Day 236: April 28, 2012

The Momtographers photography group I participate in had a maternity session at the local park for a friend of mine who is pregnant with baby #4.  We had a great time and I got completely soaked and in the end this is my favorite of the morning.

Day 231: April 23, 2012

Took a trip down to the field with the intention of getting a shot of Ethan I like for a canvas.  I got a lot I like but haven't convinced David on any of them yet!  This is one of the first I took once we got there.

Day 227: April 19, 2012

My 50mm stopped focusing a few weeks ago and got sent into Canon for repair.  I was a little lost without my favorite lens, so I was ecstatic when it was delivered fixed and good as new!  Of course the only person home at the time was David and he was glued to the Xbox...

Day 221: April 13, 2012

Took the kids with me location scouting for a session this weekend.  We checked out a few of our favorite spots in the city park to see what they look like at the moment and found lots of promising spots.  Grace remembered this fence from last summer and insisted I take her photo next to it.

Day 210: April 2, 2012

I took Ethan out for a quick impromptu photo session with the goal of getting a photo of him to put on a canvas.  He was already wearing this shirt and the sunlight was begging us to enjoy it so we left dinner warming in the oven and scooted to our field for ten minutes.  I like this outtake of him playing with his buttons.

Day 195: March 18, 2012

We celebrated my Mom's birthday with cedar plank salmon and brownies a la mode.  Happy Birthday Mom!

Day 186: March 9, 2012

I finally got the chance to take my new 135L out to play this evening, and what a gorgeous evening it was!  I bribed the kids with McDonalds to get them to semi-cooperate with me to stand in the spot I ask and face my general direction.  I like all the photos I took (there are a lot!) but this one is different because it shows Ethan's serious side which he doesn't often show for the camera.  He's my smiley guy, but I love to capture all sides of my sweet boy!

Day 185: March 8, 2012

I had the pleasure of photographing a baby boy this morning in some gorgeous natural light!  His older brother was one of my first newborn sessions and it was fun to see how similar they look.  I can't think of a better way to spend the morning then photographing a newborn!

Day 178: March 1, 2012

I'm trying to practice with my 85mm a little more often and I talked Grace into standing outside for 2 minutes to let me get a few photos.  She's such a girly girl she had to spend 5 minutes doing her hair before she'd agree to it!

Day 150: February 2, 2012

Grace agreed to stand still for me to practice with my 85mm lens (not usually ideal for wiggly children!) but only if she didn't have to put on shoes. So here she is standing on the edge of the patio in her socks!

Day 144: January 27, 2012

Ethan let me snap a few quick photos of him before we headed to a friend's house this morning.  We were outside for about 60 seconds because it was COLD!

Day 134: January 17, 2012

David dinking around on the laptop.

Day 132: January 15, 2012

Grace playing in the snow!

Day 131: January 14, 2012

Grace playing outside in her adorable pea coat.

Day 104: December 18, 2011

We celebrated Christmas with my Mom today at her house.  I took some candids as we were opening gifts and this one is my favorite, Mom always has the best gift opening expressions!

Day 90: December 4, 2011

All the location scouting a few days ago paid off since I went back to the same location as the bored photo of Ethan for this cutie's session.  So adorable!

Day 84: November 28, 2011

Took the kids to the field behind our house for some photos for fun today.  When we left the house the sun was out, but by the time we scooted on the scooters around the block the clouds were back.  Ah well, it worked.  I love this photo of Ethan with his crazy hair!

Day 46: October 21, 2011

The Momtographer group I belong to had a chance to practice photographing a senior girl which was a lot of fun.  I've only had the chance to photograph a few seniors but I really enjoy it...mostly having a single subject that does exactly what is asked of them.  So fabulous!

Day 44: October 19, 2011

Baby M is my childhood best friend's newest baby girl.  My friend drove down from Portland for little M's newborn photos and I had a lot of fun playing with this sweet baby girl!

Day 42: October 17, 2011

David asked me to take some photos of him with my studio setup in the garage.  He usually avoids my camera like the plague so I gladly jumped on the chance to photograph my handsome hubby!