This loverly baby was still in embryo when his parent's and older brother up and moved an hour and a half away from me (MAJOR bummer), but I got to meet him for the first time this last weekend! Can you say baby hungry?!?! He was just as sweet and soft and fresh as he looks in these pictures. I got some cute ones of the rest of the family to post in the upcoming week, but for now, enjoy, and be envious. I know I was.
She's amazing, and I'm totally excited to have a new sister around at family get togethers! Someday the boys and girls will be equal amongst the Ellingsons. Anyway, one evening many moons ago, I was doing what I do best: wasting my time on the computer while my husband waits for me to go to bed and I remembered that I meant to offer to do pictures for my brother and law and his new fiance. There are a number of photographers in the family, and I didn't know who might have offered already and who hadn't, but I just wanted to let them know that I would be willing to do it if they wanted to. I got a call the next night from them, and through a series of unfortunate events on their part, they had run out of affordable photography options and my offer came at a very opportune time. A month later they were out here for Thanksgiving and I was taking pictures of a beautiful bride on a beautiful day in a beautiful place! My first bridals, and I couldn't be more excited. Many many thanks to my sister in law for her help and expert ideas and shots throughout the shoot! Without her I would have lost some of the best shots in the experience- I wouldn't have even thought of them! BTW- her photography can be found here. Not to mention the incredible work she did on her hair- she's a very talented lady. And after a super marathon editing-hermit-in-the-basement-for-hours session, I came up with a few of these! :-) Can't wait to do the wedding in a month!
So, my daughter is turning three (!!!) tomorrow. Not to get all gushy or anything, but man- I love that girl to death! She was born the day after my birthday (which is today!!!) and that being said, she looks exactly like me, acts exactly like me (yes, I act like a three year old quite often), and is just a beautiful little girl inside and out. Last week, I went out to take some three year old pictures of her. Despite the fact that MOST of the pictures I took of her, she was gazing away from the camera and completely ignoring my desperate pleas of "CHLOE! Please look at the camera! No, don't walk away, stay there, okay, now turn around, no...no the other way, Chloe- Chloe! Look at me quick! Hurry, look at the camera! Okay...don't look at the camera, just turn your head a little more this way...." and so on and so on, I was able to capture this shot. The second I took it I knew it would be my favorite. Really, it's my favorite ever. She is my little autumn beauty, twirling in her own magical world underneath the autumn sun. Not to mention we found this neat little spot of open space with a very "Where the Wild Things Are" feel to it that totally captured the magical, child-like, exploratory and very real feel of autumn about it that I cherish.
Happy iheartfacing this week! And happy autumn, enjoy it while it lasts! See all the other autumn beauties at iheartfaces.com.
We just got costumes for our kids yesterday and needed to try them on today, so it was the perfect time to whip out the camera! Plus it's a little lower stress getting their costume pictures in now instead of on Halloween when it's dark and we're bundling up trying to get out the door.
It was a hard tossup between Tinkerbell and Supergirl this year (we were at Wal-Mart and just got one of their generic costumes). I think if Chloe really had her way, she would have gone with Tinkerbell, but she's three, and her Daddy thought the Supergirl costume was less...froofy. Something like that. In any case, Chloe was extatic when she put it on and so of course we had to do some flight practice in the living room. :-)
Happy Halloween, everyone. I hope they are all safe, not snowy or sleety, and filled with a bazillion calorie-filled morsels to keep you through the winter. :-)
Check out all the other Halloween pictures at iheartfaces.com!!!
Yes, it was below freezing outside. I told them you wouldn't be able to tell in the pictures, no matter how much I'm sure they wanted to chuck a nice ice-packed snowball at me with every more click of my camera that kept them outside. Now I look at the results and go "Wow, what a pleasant snowy day! It almost looks like I could roll in the snow and come up feeling like I just drank a cup of hot chocolate". Dang, we should have had hot chocolate when we were finished, now that I think about it.
