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I met my friend Megan at the park yesterday to take pictures of her son Jasper who turned 1 last week. Such a cutie, but I’ll let her share those pics.
This is Jasper’s big sis, who was jumping up and down to get her baby brother to smile for pics.
We went to City Park today where the boys had their photos taken for a local charity, and since they were dressed nicely, I made them be still for photos. It was not a resounding success.
At least they were good for the other photographer.
More attempts at cute photos:
Ah, here we go. The trick is to not make them pose. (Duh.)
At least Ziggy is easy.
They were positively giddy this morning. Birthdays are awesome. 🙂
I just let them be Pokémon today.
One month til they turn 8!
I went on a nighttime photography outing last night. I wouldn’t say I did super great at it (so much to learn!) but I had fun and got some cool photos.
This little guy was just hanging on our fence.
I seem to have become quite the nature photographer lately.
You know what this means? Twelve months from today, we’ll be taking #100. Then, maybe I can consider stopping. (No, not really. As if.)
This month, we had a very special guest, all the way from Los Angeles! Give it up everyone, for COUSIN ELLIE!
My brother and niece came to visit in August 2012, when Ellie was 7 years old (plus a few months.) We took a walk around the LSU campus (where my brother and I both went to school) and I took a picture of my brother with his daughter and nephews.
Today, Ellie is almost 10, and the boys are 7 (plus a few months) and we went back to LSU, visited Mike the Tiger again, and found the same bench in the quad for a reprise of that old photo.
Looking at the boys’ legs dangling above the ground in the first picture compared to today’s kind of kills me.
My brother made standing in a line, in birth order, into a game. Voila! Pics of the boys and almost all of their cousins. (Andrew is at home, but we’ll see him next month when we go to Virginia.)
This is what happens when I pull out my camera around my friend Mary Catherine’s kids.
And then there’s my kid. Cooperate for a picture? I think not.
I recently decided to sell two of my lenses so that I could get a much better lens. I found a great deal on an L-series lens (which I’d previously only dreamt of, never imagining I would ever have my own) and pulled the trigger.
It’s a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L, and it’s exquisite. Yes, it doesn’t open quite as much as my beloved 85mm f1.8 that I traded in, but the photos are so crisp, I have absolutely no regrets. And now I have a much wider range of focal lengths than I had before.
One of the reasons I wanted to get this lens was so I wouldn’t have to lug around several lenses when we go to England this summer. I’m determined to only bring one carry on roller bag, so these are the tough decisions I have to make. Heh.
Here are a few very random shots I’ve taken with this lens. The weather’s been icky so I haven’t been able to play with it as much as I’d like, but in conjunction with my recent body upgrade (that’s camera body) I’m pretty smitten with photography again.
(You can click to view at full size to see how freaking clear they are!)
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