Oh wait, it's not Superman, it's Batman! Happy New Year's Eve all! We had a great night with friends playing Wii and over indulging! Here's to a fantastic 2010!
Amy and I attempted to take some pictures of her friend Carisa's kids - Ty and Gavin. Ty was hamming it up, but Gavin was not so interested. I did get a few interesting shots that were a bit less traditional. I used a vintage grayscale on this one.
Amy and I took the kids to the Metro Park today. We thought it would be a great day to set some pic's of both kids... but Elise had other thoughts. This is one of the very few shots she let me take from afar. A few short minutes later she was yelling at me "buh BYE, buh BYE" making it clear that she wanted the camera go to away! Of course I had no intentions of letting a 2-year old tell me what to do - so I kept taking them anyhow! I used an aged Lightroom preset on this pic.
Day 2 in Ohio and it got late before I got a picture in. I just loved Beckett's socks - the challenge was getting him to stop kicking! I was only somewhat successful as it's a bit blurry from his moving!
Flying kites in the park today! This was a running start to get the kite in the air! It photo is a tad overexposed for my taste, but it was a really bright late afternoon. I did not do any post processing on this one.
I had the Bauman Family over today. Derek and Danielle had fun playing for the camera! I liked this one of Danielle jumping through the air!
My apologies for not posting in over 2 weeks. I have been taking pictures each day but have also been trying to organize all my photos on my computer and uploading new pic's while in the middle of that process can be a bit difficult! So here comes a bunch! Ray, Connor and I were playing fort in the front yard. The grass made it more challenging for them to stand up - but it was still fun!
Playing a little ball before dinner - camo glove, neon ball and a superman shirt - what else do you need??!!
We had an absolutely beautiful Friday night. Splashing, dinner with friends and then ice cream. AND we learned that safety comes first - and manners come second! OK - some of us knew this already...
Today was our photo shoot with both kids - and my last day visiting
:-( Beckett slept the whole time, which was to our benefit, and Elise was a very good big sister! We ended up with some great shots of the two of them as well as some fun pictures of Elise by herself. These are two of my favorites!
Today we had a fun photo shoot for Beckett's newborn pictures. We probably took about 500 pictures in the process - but heck why not? He slept the whole time, but that was probably good, because a moving baby can make pictures a bit difficult. These are just two of my favorites!
Cute kid alert.... we had some fun in the mall after dinner tonight. Jump land had a weekday special for $5 as long as you wanted to play - so Elise and I played hard! This pic was taken on auto mode and had some red eye issues - but Amy and I teamed up and she corrected it! We both loved the look on her face here. This was taken after she would slide head first down that side and then crawl back over and do it again!
Well I made it to Ohio (very rainy, foggy, yucky drive) and got to take some pictures of my little peanut! Love his little feet kicking in the background! Cute Baby Warning - he may be the subject of the next few days photos - well either him or his big sister!
My goal for Day 4 started out trying to capture a mid-air jump, but the lighting outside combined with a subject that was only interested in jumping about 4 times quickly changed my direction! Instead I ended up with a series of fun "mid-action" running and playing shots. I narrowed them down to about 4 favorites and this one won. If you look closely you can see 2 feet, 2 hands (with gardening gloves) and a football!
