Boots & Shadows

Today I crafted all.day.long.

While my sweet pregnant sister sat next to me keeping me company.

I love days where it's just me & her.

(With the sounds of our kids playing together in the background).

She ate nacho fries,

while I sewed and made about a dozen mistakes.

Do you ever just have bad sewing days?

It's like a bad hair day.

Later that day the boys and I went outside to play.

Ayden & Lucas live in their boots,

And they will all skateboard for hours.

While they skated, I practiced taking pictures (and doing cartwheels) in the magic hour, where the shadows are long and the sun is low.

It's my favorite time of day!

Have a great weekend!

 

Practice x2

So this week in my quest to take a better picture, I practiced some more on my trio.

What I realized that when taking pictures of kids with props you have to expect the unexpected.

The balloons WILL pop.
One will have a goofy face,

my baby will want to explore the hobo' playground,

and he couldn't for the life of him stand on the crate? 

But in the end, I think I got some really great "quirky" photos of them.

Practice

One of my goals before I turned 30 was to learn to take a manual photo.
Well 30 came and went...and nada.


So this week I decided to take my camera and the manual and make friends.


And today I played with shutter speed...

Some are pretty rough, and I need a TON of practice. 
Man it's hard not using auto! But my kids are cute.

Fake Photographer

Yesterday I played "photographer."
Pretending is so much fun.

We ran around Oak Glen and trespassed to find the perfect spot, I broke my shoe, and we were covered in stickers.
That is seriously hard work!

But I loved every minute of it and my best friend is a babe, so taking pictures of her was a complete breeze.

She is submitting these pictures to a few magazines for print ads, and if they pick her as their model, I might actually get photo cred in their magazine.

Not bad for a fake photographer.