To Do

On the eve of my surgery, November 30, I sat down and wrote this list. Then, I cried for a minute. One or two things have been added since then. A few more items will get crossed off tomorrow and the rest are for after Christmas. This morning I scanned it in for posterity.

In true the-cobbler's-childrean-have-no-shoes form, I have not shot the picture for our holiday cards yet. We've come down to the wire a few other years, but never this bad. It looks like you will all be getting Happy New Year cards from us this year. Or, you know, maybe Groundhog's Day.

Happy Holidays, everybody!

Year in Pictures

My advice is to let it pre-load a bit, so the music doesn't skip (I hate that!).




Copyright gods forgive me, I used commercial music. It's just for my personal blog and I didn't put my branding on it. Plus, it's a really great song, with one of my very favorite opening line song quotes ever. I'll find a way to even out my karma somehow.

Been a long time: part II

More recent client images...

This little guy was wide awake for his photo shoot.  Love the baby blues.

I have watched these boys grow up and I look forward to seeing them every year.

This little guy had a blast running aruond teh trails at Burchfield in West Seneca.

Until next time...

Been a long time

Not too many new pictures of the kids to post.  I have some cute videos of Eli talking on my iPhone, that I need to download.  I love his little voice.  He still doesn't talk too much to people, but he can recite whole sections of Dora episodes by heart.  He does this in his crib some nights and cracks himself up laughing.  It's pretty funny.

Here is just one of Gracie.  She loved this new dress that Heidi passed along to us.  This is her version of the model stare.  I left the tattoos on her arms.  They went with the ensemble, I thought.



Here are a couple of Eli, who helped me test out my lights the other day.  A client saw an old picture of Charlotte as a baby with the fishbowl setup (which was a huge fad on my photography board about 6 years ago) and specially requested it.  I didn't have time to edit Eli's shots, but he's pretty darn cute anyway, I think.

Here is the edited version for my little client.



And since it's been so long I thought I would post some recent client images.  Still at least 4 to go before I am done.  It's been a fun year, though.

I have photographed this little guy since he was a newborn.  Now he is a proud big brother.

The newest addition of the family.

This is my 5th year photographing this awesome family.

It wasn't easy climbing out to the rocks at the base of these waterfalls in Akron.  The first setup we tried, I slipped on the rocks and went in up to my knees (and that water was cold!).  The camera stayed dry, which is the important part. 

I seem to be out of space.  More in the next post...

Kat

Last week I had the pleasure of photographing my little niece Kat.  She is the funniest, smiliest little 3 year old ever! 

This one reminds me most of the big Kat smile we see so often.

Isn't she cute?

OK, yeah, she's got a balloon on her head.  This is a game I play with 3 year olds, usually to get something out of the way that I don't want in the picture.  In this case, to get the balloon out of her mouth.  I ask them to put whatever it is on their head, on their shoulder, on their knee, etc, usually ending up with behind their back or something like that.  I always start with "on your head" because they think that is really funny.  I don't usually show the resulting image, but this one was too sweet a smile to toss.

The balloon is under her shirt in this one ;)

When the girls came home from school we wanted some cousin jumping pictures.  Here is Grace showing Kat how it's done.  Kat was a quick study.

All three...

I couldn't tell from her reaction if Kat was enjoying herself or not.  She's so hard to read that way.

Louisa

My little niece is pretty sassy :) And she coordinates her band-aids with her outfits!

This is a nice, polite, sure I'll smile for you, Liza pose.

This is more like the cute Louisa giggle.

My favorites.

She is posing with her new purple unicorn pllow pet that was a present from Grandma.

Getting ready to jump. There are more in the jumping series, but I ran out of editing time today.

Isn't my niece beautiful? Love her!

Washington DC

Hi! I know its been a long time since the last post. Thanks for still checking :)

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Washington DC at the beginning of September. All taken with my phone. In good light it actually takes fairly decent snaps.

The first stop was the National Zoo. Gracie has been looking forward to seeing the pandas since we told her about the trip. Pandas are her favorite animal. She loves them. She has been telling us lately that someday when she gets her own room it is going to have pandas painted on the walls and panda sheets.

My dining companion the first night in DC.

The first night we walked from our hotel after dinner to the Lincoln Memorial. It was a beautiful summer night.

Taken after sunset. There is ridiculous noise from the low, low light and being taken by, you know, an iPhone. I like the noise, though. It is a cool effect.

This one I am going to print and frame. I really love it.

We went to the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of American History, the Air and Space Museum (twice) and Charlotte and I went to the Museum of the American Indian. Charlotte liked the Air and Space Museum and especially Skylab and the astronaut stuff. She and I walked back for a second trip on our last day there. I have to say, Charlotte did an amazing job with all the walking we did over 5 days. DC is large scale. We walked for miles at a time and were out for long parts of the day and she skipped ahead of us like it was nothing. My feet hurt most nights!

On our last day of the trip we went to the Maryland Renessaince Festival in Annapolis. It was really cool. Charlotte got this crown painted on her face.