Thursday, December 30, 2010

A Few Favorites

Since I haven't had time to update the ole' blog a whole lot the past couple months I have decided to just pick a few of my favorites that span what I have been doing lately. so here goes:

In the beginning of December I rented two lenses, a 100mm macro and a 11mm-16mm ultra wide angle lens, to get a feel for what I wanted to buy next. I ended up loving both of them, and buying neither.

I used the UWA lens to take pictures of the famous Star Barn, here is my favorite of those shots:

Star Barn 1 wm



And I took the Macro lens to Longwood Gardens:

rose wm



Orchids wm



Christmas Bee wm



This year something happened that had only happened two other times in history, a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice. So obviously I had to drag Garry out in the middle of the night and take pictures until 3am in the freezing cold. Here are the two composites that I am going to frame and hang b/c I was so happy with them.

Lunar Eclipse 1 wm



Lunar Eclipse 2 wm

Two of my very good friends had a baby in November and I asked them if they would allow me to take some newborn shots of the little guy. They were very nice and agreed. Turns out I am not the greatest at newborn photography. But I did luck into a few goods shots. This is my favorite:
lil steve yawning 3 wm

In October a friend of mine from high school asked me to take some photos of her brand new engagement ring. I was more than happy to oblige:
E-Ring Flower 1 wm

E-Ring Score Card 2 wm

And I took one of her puppy Jinx too. This guy was so excited I am frankly amazed I got this shot.
Jinx B&W wm

Monday, December 27, 2010

Christmas Photos

I haven't been posting too much on here because life keeps getting in the way of my hobbies. Don't you hate it when that happens? But I have been doing as much shootng as I possibly can. Over the next couple days I will update with some of the things I have been up to lately. But for now I just want to love on my Christmas photos.

I adore Christmas. Even more than the actual holiday, I love having my family all around and together. So here are some of the photos I have edited from Christmas Eve. I haven't even started on the ones from Christmas day yet, but I can gaurentee they are coming.

I am still obsessed with the warm b&w conversions, and I feel like I have been getting them down pretty well. I decided to do all of the Christmas photos in b&w because my various settings were just all over the place trying to capture the moment. b&w just seemed like the easiest way to get them to look uniform. So here is my Christmas Eve 2010:

Pops and Kolby are not amused with my constant snapping of pictures
Dad and Kolby

Big Sis Jess and her boyfriend Joe discussing something of great importance with someone
Xmas-4

Kolby wants desperately to be let into the adult room with all the breakables and the big tree
Xmas-3

Who me? I'm not trying to escape
Xmas-2

Mom giving Kolby some Nana love
Xmas

Joe giving Kolby a flying lesson
Joe and Kolby

That is all for now. I promise more posts from now on.