Blogstalkers, meet the newest member of the McGowan family… GERTIE! We picked up this 8-week-old Havanese puppy yesterday, and ohmygoodness, we’re so in love with her! She’s technically a present for Dorothy’s first birthday, which isn’t until April 21, but when we saw a great deal on this dog, we couldn’t pass it up. Normally, […]

So, this past Thursday, Mack and I scheduled two client meetings around a shoot we had in the afternoon. When that shoot had to be rescheduled due to an emergency, we were going to have a huge hole in our afternoon in Fort Worth. I posted about the opening for a last-minute session (just 15 […]

Siiiiigh. Once again, the universe is conspiring against McGowan Images. The kickin’ Bride & Groom session we were supposed to shoot yesterday had to be rescheduled for a client emergency, so Dottie’s 10 month pictures got moved up a slot! But we filled in the time by taking some long-overdue portraits of two of my […]

I admire landscape photographers even more than I admire children’s photographers. Just like I can be paired with the right child, in the right circumstances, and walk away with some awesome photographs, I can also get lucky occasionally with landscapes. The difference? Landscape photography quite often bores me to TEARS. I enjoy the rapid pace […]

So, here’s the deal… it’s the slow season. That’s why we took vacation. Because it’s the slow season (and has been icy and gross), we’re not shooting much. There hasn’t been a real McG Photography post up for like two weeks, and there won’t be one again until Friday. Next week will start up again… […]

Dear Mack, You’re packing up the truck to leave our hotel in Phoenix, and I just wanted to tell you how grateful I am. I’m grateful that you decided this trip was worth budgeting for, and turning down two weddings for… even though you thought I was crazy to want to take a 3,000 mile […]