I found Nemo!
Or, I suppose he found me. This little fishy swam into my studio today.
Then he got nekkid.
I wants to squish dat widdle tushie. heehee
Watching Alex grow
This little lady came to see me for newborn photos and now she’s come back for her 6 month portraits. Mom wanted the works. We did a summer outfit, a Halloween costume, and a photo for the Christmas Card that I still need to design.
THEN
NOW
Look at that precious little pout! Little baby faces make me swoon.
Hang in there mom. I should have your gallery ready by tomorrow. 
Little Lainey
I had the pleasure of meeting little Lainey yesterday. Of course, she brought her mother too and we all got along like peas and carrots. Here’s your sneak peek!
Oh, and… I designed the cutest birth announcement for you. Just wait till you see! I did that before editing the photos! 
I couldn’t resist.
I’ve been tagged!
I have been “tagged” by my colleague Anna-Karin. This means I am to post a blog entry with the same theme in which she blogged. She was tagged by yet another photographer, and it goes on and on. I’m supposed to share a few factoids about myself. Oh boy, consider yourself warned. 
1 - My very first camera was a generic 110 camera. I don’t think it even had a flash. I found it on along the bank on a family canoe trip when I was a young child. There weren’t any identifying markings on the camera so there was no chance of returning it to it’s owner so my parents let me keep it. They bought me film and I began taking photographs of my family, our trips as well as my friends.
2 - My first darkroom experience was at Girl Scout camp right around 1983 I think. Every girl was given the opportunity to expose two frames on a roll of B&W film. Somebody processed it for us and we each got to make a print from one of our negatives. I printed a photograph of the other girls from my tent. I posed them in front of a field of tall grasses. I may still have the photograph somewhere in my basement.
3 - My senior year of High School I took two photography classes. For the first class, I used my parent’s Canon AE-1. Pleased with my enthusiasm, I received a Vivitar 35mm SLR for Christmas to use for my 2nd class. A year later I traded that Vivitar in towards a more fully featured Minolta. I forget the model number, but it had auto focus. Woo! It was a used camera, but it was new to me. I was really jazzed about auto focus.
4 - In college, I earned certification in “Audio-Visual Technology”. All of the photography courses fell under this category. I took various classes covering the history of photography, the fundamentals of camera operation, b&w, color and slide film, studio photography, portraiture and even a couple of cinematography classes.
5 - Over the years I’ve used medium and large format cameras, made prints from film & slides, sepia and selenium print toning, made and used pinhole cameras, cyanotype art and Polaroid transfers. I’d really like to do more transfers and cyanotype.
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Cyanotype is a fun and educational way to for your kids to explore the art of photography. Just pick up a Sunprint Kit of photo-sensitive paper, arrange some objects on top of a sheet and expose it to the sun. Then develop the print in a bath of plain tap water. Cyanotype is a lesson in chemistry, math and composition all rolled into fun.
Now I tag Jessi Baldwin, Steven Fox and Erika Martin… and the theme continues.