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Times Treasured Studios, owned and operated by me, Heather Cardwell; has proudly served Wilkes, Yadkin, and Forsyth County residents since 2005.

Heather Cardwell - Photographer / Writer for Times Treasured Studios; A One Stop Shop For All Your Photography Needs

I Specialize In Weddings, Elopements, Headshots, Events, Marketing Content, Portraits, Pets, Drone Video, Matterport 3D & Aerial Images I provide each client with high quality photography services while also delivering a variety of options for the finished product to be returned t

o the client quickly. My skills are various and range from real estate, landscape and macro photography, FAA certified for unmanned aircraft flight, studio and portrait photography, and I've covered sporting events including equestrian competitions, team, and individual photos; weddings and engagements; maternity, birth and newborns sessions, as well as family reunions and corporate events.

09/03/2026

From the archives….
This was taken nine years ago on Topsail Beach.

Mom said let’s go as a family. And as much family could come - did.

We all met on the beach we grew up going to and stayed an entire week.

We all took turns covering one thing or another to share in the load for this kind of experience together.

I remember waking up to watch a sunrise before cooking breakfast for the whole team, right before setting out for an entire day on the sand.

It was quite memorable watching my kids and nieces and nephews play in the water with my mom and my sisters just like we did as kids.

Kami and I taught our daughters the art of shark tooth hunting, a skill they both maintain to this day.

We watched an eclipse, flew kites, visited the turtle center, ate at our favorite spots, played some putt-putt, ate ice cream and walked for miles along the south end.

The memories aren’t as full as they once were because almost ten years have passed since.

Yet every time I pull up these pics to relive, my mind goes on overload recalling the moments that only an image can help me recall.

I’m thankful I’ve got millions of memories spread across albums and boxes and terabyte after terabyte in devices at home.

Every single one of them are a link to the past for me and my children later on in life.

Photos matter y’all!
Be sure to take them AND be present in them!

09/02/2026

I’m an empath.

And as a lucky (sometimes not so lucky) winner of such character traits as this, what it means for me is that I feel you - quite literally!!

If you’re happy, I’m gonna smile with you.
If you’re angry, my blood pressure will likely spike alongside you.

If you’re sad or vulnerable in any way, you can guarantee I’m going to hone in and ask if I can do anything for you, long before I sit down, hear the story, and cry alongside with you.

If someone is mean to me, I’m likely going to see right thru them to some past torment and give them a little compassion, that is until my spidey senses tingle and alert me to being taken advantage of.

If you sneeze, I’m gonna bless you.
If I hear your belly growl, I’m going to offer a shnackie.
If you eyeball my pie, I’ll probably offer you a bite.

If you’re being mean to someone else, something inside me changes.

You’re no longer someone the empathy will float you on.
I just don’t see how anyone could be mean, intentionally.
It’s evil.

And I’m telling you now - God sees.
What you do to or say to anyone else in the world you do to and say to God and HE will hold you accountable!
And that - no matter how you try to slice the sammie to suit your boot.

I’ve got some feelings this morning, pardon me.
My momma taught me to be nice. As I aged and grew I saw that’s pretty much what God said too!

It kills me to see how boldly we screw this up.

08/30/2026

It was a bittersweet leaving Illinois this morning.

Sure, I’m anxious to get home! I’ve got a lot waiting on me long before I go to “clock in” for the work week, let alone the WIP…

But it’s hard leaving this farming community for the busy home-front.

See, as a kid I remember it took forever for Christmas or Summer where we would go visit would come. As a mature adult, I start to wonder how did we get back here so quickly. Did five years just go by in a blink??

As a kid you couldn’t get me to sit still for one minute let alone the hour I’ll now sit as an adult just waiting for a bee to wake up and get going.

As we age we just treasure time differently therefore it moves accordingly.

So leaving here, I know it could be just a scheduled trip out of town. But I also know it could be ten years. And a lot can happen in the time that we’re not planning for while we’re busy planning.

I love these streets because of who I rode them with.
I love these fields because of the people who tend them.

I love this land because it’s where my momma came from and where my aunts made me ice cream and fresh bread and all the cookies a kid could manage in two hands and as time goes by and takes its toll - I realize just how much I love my people and miss those simpler days.

I’m so thankful for the paths in life that brought us right here, though I know at times they were toilsome.

Because as a kid I didn’t see the struggle.
All I saw was love.

08/27/2026

Just a little moment in time for a little treasure….

Still
Being
Made!

Baby Matthews, coming soon!!

08/25/2026

I wasn’t born here.

I first stumbled across county lines back in 2004.

When I lived in Fayetteville, Georgia, or back in the triad area, any time we’d travel to visit family up north, the trip highlights were always situated near Asheville going into Tennessee, or Virginia and into West Virginia.

