Last Wednesday ( August 11, 2010) I shot a really fun Family Portrait Session for my sister Damiana and her three girls. They are all such Beautiful young ladies. The only draw back is that they all wanted to do the same poses...so if I came up with a nice pose for one of the girls the other two sisters had to pose that way as well...so it looks like a lot of repeat poses, cuz it was! Ha Ha, I had a great time...they are gorgeous lil models. To see more of the images...go to my website at http://www.LeticiaWilsonPhotography.com and click on my "Portraits" I made each of the girls their own gallery and also click on "Family Portraits" there you will find them under "Damiana King Family" and "King Sisters" galleries. They are a very Loving family. and Mom (my sister Damiana was so emotional that day cuz her lil girls are growing up) I caught some good candid shots between them all.

THE KING FAMILY

JORDANA

DANARA

DARAH

THE GIRLS 

COUSINS 

THE WHOLE FAMILY

LETICIA & DAMIANA

Finesse and I just returned from a much needed Mother/Daughter month long Journey. The time away was just what we needed to rekindle our friendship.  We are a great Mother/Daughter Team once again. Here are a few pictures from our trip to Texas. I got a few shades darker, Finesse turned 19 while there, and had lots of good times and made lots of memories!

This next Collage is of us with My Glama Girls...They both started wearing eyeglasses, while we were down there. Poor Babies, but they are still Adorable!

This next collage is of pictures that I took with my Droid phone on one of our many walks. I didn't get a chance to edit these images

This next collage was also taken with my Droid phone...so not the best pics. But I had to capture my Castroville Country Dream Home. It has a beautiful wrap around porch, 2 bdm., 2 ba., only 1,300 sq. ft home but it sits on an acre with about 30 pecan trees, and is river front property...I want it!

This is my Hometown...Castroville, it is an Alsation town. I miss it, I went to the movies as a kid in that theatre .50 a movie

Candid shots of Kasidy playing in the river. We stayed at my Cousin Bill's home, he lives right on the river. Danyel found a perfect heart-shaped rock...she was so proud of it! 

Staying here was unbelievably peaceful...we'd get up take our coffee down to the river and talk, think, feed the ducks, pray and meditate on life.

This next collage is of my Sister Laura (LuLu) and her husband Steve and my Brother Robert (Bobby) and his wife Rina and myself on our last night there. Lulu had me over for a Farewell Dinner. It was a lot of Fun. I left the next morning Friday at 6am and got home Saturday night at 10pm.

This next Collage is of our Welcome Home...Aww Adam really missed us. He even used my arts and crafts stuff and my glue gun to make this welcome home sign, Whata Guy! He had Orchid plants for each of us, and huge Godiva Chocolate bar for each of us, Dark Chocolate for Finesse (her favorite), milk chocolate for me (my favorite) and a dozen pink roses for me! He said I can never leave again : )

The Chernoff Family were such a joy to work with...They were a fun group! Thank you for allowing me to photograph your Beautiful Family, you all looked so nice for your portraits ; )

So yesterday...I texted my sister Damiana, whom I had not spoken to in over 4 years, and she texted back and said that my timing could not have been better...So we proceeded to bond and talk about what was going on in our lives, and I invited her to come to my home and spend the night so we could catch up.

She had never been to my home so we met at the mall, we made it home had some pizza and wine and just caught up...it was so nice! To talk to someone who was cut from the same cloth...someone who grew up in the same dysfunctional home and who can empathize with all of my thoughts, struggles and fears. We have so much in common...I always felt like I didn't belong in my family, like I had been adopted into this family, which is weird...cuz my family always joked with me and told me that I was adopted or that I was found on the doorstep...they knew I was very sensitive, and they always tried to hurt me, and it worked they did. I was always made to feel like the black sheep of the family.

Well, my sister Damiana and I are so similiar...nonjudgemental and sensitive to others feelings as well as to our own. We talked and laughed and cried and told old stories...some funny, some sad. I am so glad to get to know my sister and friend.

There are 10 of us kids in my family, however, I felt as tho I grew up in a 2 kid family, because only my sister Sylvia who is 2 years older than me was in the house when I was growing up, cuz the other 8 children were grown and married. So I never got a chance to really know them. And Damiana is one of those siblings that I never got a chance to get to know...I always admired her beauty, and wanted to look just like her when I grew up...I would stand there at her dressing table as she fixed her hair and put her make up on and would just stare at her with Awww...wishing that I would grow up to be that beautiful someday.

