obvious halloween title.

So, this year, knowing I would be way too tired to attempt anything so silly as making the kids' costumes, I put it off until last week.

Fortunately, Anna wanted to be a ballerina... the only thing I purchased were the shoes.
Miles, on the other hand. Well, the kid is just so stinking silly. So, he needed an equally silly costume. Thank you Target.
And yes, I'm definitely sending this over to Amy Karol.

And finally, Abbie. She was influenced by her dad. And therefore, he was put in charge of her costume. I wish I was kidding when I tell you he worked on the shell for 6 hours. But it could have been longer. I believe he intends to do a blog post about it (when he emerges from crunch time).

P.S. I did make the hat... but not for this costume. For Matt.

Revamp.

Over the next couple of months, I'll hopefully be totally revamping my site. Making it a little softer, a little sweeter, possibly adding music and some other fun changes.

One thing that's not changing: my pricing. Isn't that good news?

And in the meantime, I've added a slew of new images to my site. Most are from new sessions, but a bunch are new images from older sessions that I've rediscovered and fallen in love with all over again. Go check it out. See if you can find you, or your kids!
(If you can't, it's not because I don't love you! And I'll be adding more! So keep an eye out!)
I've also added a new gallery for Interactions. Basically, my favorite part of my sessions are when I get to capture real emotion... and most often, that happens when the people I'm photographing aren't really paying attention to me.

I'll also be adding a fun gallery called Products. I have a bunch of wonderful products that I offer that I think people have a hard time wrapping their minds around. So, I'll be showing off some pictures of canvases, storyboards, and some mini albums. Some other great stuff too.

In closing, fun stuff going on the website. Go check it out!

Jealous.

My best friend, Melinda, had her baby girl today.

I hope you know what that means.

Isn't she just the cutest thing? She's about 7 hours old here.

PS Magic! Episode 1.

I make no secrets about the fact that I use photoshop on every single picture I take. Well, the ones my clients see. Now generally, they just need a tiny bit of tweaking to make the colors pop or to get rid of some pesky scrapes or something. But today I thought I'd show you some simple fun from Photoshop.

I had left my camera in Aperture Priority mode, which means that the camera makes most of the decisions for you (it was a lazy afternoon). Sometimes, that works well, but often it doesn't. Here is the picture as it came straight out of my camera.
So, while this picture is cute, it's very dark. Literally 3 minutes in Photoshop and now... voila!

Now, that's much better. And cuter.

If you'd like to see more posts like this... let me know! I think it's fascinating, the fun you can have in PS.

Getting a bit rowdy!

As mentioned in my last post, I had a photoshoot with 5 kids who were 4 and under. All the Grandchildren of one wonderful woman. I am sure they keep her young! I sure needed a nap after this!







You'll have to click on this last one... it's getting cut off and I have no good solutions to fix it.