My First Newborn Photo Shoot

I got to shoot a one day old lamb today. His (her?) mama was NOT too happy about me coming in there with my loud baby strapped to my back wielding my camera.

Thanks to Haley for letting me shoot and helping me wrangle the kids (humans).



Mama ran away, and then I got the goods.


You can still see that sweet little umbilical cord.



I resorted to doing a lamb call to get him (her?) to come back over to us. Haley joined right in like a trooper, maybe just to make me feel better about being a nut.

He (she?) baah-ed right back. What a lamb.



Then mama came back to get her little lamb and the shoot was pretty much over.



Margot sang Mary Had a Little Lamb all the way home.

Disappointment

I sliced the tip of my right index finger the other day with my rotary cutter. The blade is so sharp I could hardly even see the cut and it never bled! It still hurts and has made operating my camera a bit difficult. Shooting in Manual has many advantages, but trying to quickly change the shutter speed and the ISO while the moment is passing you by can be stressful! Especially when your index finger is injured! Look at the cutest shot that I just completely whiffed thanks to my bum pointer.

They were just about to kiss. A moment before I captured this Stella's mouth was WIDE open for the kiss. It will probably take weeks to get over it. If I didn't have it so firmly lodged in my memory, I might never get over missing the shot!

After this missed moment, I used my flash for the first time in a long time. It seemed like Stella's mouth was open wide in every picture I took. Here are a few. She's such a nut. Margot was sweetly feeding her some Cheerios.



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I Heart Faces Photo Contest

Well thanks to Mary Liz, I have to enter this contest too!
Stella Times Two

Stella Times Two

I was so glad to have the opportunity to photograph my sister-in-law and her beautiful family on Christmas eve. It was in the windiest part of our Texas blizzard. Her son Miles, who is Margot's age and can also be seen here splashing my girls, was screaming at the top of his lungs the whole 3 minutes we were out there. I simply LOVE this picture. Composition could be better, but we were working in tight quarters! I had my back up against a brick wall.



She is such a wonderful sister-in-law. Her motherly wisdom has blessed me (and indirectly Margot and Stella) so much. For my birthday before Margot was born, she gave me a copy of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. I don't know what I would have done without her!


Thanks, Jenni!
Here's some singles of the family

Cate walking on top of the gate


Ella smiling in the snow


Izzy loving on her magical unicorn with a purple horn


Miles in his favorite spot, mama's arms

Posing for the Camera

There are days when Margot requests that I photographically document everything she does. There are days when the constant refrain is "Take the camera away, mama!". Then there are days that she neither desires nor detests the camera; on those days I am allowed, without insult, to ask Margot to look at the camera and occasionally ask her to smile. I rarely do this though, because 9 times out of 10 I get these sorts of faces.






She is red-faced in some of them because she's practically holding her breath for all the effort she's putting into smiling. The bottom, middle picture is the face that she gives me when I ask her to show me a happy heart. It usually produces the ephemeral dimple. Not today.