Lollipops!!

So I have always wanted to do some shots of my kids with those big lollipops! Well I found a great candy store that sells them for cheap and so I picked some up and off we went with my friend to get some pictures of them with their lollipops! I think they turned out fairly well! Of course they are my kids so I am partial to them but I wanted to show everyone in case they wanted to do something similar. Most of these were taken in Old Town which had some great backdrops for us to use!

Its been awhile!

Its been awhile since I have posted. I think life has finally got back on track around here. We had a scare that we may not be in the Navy anymore and it was stressing me out like crazy! Plus we had family and friends around (which is nice) but you know takes away from daily life...you do more things when they are around than you do when your by yourself. So now everything is fixed and we are starting to relax. I did do some shots when my friend was out and we had a blast. I also used the timer to catch myself in them! Here are some! I am hoping to get out and do some more shoots, maybe some family shoots would be in order!! Any takers???

Family of 6!

I got an opportunity last weekend to capture a great family on film! They were a family of 6! They were a combined family of Mom and her two boys and Dad and his girl and boy! They were so great, you would have never guessed they had never been brought up together from day one. All the kids loved each other, they were all well behaved through the shoot. The little girl was such the photogenic one and helping us come up with ideas on places to shoot. We shot in the cloudy day but it seems that the photos turned out well. I am semi-happy with the shoot, yet I am a perfectionist so I am not sure I will ever be perfectly happy with a shoot! I hope they enjoy their photos and maybe will get an opportunity to shoot them again!!

Brother's Army Graduation

We went to Kentucky at the end of April to see my brother final decide to go through Army bootcamp and made it!! Woot!! We were all so proud of him and saw him group up a little in those gruling weeks in bootcamp, yet he was still the same silly brother I always had. We decided to do a photo shoot while we were in the beautiful Kentucky country and this is what I got! Congratulations broother! I love you!

First Family Shoot

I was blessed to be able to shoot a wonderful family of 4. I finally finished post processing my photos late last night and I am not super happy with them. I think the sun was too harsh and there is too much shadowing. Plus it was really warm this day so I think that there is some effects from that. It was busy at the beach so it was kind of, well wherever we found a spot that was clear. I will post some pics that I will admit myself to taking but I feel really bad. I never realized the sun went down so late. This was between 4:30 and 5pm and the sun was still so high up and so harsh! I feel horrible for this wonderful family that their pictures were not the best I could offer them. It was my first real shoot at the beach and my first family shoot so I guess it is not allowed to be perfect. I hope that I will get another opportunity to shoot this family this summer possibly later in the evening or a different location where there is some open shade. Thank you though for allowing me to photograph your family!

Updates of the Kiddos!

We went out on a whim the other day just across the street after doing a bit of grocery shopping. We didn't spend too much time out there and the boy was not very cooperative!

Best Friends

I thought I would share this photo because these are my two kids with their very best friends, "A" and "P". "A" and "P" are on vacation with their mommy to see their family on the other side of the world!! Haha practically they are. Right now my girl is having "P" withdrawls and my boy doesn't seem to interact with any other kids his age like he does with "A". This was taken the day before they left and I think I am going to have it framed for the kids' room...even though my boy isn't looking at the camera!