So I am so glad to have her back in my life, she only lives an hour and a half away, in Stanwood, Wa. So we have plans to keep this friendship going, and to help each other out through our difficult times that we are both struggling with, as well as our difficult past that we have still got to learn to let go of.

So we stayed up talking late into the night, and then woke up and had coffee together, and shared more of our similiar interests. We then got dressed and went to the bank...She bought my mustang and I bought my dream car, a Gold 1997 Jaguar last night, so we went and took care of the monies and titles and everything. It was as tho I traded my poor mans dream car (the mustang) for my Real Dream Car ( the Gold Jag). So we went and took care of all of that, and then we went to lunch, and she came home and test drove her new Red 1998 Ford Mustang. She loves it! Then we said goodbye and made plans to see each other very soon.

                                                                Russ and Roselie taken in August '09

I just cant believe that it is already February...So much has happened! I haven't posted anything on here since December. Haven't done a whole lot with my photography lately...lost some of my desire. I need to get it back, it is my passion, so I need to rekindle that.

My Spiritual Dad, of 18 years...Russell Taze Poggensee, passed away recently. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. Sure people I have known have passed away before, but I have never seen the progression of death right before my eyes. When we brought Russ home from the hospital he was still talking alot, and joking and quoting scriptures, My family and I lived with Russ and Roselie for 2-3 weeks to help Roselie with all of Russ's physical needs. Like I said he was very talkative and stuff in the beginning but each day thereafter, you could see him going downhill...less talkative, weightloss, changed breathing, more phyical help needed each day, what was so sad to me is that his mind was still as Sharp as ever and for him to know that we were having to assist him with all of his physical needs (Russ was a very modest man) so it was very hard on me as I know it must have been to him. It didn't bother me to assist him at all, but it hurt me to know that he was aware of all of the assistance that he needed, I didn't want him to lose his dignity like that!  But...then the day came when it was all over, he took his last breath and fell asleep, with all of us there...everyone he loved and that loved him, for the first time since he had been home right there in the same room with him at the same time...I think he chose that moment to say goodbye, we all got to say goodbye and then we had a prayer and then he took his last breath and fell asleep.

It has hit me really hard...not doing to good!

I have got to snap out of it...we had a Circuit assembly recently and that was truly wonderful, and uplifting. But I still can't seem to shake it.

Before Russ passed, a couple of weeks before...there was a bit of joy, my nephew (Timothy) was baptized at the Special Day Assembly. I will attach a few photos of that at the end of this. It was a very happy day, but in the back of my mind was everything else Daniel's problems, my grand-children, Russ and so many other things.

Well, I am determined to shake myself out of this somehow...talk to yall soon!

Finesse, LuLu ( my sister), Timothy (LuLu's son), Me, and Danyel, Pauline ( my other sister) holding Kasidy

LuLu and Timothy

Russ and Roselie's 65th Wedding Anniversary June 14, 2009 (Their last one) taken at my house.

For the past 4 years that we have been back to Wa. everytime we got together with Russ and Roselie, Russ would mention a movie "Spawn of the North" that he and his sister saw when he was a teenager, and we got together with them OFTEN! So we decided to go online and surprise him on their anniversary, with a copy of his favorite movie "Spawn of the North" and I just LOVED, LOVED, LOVED, his reaction when he saw it.

After he opened it...we went upstairs to our Theatre Room and had Popcorn, candy, soda and wine and watched it, He loved it!

How cute are they?

Also as part of their Anniversary gift from us...we got them those bears in their yard...Because everytime we were with the Poggensee's, if we passed a Brown Bear Car wash, Roselie would say I need those bears for my yard. Or if we were out in service and saw some bears in peoples yards...she said she needed some too. So we got these bears for Roselie and the Movie for Russ for their 65th Anniversary! The morning this photo was taken, we were all on our way to a weekend trip to Leavenworth. **This Sweater that Russ is wearing (he wore often)... Well, Roselie gave it to me after he passed away, and I wear it every evening that I watch TV, like a warm hug from Russ!

