We have a new president!!!

The Weather in Iowa

Aaahh the weather is getting bad here in Iowa.. and there are still so many wonderful ideas in my hat and wonderful families to picture. I am praying for the weather fairy to swing by and grant me some sunshine today and the next two days.

Otherwise i can't wait to move into our new house and to start setting up a little studio in the basement and to move into my new office, which is very much needed. I am soooo excited for you to see how it's gonna look like in the end.

I will have to browse through a lot of garage sales to get some shelves and an old desk and a couple of other things to get my Vintage 50's style together. I hope there will be still some sales this winter.. if somebody know some garage sales dates or even got some Vintage 50's stuff or an old desk or chair for sale PLEASE let me know!









I had to share some of my favourite pictures from Ally in the last one and a half year! The newborn picture was taken by Jonathon and processed by me.. he is quite talented.. maybe my long desired second shooter for the weddings to come???

I am so blessed..

I think it is time again for a personal post.. I have to say i am sooooo blessed and happy. The last months was one of the most exciting time in my life. I happend to have the great opportunity to shoot a session with the UBER talented Brenna and from there on did my little photography business EXPLODE. I literally went from having to hunt people down to do a shoot to telling people i am thinking of calling this month BOOKED!!! WOW, just writing this gives me goosbumps. I feel i am finally exactly where i always wanted to be in live.. i can do what i love to do so much and i even get paid. AND most important.. people love what i do. It is the BEST thing in the world to hear from a client that they loved the pictures or even cried a little when they watched the slideshow.

And all this could not have happend without amazing people who totally believed in me and LOVE what i do and spread the word about AR Photography. I feel so blessed to live in such an amazing community with those wonderful people who just went ahead and told so many people about me.. i hope that the calls will never end and that next year i can continue to do my FAVOURITE thing in the world!! May everybody in Manson, IOWA end up with an AR Photography picture on the wall!!! Thanks so much everyone, you really made me the luckiest person on earth!!

For more sneaks from my clients go to my AR PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

this guy..

just talks right out of my heart!!! You have to check em out and become a fan on his facebook and share his message!

my favourite movie in the world!!!!

KEINOHRHASEN.. the weirdest title and the best film ever! Gosh do i adore Til Schweiger! Love it.. and i hope my best friends gonna think about my desire and get this dvd for my birthday!!!!

ALLY's SHOW

Ally's 4 Wheeler

My daugther is a tomcat.. and her favourite toy these days is daddy's 4 Wheeler. She hardly fits her arms from one side to the other but who cares.. as long as she can make brumm brumm and act as if she is riding it for real.
Gosh i hope those day's will never end :)

I am closing my old Photography blog..

and from now on all my everyday thoughts and photos gonna be posted on this ANNE REUTER blog. I thought it would be so much easier just to have two blogs! One for my personal stuff and one for

AR PHOTOGRAPHY and my client's teaser pictures and some tips and tricks!

I of course keep my Scrapbooking blog too, but due to opening up my own business i just can't find any time right now to sit down and scrapbook. But i am pretty sure, once the days are going to be darker and shorter i will find time for that again.

But until that.. stay close and check out my new client blog!!!

that lens..

is fantastic! I had my first session with my new equipment and the camera shot like butter.. wonderful!! No desperately trying to take more than 4 pictures in a row and the feeling of just wanting to through the camera against the next best wall.



Now i just need more models to try my camera on.. so if you live close to Fort Dodge, Iowa and want your pictures taken by me.. call me!!

the new baby

I got my new camera.. and of course i had to try it out right away.. could have somebody told me how heavy and big a 5d is?? gosh..



I have to admit.. i am in love.. that camera got me from the first second on. Now hopefully tomorrow the weather will work with me and i can finally try my new 24-70mm canon lens out. I am hoping for razor sharp pictures.. oh well.. we'll see!!!

I am so blessed..

First i wanna show you my new business cards.. they arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. I got them almost for free over VISTA PRINT. The only thing i had to pay for was that i uploaded my own template. So yes, i am super excited and i think they gonna work pretty good for me just starting out.

I am also working on my new logo.. if i could only figure that stinken Adobe Illustrator out and get it done.. this is how i want it to look.. just in a Vector Mask or whatever they call it. So if anybody can help.. please! Step in and make that sad thing an end!

So and now it is gettin suuuuper exciting for me, cause beginning today i can call me a proud owner of a canon eos 5d and a 24-70mm L lens and a speedlight flash. gosh i am so excited. My wonderful parents decided to invest in my future and made this purchase possible for me.. and boy i tell you, right now i feel like eastern and christmas and ally's birthday and all that and much more together. I almost caught me saying to my dad over skype.. oh daddy, now you never have to buy me anything more ever again.. that was kinda exactly the same thing you could hear me saying thru all my child days. But i honestly felt like a little girl today.. in a huge huge candy and toy store.. in the night... with the key to everything!!!

Just a couple more days and i gonna be finally able to hold those babys in my arms.

