Ballerina

This is the face Gracie makes when you point the camera at her.  She does it very purposefully.

This is me trying to make her laugh.  Sometimes I can get her to break out in a big grin.  Not this time.  She just. barely. contained. it.

I did get her to spin for me, though.

Father-Son

Today being MLK day, we eked out one more day of do-nothing-on-vacation.  Tomorrow, back to school/work.

I came downstairs yesterday morning to find my two boys, both with their hair sticking straight up.  So funny.  Eli got his Daddy's hair for sure.  He also seems to have gotten his individualistic free spirit and occasional aloofness.  If he also gets a fraction of his Daddy's generosity, compassion, and strength of character, I will be a happy, proud Mom.

The men in my life...

Eli wouldn't sit for me to get a picture of the two of them together, but you can kind of get the effect from these two frames.  Derek and I laughed about it looking at these.  Then, last night I was watching the Golden Globes and look at the style that Al Pacino is sporting... :)



Sledding

We had a great time in Lake Placid.  We did alot of sledding just outside our hotel room door and swimming in the awesome pool.  The girls made it out skiing with Derek one afternoon and went for a dogsled ride.  Eli said his longest original sentence to date  - "Come on!  Let's go!  To swim!"   Well, I guess that's 3 sentences (or fragments) actually.  But it was clearly understandable and he said it directly to us to tell us what he wanted so it's a big milestone for him.

I intended to take more pictures, but just didn't get around to it.  These are from our first afternoon there.

 Eli didn't really like the sledding.  He loves to eat the snow.

Happy 2011

I think the holiday/New Years cards are a bust. We'll just look ahead to next Christmas, mmmkay?

These are from the photo shoot before I threw in the towel on the cards. I have more - some cute shots of Grace and some of all three - but I will spread them out over several blog posts. I'm not a real New Year resolutions kind of person, but I would like to make more posts in 2011 than in 2010. So I've got to pace myself.

My sweet boy. He's pretty hard to photograph these days.  But still super cute (bad haircut and all).

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...