Baby J.

Today I took pictures of a BABY for the first time... it was not easy. It's hard to know how to pose a baby and make him look cute without making him cry. Practice, I guess.

I think a few of these turned out pretty good.

I love babies surrounded by interesting TEXTURE for some reason...

I had a blast taking these.

Thanks, Michelle and Robby, for letting me take pictures of your beautiful little baby!

And thanks, Jenny, for setting it all up!

The Mac of all lenses...

So, I rented a Macro Lense a couple weeks ago... LOVE IT!!! I could play with that thing all day. Macros are the lenses used to take pictures of a butterfly on a flower, a raindrop on a leaf... stuff like that. They can also be used to take tight pictures of cute kids. When I say tight, I DO mean totally sweet and rad, but I also mean extreamly close... TIGHT YO! They make backgrounds and foregrounds blurry, so that you can really tell what the subject of your photo is.

Check these pictures out...

Here's a couple that make me giggle...

This one of reminds me of something... I don't know what. Something old and cheesey...

like an advertisement... Campbell's Soup?

Pick a winner!

Don't peek, Russell...

Are you serious? You want ME to do your BRIDALS?! After my initial freak-out, I got really excited. Look at this beautiful bride who was crazy enough to aske me to take pictures of her...


My personal favorite...

Last week we spent an afternoon at the Gateway Fountains. These aren't anything I'd hang on my wall, but I was having so much fun in PhotoShop that I wanted to post these...

I did the background in black and white because there were so many people and so many colors and I wanted MY kids to be the center of attention. I think they're kinda cool... next time, though, I won't put Jack in BLACK!

California

Last week we went to California... here are a few pictures.

How sweet...

Mickey ears are suprisingly difficult to take pictures of. They can look too dark and get lost in the crowd if you don't use your flash OR they make strang shadows when you DO use the flash.

The beach was wonderful except that I had a piece of sand on my lense that showed up in every single picture. I was ticked.

See it?...Here it is again...Luckily, it was pretty easy to erase that little grain of sand.

Don't look for it in these... it's not there.

Love this one!...

I was sooo excited to come home from California with new, awesome pictures, but I was a little diasppointed. It's hard to take just the right picture in new places. I hardly had any at Disneyland without a strange looking person in the background, and the beach was crazy with sand all over me and my camera. I had no idea.

It's all about practice...I guess I'll just have to go to California more.

My dear friend, Laura, asked me to take her little girl's 15 month pics and some family pics. Here are a few of my favorite...

Oh my goodness!

They brought all the props for the cowgirl ones.

I think they turned out pretty cute. Good job, guys.

I love this red wall!!! Especially with those striking blue eyes.

In my processing...you know, fiddling around in PhotoShop... I kinda blew the whites in this one, but for some reason I really like it...

So, yah, I totally meant to!

What a sweet little girl.

Thanks, Laura! I can't wait to show you these!