Another session at my studio outdoors. Â Loved this family….you could just tell how close knit they were together, and getting them all in the hammock was a blast!
Monthly Archives: August 2008
This sweetheart gave me so many wonderful expressions. Â I could have photographed her all day long. Â I swear I photograph the most beautiful babies!!
Whew! Â Can you believe we completed this whirlwind session in just 30 minutes? Â I can’t either. Â LOL! Â He was so good for me!
This was the first summer in years that I gave my family more of my time than I did to my business. Â Still busy as ever with sessions of all sorts, I seem to have found more of a balance (it helped that I changed business hours officially) to accommodate my family better. Â Â
Anyway, one of the undertakings we did as a family this summer was to start raising chickens. Â There is nothing as tasty as a fresh egg newly laid. Â And while we just got our first egg (after a month of waiting), we’ve had so much fun with our hens. Â They have such distinct personalities (we have 4 different breeds). Â Our Buff Opingtons are friendly and almost pet-like, along with one of the Plymouth Barred Rocks. Â Â The others are more skiddish, and our Aracaunas (they lay blue/green tinged eggs) are downright flighty and want nothing to do with us. Â Its been a joy to include a flock of hens in our daily lives.
And while I’ve always had a small garden (pic of this year’s tiny garden), this is the year we finally put into place a massive plan to expand our garden to take up a large portion of our back yard (I’m hoping to incorporate it into portraits with antiques and garden art). Â We’ll be putting in 12 4×8 raised beds along with composters (gotta do something with all that chicken pooh!), raspberries and blueberries for next year. Â I attached a pic of the lumber for our future garden.
So that’s our plan for Labor Day Weekend–assembling raised bed, after raised bed. Â And filling them with garden soil (all 12 yards of it!!!!!).
School starts on Sepetember 3rd, and I’ll finally be able to devote myself back to business.
But I have to say….its been a wonderful summer!
I have always thought that the age 3 months is the hardest to photograph because babies this age aren’t little like a newborn any longer but are not yet able to sit up, or often even hold up their heads yet, when on their bellies. Â But this little guy proved me wrong. Â He was so easy going and fun to photograph….I should have known. Â He was just like his older brother who I photographed last year as a 3 month old (last photo).
I think this is one of the prettiest parks in the Olympia/Tumwater area, and I love taking families down to the big rocks for a portrait session. Here’s what we got this hot, bright sunny summer evening.
And then we hopped in the car and headed down to Tumwater Historical Park right down the road and patiently waited our turn for this pretty spot.
It’s always been my approach that families are best photographed in their homes, or on their own property, or a beautiful location, other than in the studio. So when I got the phone call to photograph this beautiful family, I jumped at the chance to photograph them at their house. Isn’t their view just lovely?
Well actually its a antique dough bowl, and I’ve been searching high and low for about a year to find one just to put a baby in it. Eureka! I scored a few weeks ago at an antique store, and then this weekend I found an even bigger one (the perfect one I’ve been looking for) with handles. I can’t wait to use it too.
It’s been quite busy around here, with vacation and lots of babies to photograph, etc. etc. Here’s a newborn session that I loved! (Well I love them all, but this little guy was so awake and so sweet…) Its often a challenge to get great eye contact from newborns since they can’t focus their eyes at this point, but this newborn had it all figured out.
