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HI! I'M CATHY BLACKSTONE.

I am a Columbus based photographer and welcome to my blog.

I love to photograph babies in the tummy, babies out of the tummy, kids being good, kids being bad, kids with special needs, kids with fur, couples in love, families being themselves and seniors in between text messages :)

I have a fun and carefree style that I think you will be very comfortable with. Of course I love to take the classic picture where everyone is looking at the camera with a perfect smile but what I really love to catch is the real "in between" moments. The candid moments that you will cherish forever.

This is my photo blog where I will share favorite images from recent sessions and blab about my interests and family.

Thanks for visiting my site and taking a look. I really appreciate it. 

MIYA and ELLIE | columbus, ohio family photographer

Just put some shots from their session up on my FB page and forgot how much I loved this one:)

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February 13, 2013 - 8:05 pm Katy - Oh this is an awesome shot! Loveit!

WILDCATS 2012

So sad that I am just now posting these:( Some of these boys aren’t even on the team anymore but hopefully it is better late than never. I always look at it from the moms perspective and I know I would want these. It’s a part of their journey and I CAN’T BELIEVE how much some of them have changed in the last 6 months already. Crazy.

I didn’t take many pics last season. Sad. Just wasn’t feeling it. Photography definitely turned into a job last year. I am truly blessed, but it is bittersweet because it can interfere with personal pics. At every click I think of the time I will need to spend editing, lol. I couldn’t balance it at all. I will next year though because I realize how important they are when I start going through them 6 months later. Plus I absolutely LOVE sports photography. LOVE, love, love it.

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Good man, good coach. It’s a thankless, time consuming and demanding job. He’s not mean. He’s not irrational. He’s not crazy. He doesn’t fly off the handle. He doesn’t have issues from his childhood that carry over into coaching, lol. He has only been positive with Jackson and Jackson wants to work for him and I love that:) untitled-15

And a few from the season…

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February 7, 2013 - 4:15 pm stacie - these are amazing! some of the most creative posed sports shots i've ever seen :)

favorites from the RANSOM family | columbus, ohio family photographer

Here is what I know - these people SHOW UP for their photo session (and this was a sunrise session). What some people don’t realize is that I can’t take pics of anything I don’t see. It’s that simple. If you bring it, you get it. This should be my new tagline. The Ransom’s bring it and always get it. Period. They laugh, they have fun, they are adorable. Some of my favorite images every year come from this family because they show me who they truly are. I am so lucky to be their photographer. Whenever they are in town (live in NYC now) they make room for me. LOVE that. Thrilled about that. Honored they call me:)

Here is another thing I know. I will never ever ever forget Trey asking me if I knew any Usher when I was singing nursery rhymes trying to get his attention. Hi.lar.i.ous.

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favorites from the SEARS FAMILY | columbus, ohio family photographer

Am going to try and be diligent and blog some favorites from past sessions. I have to/want to keep my blog alive. It is still how so many people find me and I am always so happy they do. It is very very hard for me to balance blog, facebook, sessions, editing, housekeeping, emailing and mothering. I’m thinking/hoping next year will open some time because all of my kids will be in school full time and even though that thrills me and makes me want to do the biggest happy dance in the next breath it makes me so sad.

I’ve decided in order to do this I have to keep it manageable. I can’t spend hours resizing and writing. I just want to share my favorites.

This is the Sears family. They were sweet and quiet and had traveled and studied and lived in countless places around the globe. I was smarter after their session and had to google a few things:) That doesn’t happen very often, lol.

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