RWS: a Picture a Day - 2008

Giggle Girl

Note: We spent this afternoon at the Chandler Mall with a couple of my Arizona students. Although at the end I wanted to sell my children, it was fun to get to finally meet Jen (HI JEN! THANKS FOR CALLING ME LAZY! haha) and to once again hang out with the wonderful and sweet Janelle. What a great day.
Note2: The kids are with their dad this weekend and that is probably a very good thing.

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | 1/125 @ f/2.8 | ISO 400
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I loved yesterday’s light so much, I had to get in it myself

Note: Notice that I am trying to make it up to the yeasts of the world by consuming them in a different form…..

Yeast Killer

Note: I know. This is creepy. LOL
Note2: But I didn’t wait for the warmed mixture to cool down enough before I added it to my yeast mixture and I fried the little boogers.

Note3: Whoops.

Cocoa Beans — The first stage of the world’s most beautiful food: Chocolate

Note: Kelley’s hands letting the roasted beans fall back into the bean bag (ha!) at the Callier Chocolate Factory. The place is now my official favorite location due simply to the fact that at the end of the tour they take you into a room full of FREE CHOCOLATE SAMPLES. People! The room should be paved with gold and ringed with angels singing “Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!” and there should be dancing and some sort of twinkle lights.

as it is, it’s just a dark room with chocolate under strategically placed lights. But the rest of it might as well have been there because I saw it that way in my head the minute the tables upon tables of chocolate appeared in front of me.

Sooc, I’m check the edits when I get home.

They *might* like each other, sort of, for 5 seconds every day

Note: Elijah’s 6th birthday is on Monday and so we took a few minutes today to take some pictures. We also celebrated with cake and ice cream and presents today since Monday is going to be a fairly hectic day.
Note2: My mom and I were talking in pig latin today in order to “avoid detection” by little ears. When I said something was Upid-Stay, Elijah asked what it meant.

“What do YOU think it means, buddy?”

“Ummm…. Birthday?”

“WOW! you’re so SMART! That’s exactly what it means!”

“Hey Katie! Woopid-Stay means ‘birthday’!!”

Happy Woopid-Stay (observed!), Buddy! Looking forward to the REAL day on Monday!

Carefree

Note: We spent the morning out taking photos with one of my former students and had a blast! Thank you Janelle and Ashley for a fantastic morning!

Twirling

Note: I often tell my students to be inspired by the light - this is one of those instances…. Katie ran down the hall and I was turned towards her and she hit the light at the corner right there and it was beautiful and she kept on running. So I went and got the camera and came back and bribed her with marshmallows to do some twirls down there at the end of the hall….. She readily agreed. Marshmallows are like GOLD to that kid.

pp: defog, crisp color boost, vintage film 1.0 at low opacity, red vintage at low opacity, resized and sharpened for web

Flash Workshop May 2008

Sunset Silhouette (all natural light)

Pull Back of the next shot, and a fun sort of self portrait

Sexy Mama!

Sexy Mama 2!

Thanks to Janelle and Lana for a fantastic weekend! I hope you had as much fun as I did and I hope you learned more than you could have imagined!

ummmm……..yeah

Note: How I spent my day. A visual essay.
Note2: Happy Birthday, Mom!

16-35mm lens @ 16mm | 1/200 @ f/14 | ISO 200 | Vivitar 285 off camera at 1/16 with full ND filter through snoot
pp: defog, crisp color boost, Red’s Vintage at low opacity, resize and sharpen for web

Mellow Yellow, Quite Rightly

Note: Spent the morning with one of my amazing students, Jill, who also happens to be pregnant with her fourth baby (brave, brave, BRAVE woman!)

We had a great time walking around down town Gilbert just messing around and talking photo stuff and trying to get my kids to cooperate. Elijah was out of school today for some sort of reason that I’m not clear on and so he was around, too. Which made things interesting.

Note2: Love the Nikon Attitude!

85mm lens | 1/2000 @ f/2.8 | ISO 200
pp: white balance corrected, defog, Vintage Film v1.0 by Fallout75 from flickr, resize and sharpen for web

And a bonus shot from today of Katie pretending to be in jail: