A and J - March 2010

As I was attempting to organize some photos on my hard drives, I realized that I never blogged about this session!  Shame on me!  Especially considering it was done almost 8 months ago!  Geeeez I am dropping the ball.  But in my defense, this session was when I was still working a full-time job in addition to full-time photography, and full-time Mom duties.  Not sure how that all mathematically adds up to fit in a day, but that should explain how I completely bypassed this session.

So anyways...I have loved being able to watch this family grow....my first session with them was when little "J" was a wee baby, only a few weeks old I believe...which I just realized the pics don't even load properly anymore on my blog...it was that long ago that I didn't know what I was doing when I uploaded them I think...so here is one of the pics from that first session:

 

Since then, I did another session with them when "J" was around 6 months I believe...here's a few of those pics: http://averyjamesphotography.blogspot.com/2009/05/growing-family.html

Then another one when "J" was about a year old: http://averyjamesphotography.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-j-november-2009.html

And then the below session which would make "J" about a year and a half I believe...and of course his big sister "A" has grown as well, but the changes are always so much more obvious in a child's first couple of years.

(To see all pics from this family: http://averyjamesphotography.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20and%20J)

Unfortunately this fabulous family moved away from California to another state completely ::tear:: but thankfully they still have some ties to the So Cal area and will be back in December...and yes, we'll be doing another session while they're here!

So although it's 8 months late, here are some pics from the most recent session of "A" and "J"! :)

Ephram (continued)

Just finishing up cutie Ephram's pictures.  He is so stinkin' adorable!

I've also been working on my black and white and sepia conversions....I'm really loving the way they turn out...I finally caught on to what every other photographer already knew - that converting your photo to black and white in photoshop (or similar) does NOT create a good black and white picture.  But I've been playing around with some different formulas and I think I got it down....I welcome any comments! :) :)

A and J - March 2010

Oh how I love this field of flowers...yes, I've taken pictures there just about 3 days in a row now...but I can't help it!  1) It's BEAUTIFUL, and 2) the flowers will die...and it will be a big, brown, empty field eventually...and I don't know when that day will happen, so I'm going to take full advantage of it now!!  Besides, this family is the ones that told me the flowers were in bloom in the first place...so I owe these beautiful scenic photos all to them. :)

Below is a little sneak peek at the session...and I have to say, this photo below of the two of them together might be one of my all-time favorite sibling photos.  It's hard to get siblings to interract naturally with each other....but this one turned out well. :)

Also - if you're reading this and don't mind....could you tell me how the color in these images look on your monitor??  I'm having issues as I'm looking at the same images in 4 different programs...1 of them looks ridiculously over saturated (really red skin basically), 1 looks really under-saturated, and the other 2 look fine, including the ones I'm looking at on this blog....so I'm curious as to how you all see it as well....your comments are appreciated! :)

Adorable Ephram

How cute is this little one???  He has got some gorgeous eyes and an addicting smile.  He wasn't a fan of sitting in the grass...or on a blanket either for that matter...but he still produced some adorable pictures, so it doesn't matter! :)

Here's a couple for a little sneak peek at them.  I'll post more later. :) :)

Beautiful flowers!

Last summer I think it was, I was browsing through photographer's blogs and found a local one who had done a photoshoot at this beautiful spot in Palos Verdes with gorgeous yellow flowers everywhere....I was in awe!!  I drove down to the place that same week expecting to take some photos, only to find out that they were seasonal and completely dried up and dead....nothing but barren land left behind. :(

Then today, one of my clients called me and said that her and her family had just discovered this beautiful spot in Palos Verdes where the flowers were all in bloom and wanted to do a photo session there.  When she told me where it was located, I knew that it was the same place....boy, was I excited!! 

So I drove down there today after work and took my son, and started snapping away!  It was just as beautiful as I had imagined...so now I'm moving my shoot this Saturday to this location, and hoping someone else will want to do photos here as well!!!  Look!! :)

P.S. This is also a sneak at my new and improved photo processing process....these are samples of images with all the additional post-processing that your photos will receive as well. :)