Tuesday the 14th...I had the pleasure of meeting Paul and Lisa Bradford and their handsome little son Miles, during a Family Portrait Session in their Lovely home. I am still in the middle of editing the images, however, I wanted to show a sneak peek. Paul and Lisa...Thank you so much for inviting me into your home to capture these precious moments.

Monday I sent out Red Velvet Theatre Newsletters to all the Friends...letting them know that we were resuming with our usual Saturday Theatre Movie Night. We were going to be Featuring Star Trek...and within acouple of days, people had reserved all 15 seats. We had a wonderful time last night! Very nice to be able to put all the other stresses of life aside for a few hours and socialize with our Friends. We had Pizza, Popcorn, Soft Drinks, and Candy to munch on during the movie. However, At the last minute we had 4 cancelations but we still had 11 people over...it was Awesome! Look forward to having the friends over again next Saturday! To see our website go to http://www.RedVelvetTheatre.com it will give you a little history of how we started movie night.

Daniel and I went to visit The Girls in Texas last month...The girls want to come home so Badly! Danyel said "Ama don't leave without me, don't leave me here...I want to live in my yellow house in Covington" How sad is that? To see the Full gallery of these images...visit my website at http://www.LeticiaWilsonPhotography.com go to my "Portfolio" and click on "Family Portraits" and "Children" galleries.

We had a very nice time, seeing all of our old friends from the Auburn Cong. and enjoyed alot of Encouraging information.

The craziest thing happened in our neighborhood today...we had to evacuate our homes, we were just allowed to return home, and it is kinda late, so I will tell you all, all about it tomorrow...G'night

So yesterday, there was a 53 y.o. Merchant Marine that barracated himself in his home and threatened to blow the neighborhood up, his x-wife was escorted by police to gather some personal belongings, when the man made the bomb threat. That was about 11am, so the police called the SWAT team and Bomb Squad, and a Negotiator. He claimed to have a 250lb. fertilizer bomb inside. We had an appt. at the Vets at 2pm they made us evacuate around 1:30pm ( police came to our front door and rang our doorbell repeatedly and extremely fast and around 10 or 15 times, my husband I were upstairs gathering the animals and didn't hear the doorbell but my daughter Finesse did so she answered the door and said that they said "There is a bomb threat, you have to evacuate", I made sure to get the pets, my laptop, my photo albums and that all of us were out of the house) In my mind if the neighborhood blew up I didn't want to have regrets of lost photos, I have a ton of photos in albums of my kids and tons of photos of my grand-babies on my laptop. I didn't care about any material possesions, I did however, grab my guitar...just in case we went and waited at a park I would something to do . Adam took his van, I took my mustang...and as we were driving away, we passed the corner store... Foss's Market, it looked like a Hollywood movie set...they had set up there base camp right there...there were tents set up with military trucks and military hummers all over and SWAT trucks, bomb squad people, military people everywhere and policemen and cars...people all gathered and watching, it was crazy looking!

So after the vet appt., we went to the Poggensee's then we went to my son's house, Daniel. Meanwhile, we are listening to the news and found  out some information...Finally around 2 pm he went out to his back deck and pointed his scoped rifle at the helicopter and a Sharp shooter that was on ground fatally shot him. They then sent in a Robot to search the home for explosives, and when it found none they entered the home and finally reached the man on the back deck at 5:30pm, he was dead. We weren't allowed to return home until around 8pm. What a Day! It is a very sad situation...

I woke up this morning thinking about the man, I wondered if maybe he had been to the war in Iraq or something and came home and just wasn't the same and that he and his wife just couldn't get along or something, and that maybe she had decided to divorce him and he just couldn't handle it...and that that is why he did what he did. And that really saddened me. A life...wasted! and on such a beautiful, sunny day...to think that people are dying all the time, just like this on a daily basis...is just sad, and a sign of the things that Jesus prophesied the signs of the Last Days...Things like this will probably start happening more and more frequently  as we get closer to the end. Things like this have been happening all the time for awhile now, but not so close to our very own neighborhoods. When it happens so close to home, it shakes you up. We talked about it as a family, and how we have got to be better prepared for situations like this. We decided that we have all got to have a backpack with a change of clothes and stuff in case of evacuations and emergencies like this.

It turns out...we read in the paper this morning, that the 53 y.o man and his ex-wife have a 9 y.o son and got along great, up until yesterday morning...weird, that he snapped.

