Dramatic B&W

I absolutely adore black and white photos. When I saw this was a theme coming up I was so excited. However, I am in El Paso i a hotel room without MY lap top which mean none of MY photos. I started going through my old post on this blog and found one I thought would be a good one for the theme.



This is my brother Scott and his wife Lauren. They were kissing in front of the pool on the 4th of July and I went over and snapped this picture. It makes me smile every time I look at it. Isn't it lovely?! Go check out some other enterisover at IHEARTFACES.COM



I always check out about 50 or so pictures from other people and this week's theme has brought out some amazing shots so for sure go check some of them out!!!

Yippy For Photo Shoots!

I love babies. It's no lie. They are so sweet and I miss that my baby girl is already growing out of all her babiness ( yup I just made that word up! ) A lady from my church had the most beautiful baby in November. I have been wanting to take pictures of her little girl ever since. It didn't happen until this week but I am so glad she came over and let me take pictures. At first the it wasn't going so well. she peed right away when we took her diaper off which I knew would happen. Then she was getting fussy because she doesn't like being on her tummy. My house is really dark too and I was having issues. I had the windows and door open and without the flash the pictures were still blurring. I used a diffuser so it helped soften the flash enough. Then we decided to take her out side and get some pictures in natural light. My greatest difficulty is because she is really strong so she was moving a lot but she didn't sit up yet. She was ALMOST 5 months old. I told her mom to bring her back when she can sit up and then we can get a bunch more. So here are some of my favorites.






This next one was a happy accident. We went out side and I hadn't adjusted my camera and then dumb flash went off. But when I took a look at the picture on the computer, I actually really like it! Go figure





Her name starts with a "B" so we thought that particular block appropriate.





I am so blessed because someone else from my church called me today and wants to me take pictures for her tomorrow at the court house. They are officially adopting their son and they want to make invitation for a celebration they are doing in Oregon. I am going to take pictures for them right after! How cool is that?! Hopefully I can get those posted someday....I have a busy week starting Saturday.

Week 12 Angles

I have been going back and forth ALL day on which picture to enter into iheartfaces this week! The theme this week is angles and one of the reason I am having so much trouble picking a picture is because I make this a goal EVERY time I take pictures. Most of the time I end up laying on the ground looking up trying to get the perfect angle for shots. When I was pregnant my mom wanted me to take pictures of the LDS temple in St. George. She wanted to make a collage of pictures of that certain temple. her and I went down there together three different times and I think each time I took at least 300 pictures. Sheesh! But any ways....the last time we had gone down there I was about 6 months pregnant and was sticking out pretty far. I wanted to get a certain angle of the Temple and had gone across the street, laid on the ground and started laughing! I had forgotten I was pregnant and there was no WAY I was gonna be able to lay flat on my stomach to get the picture I wanted. SO after going through about 30 or so entries others have posted I settled on this one of my sister Kim and her husband Ender.



I love how this picture turned out. Again I was laying on the ground trying to get this and I think it was worth it! My apologies to those who read this blog because I have posted this one at least two other times before....just not for the contest. ENJOY and go check out all the other awesome entries at iheartfaces

Bundled up

During the snow we had a couple of weeks ago I got the sweetest picture of my niece Madison. It's so funny considering the fact that she was being a CRAZY girl in the snow. She was smashing her face into it, throwing snowballs in her OWN face and running and crashing into the snow head first or bum first. It was kind of funny actullay because while she was doing all these crazy boy like things, Tyler was dancing in the snow and making snow angels! haha Any ways. In between the craziness Madison zone out for a minute and I got this great picture of her.

Sorry about the double post. I explain it in the last post what happened but since I couldn't get this one in the contest I wanted, I added another picture to the post! I love her eating the snow! haha

Jumping for JOY!

During the snow we had a couple of weeks ago I got the sweetest picture of my niece Madison. It's so funny considering the fact that she was being a CRAZY girl in the snow. She was smashing her face into it, throwing snowballs in her OWN face and running and crashing into the snow head first or bum first. It was kind of funny actullay because while she was doing all these crazy boy like things, Tyler was dancing in the snow and making snow angels! haha Any ways. In between the craziness Madison zone out for a minute and I got this great picture of her. It happens to work perfectly for the iheartfaces for this week so here we go!



Go check out all the other pictures of everyone bundled up!








My apologies to the couple of people who left me lovely comments on my picture last week! As I was putting in the link for this weeks picture my son came and jump on my lap and I accidentally hit the enter button while trying to put in my new link and it added last weeks entry instead. BUMMER. I really didn't know how to fix it so I just switched my blog entry to last weeks post but in doing so I had to erase the comments so they matched the entry. Sorry for being retarded, it happens a lot around here with kids. heehee

WOW! I got third place for this picture over at IHEARTFACES! WOO HOO there were over 700 photos entered! Holy cow that's a lot! What an honor!!!!