Southern GAL Photography

05/14/2026

Hey y’all! If you haven’t already seen the post on my personal page, I have been selected as a finalist in Zambelli Fireworks Thunder Over Louisville fireworks photography contest.
If you’d be willing to click on the post I’m sharing, and in the comments comment “1”, my image is actually the first image of the four posted, and your comment would count as a vote. That’s it, easy peasy.
I’d love to share my story behind this image though, if you’d care to continue reading.
Thunder Over Louisville is an annual festival to kick off the Kentucky Derby Festival. Last year’s show was cancelled due to major flooding.
Earlier this year, I first found out about the festival and wanted to photograph the Air Show and Fireworks that are part of the events and my husband booked us a trip to go for my birthday.
The day of the fireworks and airshow was a rainy day, with dropping temps. And just like my husband and I, many of the people you see in the crowd, camped out during the day to save their spot for the fireworks show that evening.
The people you see in that image, wouldn’t have been able to stand there last year as that is the area that was totally under water. If you zoom in, even though this is a slow shutter image which would pick up movement as a slight blur, you can make out images of families watching from their weather pods, in their rain jackets, videoing and taking photos on their phones, couples hugging, and everyone taking in the beauty of the fireworks in front of them, pretty crisply because, everyone was just taking it all in and enjoying it.
Additionally, because it was a rainy day and overcast evening, I chose not to oversaturate the colors when I edited the image so anyone looking at the image would see the fireworks similar to how we saw it in real time.
I hope you enjoy this image as much as I enjoy it and if you’d like to cast a vote for it, image 1, or any of the other three images, you can just click on the original post and comment your favorite there.
Thanks a bunch!
Fonnie 💜

12/09/2025

‘Tis the season for multi-tasking…
On behalf of photographers everywhere, just know, we know how important it is to get you your Christmas images asap. And, some of us even have a pang of guilt when we arent working on our edits.
As someone who does her own edits, as someone who over analyzes every image she shoots, every image she edits, every image she delivers, just know, I appreciate everyone who came to visit us this year, and we hope that your images bring you fond memories for years to come.
And just know, this was me, one day last week, in the middle of my editing marathon, utilizing the chair time to still be productive.
How else is a GAL to stay off the naughty list, right? 💜

11/29/2025

It was a great, albeit breezy, day for our visits with Papa Noël today! Shout out to Southern Guy for his engineering which allowed us to grow from three “trees” to SIX! Check out our “new” crawfish net trees made by the great grandfather of an older gentleman in Hammond that I recently had the pleasure of meeting. His artistic lovely wife also blessed me with a trawl net so, we paired it up with some fishing poles I found out on the curb for trash collection for another beautiful addition.
One day, I will find just the right piece of property where we can hang our trees and leave them up longer than a weekend for more people to see and enjoy. It really is a beautiful sight!
We are looking forward to our visitors tomorrow as we wrap up our most favorite weekend of the year ❤️💚

11/11/2025

There is exactly one spot remaining for Saturday, Nov 29th at 12:40 and then we are booked up.
It won’t hurt my feelings if we don’t fill it but, it will hurt my feelings if I have to turn someone away. Don’t miss out!

11/08/2025

We only have two spots remaining in the 12 o’clock hour on Sat the 29th and then we are booked for the season. If you want one, or both, message the page so we can get you on the schedule.

Hey y’all! It’s that time of year again. Time for our 12th annual Cajun Christmas visits with Papa Noël. We’ve scheduled last year’s visitors so now we are opening it up to any new visitors or past years visitors that would like to pop in and catch up.
Our visits will be taking place the weekend after Thanksgiving, Nov 29th and 30th, here on the Westbank.
As of this posting, we are booking Saturday morning sessions, and Sunday afternoon sessions only.
If you are interested in scheduling a visit, just message this page with your preferred day and time frame and I’ll let you know what availability we have around that time. A non-refundable deposit is required to hold spots.
We are well behaved pet friendly.
We look forward to welcoming and meeting all of our friends both young, and young at heart.

11/06/2025

Hey y’all! It’s that time of year again. Time for our 12th annual Cajun Christmas visits with Papa Noël. We’ve scheduled last year’s visitors so now we are opening it up to any new visitors or past years visitors that would like to pop in and catch up.
Our visits will be taking place the weekend after Thanksgiving, Nov 29th and 30th, here on the Westbank.
As of this posting, we are booking Saturday morning sessions, and Sunday afternoon sessions only.
If you are interested in scheduling a visit, just message this page with your preferred day and time frame and I’ll let you know what availability we have around that time. A non-refundable deposit is required to hold spots.
We are well behaved pet friendly.
We look forward to welcoming and meeting all of our friends both young, and young at heart.

08/24/2025

HAPPY 83rd BIRTHDAY to our hard working Papa Noel! AND, at risk of winding up on HER naughty list, Happy 62ND ANNIVERSARY to him and Mama too. Maybe one day, she'll join us for a few sessions.