I think about if something like this had happened to my son, I would be devastated...I would have tried to be there and talk him out of whatever he was trying to do...and let him know that nothing or anyone is worth taking his or anyone elses life and that with time...Life would go on!

Here are some recent pictures of my neice and her husband Dwight and their Three son's: Titus, Tyson and Quintin. They are very handsome young men!

Well, I have a few Family portrait sessions lined up for the next couple of weeks...And Matt From Doggy Snooze, contacted me again and would like to use me again, this time for his other line "Doggy Ride" so we will have that Product photo shoot next week. He is putting together a 360 degree shot of this product for his website, so I am going to shoot the same product at 72 different angles to get the effect that he is looking for. Should be interesting. Well I will keep everyone informed on any new upcoming events.~Leticia 

Hi everyone...Today I am in the process of uploading all of the Family Portraits that I took for the King Family into the Client Login, I received an e-mail from Diane last night saying that she is ready to order prints now...So I am uploading 160 images, 80 in Black and white and 80 color images...she expressed an interest in B&W when I dropped off her DVD so I thought I would make all the color images in B&W as well for her to be able to decide which ones she would like in color and which ones she prefers in B&W. Then I will email her with her username and password to be able to view and add to her cart from my client login menu on my website. I will talk to yall later~Leticia

This is my latest photo shoot, "Sister's Portrait Session" Came out kinda cute...they had fun!  ~Enjoy Leticia

Hey...We had our little family Gathering/Reunion, We had a blast ! It was absolutely fantastic to see everyone again. I had not seen my neice Maria for 13 years, and had never met her two children Perri (10) and Kenai (3). Perri is such a sweet little girl. There were about 20 of us...It was Awesome. I took lots of pictures, some studio and some candid and some outdoors group shots. We ate lots of food, drank some beverages, told lots of stories some old, some new. Please enjoy the photos~Leticia

I am pretty excited...My brother Joe, flew in from Ohio last week and we went and saw him on Thursday at my sister Pauline's house in Gig Harbor. We had a very nice time over there, My sister made Lasagna for all of us, it was delicious . My neice Teresa was there as well, and her husband and son. The kids had a great time. We are planning a family gathering at my house for tomorrow (Sunday the 8th).

It is supposed to be Pauline & Rick and Teresa, Albert and Luke, and my other neice Maria and her husband and her two kids Perry, and Kinai, and my brother Alex and his daughter Monica, and my nephew Brandon and his girlfriend Jessica. and of course all seven of us. It should be a blast. I will take pictures and post them later. Adam is going to BBQ Ribs, sausege, steaks, hamburgers and maybe chicken, I will be making macaroni salad, ceasar salad, mashed potatoes, and deviled eggs. And we'll have snacks chips and stuff, I think I am gonna make a couple of cakes as well.

Well, I will blog more later...

Leticia

Today I will be focusing on Stock Photography a bit...I haven't submitted anything to Fotolia or BigStock in awhile (atleast a couple of months) But the beauty of it is that even when I am not working on Stock photography...it is still working for me. Everyday I seem to sell a few pics. on there and make money. Most sales come from out of the country...So while I sleep I make money  Awesome! But the more I submit the more chances of making more money I have. So now that I have a few photo shoots out of the way...I can concentrate on Stock a bit and I have to Do some school (Medical Transcribing) I am so close to being finished with it...just 4 more exams, but I am procrastinating...because Photography is my true love. And Medical Transcribing was just going to be a supplement income on the slow months of photography. But Even on the slow months there is still Stock that is never really slow.

Okay, well enough babbling....

Leticia Wilson

p.s let me share a few photos of my "Secret Garden" yard, I feel like I live in paradise already...It is absolutely beautiful here. there are like 7 pathways through the flower garden, my goal is to have a sitting area at the end of each trail or pathway...however, some paths don't have an end some lead to another pathway...but I would like to have a nice sitting, reading, drinking a refreshment area at the end of any trails.

Tomorrow I have a Family Portrait Session that I am doing at Lake Meridian...yesterday I went and checked out the park to get some ideas, It is very beautiful there, lots of beautiful flowers and Awesome shaped trees not to mention the beautiful lake. So I will post some pictures as soon as I can. The pictures below are test shots I took of my husband Adam and my dog Jewels and my glamababies Danyel and Kasidy...I think they came out pretty nice~Talk to you later, Leticia