Anyway, I'm happy with the results and I hope Mom and Dad are too. Enjoy!
Friday, January 26, 2007
Curious Alex (and family)
Yesterday I had a surreal experience...my first baby shoot. The kid was really very cute. Alex was only 12 days old and still wrinkly with a crusty belly-button, but he was very alert. If you got too close he'd just stare and stare at you. Curious would be a good description and with a head of hair befitting someone much older than 12 days. But I didn't expect how wiggly he would be...or just how loud he could scream. And once, when Holly and Mom weren't around, he started screaming so I attempted to stroke his little back like I had seen Holly do to calm him but he just screamed louder so I backed away.
Anyway, I'm happy with the results and I hope Mom and Dad are too. Enjoy!
Anyway, I'm happy with the results and I hope Mom and Dad are too. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Eric, Emerald and...pause, wait for it...
THE SNOWFLAKE!
Okay, maybe that shouldn't have been so dramatic, but I found these funny pictures from when Eric and I were decorating our house for Christmas and couldn't resist.
Monday, January 22, 2007
My new interior decorator line...
So recently my sister-in-law Melissa decided that she wants to redecorate her bedroom around the pretty slate blue bedspread she and Chris painstakingly decided they could both live with (I'm sure any married person remembers just how difficult those first decorating moves are before the guy finally decides he doesn't care and the girl finally gets to do what she wants).
In addition to staining the bedroom furniture just black enough to still show the wood grain, buying pretty slate blue curtains, and spraying the bed frame "black granite," Melissa requested I go through my "archives" and find "interesting pictures not of people" for fear that pictures of people might look like "those cheesy images you get in the frames when you buy them." Her only other specification? That they look good black and white.
She wasn't very specific, but here's my preliminary home decorator line. Enjoy! Images are available in any size between 5x7 and 18x20 for a meagre price--should anyone besides Melissa be interested.
Also, having been intrigued by the process, I'd love for you to post suggestions for a themed line of wall art for me to work on in my post-graduation stupor.
In addition to staining the bedroom furniture just black enough to still show the wood grain, buying pretty slate blue curtains, and spraying the bed frame "black granite," Melissa requested I go through my "archives" and find "interesting pictures not of people" for fear that pictures of people might look like "those cheesy images you get in the frames when you buy them." Her only other specification? That they look good black and white.
She wasn't very specific, but here's my preliminary home decorator line. Enjoy! Images are available in any size between 5x7 and 18x20 for a meagre price--should anyone besides Melissa be interested.
Also, having been intrigued by the process, I'd love for you to post suggestions for a themed line of wall art for me to work on in my post-graduation stupor.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
aN EXEMPLaRY EXHIBITION
So, my friend Kalyn (the democratic, pacifistic, cat-loving texan) is steadily working hard on her senior art show at ACU. Here's the poster. Check it out, it's definately going to be cool!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Portrait Posing Workshop
Holly Ward, one of my employers at Belle's Bridal and Family Photography, will be hosting the first of three Portrait Posing Workshops on February 8, from 2 to 5pm, at Willow Creek Chapel.
Each three-hour workshop will teach you how to pose brides of different body types and with different gown styles for fabulous, flattering bridal portraits. The model will be provided. The result for you will be portfolio quality images and skills that will carry over to other venues of photography. And for this first workshop, you will also have the opportunity to submit your best images for display in Willow Creek Chapel--which will look great on a resume!
The cost is $99 per person if you sign up ahead of time. At the door, the cost will be $125. ACU students will receive a $25 discount for signing up ahead of time. Class size will be limeted so sign up soon!
For more information or to sign up for this great opportunity, you can contact Holly or Mike Ward at (325) 201-7458 or info@bellesphotography.com.
PS--This workshop is geared similarly toward what Holly did with me during my internship at Belle's. To see images from that session you can visit Melissa's Bridal Portraits.
Each three-hour workshop will teach you how to pose brides of different body types and with different gown styles for fabulous, flattering bridal portraits. The model will be provided. The result for you will be portfolio quality images and skills that will carry over to other venues of photography. And for this first workshop, you will also have the opportunity to submit your best images for display in Willow Creek Chapel--which will look great on a resume!
The cost is $99 per person if you sign up ahead of time. At the door, the cost will be $125. ACU students will receive a $25 discount for signing up ahead of time. Class size will be limeted so sign up soon!
For more information or to sign up for this great opportunity, you can contact Holly or Mike Ward at (325) 201-7458 or info@bellesphotography.com.
PS--This workshop is geared similarly toward what Holly did with me during my internship at Belle's. To see images from that session you can visit Melissa's Bridal Portraits.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Murder in the swamp
Sorry for the long delay in posting. I've had a very busy few weeks. With finishing school and graduation--and the family that brought into town--and then the Holidays, I haven't have time to post after Marnie's roommate pictures. Not that I could post a large amount of pictures anyway as I currently have no machine to edit them on.
In October, Eric and I bought a brand new I-Mac so that A) we would no longer be fighting over what was more important: World of Warcraft or editing pictures, and B) I would have a machine capable of running all of my Photoshop programs at once and also a machine with a reliable monitor--a calibrated monitor really is the most important thing to editing and my laptop definitely didn't have it. Right after everyone went home from graduation and I finally had a little time, I no more than sat down at my wondrous computer and a grey cloud of doom rolled down from the top of the screen telling me in five different languages to "restart or else." I restarted and nothing happened. My baby has now been at the doctor two weeks with a diagnosis of rotten memory and a failed fan and I still have no reliable computer.
As of now, I'm in Westlake and though I'm busy with the usual attic cleaning and renovating, Westlake is having a crisis of its own. Our recently elected mayor, Gerald Washington, the first African American mayor in our history was found shot to death in the parking lot of the Special Education Testing Center in Mossville--a neighboring city that is considered part of Westlake. Police have ruled it suicide, but I don't know a single person here besides the cops that believes that. Hence the controversy that has sparked national news coverage.
So, in lieu of pictures from me you can check out the news articles about our murdered mayor--suicide? Racially motivated murder? Or knocked off by powerful Mafia related enemies? Let me know what you decide.
In October, Eric and I bought a brand new I-Mac so that A) we would no longer be fighting over what was more important: World of Warcraft or editing pictures, and B) I would have a machine capable of running all of my Photoshop programs at once and also a machine with a reliable monitor--a calibrated monitor really is the most important thing to editing and my laptop definitely didn't have it. Right after everyone went home from graduation and I finally had a little time, I no more than sat down at my wondrous computer and a grey cloud of doom rolled down from the top of the screen telling me in five different languages to "restart or else." I restarted and nothing happened. My baby has now been at the doctor two weeks with a diagnosis of rotten memory and a failed fan and I still have no reliable computer.
As of now, I'm in Westlake and though I'm busy with the usual attic cleaning and renovating, Westlake is having a crisis of its own. Our recently elected mayor, Gerald Washington, the first African American mayor in our history was found shot to death in the parking lot of the Special Education Testing Center in Mossville--a neighboring city that is considered part of Westlake. Police have ruled it suicide, but I don't know a single person here besides the cops that believes that. Hence the controversy that has sparked national news coverage.
So, in lieu of pictures from me you can check out the news articles about our murdered mayor--suicide? Racially motivated murder? Or knocked off by powerful Mafia related enemies? Let me know what you decide.
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