Friday, December 10, 2010

Friday 3's Holiday Party

I'm a little sad because I thought I could post pictures for both the boys this week, but Elliot was sick during his mommy & me class so Erik is the only one who got to enjoy Santa this year. Today in fun fashion we celebrated with all of our classmates in school and Santa even came by and brought all the boys and girls presents. (books brought from their parents)

This was Erik's first visit with Santa this year and before we got to school I totally talked Santa up and told him Santa was coming to his class to give him a present. He could barely contain his excitement at the idea of Santa paying him a visit. He did well and rushed over to Santa to pay him a visit.

  

Last year when we took the Thursday 2's class I created a photobook with images we had taken through the year. Today I thought just in case we decide to create that book again, I will take pictures of all the students and then I took a lot of extra pictures for Erik for his personal photobook. I think this might be the first day I took pictures of Erik at mommy & me school.



My absolute favorite picture of the day was when Erik was helping Celine to put the bike back during clean up time. Absolutely precious!



Here are a couple more of my favorite images from today. Conditions outside are really terrible this time of day to take pictures, it goes from super shady to super sunny and since I manually meter my images I am constantly having to adjust as I run after the kids. It's a challenge and sometimes I make mistakes, but I am getting better at it. This is definitely good practice since I am considering shooting weddings which have similar lighting challenges.





Here are a couple favorite images from this morning. The indoor images were shot by bouncing the flash off the white ceiling.






This is the teacher for both Erik and Elliot's class. Basically I see her a lot during the week. Thank goodness I like her and she has lots of great advice for both my boys.

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I am a Los Angles based photographer and mom of 2 wonderful boys. Photography has been a passion of mine over 15 years now, ever since I picked up my first camera in journalism school and started developing my black and whites in a darkroom. The instant an affordable DSLR came out on the market in 2002, I had to have one and have been shooting digital since. Once I became a mom I realized how much I enjoy photographing children and how much better I could understand their nuances so it became a passion of mine. Their is such innocence and beauty in their pictures and I feel privileged to be a part of that. I am constantly trying new approaches and tuning my skills to create the art that is in my head, not just the art that I can create right now. I am very interested in off camera flash, and the depth and clarity it adds to my photographs. Sometimes I take breaks from my blog and photography, but it seems to never leave me completely. I always come back.