some more silly smiles...

More from my new favorite park...

addicted to the color pop!

I've picked up 2 new color pop techniques recently, so I went out in search of beautiful colors to exaggerate!

First is quite possibly my favorite picture of my son (this week):

Just look at all the colors reflecting in the water:

Love this silly grin:

Don't worry, I still love black & white...

The A Family

I had a lot of fun photographing some friends from church on Sunday. The kids were so cooperative. I thought it would be difficult capturing 4 smiling faces at once, but it worked!

Stacy & Bill

I had the opportunity this weekend to photograph our good friends Stacy & Bill, such a lovely couple...

more self potraits

bored? perfect your self-portrait skills!

The Christmas card photos in the post below were quite frustrating. Not just because my 3 year old wasn't cooperating, but because it's just hard to compose a photo from in front of the camera. So I practiced today. I have other photos I need to edit before I continue with the self portraits, so I'll just post one for now, but I had a break through with the skin softening, and just worked on all my techniques & was quite happy with the finished product, despite the head (and toe) chop...like I said, hard to compose from the other side of the camera!

Finished our Christmas Card Shoot...

Self-taken Family Photos

It's really fall now...