Sneak peek of a sneak peek. More to come tonight …….. 🙂
Shoots like this are why I love love love my job. I tried to cancel it. It was windy, gloomy and stormy and I was cold and grumpy from being with my kids at a baseball game. I was done. I wanted to go home. So I called Stacey and Caron (mom) and they would have none of it. Good thing:) Even though it was windy and stormy the sun kept peeking through giving off the illusion that I had thousands of dollars worth of lights and assistants helping me, lol. Gotta love that.
I learned so much. The first being that getting a horse ready for a shoot is harder than getting four children dressed and ready. It takes a lot of work making a horse all shiny and glossy – especially after it rolls in mud that morning:) I loved watching Stacey interact with Knightly. Zero fear. Total confidence. I have to admit my heart was pounding at first – I always forget how big horses are especially when they are right in front of you and not in the stalls at the Fair:)
I love the sounds of a horse in a stable. This was the first shot out of my camera and I love it.
Did you know horses have tattoos? Not all of them – but I think the ones that race or have raced??
He also has an overbite, lol.
How sweet is this? This cutey is Alex – Stacey’s boyfriend. They met in church and he has one of the same baseball coaches as my son. Sometimes it is such a small world.
One of my favorites.
I love this family. Julia and Jason get it. Period.
Cute matching clothes that aren’t too matchy matchy. Check. Daughter in handmade dresses and piggy tails. Extra credit.
Being comfortable in front of the camera and obeying photographers every request. Check.
Rolling with it, not getting angry, chasing, swinging, running, hugging. Check.
Bribing with gummy bears. Extra credit.
I love the moments I capture with them. I truly get to take a photojournalistic approach and capture candid moments with a few posed here and there. I get to capture life and kids being kids and families being families. I love my job:)
So right about here I said “show me your toes! lift them up!” and at the exact same time they did this:
Umm please – how cute is this?
I would have the picture on the right HUGE somewhere in my house. Canvas. Get a canvas Julia. I’ll help you. Don’t listen Jason.
What makes this picture even better is that she is watching her kids play. I love that.
She is saying rhinoceros, lol.
the end
Technically in focus? No.
Emotionally in focus? Yes:)
I love this picture I took this weekend of Brynn and DaddyO playing Duck Duck Goose during her birthday party. He had the girls SQUEELING with laughter because when he was the ducker he would go around and say “duck, ferret, cow poop, monkey brains” GOOSE! They just thought that was hilarious. So every time they got to be the duckers they chose Brad because he was just so so so funny:) He got a workout – and I got to sit there taking the pictures and listen to girls belly laugh:) Heaven.
I haven’t posted in awhile. My other scrapbooky job kept me busy this week. It is Christmas time in the magazine world. So I am already over Christmas. It is funny how both Brad and I work in fields that has us up to our necks in Christmas in May.
So I was doing laundry and came across this…….
his first love letter. Her penmanship and spelling is near perfect isn’t it? So when he came home I told him that I found it – and he said “which one?”
WHICH ONE? WHICH ONE? It made my knees weak.
I just can’t believe my first born, my pumpkin head, my little boy that used to suck on one pacifier while rubbing another on the tip of his nose is making girls cry (heehee). So then I asked him if he talked to her at recess (because according to the note that would mean a “yes” that he liked her) and he said he did. Then he waited for 2 seconds and said…
“then she called me a butthole”
If I would have had any snot in my nose it would have shot out.
I told him women were crazy and that we can’t help it and that it’s a good thing he’s learning this while he’s young.
this is how I found them eating their lunch. Dane found this blow up boat and it hasn’t left his hips. It has been funny watching him run around the backyard in it:)
speaking of backyard this is what mine looks like everyday at 4:00pm. Let’s not forget there are 2 boys behind me. And then everyday around 5:30 you start hearing the honks and yells of the moms driving by (our backyard is against the main drag) trying to get them home for dinner. Makes me laugh.
by Cathy
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