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...

Moose's "DeeDee Sweater"

It finally got cold enough to get some pictures of my little man in the sweater my mom made him for his birthday, also known as his "DeeDee sweater"...

I'm kind of on a black & white kick lately...

This is his mischevious "I refuse to look at you" look...

smiles & silliness