A few from the beach today

A black and white of Chloe

More to come...

Chloe turned one!

Well, I guess this has become more of a weekly blog. We were gone all weekend again so I've just constantly been playing catch up this week. My little Chloe turned one year old on the 25th! Happy birthday, sweet baby!!!

Wow, sorry I'm a week behind!

How do the days keep flying by so fast??? Here are some from the past week. Sorry I got so behind again. Such is life, I guess.
Here are a few from today. I have others to post but I'll have to do it tomorrow sometime. I will though, I promise! :-)

First is a picture of Cassidy that I just love. I'm going to work on converting this to black and white, but I also love the color. This may be one I get a canvas of.


And a couple of Cassidy holding flowers. I was just trying something different for myself. I hate that part of her white dress is so blown out behind the flower. I need to work on exposing properly when photographing white clothing!



I don't normally do the selective color thing, but I wanted to accentuate the bright pink of this flower. I ran a black & color action on it and thought it was sort of cool. I'll probably play with it some more, but I thought I'd share what I had so far.


More to come...

Found some good light today

My house is a cave, but my parents have lots of lovely windows. I found some nice light in my sister's room today and snapped some shots of my niece Haylie. Isn't she beautiful?

My Butterfly Girl

We went away for the weekend again and I've been playing catch up all week. Here are a few pictures of Cassidy after she got her face painted at a craft show. She was absolutely amazed when she looked in the mirror. I will always remember how huge her eyes got and the look on her face when she saw herself painted like a butterfly. She looked so beautiful!

So I guess I'm not doing that great with this "every day" thing.

But I'm not going to beat myself up. Cassidy is sick AGAIN and there's just been a lot going on lately. I don't have a problem taking pictures every day, but I don't get much uninterupted time to sit down and resize, edit, and post them. I will do my best to keep up, but I'm going to fight the urge I have to get all irritated with myself for missing a few days here and there. Anyway, here are a few from the past couple days. The first one is this week's assignment to photograph something you've never photographed before. Oh, and it's also another "circle"! The others are just Chloe.



I was practicing focus and exposure while she was confined to the highchair. This is about as "tack" sharp as I've gotten and I *think* my exposure was right on too. This needed very little post processing. It is so much easier to get sharp pics when the subject isn't moving around like a maniac!



We were outside and Chloe just wanted to crawl towards me.



Did I mention before that my baby is now a full fledged toddler??? She walks all over the place now. I'm not ready! Here's a shot of her toddling.