sixty-eight degrees in the middle of february.
i’ll take this kind of weather any day.
i long to have the same creativity of a child. unhindered. confident in a brush stroke. not worried about creating. but rather just living in the moment of creating something beautiful. photographing my children takes me there.
Kodak Gold Ultramax 400.
Developed and scanned at Walgreens
Waking from afternoon naps and reading one of my all time favorite childrens book.
You are my I love you.
Film | Love
A Pink Party you say? Why yes my sweet, sweet darlin’, a Pink Party is what you shall have! This afternoon, I am so excited to share the film images from my daughters 4th birthday party. We had her birthday at a super fun and hip art studio in downtown San Mateo, called Scribble me Happy. The decor alone at this venue is full of eye candy and a photographers delight! For her birthday the owners planned a wonderful, kid-engaging, age-appropriate art activity for the children. Of course the theme was all about Pink and Purple for this sweet girl! And the cake…yep, it was inspired by a pink ombre cake that I pinned on Pinterest. It was 4 different layers of pink, with lemon curd between the layers and a light pink whipped buttercream frosting.
Pick up a camera, shoot a roll of film, and share your results with some friends. Sounds like my kind of activity. It is the last Friday of October, and it is one of my favorite projects called FILM Fridays!
These were shot on Trix-400. I rated my handheld meter at 1600, spot metered the shadows and then added one more stop. These were developed and scanned at the FIND Lab. During development I asked them to push it two stops. I love the FIND love because the peeps there give awesome customer service and feedback on the images as well. Joey at the FIND lab said I needed to work on my image consistency with changing light (i.e. when the light changes, take your meter reading again)!
FILM Fridays is shared by several photographers around the globe. Joining me this week is my friend Cara Richardson!
I’ve titled this series. “The light just finds her.” My muse.
FILM | LOVE
This is the stuff superheros are made of.
Twirling, spinning, dancing. She could do this for hours and hours. Sitting and posing for a picture is painful if she thinks that she could be standing, jumping, spinning and twirling away on our bed. This is who she is, our tiny dancer
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He has learned to read, and a whole new world is opening before his eyes. The sweetest part of this milestone is that he has decided that he wants to read a book to his sister’s preschool class. Being the goal oriented person that he is, he has set a goal of reading to her class before Christmas (Um, I have know idea where he gets his personality 
). So here he is, in a quiet place he has found. Practicing reading the book he wants to read to his sister’s class. This boy is ALL boy, and with an angels heart.
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I am excitedly awaiting the arrival of a friends sweet little baby girl and I am honored that I will get to photograph her first days home.
Summer has given its last sigh and Fall is definitely in the air. But before I will let the sun set on Summer I wanted to share some images from our annual family trip strawberry picking! Sweet sweet partings Summer 2012
Welcome back to my bimonthly Project 26 post. In this project I am privileged to participate with a group of photographers where we use our art and our eye to interpret a theme or prompt. This time, our prompt is Strength.
I thought about how to photograph this prompt and I kept coming back to a phrase, “Strength of character”. For my two lovies, they both possess strengths in their character. Each of their strengths is different, but I can see these strengths come through in the series of photos below. From my son, his strength is his determination. He won’t shy away from something if he thinks it is hard, or something he won’t be good at. Instead, he takes the “I can conquer, or I can master” attitude. He is tiresome sometimes in his determination, and there are time I have to remind him to take a break or come back to something when he is “fresh”. From my littlest, one of her character strengths is a fearlessness. She may be the youngest and the smallest of our family but she doesn’t care. She is my, “I can do it Mama”. And on this day, she did it. She climbed higher than anyone else, with little regard for the red line that your not supposed to climb past, completely fearless.
On this day, I was extremely proud of both of my little climbing powerhouses. To end, I had a funny exchange with a colleague where I recently showed him one of these images of my daughter and son scaling walls, and he immediately exclaimed…”Mama don’t let them grow up to be mountain climbers”. My response, “too late.”
Joining me this week for Strength, is my friend Hope Toliver of Hope Toliver Photography. I can’t wait to see what she has in store for us. Head on over and see for yourself.
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