Happy Birthday!

Today I was so super lucky to get to photography JJ for his first birthday! JJ has overcome so many obstacles in his short little life and it's a miraculous thing that he was home in time to celebrate his first birthday with his family. His family and their experiences in the last two years of having two babies with HLH have touched so many lives, including mine. I'm thrilled to be showing this sneak peek! I hope you like these Laura.
Happy Birthday little guy!

Don't Rule Out!

Don't rule out winter for a fun outdoor portrait session!
Bright winter-wear shows up beautifully with a snowy white backdrop, and so many unique ideas and poses can be done, that can't be done any other time of year!
Besides, who's seen a kid play in snow with a frown?

| A Play With Texture |

So I haven't experimented much with textures, but I'd like to start. I don't know if this will be something customers would be interested in, but I know that I enjoy looking at it, so I'm going to keep playing with it.

This image has two textures and a frame. The textures are a rubber glove and cracked cement from Johnny's Fine Art Textures Vol. 1 That link will take you to some of his other items for sale.

I like how the cement added texture to the cloudy sky. It didn't have texture it's self, so the cement helped. I also liked how the rubber glove added to it. I added contrast to both, and I also added a blur to the rubber glove. The frame I used is a brush, and I erased the flowers it had in the middle, but I like how it darkened the corners.

This is another try at textures. I can't remember which ones I used, I think they came with my PSCS2. In the original the parents were too dark, had harsh shadows on them, but I wanted to keep them in the image. So I was hoping the textures would help bring out the little girl, and have your eyes drawn to her, while keeping the parents as a presence in the image.

| Cuties |

These are my neighbors little boys. They are so cute. Duky and Supha. I know their names because one day they wrote them all over my driveway in sidewalk chalk. They love to play H-O-R-S-E with me and my oldest son. We have to often call them to come back and finish playing because we will get 8 of us playing and they lost interest in between their turns, but they won't give up! They like to try my tricky shots that I do.... left handed, eyes closed, over the head..... or bounced off of the ground into the hoop.... or backwards over the head shots. I like to make it interesting.




They have some awesome bikes.