Ed

"Ed- Daddy I love playing with Edddddd...." you would have to hear the way Tessa pronounced his name drawing out the last part. And you can imagine the amusement of hearing a three year old telling her Daddy how much fun it was to play with Ed. Coming home from the hospital she was greeted by numerous cousins who were meeting her for the very first time. She immediately took to Ed (everyone else referred to her 4 year old cousin as Eddie), and they had so much fun together. They were so much alike, it was interesting to watch them play.

Tessa still talks about Ed and wonders when she can go play with him again. Like I wrote yesterday it is hard being so far away from such a fun family.

Thanks to my friends on Facebook

I have found the babies I need for my portfolio. Thank you to everyone who spread the word! I am very excited to begin the newborn phase of my photography.

I am still in need of a large stump. If you know of one that is close to Kennewick, I will haul it myself (okay I will probably have Stephen pick it up). If it is not within driving distance I probably can't get it, unless someone wants to deliver a stump from Alaska. In that case I would buy them dinner for their efforts.

Once again thank you everyone, I really appreciate it!

Little Miss Allison

Michigan. It was such a fun summer for my kids. We spent 4 weeks playing, visiting relatives, playing, having fun, and playing. Most everything went well; the weather was perfect (cool but not too cold), having family around was a big help and we enjoyed endless afternoons of playing. Henry and Tessa got to meet cousins they have never seen before and the rest of us got reacquainted with relatives not seen for years. It was really hard to say goodbye knowing that we don't get to visit as often as we would like.

I love this picture of my niece Allison playing at "Aunt Dangle's" house. I had a hard time deciding whether or not to keep it in color. She has the most beautiful hair. I love red hair, every shade of it! Anyway I decided on black and white because I like the timeless feel of it. Kind of trying to capture that perfect summer vacation.

Enjoy!

Exciting Post

Baby as Art has posted a blog entry about the workshop that I attended. I will have to say that picture shows how I look after an entire weekend of so much good information that my head feels like it may explode! Anyway not a great picture of me but it was very exciting to see what they said about one of my shots!

I am still looking for a newborn to work with so if you know anybody please email me!

Still Having Fun

Here I am a week after the workshop and I am still having a blast with the images I took. We had the cutest little models to work with. Here are a few more images.


Enjoy!




I love the tree stump, love it so much I am currently looking for a large stump, bark or no bark. Let me know if you know anyone who wants to get rid of a tree stump!

Oh Baby!!

This past weekend I had the exciting opportunity to attend a workshop in San Diego, put on by the photographers at Baby as Art. I have been drooling over/stalking their website for the past year. What they do as photographers is inspirational to say the least. I really admire their work because it is clean and simple and the baby is clearly the focus of their art.

The workshop was great, Carrie and Britt were excellent instructors. They were both so patient with the babies and with the questions we asked. Carrie also opened up her home to us, allowing us to spend the night (and ask more questions). I learned so much from how they interact with babies and families to photoshop conversions. I really didn't want the weekend to end.

I took the following image which was styled by Carrie and Britt. I came home with the raw image and applied what I learned at the workshop. I am so excited to begin photographing newborns and using what I learned this weekend.





Right now I am looking for a newborn (5-14 days old) to work with. In exchange for letting me practice I will give the parents a CD with hopefully 10 edited files and one free 8x10 of their favorite pose. So if anyone knows of anybody who is expecting or has a newborn (5-14 days old), have them send me an email! After this final practice session I will begin charging my regular setting fee and cd's will only be available for purchase with a minimum order.

Enjoy!

Henry Walks!!

Henry has choosen to spend the majority of his life being carried around by people. Does this mean my son is {gulp} lazy? No I like to think of him as cuddly. He loves to be close to his parents and sisters, who did their fair share of carrying/dragging him around. A while back he toyed with the idea of crawling. He got pretty good and started to choose to crawl many different places. After weeks of his knees being worn on the cement and carpet, he has decided to try the walking thing out. I must say for walking all of two days he is getting pretty good, well good enough for me to miss holding him close all day long.


Henry's poor knees worn down by crawling.