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Capture your baby at his/her cutest!
I LOVE babies! I have been around them my entire life, and that makes me an expert, right? Well, I really don’t know about that… but from the babies, infants and toddlers I have shot photography of, I have been able to capture that special moment, even if it’s a split second as he/she is looking at the camera. Maybe it could be a sleeping baby of one week. Don’t take your chances with an inexperienced photographer. I am a mom, I know how precious our little ones are, and I know how you need to have patience with the little ones.
Spring Wedding in the Park
I just LOVE weddings in parks! There are so many options when you are outside in a large area, flowers, fountains, steps, brick buildings! At Buxton Park in Indianola, I shot the photography for a wedding with all my favorite things. It was a blistering 150° day, but we still got some really terrific portraits in between the rain and tornados. Thus is the life in Iowa!
My bride let me do whatever I felt like, so I got to use my creativity to put them in some unique situations, and the photos came out great:
This was my favorite picture from the entire wedding. A few days before the wedding, I was walking around the park with my bride-to-be, and I stood in front of the fountain, and had a vision for this exact picture. It came out perfect, I couldn’t be happier (and neither could my bride 
You can check out some more photos from the weddings I have shot here.
Our Digital Photo World
Today we got a package from a customer in the mail. It was a series of photos she wanted to post on her website. It got me thinking, there are actually people in this world that are not completely emerged in the digital world.
Being a web/graphic designer, I live, breathe and work on the computer. From 7ish in the morning to 9ish at night, I could spend easily 12 of those hours on a computer, yikes! So it is easy to see how I could think everyone would be like me
But I think back to just nine or so years ago, when I was still using 35mm film to shoot photography. I went to France and England for my senior trip, it was a blast, but I was limited by the amount of film I could fit in my purse (and that I wanted to carry around). I would have taken 1,000 pictures instead of the 100 that I did take. Had I had a digital camera then, I probably would have actually done something with my photos, possibly printing them and framing them for my living room (despite my husband thinking I have enough French influence already….). Not to mention I could have looked in my view finder and see that my picture of the Mona Lisa didn’t turn out, and I could have taken another.
The opposite would be the fact that I have inundated myself with too many photos. I compare the 10 or so photos I have of myself (one of the them to the right) on Polaroid and faded prints to the literally 1,000s of pictures I have taken of my daughter. Now I have to have an external hard drive in which to store all these photos, including originals, touched up photos and finals of these photos.
Despite the fact that is ten times the amount of work, I would never go back. I do wonder if sometime in my life, film will be completely dead, if we can get everyone to come over to our digital world? Will my child, grandchildren think I am some old foggie with my SLR camera, I wonder what the future holds for photography…
Looking for a unique perspective for your wedding pictures?
This is a picture I did of a spring wedding in the park. I wanted to get a unique perspective, so I stood on the side of the fountain, and focused in on the bride and groom and snapped the shot.
When I got home, I started up Photoshop and pulled out the fountain from the black & white background. I think I got a pretty nice effect! Click on the image for a larger view.
