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Just For Mom

May 11, 2008 – 12:01 am

First I wanted to say thanks for all of the sweet emails and calls checking on me to see if I’m ok since I haven’t blogged in over a week.  I didn’t run off and join the circus, I’ve just been super busy with some top secret photo shoots and finishing up some Mother’s Day orders for my clients.

Today I traveled to Griffith Park to photograph three beautiful sisters.  They are surprising their Mom with these photos, so today they are going to show her this blog entry and surprise her with a few sneak peeks from today’s session.

Ok seriously, it is not fair to be this gorgeous!  Not fair not fair not fair!  But on top of being so beautiful, they were so very sweet and kind to me too.  I’m often asked if I photograph adults, yes I sure do, I just have children on my site for now, I need to add the adults to my site, it’s on my never ending list.  The best part about photographing adults, you don’t have to chase or bribe them!  Nice!

Here are a few sneak peeks just for their Mom.  I hope that all of you have a wonderful Mother’s Day!!!!!

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“Sun”day

April 27, 2008 – 9:53 pm

Today put the sun in Sunday, it was one beautiful (but super hot) day! I took the day off and we headed down to Disneyland bright and early this morning so that we could beat the crowds and have a little fun. I think everyone else had the same idea too, Disneyland was PACKED! We have this book about inside secrets to the park and it tells you which rides to ride first based on how long they take and how many people can get through at a time. One of the rides that takes the longest to get through is Dumbo because of the loading, unloading and how many people it can take at a time, so we always go to that one first. Or if anyone is planning on going soon and you want to check out the new Finding Nemo ride, run and get in line the minute the park opens, today there was well over a 90 minute wait. We skipped Nemo since we’ve ridden it already and didn’t feel like waiting that long.

I’m a bad photographer, when I go to Disneyland I usually just take my little point and shoot camera and throw it in the backpack. The few times that I took my DSLRs I regretted it because I was constantly worried about them getting broken, bumped or stolen. With my point and shoot it’s just so much easier, although I think everyone else had their nice DSLRs with them, not so many point and shoots being carried anymore.

My kids would rather eat dirt than have me try and photograph them, so out of the 6 hours we were there today I took a grand total of 8 photos and three little video clips. So I’ll share two of the photos and one of the clips. I hope you all had a great weekend!

PS - It’s ok if my voice gets on your nerves in this video, it gets on mine too, at least you don’t have to live with it and hear it 24 hours a day!

I call this video “When Giant Hands Attack!

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I’ve been labeled

April 8, 2008 – 2:30 pm

Last month Babble.com contacted me and wanted to use one of my images for a story they were going to do this month on bribing.   They saw the photo on flickr and it was of my children.  I called the shot: I bribe my children and it was referring to me trying to get photos of them and the fact that I bribe them to at least pretend to cooperate.  So the time I took that shot, I gave them $1 each and they were happy campers and I was able to get a few cute little snaps of them.

One of my friends IM’d me the other day and said: “Hey you are a bad parent”, I said thanks and so are you! ;)  She said no really you are and then linked me to the story with my photo.  So apparently Babble has a series where all of the articles are in a group called Bad Parent and it’s about parents who do things that they shouldnt - like let their children watch too much tv, etc.  I haven’t read the articles, I just saw the titles.

So now I’ve been labeled as a bad parent for my $1 bribe (not really, it’s just funny that is the title on my photo).  Oh well, if that’s the charge then I’m guilty.  But let me tell you these people must not know of that crazy illness called PKS aka Photographers Kid Syndrome.  Oh we photographers struggle with this, many of us have even thought of asking our clients if we could hang photos of their children in our homes because, well, our clients children typically cooperate much more than our own children.  I get big sighs, I get “put the camera away” comments, they run, yep my kids avoid the camera at all costs.  So this bad parent has to resort to bribing.

Here’s my label photo below, I have many labels for myself, but for today it’s Bad Parent.  Look my happy little bribees (is that a new word?).

 

 

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You know you so wanted to marry one of them…

April 6, 2008 – 11:52 pm

NKOTB, New Kids on the Block. I know that all you girls out there in your early to mid-thirties probably won’t even admit to it, but I bet ya $1 that you were a closet New Kids on the Block fan. Which one did you like? I of course had planned on marrying Jordan or Jon Knight or maybe even Joey MacIntyre. This week on The Today Show they announced a reunion tour that will kick off in May. Who wants to go with me? I think my husband would never let me live it down if I went.

Enjoy a stroll down memory lane and watch this video for The Right Stuff. Oh oh ah oh oh, oh oh ah oh…..  Don’t tell anyone but I was jealous of those girls in the video, I wanted to hang out with them and drive around in a convertible.   Check out Donnie Wahlberg rockin’ the mullet in the video.  Ok I have to go and dance now while no one is watching.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RtOvN0Cl8[/youtube]

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A Future Fighting Irishman

April 5, 2008 – 8:12 pm

Today I traveled to Sherman Oaks to photograph a super cute 5 month old baby. He had the cutest face and the sweetest little personality. His Mom and Dad were so cool and lots of fun, he’s one lucky guy. He was in a serious mood today, I think he had a lot of his mind. I wonder what 5 months old think about? Milk? Diapers? Toys? Hands? Who knows but I bet it’s something good. We spent a lot of time on our tummies and let me tell you he is one strong dude. He was practically doing push ups, already in training mode. He is a future Notre Dame Fighting Irishman, just like his Dad. So at the end we made sure to get a quick shot of them in their gear. Thank you so much to the S Family for welcoming me in to your home and being so kind. I had a great time!

Here are a few photos from our time together…

I think he was trying to figure out why he was naked and on the floor.

I loved these polka dots on their guest bedroom pillows

I don’t know about you but babies in jeans = cutest thing ever!

Of course we had to get a quick shot of the boys in their Notre Dame gear.

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