I clung like a tick to the windows watching all that elevation pass me by. I’d see water falling around every curve. I’d see signs along the road telling about some awesome stop just a few miles ahead, begging mom to PLEASE pull over.

Flat land is nice but this was eye candy!!

My ears would pop and my toes would curl in my Keds at the thought of simply climbing! And I was all the more curious as to what was out there and wanted to see it, I wanted to touch it, and I wanted to smell it!!

I’ve always been a nature nerd. But my sites were focused more on what some other place had going on.

That is until my feet were in the creeks and fields and rugged terrain of the mountains available in Wilkes County.

Instead of traveling four to six hours to get “somewhere pretty”, I’m looking out my back door.

I can jump in my car for five minutes or thirty minutes and be in two dramatically different terrains without having any “heavy traffic”.

All backroads! And it’s glorious! It’s a dream come true.
One I remember vividly asking God for as a kid.

All I have to do is look around and I start to thank HIM.

08/22/2026

I watched a few bees wake up this morning.

A few years ago I noticed that we have some overnighters.

They’ll cling on late in the evening to a specifically picked out perch between flowers and leaves.

And in the morning… they’re still snug and clutched tight.
Well this morning was no different except for the fact that I had nothing else to do than watch to see what happened.

I sat there for an hour - don’t judge me!
Perhaps I got too early of a start but thankfully I had coffee.

Closer to the 8 o’clock hour - little fuzzy feet started to twitch, then wiggle a bit.

The bee started to stumble lazily over each flower desperately searching for nectar to get the day moving.

I feel that.

Each stumbling step led to one a little more sure before a complete stop altogether - maybe a little moment for the bee to consider whether it’s ready for the day.

But then, movement again! A few reaches and it was on the next tier of flowers and it fumbled about, getting all the good from each nectary and then up to the next tier.

And then a stop.
But this stop was different.

As if it was washing its face in the pollen to really get things in gear, its fuzzy butt started bobbing in and out.

Clearly the goods had their effects because after a minute of the bo**ie bobs, it flew up and off to another branch - making its way around the bush as if no break had ever been taken.

We’re not so different. The bees rise and shine habits mirror mine almost entirely, fumbling stumbling - driven for nectar of some sort.

We all take a minute to get going but once we do - look out brother! There’s no stopping us!!

08/21/2026

An amazing community in Moravian Falls has got a pretty sweet treat coming to the market!

Never mind the humble abode when you can fit the entire family into one hopping spot!

This home has got rooms galore, let alone an entire apartment to let in the basement.

And to suit all that wonderful space is a deck, almost completely wrapped around the home. One side open - the other screened for your summer sitting pleasure!

Plenty of parking with a double drive and a parking garage with storage attached to entice the creators out there to perhaps start that new business venture.

Enjoy this little sneak peek before she goes live!

08/20/2026

If you frequent the countryside, you’re likely to come across an old shack or two still holding their own on a hillside.

Crazy to consider what these small buildings have seen and heard thru the decades.

The storms, the droughts, the snow, and my oh my… the life. The years slowly trickle on for this specific spot on the New River.

It would have been something that slipped my eyes entirely due to the overgrowth around it, as we passed it while floating one day.

Fortunately there was a nice walkway of a mown lawn leading all the way past it, going further into the woods.

Someone is still tending this land, and all the while, the rust crust grows and the porous wood ages.

It’s a lovely sight if you ask me.
I don’t necessarily see just an old shack.

My mind teases me with the stories of all who came and went through that front door and who sat along its porch watching the rain move on.

You can almost smell the coffee…

08/19/2026

A little sneaky peek of the work this week!

Let it never be said that my job gets old;
There is too much diversity for that to occur!

08/17/2026

I’ve been coming here since I was a little girl.

My mother was born here. My aunts and uncles and cousins and extended family are all still here or close by.

And they have no idea how such a small community, with humble appearances like these are a welcome sight to the travel weary, like me.

After crossing through whatever crazy city you want in order to get here, you welcome the little to no traffic meeting you.

You welcome the sights and sounds of literally nothing but bugs and birds and the occasional car passing by.

You learn to ache for those moments too, when the trip is over and you’re back to the “normal” life where you came from.

There is something about the star-filled skies and row upon row of corn and soybeans that makes the kid in me giggle with delight.

I’m the kid who rode her cousins’ oversized 10 speed up and down these roads. The same kid who sat down in the grass to pop the tar bubbles in the road from the sweltering heat. The kid who raided grannies deep freezer from the treasure trove of frozen goodies therein.

And when I come here again, I feel like the same kid. I suppose that same rush of excitement will never quite fade away.

Thank God for small towns!

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Wilkesboro, NC
28697

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