The other 1/2 of her session. . .

I finally got the chance to proof the rest of Schyler's mini-session. She wanted to go to the field that I did a lot of my seniors. Of course it was full sun, but I didn't mind because it gave me a chance to work on backlighting. I still really need to get that down.


Love the little pine cones on that tree!

I love when she gives me this look, reminds me that she is still just a little girl even though she wants to be older.
So I got all the shots I wanted and now she gets to do what she wants. She pulled out the BIG ole' shades and that's what she went with. Like I said she wants to be so much older.

Finally fit her in

my favorite model finally got her day in the limelight. Schyler used to be the only one I ever got to photograph. This year I was booked all Summer and Fall shooting Seniors and I never got to have a session with her at all this year. I even went with school pictures just because I was worried we'd never get hers done.

The weather finally broke and we were able to have a mini-session. It was really cold, but we had fun. She brought a couple of outfits like the seniors do and changed but I haven't gotten those proofed yet.

So here's my favorite model with her awesome little outfit. She told me she felt out of practice because it had been so long since we got to do this LOL!

Bugs were out tonight!

Cute ones though and they weren't annoying at all! Schyler and her BFF wanted to wear the bug costumes that my girlfriend made. They came out sooooo cute! The girls got lots of comments.

We've decided when she does this she looks like the dog on "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Doesn't she?!
Look at those amazing blue eyes!

Happy Birthday to my sweet baby girl!

I'm a day late because we went to the State Fair for Schyler's birthday. Yes, my baby is growing up. She turned 10 yesterday. I felt a lot of emotion about this one. She has hit double digits and is no longer going to be attending Elementary School. I decided to get her a really loving, moving kind of card this year. I usually get her a cutesy type one but this year I wanted her to really know how I felt. I started to cry when I picked it out. When she read it, she was like aawww, mom. I'd post it but I've already got a big post for today.

For Schyler's birthday she invited 2 friends and we went to the New York State Fair. We had a great time!

First thing we saw was one of the human statues. The girls didn't believe me so I told them to walk up to it so I can get a picture. As soon as they did, he reached around them. Then started pulling there pony tails out. Everyone was laughing hysterically!

She's trying to get her hair ties back because he kept them.

All 3 of them bought new shades and sported them around for the day. I think they're a little big :O
LOVE THIS SHOT! Took Schyler a little courage to get on this one but with her buddies on each side of her she tried it out.

The girls with Schyler coming up the rear! Then BAM!
I decided to have a caricature done of Schyler for her 10th year.
This kid was pretty funny while he was drawing her.

They loved the fun houses!

POTD - 8/7/08

I fell off blogging again.

I actually have been really busy with Seniors this year which is a good thing. This last weekend was my first weekend off in a while so we went to a softball tournament. Some of DH's teammates were playing in this one. We have only been to one softball tournament prior to this one because of DH's back surgery, didn't realize how much I miss it. It poured when we first got there and then it just rained off and on. I love this shot for some reason and I loved it more with texture added to it.
I was a little disappointed that I cut his head off a little but I still like it.
If you look close, you can see the rain coming down.

POTD - 7/14/08

I finally shot in RAW!!! I've always been afraid to. . .why I don't know so I used Piper as my guinea pig. She is so good and sits right there while I take her pics.

Piper is now 5 months old and officially house trained. She is also doing very well outside and coming when called. So far I don't see any effects of what we were told about Jack Russell (Terrorists), I guess we are lucky because I have heard and seen some bad traits.

Please cc anything! I am having some serious monitor issues. . .again. I had my nephew come over and we worked on it for over 2 hours. Now I feel it's so dark I'm having troubling seeing any color issues. I keep thinking my greys look a tad pink? Oh and I know I blew her out a little, white dogs in sun is tough!



I was trying to be a little artsy here and just have her name tag in focus.

Jaeger

This is my step-son and his girlfriend's new pup. He's 3 1/2 months old and I've been begging them to bring him over so I could take some pics. I've read that it's best that the dog gets some exercise before photographing so my pup Piper and he played for a good 30-45 minutes. Well let me tell you what anyone that says a Jack Russell has a lot of energy does not know about the Dalmation! LOL! Piper (my JRT) has nothing compared to Jaeger. I took him out for some pics and he was still ready to rock n' roll LOL!

We had all we could do to get him to stay put for more than 2 seconds. Besides that as soon as we stepped outside the sun came out. . .figures. Taking pics of a white dog in full sun is not pretty. I was happy with most of the shaded areas but a few of the full sun ones weren't the best but better than nothing.




I'm so mad that I screwed this one up! I tried using ying/yang from TRA but it didn't work too well.



CC is totally appreciated!