Week 31 WELCOME HOME

My two young friends just returned home from a two week missions trip in India.

Week 29

"Always take a picture with someone in it." How many times did I hear that growing up? Growing up in an age of film and film processing my mom always warned us before we went out with our camera to always have someone in the picture. I wish I had heeded her advice when years later our pictures from our trip to Yosemite were 75% squirrels, 10% mountains and water falls, 5% trees and 5% of my family members. 

And than the miracle of digital photography....AAAhhhhhh....do you see the clouds parting? I don't have to repeat my mom's wise words to my daughter when she snaps 500 pictures of our dogs. I do however find myself telling her to stop eating up my hard drive with said pictures and learn to delete =)

My son plays basketball and last year ordered some pretty cool sic shoes. He kept asking me to take pictures of his shoes. I took plenty of him during the season and tried to get some close ups of his shoes while he was on the court but do you know how hard that is since he is a forward and sprints from one side to the other for the whole game? So I decided one morning to do a photoshoot of his shoes. Sorry mom, it's only the shoes, they are the "someone" in the picture.

       

Week 26

There is no better way to kick off the summer than surrounded by good friends and music.

My friends are taking a missions trip to Haiti. They held a benefit concert under the stars to help buy the instruments they will use for the music camp and then donate to  the 100 orphans.  The evening was so much fun (despite being 100 degrees at 8pm) good music, yummy goodies at the bake sale, beautiful jewelry, artwork, and corn hole.

Lighting was challenging to say the least. I don't have a prime lens so I had to make due. The string of lights around the stage were the only source of light, besides the moon and another string behind me over the baked goods and art.

Week 20, Sweet Shot and Tones on Tuesday,

My friends, the Hunts , organized an open mic night at a local coffee shop to help raise money for their mission trip to Haiti.  http://huntsforhaiti.wordpress.com/

Tones on Tuesday

I took a photography class this weekend. I loved learning about off camera lighting. This is one of the photos I took during the class and decided to change to black and white.

Tones on Tuesday

My son's baptism

Puppy Love

This past Sunday my daughter and I stated volunteer work for our local Humane Society. We will be taking pictures at events and adoption days.  This pooch was up for adoption. A very sweet male pitbull. He was shy and reserved to most potential adopters pushing into his handlers legs. And then she came. It was love at first sight. You could feel the bond between them. He no longer sought the comfort of his handler but was at ease resting in her arms. 

Sweet Shot Tuesday/Tones on Tuesday

Our friend JJ