so stinking cute

I finally blogged A's pregnancy while she was anticipating baby L yesterday (boy, does it feel good to have that session edited and behind me!  Undone to-do's eat at me!).  I had the opportunity to hang out with baby L for a while on Friday and couldn't help myself but to photograph the little dude.  He is just so cute! I actually bought this alligator toy for the Little Lady when she was a baby, but they never played with it much.  Baby L thought that alligator was the bomb!  He was NOT a happy camper if I tried to take it away, to make a better photo, so I went with it.  I'm about 'real life' anyway.  He's eight months old now... and not crawling.  Since both of mine crawled on the early side... the Lady at 6 months!!!... that is just sooo not fair!

I shot these with my D90, Nikon 85mm f1.8 & Sigma 30mm f1.4

Anticipating Baby L

Last time P & A were anticipating a new little life in the world, P had been diagnosed with cancer, at 28.  So while they were adjusting to life as parents, P was also battling chemotherapy.  Which means, he missed out on a lot of the pregnancy and first many months of K's first year.  This time however, four years later, P's in a much better place and gets to experience the pregnancy fully.  P asked if I would get a few of A and her belly, to remember this pregnancy in a beautiful way forever.

Unfortunately, I am an excellent procrastinator and am not so good at time management.  Sooooo, these images are from July 2011.  Oops.  Only nine months late......  Without further ado, here we have Anticipating L.

I shot these with my D90, Sigma 30mm f1.4, Nikon 85mm f1.8, & Nikon 50mm 1.4D

Project 26 | Post 6 | Morning Light

We moved into this house in early March of 2007.  Five years ago.  That March and every March since I have been wooed by the sunlight that floods my living and dining rooms first thing in the morning.  I have soaked in those rays that hit the front of our house.  There is something sheerly magical about that light that streams in through the glass, unfettered by the leaves on our old, established oaks.  It brightens not only my home but my weary soul.  I don't know why this light would be any different than the light that happens in the other months.  And perhaps if those mighty oaks weren't in the way, it would be like this daily.  But I've come to anticipate and yearn for these March mornings that seek and destroy sadness in my heart through their sunlight, a harbinger of the glorious spring soon to break forth.

This week's theme for my Project 26 is "Morning Light".  What perfect timing.

While the perfectionist in me wanted to capture an image that you'd probably see on a wall calendar, with gorgeous rays of light streaming through trees in a forest, I knew that the lifestyle, documentary photographer that I am needed to capture this essence of March Sunlight about this home and this time of my life.

Here is the view of the sunrise out our front door at 6:30am, just before the sun emerges above the horizon.  I am always awed at the colors that God has placed in our world and how the simple rising or setting of the sun can generate such spectacular beauty.



And here at 7:10am, the Lady watches as the sun comes up, about to fill our home with rays of gorgeous, gorgeous light.  I couldn't make my mind up about color or black and white, so I included both.  Yep, indecisive me.



What?  Your children don't carry around larger than life size stuffed animals and random helium balloons at 7am in the morning?  Seriously?  : )

Please take a tour through the circle and see my photographer friends' interpretations of the theme "Morning Light".  Next up is the lovely Lubbock, TX photographer, Misty Setzler!  Can't wait to see what Texas morning light looks like!

I shot these with my D90 & Nikon 85mm f1.8 & Nikon 50mm 1.4D