Immagination

Yesterday I spent the day with one of my best friends and favorite model, Hope. When I have the opportunity of photographing her, I take the chance and I run with it. She is not scared of getting dirty and she lets her imagination run wild.

Hope is very charismatic and it catches like a wild fire. This is why she and I have so much fun on our photo shoots. She is not shy in front of the camera; in fact, I think she becomes herself, more than she can when the camera is not on her.

Without further adieu, here she is …

Freezing Time

My son is four and I knew he was going to be starting Pre-K but I did not know how quickly it would creep up on me. To hold this memory and freeze it in time forever, I planned a photo shoot with him. It was VERY hot outside, but he did well and did not complain; which was a first! He is now 42” and he uses every bit of it to flirt everywhere he goes.

Can you resist these eyes?

Art in it's simplest form

Art is expressive and it brings different walks of life together.

It has been, and always will be, my favorite thing about being an individual.

Take for instance, the innocence of a child and what they expect from art.

They don't want it to be perfect, they want it to be colorful. To a child, perfect is colorful.

My son and I love to do several things that have to do with art.

Painting is our new found art.

Just knowing that my son is happy with the outcome of his project, makes me proud.

He's truely opening my eyes to the beautiful world that has been in front of me this whole time.

I love him with everything in me.

Engagements are a beautiful thing

My friend Hope and her fiance Matt, became engaged on January 22, 2010. I was honored to be be asked to take their engagement pictures. This session was so beautiful that there are no words to describe it. There is only pictures that are filled with love.

Congratulations and I love you both!

Developers will test your patience

Today was such a beautiful day, so I decided it would be a great idea to take my son to the park. One of my friends, Kodi; who I mentioned in an earlier post, has 3 girls. So I decided to send her a text so see what she was doing and if she wanted to go to the park.

When I got a hold of her, she let me know that SHE was on the way to the park. Well La-Ti-Da! Look what we have here =). Excited, we meet up and of course, I brought my camera. Here I was, thrilled that there are 7 of us and I know that I will get some great photo's in today. Little did I know, there was something preventing my happiness to come.

We were at the park for about 3 hours and we all decided to pack it up and head our separate ways. Not to mention, it was getting to be dinner time (I love the time change). Christian, my son, and I went to drop off my film and when I picked it up, not only did it develop blue, but in most pictures, there was a light orange line running down.

-Sigh- Of course, a beautiful day and no pictures am I able to use. So, for giggles, here are the pictures that weren't SO bad =).

This one, I shot earlier in the day. This is the entrance to the alley where I took Hopes pictures, the week before.

The next two shots are of the park that is next to the one we went to. They have been tearing down all of the trees in this park, so there's not much else you can see besides cement. I wanted to get at least these pictures, before this stream and the few trees that are left, become non-existent.

Here are the very few pictures that I was able to get of the kids today.