{Beach days}

I love this weather.

More B&W conversions

{C in black and white and vintage BW}

Sneak Peek {B family}

My friend Jenni has graciously allowed me to practice my new found hobby on her and her very handsome boys. They were so good at letting me take their pictures. I have plenty more pictures to post but I am not done processing them yet. I wanted to give the B family a little sneak peek at some of the great shots we got today. Thank you Jenni!

I really liked this last one because of the way baby B was looking right at the camera while everyone else was looking elsewhere. Candid shots are awesome!

{measuring up}

I really like converting black and whites but leaving some color. It really draws your attention towards the point of focus. I have another session coming up next week with a friend of mine. Her boys are so cute, I can't wait to take some pictures. I am getting excited about building a portfolio with these pictures. I hope I can start "measuring up" to the pros out there. Maybe one day I will!

Sneak Peek {Moon Maternity}

This was my first practice session. My sister at 37 weeks has allowed me to practice taking and processing maternity pictures. She is beautiful and really helped make this session what is was. There is plenty more to come, but since blogger will only let me post five at a time, you will have to wait to see the rest. I can't wait to take newborn pictures when little "boy" moon arrives in about 3 weeks or less.

{Sarah's camera}

Sarah's birthday is coming up on Wednesday, she turns 9. She has been very interested in taking pictures since I've had my camera in hand more and more these days so we figured she was old enough to have a camera of her very own. We couldn't wait to give it to her on her birthday so she got it early and has been practicing with me. I took this picture of her and she took the one below of me at the same time, and I have to say that I think she is pretty good already. Of course I might be alittle biased too, but check out her camera angle on this shot! Happy early birthday Sarah!

{flowers}

{bubbles}

{Playing with textures}

You might have to click to enlarge to see the texture better. Once again Grace, my easiest model.

{the hat}

Dan bought me this hat and it totally rocks. I love sun hats and have always wanted one. Right away Grace got her cowgirl boots on and did some posing with my awesome hat.

{morning dew}

I took a bunch of pictures yesterday of the kids eating apples and posing but I forgot to reset the ISO. It was on 1600 because I had been practicing taking pictures in low light the day before. Needless to say they didn't turn out so well. They were all grainy looking. Lesson learned: Check all settings before taking any pictures. I know it was a real ameture thing to do, but hey I am an ameture.

{mood}

This is Adam's usual mood when he turns to find me with the camera pointed in his direction! That is the reason there will probably be more pictures of Sarah, Grace and Ben then there will be of Adam and Jack. Although Jack did do some posing for me yesterday while eating his apple. I'll post those alittle later. You can't see the texture or filter too well on this pic unless you click to enlarge. Also, check out the new watermark I made. It's my initials!!