Quick EMBARRASSING moment. Beyond embarrassing. If I ever do this again I'm going to quit being a photographer. We got to our first location at the oval at CSU, which is about half an hour from my house, where they graciously picked me up and brought me along so that I wouldn't have to drive myself and most assuredly get lost along the way. We walked outside and took a few stifling breaths of the 23 degree air outside. They closed together while walking and tried to keep each other as warm as they could without jackets, as they didn't want them, obviously, in the shots and we moved to the center of the oval about 3 or 4 hundred yards from the car. I rummaged in my bage and got my camera and lens all snapped together and got them in a position for the first couple of shots. I crouched down and shot away, I'm sure at least looking professional to passersby. I paused after about ten or so shots and looked at my screen to see if I needed to adjust anything when a big horrifying message popped up on my screen in bold letters: "NO CARD". Oh, I put my card wallet in my bag after I cleared them on my computer downstairs at home....*rummage rummage*.....I know they're here somewhere....*rummage rummage*....somewhere....*rummage*....wait, I took my camera out of my bag in the car, it must have just fallen out. So we go back to the car. Do you think the fates would have alligned and I would have been able to miraculously find it in the car anywhere? If you thought yes, you were WRONG. So here comes the point where I tell the couple that they've been shivering outside in below freezing weather for the last ten minutes while I've been frantically looking everywhere for the cards for nothing because now we have to either go back and get them (half an hour away, remember) or wait uncomfortabley in the car for my husband to bring them out here. Deep breath, confession comes out....silence while my face gets even more screwed up in preparation for their reaction when a miracle happens. Groom to be says "Wait, do you just need an SD card?" ...."YES"..."Well I've got one in the car you can use if you want to". ?!?!?!? What are the chances that that would happen!! Seriously! It was only 2 GB's, so I knew I would probably need my cards anyway at some point if I wanted to shoot in RAW (which I want to shoot in RAW), so the most embarassing part of the experience all together was the fact that I had to ask my dear husband to bring them out to us and he will now never let me live it down. I always told myself I would never be one of those photographers that did stupid stuff like that. I guess it's things like that that keep you humble, though, right? Sure. Never doing it again. Ever.
These guys were amazing, though. Did everything I asked with no hesitation, even when I had to stop at some weird points all of a sudden at weird walls or stairways along the way. They even had their own ideas about many things that ended up being some of my favorite shots! Believe it or not, we even went up into the foothills a little to Horsetooth reservoir where it was even COLDER to get some shots up in the mountains. It's too bad the weather coulnd't have been better, but it turned out well anyways. :-)
The last thing I'll say in my novel here is that this will probably be my last shoot for a while. I really need to focus on my family and my real job teaching at school and it's been difficult balancing this on my already filled plate, so I'll be taking a break probably until Spring time with a possible pit stop around the holidays in between. Love you all. Keep your families smiling and beautiful as always until then.
And now....Couple "M". :-)
These guys were seriously a blast. Flexible, funny, creative, so attractive, and had the cutest darn little girls ever. Mom warned me that they were social, and she was right: the older one had tons of questions, had the cutest smile, and as we were leaving even invited me to go to preschool with her! I think that means we're friends. There was a point where the younger one stomped her cute little foot down when she was asked to sit or stand in a way that she didn't particularly want to and both Mom and Dad scornfully went "Oooh, look at her, she's throwing a fit!" I gawked at them and said "That's a fit?!" and on further reflection have acknowledged that my kids must be monsters. The rest of the time she smiled and giggled pretty much on command. It was a good time. Let's do it again sometime!
Oops, I'll have to post the rest later, I gotta go! Happy Monday!
Anyone remember that Leanne Rhymes song? I don't even listen to country, but it was on the radio a lot when I was in Jr. High....
Now, if I had been smart, I would have looked ahead and seen that this week's theme was blue and not posted the picture I posted last week so I could post this picture this week and not have two shots from the same day two weeks in a row. But then I looked back at my last couple of entries and realized that I posted the same pics from a shoot I did with my daughter for like a million weeks in a row and decided I'd do it this week anyway. In any case, how could I not post this one for "blue"?! Seriously...
I heart color themes. :-)
I spy some more blue pictures at iheartfaces.com. Click here or on the button below to see them!
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