Gnome in the Garden

I’m convinced that photographing children requires 3x’s the amount of sugar that they themselves consume. I recently photographed my friend’s family of which the children were ages were both sub 5yrs old. I’m still working on the photos so I can only share a few unedited ones.

This photo shows one of the many attempts to corral the kids into a family portrait.

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter who’s kid it is, they are going to be hard to handle come nap time (which is about the time we ended up doing the shoot), bad timing.

Of course sometimes you nail a great shot that just leaves you giggling and it just shows the children as they really are.

I’ll share the edited ones when they are done of course.

I’m now convinced that taking photos of children at play is the best way to get a great shot.

Take this set for example, I just whipped out my camera at my nieces birthday party that was at a local gymnastics center. I had no intention of taking photos but the colors at the place were so vibrant I couldn’t resist.

I'm not the princess you think I am

I'm stuck, seriously..

They Call Him George

You can see the rest here on my myspace

To be fair, I have had the time to crop and bump up some colors on these photos since I used them for my final project (last minute idea). Now if I can keep my interest up in photography whenever the new semester starts I’ll be heading in the right direction. Sometimes school just takes over all my free time and I can’t make room for the really fun stuff.

Till the next blog, comment away..

So, I’ve been silent on the blogging front lately because, well, I’ve not been excited by much lately. Matt’s in NY having a ball and I’ve been doing my film homework every night. I’m almost done with 4 weeks of a super speed summer class about film. Pretty much used all my time to read till my eyes bleed and write till my fingers do the same. Sure has been an awful lot of reading and writing for a class about movies(scratching head).

I had a temporary period where my Creative Zen died on me and I had to hear the world around me minus my personal soundtrack. Never realized how uber-boring and quiet it can be on campus and in my cube at work. I quickly made with the spending of money that I didn’t have and broke my longtime tradition of buying Creative players and got a Microsoft Zune 2.0. I emphasize the V2 because V1 was an absolute EPIC FAIL. Except for the awesomeness of sharing songs which was dubbed squirting .  I have to say aside from some little uber-tech speak problems, the player is quite usable.

I’m in the market for a new cell phone and the new iPhone looks promising but the plans are just wayyyy out of my $$$ range. Plus I’m with T-mobile and currently contract free so if I’m ever booted out the door at my temp job and times get tough I can drop my phone without paying an arm and leg. Phones contract free are freaking expensive and to be quite honest they all just suck. I text and call, maybe use the web once in a blue moon on my phone. I’d like to get a “qwerty” phone because I do 90% texting and 10% calling. I just can’t find one that I like, that I can afford. I think they consulted Barbie when making the latest Blackberry because the keys are so small I can’t even use it. I’ve gotten so frustrated by trying to find a phone that I like that I’ve almost just given up and said fuck’em all together. For now my phone is getting some glue since it’s all sorts of cracked.

I’m listening to music like crazy lately. Found a bunch of new artists and some old ones that dropped new albums. You can see what I’ve been into by checking out my Last.fm account, friend me if you are on it. They are still working on making the Zune work with it (they=hackers). Matt got me into The Office, of which I’ve now seen every episode. I myself revisited Weeds and found that I can’t miss an episode now and nor can Matt. Aside from that, nothing in the glorious world of TV has pulled me in.

As I mentioned long ago, I’m taking 2 summer classes. The film one is almost done and the Digital Photography class is almost useless. The best part is the tax write off for the Canon Rebel I had to buy for the class. I’m still on Flickr and uploading most of my homework alongside regular photos, so if you are interested head on over and check it out. If you want to just track everything I do online you can join me on FriendFeed or just subscribe to my feed. I read a lot of articles and hear a lot of music online and sometimes recommend something to read. FriendFeed is a timeline of all of my online activities, including this blog. I live under the reality that Privacy is Dead so I willingly jack myself into the net and let it know my thoughts.

In the real world, stuff has happened.

There’s been two new additions to the family since I last blogged. Matt’s sister had her baby boy Jacob and his sister-in-law just had her boy Ian. I’m kinda over babies, I mean seriously, I’m now an uncle 12x’s over. Not to mention my friends got into the whole baby thing (Will/Bethany). I’m just excited that I’m baby free, they’re cute, but they are quite the handful. Plus, I’m a smidge ADD and tend to get into something that’s new and then get bored with it. That might be problematic if Matt and I adopted. I mean you can’t in all good sense return a baby. They don’t come with receipts do they?