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Monthly Archives: February 2010

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Impromtu Photo Shoot

For the last week, we’ve had the most bizarre weather.  It goes from being clear to snowing to raining to icing.  Yesterday morning was no exception.  We woke up to 3-4 more inches of snow to contend with and then less than an hour before having to take the girls to dance, it started snowing/icing.  So Joe offered to drive us (usually I take the girls by myself) so I took him up on it.  He took the opportunity to bring along the camera.  While I had the girls at dance, he took Nate to Keene State and took some photos.  These pics are my new favorites of Nate.  I commented on my last post that it’s so hard to get a nice natural smile out of him so I was beyond thrilled when I saw how well Joe had done!!  So all props go to him for taking these gorgeous photos!  (I did do all the post processing though! :P )

Oh and while I LOVE the new blog layout for photos (one large photo with thumbmails below), there are some instances where I’ll still be posting picture by picture.  It takes much longer to load but it’s SO worth the wait to see them all in a larger size.  So bear with the loading time…

Natural Smiles

Out of my 3 beautiful children, only one will give me a natural smile almost any time I ask for a photo. 

This child I can always count on to give me a real smile…

 

The other two…not so much.  Good lord, just look at them…

 

Ok, so maybe this one does occasionally give me a smile that’s not quite natural…

Joey’s New Toy

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been shooting with our Canon 40D for 3 or 4 years already.  We’ve taken at least 50,000-60,000 shots on it over the course of that time.  I know – it’s crazy. 

Joe’s been lusting over the Canon 5D Mark II for quite a while now.  Joe doesn’t lust after much…except new photography gear.  And in all honesty, he doesn’t get new stuff that often due to the outrageous cost.  After lots of discussion, we decided now was the time to take the plunge and purchase it.  Joe has several shoots scheduled for this year and with what he’ll make for those shoots, we’ll just about make our money back.  Sooooo, here’s our new baby…

Isn’t she a beauty?  I think we need to name her to make her part of the family.  Cam?  Canny?  Ok, maybe not.  I don’t think Joe would approve anyway. :P

 

I haven’t had a whole lot of time to play around with it but here are a few shots I took with it today with the 50mm strapped on.  I didn’t think I could love that lens even more but I was wrong.

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