Ally's cousins and uncles

It's proven, my daughter is a tomcat and a Reuter thru and thru.. while everyone was climbing down the roof i took the picture of, my daughter, 14 month old was trying to climb up again and almost had a meltdown realizing she wouldn't make it on her own!

I loooove flickr..

Here are some of the most inspiring artists.. i can't get enough of them!!!!

1. it took a long time just for me to see, 2. Untitled, 3. Vintage, 4. love, 5. Anthony, 6. just beautiful..., 7. Untitled, 8. royalty in the making?, 9. Three Owls and a Bird, 10. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”, 11. Me and the sun, 12. memories, 13. Untitled, 14. curls n light, 15. Untitled, 16. Untitled, 17. Untitled, 18. family., 19. About me page!! What do you think?, 20. Untitled, 21. my hubby needs to practice, 22. fly..., 23. more mommies and babies, 24. Just Like You, 25. Summertime, 26. Untitled, 27. Untitled, 28. Little Fluffy Clouds, 29. Untitled, 30. for the love of joe..., 31. coffeetime, 32. The Comics!, 33. june 2008 - 1, 34. back to jumping, 35. the details., 36. floral dress

my found of the week!!!

gosh i am sooo in love.. with those two sites..

the b school

and..

Photography Mentor

If you are a photographer, starting out or in the business for a while, those two sites are the place to be!!! I am so inspired and i learned sooo much just by watching their videos and reading the tipps!!!!

You sooo have to check it out!!!!



So guess what i am busy with right now, when not sitting over my contracts and other lists i have to put together..

But i also found some time to get a little shooting done.. my favourite model in the world gave me her honor and modeled for me!!!

soo busy

i can't tell you how busy i am right now with starting my business.. so many pricelist's are right now flying around me and not speaking of all those little notes i wrote for things i still have to do! It is sooo much.. and all i wanted to do was to take pictures..

but deep deep inside of me.. i have to admit that i love it.. kinda.. cause i know where that works goes to.. my own little business. So in between all my chaos i got some time to work on some pics and to even shoot some! Nothing special.. just some family pics!!!



We had some fun at the pool in between all that rain that Iowa had..



and i could hardly get Ally back out of the water again.. she love the sprinklers!!!

i did it..

..finally after dreaming about it for years and talking about it for month, i opened up my own little photography business. And i am blown away about how easy it is. For me as a german it was "hmm excuse me.. where is the rest of the thousend forms i have to fill out.. and where do i have to pick up a number and wait in line for two days???" But i also have to say, i opened my business in smalltown Iowa not LA. That made it probably way easier as well.
But anyways.. i am excited. Right now i am slowly working my way thru vendors, pricing and contracts. That's the not so easy part.. i think! I kept the fun stuff.. flyer and business cards creating for the very last. Work first!
But i couldn't resist and already try some flyer or logo ideas out. Ally playing with her chalks on a sunny evening gave me the best opportunity.

Does somebody now got some adivce for me?? Something, somebody jumping into the business world of photography needs to know???

i can't wait for your comments..

playing..

with some logo or flyer ideas! what do you think????

summer fun..

After all those storms here in Iowa we finally got some nice weather to enjoy!!
So of course Ally, Jon and me had to check out the community pool! And Ally is in love!

just the golf cart was not so much her friend... misses bumped her had on the steering wheele frequently!!!

there was a lot of splish'n and a splash'n!!!!

..after the storm

Saturday evening on our way home from the south of Iowa, we got to see the most amazing sky i've ever seen.

Too bad we had to have such a bad storm and almost a Tornado in order to see something like this.

I was sooo blown away.. Jonathon had to stop the truck a couple of times so that i could get out and shoot some more pictures!

It almost looks like the heaven got opened and you could walk right into heaven!!

How wonderful Iowa looks after a storm..

i am soooo thankful..

for the fantastic Me Ra Koh Photography blog and the advice from Manon to look at their side and check the photography tipps out!

I studied Me Ra's tipps and they helped me so much. Yesterday evening i went on a little shoot with my husband and daugther to try out all the things i learned and i was soo amazed how differently i see the world thru my lens now!

Ally had so much fun playing with the little stones and checking out the beautiful Iowa sunset!

..and i couldn't wait to come home and load the pictures into Lightroom and see how they turned out! And i love it.. i am finally starting to go into the direction i always wanted to go. Can't wait to go out tonight and practice some more!

finally..

Graduation is here and my sister in law finally has her Graduation party and i am done now trying to take her perfect senior shot!!! Not that i do not love to take her pictures but i was so under pressure to satisfy her! It is sooo important for me to satisfy my customers in general but family... oh man! For those it is even more important!!!

So here is one more of HOlly! and than i had to do a homework for my course at better photo.com and i decided to ask Jordan, my brother in law to pose for me! Homework was a outside portrait.

I am still struggeling with my computer calibration and i can't get rid of that stinken' green tint in my pictures for some reason! But i think i did a little better in these shots here! Guess i have to open my check book and get me a colormunki or something similar!