Create through my lens- Blogging all about Pebbles and BamBam

The one week break from the Bloom Photography Workshop ended last weekend and I am again "one" with my camera. This session of the workshop lasts 3 weeks and is titled "Create". This session is much more challenging in that it is requiring me to delve deeper into what I want my pictures to say, mood to convey, emotion to evoke, and how to get it in-camera. I read this morning the following on The Creative Mama Blog, an interview with photographer Erin McCobb:

The art I produce is (has to be) created through my lens. Not the lens on my camera but the personal filter that dictates how I see the world.

This is what I aim to achieve.

This is a photo from the other night. When Nate and I ask them to sit next to each other they sat 10 feet apart from each other. So we tried a different tactic, Nicole sit in Noah's lap...her interpretation of this is to sit on his lap! This picture to most would be perfect if Noah and Nicole had looked at the camera. But for me, I love that I captured a moment of happiness, where you can see the tenderness in both of their sweet faces. And oh yeah...Nicole is holding a camera, just like her Mama!