could make the main

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New website! Maybe it will help me blog more!

Well I decided it was time to go ahead and do this part. I have only been dragging my feet on a website for a few years. I am good at telling myself no. And here is to hoping that with a link to my blog from my splash page it will give me more of a reason to blog.

We can all dream a little!

Tony

New Friends, New Fun!

It is amazing the way God works in our lives. He makes us see full and well who is in charge. We have not been friends long with the Gants, but it seems like we all grew up together. There is so many things you could ask for in friends and never seem to to live up to it yourself. But I think something real is going on here. If you need something or don't know what the next you should take call on God he will answer.

This was a fun little shoot that we did. We went to a park climbed around, spun around, and ran around. These to kids have great personalities and are too cute. Hope you enjoy these. Click the above picture for more.

Tony

Girls Time!

This was a crazy bunch of girls! They were are so full of life. It was funny to reflect back on watching a couple of these girls growing up. What a ministry that has been put together for these girls, just to hang out a learn as a group.

God has given us others to help lead us, teach us, and mentor too. Thanks to all these girls for letting me do this for them.

Tony

Middle school friends....

Aaron and I have been playing French Horn since the 6th grade. Now that neither really play anymore, we still are friends none the less. It seems that I have been taking a lot of baby pictures lately...and I love it. What a blessing it is that I got to share this first moment with this God loving couple.

It is wierd to think how far we have come being in middle school to now being parents ourselves.

Click the picture above for a few more from this time we shared.

Tony Williams

The Zigs

I had the best time getting to shoot these newborn pictures and 1 year pictures. Church family makes the fellowship of the time taking the pictures even that more enjoyable. (If that is even proper English?) So what more is there to say. How great is God.

This mom and dad were told by doctors that they would not be able to conceive a child of their own. Maybe the doctors should have contacted the one in control first. Not only is seeing a child being born an awesome sight, but when you are told it can't happen and it does?!?! How can you not believe that there IS someone much mightier than we could ever be.

Click the image above to see the rest of the shots.

Tony Williams

Josh and April party it out...

What a night this was. I had done the engagement photos for Josh and April just a few weeks ago and then they had a few plans change and got married down in Arkansas a few days later. Then we had a reception last night. I brought my lights and backdrop for always fun "foto"booth.

Congrats to the awesome couple and I am sure our friendship will continue to grow.

Click the picture for more from the fun!

Tony

HHS "Band"quet

So here we are again. The end of another school year and all the things that go along with it. I had the honor of taking pictures at the HHS band banquet. It was good food, good music and an all around good time. I hope you like some of the shots here.

If you would like to use these on your facebook pages that is fine, but if you don't mind go ahead and tag me in them as well. My page is www.facebook.com/anthonylwilliams.com. Also if you would like to purchase some of these just send me an inbox message or an email.

Click the image above to see the rest of the nights pictures

Tony

Easter Time

It always seems that I fail to update this so here is Easter. Hey it was only last week. Don't ask about the other pictures I have failed to post.

Everything here has just been moving along fine. She is growing up way to fast and talks allllllllllll the time. It is weird and surprising when she doesn't talk in complete sentences now. I know she is almost two and says: "How about we read the dinosaur book." The look of amazement on both of our faces always seems to come about now.

Mommy and her came out to watch me umpire the other night which was really nice to be able to see them at night since I leave before they get home. Spfld Cardinals open this Thursday so we will see how much she gets into baseball this year. I am thinking so is going to love it...I hope.

Tony Williams

Rodeo

Man I really wish that this blog thing got used more. Something that always seems to be lacking is that little bit of extra time. Anyway this is from a rodeo that I was at doing some senior pictures for on of the finalist.

It was a really fun deal that we ended up staying the whole day, maybe I will get to do a few more of these. Trying to get some things ironed out to make it happen...I hope.

Click the picture for more from this event.

Tony

Mom and Brian

Here are some shots from their ceremony a while back. What a good son, take forever to get anything put up for this. Lucky I can say that it was because of being busy. With a "great" economy it is good to be busy.

Still looking for the change.

I guess you could call that a side note. Ok back to the wedding. Can't say it wasn't a hard one to do, but it was easier for me to focus on my job than anything else. It is good to see them both smiling again after the past year and a half or more.

I have some other things going that I am trying to work on and hope to get them done and up soon. A couple of Tuscany Albums and per mommy a "few" more shots of our little Izzy.

Tony

HHS

I can't believe how some of these kids have grown up. To say this was fun for me is an understatement! I have know some of these boys and girls since they were 7 or 8, playing baseball and biting your knees. One in particular I even changed his diapers...now he "could" change the diapers of my own little one. How time flies.

Anyway to the project at hand. I have made these pictures available for download to use for your facebook our myspace page. If you would like to use them for that...great...if you would like to tag me in them along with everyone else in them...even better! Downloads are free. They are low resolution files so they won't print well. If you would like to get some prints of any of these just email me and we can work it out from there. (williams_photo@hotmail.com) That is also the email that I used for my facebook page...if you care to know.

To see the rest of the images just click on the new Jazz Band front picture above!

Tony

The backroads...

So I was driving back from Roaring River today and cam upon this a Lookout Tower and a little stop area so I had my camera, becuase I was taking pictures at a job, and stopped.

The shed is a HDR photo of about 7 images and I think it turned out pretty cool looking. I wish it was a bit closer so I could do family photo stuff there, but oh well. These next couple are from around and up the tower. ENJOY!

Tony

10 months just in time for 11

As we can all tell by the number of posts this is not going as planned. But not all is lost I have managed to get Izzy's 10 month picture done before she turned 11 months. You may ask yourself what happened to 9 month pictures? Well I took them and I have them...They are on the flickr site if you want to see them.

I now have a facebook and have started a Anthony L. Williams Photography group so feel free to join. I will put some specials up there from time to time.

Tony

8 Months and Counting!

Well it is that time again one more month down and only a few more to till the big #1. I can't believe how fast this last 8 months or more has gone. So many things have happened that I would not know where a was if it was not for all the family that is always there for me.

I got this new fabric at the Hobby Lobby and I thought it looks pretty fancy. Also I got some new lights that I used for this setup and I really like the how easy these things are to use. A few little editing touches and were done.

Click for more.

Tony

Some Family was wanting a desktop so this was a quick one. Tell me if you want something different. It is almost time for Izzy's 8 month pictures so I will have some new ones by the end of the week enjoy.

Tony

Greg & Whitney

This was a family wedding that was a blast. Both the families were fun and having a good time which always makes the job easier.

These are some post wedding pictures at a surprise location for the couple and they loved it. And I have to say that I to was a fan.

Click image for more shots.

Tony

Skyler's Senior Pictures

This was Skyler's Senior Pictures. This was a laid back session we had a good time and even got a little bit of rain at the end. The water was not to cold he said it only got he feet numb after 30 seconds instead of the normal 5.

Thanks to his Mom for letting me do these for him and a special thanks for her being there for my Mom.

As always more if you click the picture.

Tony

Cullen's Senior Pictures

Seems like I can get a blog done a month. How impressive?! Anyway here is Cullen's Layout of a few of his pictures. Fun time with a boy that has a lot of stuff going on. Marching Band, Eagle Scout, friends, and family.

He want a picture with his band uniform, but I didn't want him to have a static picture of a goofy band picture like we see every now and again. So this is what I came up with and he wanted this pose so I think we got something new and original.

Click on picture for a few more and a larger version.

Tony