i wish i knew how to do that cool trick where the picture moves quickly in the blog post, like an old fashioned movie! wouldn’t that be great with this little set? anyone know how to do that?
does this count as a portrait? for a laid back saturday it does… 
airplane with daddy
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maybe my most favorite style.
minimalist – simple – soft & crisp at the same time. just sweet.
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this little girl’s big spirit was so warm. and the sun that is about to set with the tight grip she has– was just lovely to me… but this is a photograph that may just stay in the computer forever, never printed anywhere… and that is ok.
photograph: 1/1000, f/2.8, ISO 100, 38mm (shot with a 24-70mm lens) shot at around 5:50pm at a field that will probably someday be another housing development…
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so yesterday i was thinking of posting a “i’ll be back sometime” on my blog – saying i would take a break from blogging… but then today i took this photograph of this little girl standing at a window, and thought i would love a little challenge to pick a favorite “unique” portrait each day to post. 
so this is the start to maybe a three day thing – or a three week thing… we’ll see.
photograph stats: location- window, 1/125, f / 1.8, ISO 100, 85mm
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ok – so today was supposed to be packed, full, busy. but it wasn’t. it rained hard this morning – so most everything was canceled for the entire day. gwen, “the girls” mom is about to have their 3rd baby and had a doctor’s appt – so i took gavin and “the girls” to the greatest spot around – the gardens. i think spring everywhere is beautiful. and here in north coast sd, it is the MOST beautiful time of year. breathtaking really.
rebekah asked that i sometimes mention what lens/setting/etc i use when i photograph. so here’s my secret…
secret #1: For this entire blog posting, i used only one lens – the 85mm/1.8. it is an inexpensive lens. i love it. 
secret #2: i have been playing around a lot with manual focus. it is the little switch on the lens – it gives a more dreamy look when some aspects of the photograph are out of focus. photography is all about preference and is an artistic expression to me. i like a more dreamy photograph, so i like photographing all the way down to 1.8 or using manual focus.
secret #3 – I always focus on the eyes. You can’t go wrong that way. I use the manual focal adjustments ALWAYS – my camera is never on auto for the focal point. I want to control what/where the camera focuses if it is in auto-focus.
secret #4: notice what is behind a subject – even if it will be out of focus, i try to also work with the “picture in the background”
secret #5: i don’t know what i am doing. i never took a class. i just take pictures of beautiful things, sweet moments, and images i want to keep as memories. i just take a lot of pictures and i am not afraid of getting it “wrong”. 
secret #6: this snail was a treasure. she loved him and even named him. i even caught her singing a lullaby to him. i saw her playing with something else after while and asked where “freddy” was. she shrugged her shoulders and said “oh – i stepped on him.” i looked over and there was freddy crushed on the floor. gross.
secret #7: gavin threw fit after fit at the gardens. he was a mess with horrible behavior so we came home and he was asleep by 5:10pm without dinner. now see – if i hadn’t written all that, you’d a thought we just skipped through the day and softly flew into bed with a smile.
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the photo shoot was rescheduled, but i had to snap a few…
since it was so dark and gloomy this morning – we just met up to meet each other. i took these right before leaving, and think sunday’s shoot will be a blast. stay tuned…
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the dark cloud loomed in the west – the sun shined brightly in the east. it was like a competition. it looks like it may be a battle all day between the two.
hoping that means some rainbows today.
within an hour of the first photo – it hailed harder than i knew possible. and it is sticking. bizzare – about a mile from the beach in san diego and this is what it looks like.
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i was heart broken, until i found these recently. they’ll be around for many more years i am sure
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