Playing with movement

A lot of times I like to practice concepts or ideas on my kids. Yesterday i just wanted to play with trying to capture a moving object, in this case my daughter on a swing. For this outing I used a 5D and a 50mm 1.2 lens set on a pretty wide aperature to seperate out the background. I would capture her moving, then lock the focus down and compose ( or try to ) as she swung. I really had a lot that I liked from this mini session, but for now I am only posting this one as it is all I have processed so far.

Baby Annie - Galveston newborn photography

I admit, I have not written in a while. Mostly because I am thinking of updating my blog and have not got round to it yet. But that is kind of like waiting to buy new clothes until you lose weight.....Anyway...

These photos are of baby Annie, a sweet little sprite that I had a chance to photograph a little while back. We were doing another session that day with Annie's aunt Clara on the tall ship elissa and decided to get a few shots in of Annie as we were walking the beach. It was steaming hot that day but we waited til a bit later and the beach always has a breeze. That is one of the things I used to love about living in Galveston, you could just open up the windows and put on a fan most days ( well, if you dressed minimally :)

Without further ado, here is little Annie!

Thats daddy, Drew, doing his best Annie impression :)

 

Tiny Wind- Houston, Tx Children's lifestyle portrait

Today was sort of a lazy day at home. Cooked a fritatta ( ham, eggs, potatoes, onions, garlic, cilantro...yum)

Made some coffee (mexican altura something or other) hung out, searched for my lensbaby, so I had to clean my room. Finally found it. Still don't like it much.  Maybe I will play with it more later. At least I know where it is now. I took it out before I headed to a wedding in the Dominican Republic ( which I still need to post!)

Hung out with the girls, made dinner ( Fajitas) then went swimming at the Love Pool in the Heights. It was our first time there and it was a pretty great pool actually. Will definitly think of heading back tomorrow.

Picked the dandelions in the neighbors back yard. They just moved out this weekend and Sadie has been waiting for them to leave so she could get to those dandelions. I hope we get good new neighbors. Preferably someone with a kiddo or two.

Took some photos of Sadie and the dandelions as she blew their little seedlings into the wind.

Walked to Amy's ice cream. I had the lemon ice, Alex and Sadie had the white chocolate macadamia and Maddie had the coffee.

Sadie is now crashed on the couch, Maddie is watching a movie ( probably asleep too) and I am about to head off to bed myself. Might reread some Sookie Stackhouse novel in anticipation to the next season of True Blood.

Alex is still planning to take over the world.

Oh and in case you are wondering, I am just trying to make my self blog almost every day for at least a month so that it becomes a habit :)