Color and water

I have a little boy who would spend the entire day watering various things with the garden hose if he could, and a little girl who looks good in every color of the rainbow...even all at the same time. So of course, I take pictures.

Light and movement

I've been playing around a bit with light, trying to find interesting ways to use the somewhat challenging natural light in my house. There are only so many times I can convince the kids to hang out in the front corner of the living room, between 10:00 – 10:25 AM, and look up while I climb up on the bench to take pictures. That may get me the best light in the house, but it’s not exactly natural-looking. Nor does it capture the unique moments that make up our days.

As far as movement goes, my Little Miss is the one who is playing around with that. Lately she's been more interested in moving up, so every time I turn around, I find her reaching for something or pulling herself to her knees and trying to get her feet under her. And then I very gently and lovingly push her back onto her bottom, because I am not ready for full mobility.

A large part of why I’m not ready for full mobility is that my son is normally a blur of action. I really love that I managed to catch him in a moment of no movement, watching for the garbage truck through the window in the play room with his beloved Blue near at hand.

Favorite things

My two favorite things doing their two favorite things:  talking on the phone and cruising around the house.

Baby Blues

I once joked to a good friend that she was the last blue-eyed person I was going to befriend because I was tired of having to fix the red-eye in all of my photos. This was when I was taking most of my pictures with a point-n-shoot digital camera and using the built-in flash (ack!). 

Since then, not only have I made a few more blue-eyed friends, but I've had a blue-eyed baby of my very own!  But luckily, I've also upgraded my camera and learned to avoid using that terrible flash.  Now that I don't have to worry about red-eye, I have so much fun capturing those baby blues in my photographs.  Isn’t she just a doll?

bonnet

Ridiculously adorable bonnet from Urban Baby Bonnet

teeth

siblings

easter dress

Yes, this a highly processed image.  I generally don’t do a lot of post-processing on my photographs.  However, I will tweak a photo if I really like it, but it needs a lot of work before it’s ready for prime time.  That usually happens when I’m just starting to shoot and I don’t have my settings quite right, so several photos are over/under-exposed or blurry.  It also happens because one of my usual subjects is a very active 2.5 year old who doesn’t fully appreciate the difficulty of taking pictures of a moving target in a dark house painted in deep, warm, and light-sucking hues such as terracotta, marigold, and midnight blue.  So if you see an obviously processed image on my site, you can safely assume that I messed something up when shooting and tried to salvage it using the magic of Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop!

tooth

It’s a little easier to see now (on the bottom)

mid-sentence

loyalty

 

sweet potato

new tooth

You can just barely see it poking through on the bottom

resting

daddy’s girl

rosebud

all the colors of the rainbow

I don’t think I could get another color in this picture if I tried…

gaze

sit-up

 

Look who’s sitting up!

story time