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FacebookGreen eyes, great light
Sometimes when things go wrong, it can actually make them go really, really right. For these pictures, I'd planned to meet up with Amanda an hour earlier in the day, and we were going to go downtown to my favorite spot with some balloons. However, I got stuck at a horse show, and by the time I got out of there, →
Full of light
'Tis the season for senior pictures, so y'all are going to see a few of those in the next week. :-) Let me just say how much fun I had taking these. Taisa is at once quiet and effervescent, and I feel like I managed to catch her being both, and I love the results. In fact, I could only bear →
Yaay summertime!!
Ok, so it's not summer quite yet. I still have three more weeks of work (two with students, and one to get everything on my to-do list done that hasn't gotten done in the past few months.) But I'm done with grad school until August, and I feel so infinitely more relaxed already. It's not that it's that difficult, it →
Soaking in the color
I think I set a record with these pics for the shortest it's ever taken me to post-process a session. Ok, I kind of lied... I'm not done with the session. But it's the fastest I've ever pulled out this many, anyway. On Saturday after work, I took some pictures of my coworker Kim's (of Yep They Are All Mine fame) →
Hey Blue Eyes
Last week during spring break, I had three photo shoots of babies I've photographed before -- one is now 6 months, one is a year, and one is 18 months. It's a nice age spread, and while I've mentioned this before in past posts, it's just SUCH a kick to get to see them get older and look at how →
That new baby smell
This is the longest break I've taken from blogging since I got back from my trip this past summer and jumped into the school year and grad school and was frankly, too depressed about being back from my trip to blog. That was weird -- I've heard of people getting post-vacation depression, but it'd never happened to me because I →
It’s funny how one thing leads to another
Disclaimer: Today's pictures aren't mine. Read on for why. :-) When I sold Moose almost six years ago, I would have never in a million years dreamed that I'd own him once again. (If you missed that part of the story, go here for the details.) But somehow, through the grace of God and random twists of fate, I do, and →
Redhead
I'm really, REALLY behind on post-processing right now. I don't actually do that much to the pictures I take. I shoot in RAW, and then I dump them in Canon Digital Photo Pro (yeah, I really need to switch to Lightroom -- figuring that out is on my list for this summer) and tweak mostly for white balance and sometimes contrast →
February 10 on 10: Macro lens edition
10 on 10: A photo taken every hour, for ten consecutive hours, on the tenth of the month. ~~~ For this month's 10 on 10, I opted to bust out the 100mm macro lens, since I just couldn't stomach the idea of trying to make my work day photographically interesting yet again. "Here's me with a student. Here's me working on a →
A Mooseless Tuesday
I don't get to see my pony boy today. Between a cold, a fever, and a thousand dollars worth of car repairs (remember the window incident? that's part of it) I'm housebound today. I wish I could relish the day as a chance to relax, but I feel too lousy to really feel like it's a day off. Bleh. Oh!!! Before →
…and your little dog, too!!
It's after 1:30 AM, I'm tired, I have a ton of pics still to proof from various other things, and my internet is behaving in a manner that's causing me to use obscene gestures in the direction of my router (I haven't taken a picture to add to this set yet, but I'm rapidly moving in that direction), so this →
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
Just like last year, a veterinarian friend of mine is holding a 12 Days of Petmas roundup on her blog, and just like last year, I threw my hat in the ring to participate (you may or may not remember my post with my cat eating the Christmas tree ornament.) This year, I went for the first day of Christmas, →
Making hay while the sun shines
I like the rain. I really do, honest. I don't like it enough to, say, move to Washington (sorry Mom!) but I do like it. That said, when it's nice and sunny during the week but picks the weekends to rain, I start to get a bit grumpy. There are only so many hours of daylight, and if it's going →
Know what’s neat?
A friend of mine who is a children's photographer has remarked many times about just how awesome it is to take pictures for the same families year after year, and get to watch through her lens as the kids grow each year. I haven't been doing this nearly as long as she has, but I've already gotten to see a →
Yesterday was a beautiful day for some portraits!
Yesterday afternoon I hopped on my bike and headed down to Old Sacramento to take some pictures of my coworker Mila and her family. You may remember (well, probably not, but I had to say it) that I took a few pictures of Mila and her daughter last month, but it was just two of them, and it wasn't anything →
Baby smooches
Yesterday at work, one of my coworkers who is out on maternity leave stopped by with her six-week-old son to say hi to everyone. I happened to have my camera with me (I've gotten into the habit lately of dragging it just about everywhere with me) so I popped upstairs to where she was chatting with some people to snap →
Midday coffee break
Ok, so I don't actually drink coffee (except for the occasional frappucino, but I don't think those really qualify as coffee) and I don't usually take a midday break, but yesterday I made an exception. I had a small project to do at work that involved my camera (more on that in another post) so I'd already had it with →
Hurrying through the last of the summer
I have a bit of a confession to make. I've been back to work for over a month now, and while part of me is enjoying the routine chaos that is my job, the other part of me still wants to be footloose and fancy-free, traveling Europe with my backpack and rail pass. To be perfectly frank, I have not →
Senior picture time
I do intend to finish my trip journal at some point... and I also plan to get through my trip pics... somehow. All 36 GB of them. I will. Honest. Anyway, in the meantime, I had the privilege last Saturday of going down to Old Sac to meet up with a former student (he's attending a different school for his senior →
We interrupt these trip pictures to bring you a magazine cover!
Back in May, I got my first paid photography job -- photographing some San Francisco-related things for a cover and the cover story for the magazine The Bourbon Review. Go me! Here's a link to the article (opens a PDF)--the pictures on pages 1, 4, and 6 are mine, as is the shoreline one on page 5. SWEET!! Many thanks →
"…Her eyes as clear as centuries/ Her silky hair was brown…"
My post title is from a Paul Simon song that I've liked for years... it somehow seemed to fit for my coworker's lovely daughter, whom I was privileged to be able to take pictures of a couple of weeks ago. Kristin, she's beautiful. :-) . . . .
So many good pictures that I don’t even know where to begin
Here are the last of the pictures from Thursday's photo shoot -- the full gallery is here. I love all of these pictures. Thanks again for letting me take them, Holly! :-) .