Happy Mother's Day!

My Mother's Day gift was the willingness of my dear children to let me take each of them out to do a little photo shoot of them. They have all had birthdays in recent months, and I wanted to get some recent photos. We had fun, and my husband assisted with the reflector and sometimes chatting and goofing around with them. It can be stressful trying to get photos of your own kids, but I succeeded in not getting stressed and working with each individually. I took so many photos I love, but narrowed down to 16 to post here. My 6 year old daughter had the most unique ideas of her own, so she has a few more than the others here.

 

 

 

 

Family Photojournalism

Around home I try to have a camera handy to capture those real moments in life that strike my interest and humor. When you have kids, these can be fleet. I'm sharing a few recent photos here.

Monochromatic images reduce the information to the lights and darks, shapes, and lines in an image. This challenges me to watch even more, the interplay of my subject with the surroundings. I find that it also has the potential to remove the distraction of any bright or distracting colors. I always work with the conversion from color to black and white to bring in contrast that I find pleasing. A gray image does little for me. An image with great contrast, true blacks and whites and definite shades in between can make a monochromatic image worthwhile.

"helping" Daddy:

 

Sisters:

Not the best place to fall asleep!

"Angry Birds" on Grandpa's smartphone:

Everyone wants Daddy!:

 Some birthday photos:

 

  

Blowing from a safe distance away...

   

A small, very busy Person:

  

Video/slideshow!

I just finished creating this little slide show/video for my website. I've included it here to view.