Your name: Taylor Haynie

Workshop: week 1

If you have a nickname, what is it? When I was little my mom would call me taterbug and occasionally she still does.

Are you single, married, have children? Married May 2006 and no little ones yet.

If you have children: how many, what are their names, how old are they: For now we have Chip our 7 year old Chocolate lab and Charlie our 1 year old black kitty cat.

What state do you live in ? Alabama! Roll Tide Roll!

What do you spend way too much of your time doing? Blog stalking and watching a lot of HGTV and The Food Network.

What do you wish you could spend more of your time doing? I wish I would read and study more. I have never really been a big reader.

How did photography find you? My boyfriend, now husband, Bo, bought my first SLR camera, the good ol’ Canon Rebel G. That was six years ago. I took one photography class at the community college and then transferred to a local University in Secondary Education. My first semester there I discovered they had an art program. That day I changed my major, dropped the dreadful Geography course, and became an art student.

What is your favorite thing to take pictures of? Definitely people.

How long have you been doing photography ? I guess about six years?

Do you have a photography business? If so, for how long? I do. It has been and still is a work in progress for almost two years. I hope after this workshop I will be able to go full time J

What is your favorite food? This is a hard one! I love food, just about anything. If I had to say my favorite, I suppose that would be my grandmother’s Chicken –n- Dumplings, YUM. I love it when she calls and says she is making it for me! I guess that would be a Southern thing J

What is something you can’t live without? I would not know what I would do without my amazing husband. He truly is the most honest, giving, selfless human being I know. He makes me a better person.

What is on your iPod or Playlist: Casting Crowns, Starfield, Third Day, Maroon 5, Corinne Bailey Rae it really depends on what mood I am in, but I love my mood when I listen to the new Casting Crowns CD.

Are you a night owl or early riser? Trying to be an early riser, but more of a night owl.

What is your favorite guilty pleasure? Make-up. Who knows why, but when they have those bonus gifts, I find something I need!?! Honest, I have every gift, ever!

If you could have dinner with anyone in the world…dead or alive, who would it be? Umm….I think a dinner conversation with former President Bill Clinton would be interesting.

What are some things that you like? I love Fall and College Football. Christmas is my absolute favorite time of year! I love being at the beach, I will live there at some point in my life. I love friendly people; they make your day so much better J

What are some things you don’t like ? Lousy tippers and bad drivers!!!

When you can do anything, what do you do? RELAX. Have some me time J

What do you have to do before you die? Hopefully have great grand children, go to Italy, visit all 50 states, own a ton of land so Bo and I can have horses and enjoy retired life.

Tell us something more about you:

Funny I am pretty sure that I am dyslexic and have ADHD. I have a problem concentrating on one thing at a time. I seem to always get my words mixed up when I speak or write. It is frustrating at times, but can be funny too.

Serious I take my work very seriously.

Entertaining Sometimes when I am shooting I forget to look where I am going. So much so, that I stepped right in a hole and went straight to the ground in front of a whole wedding party not to long ago.

Philosophical Love Life!

Exciting I’m attending this workshop!

True My husband and I share the same exact birthday, March 16, 1982. He is just a few hours older.

Meaningful My family means the world to me!

Powerful “For I know the plans I have for you,” Declares the Lord. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

Name 2 of your weaknesses: I procrastinate and I am a terible speler (ha,ha).

Name 5 of your strengths: Loving, outgoing, creative, thoughtful, passionate