Our Persisting Memories

Cindy and Blake liked their engagement pics. I like them. I thought Heather and I did a good job setting up poses and nailing the technical aspects of the photography. In hindsight, we did so with very little equipment compared to most photographers. I have a single flash, the kit lens, the lowest end DSLR sold by Nikon, a cheap VR Zoom lens, and now a stand and some umbrellas with cheap ebay radio triggers. Now they want us, and I mean Heather and I, to shoot their wedding. Not to air the personal dealings amongst family here on the website, but I have to share my own personal thoughts. People shouldn't photograph weddings for their family. I'll list a reason. If you shoot for other people you get to shoot, post process, deliver and pick out some of the best ones for your portfolio. In a normal situation you don't have to analyze those pics again after they've been shot and delivered to the client. If you shoot for family, the wedding album they make out of y...

BJ and I took wedding announcement photos for his cousin Cindy. We went to the location where they met and we were able to get some amazing shots. I had fun picking the locations and posing them while BJ set up lighting and his umbrellas. We were a really good team, and I even grabbed the camera a few times and took some awesome pictures. BJ was impressed. We have also been asked to photograph the wedding! Blake and Cindy were so pleased with the photos they found it almost impossible to pick just one. So Blake had the wonderful idea of using multiple shots for different invitations. That allowed them to use 6 shots. Here is a sample of some of the photos used. 43119|640 42999|640 42843|640 I did something a little out of the ordinary this week. On one of the days working for my mom I had to go to the post office to mail a 25lb box. It was 2pm and I had not eaten lunch and was starving and feeling sick. My plan had been to go get lunch after the mail, and I knew I needed to...

The Olympics have started!!! BJ and I have been up until midnight or so every night glued to the TV to watch the competitions. I don't think I can keep it up, but we also can't stand not watching. I hate to say we have even been neglecting and ignoring Sophia some because we are so into it. Sophia has enjoyed watching the gymnastic with us with exclaimations of "whoa" and "wow" to the flips and flying through the air. She jumped in the air and clapped for the female divers as well. ***Alicia Sacramone got robbed on the individual vault finals!!!!!!*** I have finished at least 2 of my projects that I started the couple weeks before. I finished cleaning and re-organizing the master bathroom and finished painting and decorating Phoebe's letters for her name board. It will be a couple months before I put the letters together with the material and board and will post pics then. Now onto finishing the master bedroom! I went to Enrichment Night where we...

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As BJ said I have been very busy. Been working hard at my mom's since she is (mostly) out of commission due to surgery. She is doing better and when she is in the office I realize 2 are definitely better than 1 for the job! I have also started to rearrange things in the master bedroom and organizing things better. I also put up new curtains and the room is coming together nicely, but I still have lots of work to do. Spring cleaning the master bath, re-organizing, and packing away old baby clothes. I have also been working on Phoebe's wooden name board. I love crafts and really liked the idea of having decorative name boards for the girls. Phoebe's is not quite done yet but I can't wait to post a picture of it. I feel like I have started all these projects and have only accomplished half the work. I had done a 1 year hand print and photo frame for Phoebe these past 2 weeks as well, but that actually got finished. It has also been on my mind to finally paint th...

I went to Jo Ellen's reception and took some photos for them. Normally I would just leave them in the gallery but everyone who reads our blog knows who she is anyway. Here are some highlights and a hibiscus picture just for Adrian. Portraits were taken with sb-600 and shoot through umbrella at camera left. Hibiscus pic was taken with Spencer hand holding the shoot through and flash high camera right. Post processing was done in Adobe Lightroom, D2X Mode 2 color for all pics, then ran through noise ninja in PS CS3 and then sharpened with softlight high pass and converted to sRGB. 41801|640 41639|640 42607|640

You see, our children like being held upside down. They whine for it constantly. Nana decided to oblige, but king triton was shocked... SHOCKED that we would do such a thing. 41229|640 41235|640 41241|640

I just realized she hadn't done the weekly post yet. She's been busy though. With birthday weekend, dermatology appointments for our daughter, husband going to the dentist, church stuff, and her mother out of commission due to knee surgery, she has been quite busy. I really appreciate her. I got a flash for my camera and have some lighting equipment coming in this week. I'll get to try it all out at Jo Ellen's reception. 40727|640

A friend of mine from church did this on her blog and I found it very interesting and fun. She had 2 steps to it but I think I will keep it to the first step. So here goes: 1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! I know plenty of you out there who read this website but never leave comments! So now is your chance, but keep it relatively clean and friendly ya'll!