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

brotherly love

This is another spontaneous shot.  I’m so glad I had my camera handy!

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

captured moment

I was making lunch when I heard Z saying, “Hiiiiiiii Mei-mei!”  I poked my head into the play room to see what was going on and witnessed this little exchange.  I grabbed my camera but didn’t have enough time to adjust the ISO or other settings, and this is the only picture I was able to capture before Z got up.