I Heart Faces - Funny Outakes

I wanted to post this on my photography site because I originally had it on my personal blog, but my picture was actually chosen.  It took second place from one of the guest judges for the week.  The theme was "hilarious outtakes", and well this picture speaks for itself.  It did crack me up how this couple was trying to walk their dogs, but the dogs couldn't walk strait for anything, so this is how most of my pictures looked.  I didn't care because it was cute!

You can follow this link - I Heart Faces - to see where my picture was posted.  If you scroll down far enough you will also see the picture of mind listed on the week "Autumn Beauty"

My Christmas Photo Shoot!

So a few weeks ago, me and my family went out for this photo shoot so we could have some pictures for our Christmas card.  It was quite crazy because with all of us going different directions all the time, we couldn't find a time to fit it in.  So their was one Sunday afternoon that we had exactly an hour between driving to the park, and pulling off taking pictures, before it got dark.  No one in the family seemed to concerned with our time frame but myself.  I was barking out orders, meanwhile all my kids were goofing off having a good time.  This was not a time for them to have a good time.  We needed to get pictures taken and quickly!!!!!!  Suddenly I had to just relax, and let them be themselves.  I do have three children who just love to have a good time, and they really all do enjoy each other.  So out the door with the perfect pictures, and instead I got some pictures of all of them being themself!  I guess that is what I go for as a photographer anyways.  I just have to learn to not plan everything out so much in my head before a photo shoot, and just go with the flow!

A Model Photo Shoot!

I had two photo shoots scheduled last Saturday, and all I can say is WOW was it cold.  I was meeting this little girl Megan and her mom at 10am in the morning.  It was a whopping 26 degrees.  I wasn't sure if we were going to pull it off or not, but we did.  Megan was such a trooper.  She did exactly what I asked, and she never complained once.  She was needing these pictures for her portfolio for modeling, and I guess that is why she was so easy to work with.  She is a natural.  We headed inside buildings a few times to warm up and grab some different kinds of shots, but I'm glad I got to do this photo shoot because it proved to me that I can do photo shoots even if it is cold.   I honestly never felt cold the entire time, because I was in my photography zone, and that pretty much preoccupied my brain so much that my brain didn't have a chance to register that I was cold.