karpe momento!...

meet the Karpe Fam! lots of fun with their little man who is getting close to 2....he's such a doll, looks like a little model. he got warmed up and used to having me and the dinosaur in the camera around. cheers karpes!

Nonprofit work: Hearts for Hearing

Here is a local organization that is recognized regionally and nationally for its big heart in teaching children with hearing impairments to listen and speak. Detecting hearing loss early is key and HFH assists in getting children who are deaf or hard of hearing amplified via cochlear implants or modern amplification aids prior to beginning listening and speech therapy. It is a very progressive therapy called auditory verbal that teaches children to listen, model and speak...thru listening, the children learn to speak and correct speech issues so they may be educated in the mainstream. Here is a sample of the photographs we took last week which I hope will open your eyes and melt your heart. WE received word a few of these are to be published by the AG Bell Group in the Volta Voices Journal out of DC. How exciting to have the opportunity to help this great organization and bring further awareness to this cause. ~aimee


















These two amazing women Teresa Caraway and Joanna Smith are the founders and chief operating officers and therapists of HFH. They not only founded HFH, but work hands on with the children and publish articles on the benefits and strategies of auditory verbal therapy.

glenn kiddos...tulsa

This was a cousin kiddo shoot in Tulsa with the Glenns...little one at 4 months old up to 6 year old..it was this shoot where I thought its best to create Aimee Adams Playdates and have the kids be themselves and have fun engaging in an activity, children learn so much from modeling one another...this was a pretty cold day and the cuties held up well and pulled off some pretty colorful shots....

my 2 cents....is everybody a photographer?

I felt it necessary to put some thoughts out here that would inform others on my personal history, perspective and take on photography and the medium with relevance to the current portrait market. This will obviously be updated frequently as I am unable to sit too still today and unleash all the thoughts I would have related to this new art form. I have been taking photographs for 19 years now and am enjoying the freedom digital photography has so immediately provided, but miss the mystery of waiting for film to be processed as well. I will venture back to film on some personal art studies and collections in the very near future but thought it might prove necessary to touch base on a topic which is fresh off my brain....
Everybody is a photographer these days or are they?
I believe we are all artists and the immediacy digital photography provides offers an affirmation of a good photo or a good eye, however the name lies in the training and expertise on the matter. I always called myself an "aspiring" photographer, as I was very intimidated by the term photographer as it meant SO much to me and I took the name and title very seriously. I have studied photography, displayed in art studios, worked for newspapers, processed in a dark room, been published and awarded a photojournalism award (1995), etc. and during all those times I said "aspiring" because with all the research and love I had devoted to the craft, I believed there was always so much more too learn, technically, artistically, compositional and psychologically.
A good photographer is confident and puts their models and subjects at ease, a good photographer knows their tools and engages with the medium in a relationship where the end result might spit out a darn good "photographer", but I do feel there are so many using the term too loosely today, those who have no training or regard for how far this art form has come. A person gets an SLR (and photoshop these days) and impresses their friend with a good photo and their you are, a photographer, in an instant, in a flash...there is very few professions where this type of self accreditation would hold water. Dont get me wrong, I have no animosity towards these types, but I have high standards and a high regard for the industry and the future of what photography will be. I believe we all could be photographers as we all have different views on the world and see and record life differently and as wedding photographer, Mike Colon says, "there is only one you." Therefore no reason to be jealous of anothers success, etc...but try to see for yourself, and focus less on any copycat antics that might seem enticing in the short term...~aimee

me + good coffee = happy

SO everyone who knows me knows I know coffee.....yes, i AM a coffee snob, but thankfully these days the machines are getting better at whipping up some frothy milk and rich espresso than the wannabe baristas that were around about 5 years ago. Not only did I work at the awesome-est coffee shop in Tulsa when I was like 20, Gold Coast (no longer there) on Peoria's Brookside, I riskied up enough caffeinated gumption to start a little cafe in OKC, which is now "the coffeeshop" on 23rd & villa. Anywho, while in Tulsa for a quick holiday presence, i got to hook up with one of my besties Court, a commercial actress in LA, with her husband Rick, who is MR. producer about to embark on some even more cool projects than he has done......so here we are at the CherryStreet Coffeehouse, which actually holds some history for Court and I, making the union o' caffeination particularly special and we spot some adorable lovebirds that I had the pleasure to meet and capture in 'their' moment. The "moment" is where I am lately, so i thought while i was there i would record some natural interactions and then approach them....Which thankfully ended very pleasantly. Meet a beautiful cherry street cappuccinno and the dec 28th cafe lovebirds. ~aimee
song playing, "isnt she lovely?? isnt she won-der-ful.?........yes, she was.

i really liked the processing on this one and the actual fact that this was their moment.




arent they darling......

Tulsa shoots....im down with t-town....

This is my gratitude post to Tulsa, thanks for the 08 support, already working on a few projects for more Tulsan Clients in the New, look forward to road-trippin it every month and catching up with friends, family and the growing bunch of kiddos I get to play with. ~aimee










this was THE perfect moment as the dog took off, i love the energy!



































this shot shows how little Katie was quite reluctant to be talked into the family picture....i love how this shot shows what a Daddys girl little Katie is...a moment recorded to be relished later. :)


















So Ive been thrilled to have so much support as a Creative Professional in my native hometown, Tulsa. Its funny when you are working the holiday shoots around as the great minds think alike quote is played out in front in witnessing other artists using a similar location etc...Theres also something to be said for being unique and original, having a trademark style....which I will come back to. But for this post, I will stick to the park I know as OKlahomas finest tree park, Woodward. Heres a sample of this November weekend.