Happy Halloween to All Your Ghosts and Goblins- Blogging all about Pebbles and BamBam

Just had to quickly post and say "Happy Halloween!" to all your ghosts and goblins. I hope that you are all very safe on Sunday night. Have fun and don't forget to save some of the good candy for yourself...hee hee.

What I would have submitted for the Gap Casting Call-Blogging all about Pebbles and BamBam

I just thought I would post the pictures that I WOULD have submitted to the Gap Casting Call last week, that is if I had gotten my act together and pushed the sent button. Maybe next year?

These photos were taken as part of the Natural Light Workshop by Detra that I am taking right now. In this workshop we are on week 6. It's a very intense workshop where I am fighting the feeling of being burnt out! I am pushing onward because I am learning so so much. The workshop is amazing and the content is even more amazing. I feel like I can shoot in almost any natural light situation and make the photos work. The amount of time I spend in editing is hazardous to my health and sleep, so needless to say I will be taking a break for the holiday's.

The assignment for these photos was to intentionally "Blow" the background. That essentially means to blow out any detail, color etc...just white while maintaining the exposure of your subject. This is done in a lot of high fashion photos. At the bottom of the post you can see the straight out of camera shot, to see where I started with these photos.

I have ton's of pictures to share, but will stop at 5 for you today. Again here is my sweet and loving Noah.

I love this first pictures because for some reason it just capture a part of his personality.

Enjoy and Loves!







And these are the SOOC shot: All taken with my 50mm prime lens.

More from our time in Auberry-Blogging all about Pebbles and Bambam

Just a few more pics from our quick trip to Auberry in September. Mostly, what we did was watch the kids ride around on the John Deere tractors. From sun up to sun down that is what they did! I think with our next visit, I will need to bring ear plugs for the kids, because I am convinced with the amount of time they spent tooling around the "ranch" on the tractors that they probably lost a few decibels of hearing. I am blaming the tractors for Noah not "hearing" me when I ask him to do something for nth million time, and not because he is 3 and already thinks that he is in charge. Both the kids had a wonderful time with lots of room to jump, run, ride, and play. Good times!

Hope you enjoy the pictures. Thanks for looking.

Tractors, Tractors and more Tractors!!




Country life...

The last days of summer-Blogging all about Pebbles and Bambam

I have so many photos that I super behind in posting! Part of the reason that I am back-logged is that I started another photography workshop in mid-September in addition to getting really busy at work and bringing my work home with me at night (insert grumpy face here). I will post soon about my new photography workshop, it is awesome!

Anyway, I want to share a few photos from our family trip to Auberry to see Nate's parents. We decided at the last moment to take a week off from work and found ourselves with 2 - 3 days with nothing planned. We packed the kids and a couple of suitcases along with my camera and made the 4 1/2 hour drive to see the grandparents. I took a BAZILLION (not sure that is a word, but I am going with it) pictures and I can't show them all here. But on one afternoon Noah agreed to model for me so that I could capture him in the beautiful late summer light. A few notes about the pictures...the green chair is what I would call vintage, it was Nate's when he was a child. It fit Noah perfectly! And the key around Noah's neck? Is it a key to a buried treasure chest buried deep in his grandparent's yard. No, it's better than that! It's the key to Grandpa's Shop, where all of the really fun stuff happens! I have lots more photos to share and promise to put a collage together this week. Until then...Enjoy these!

I've been on a black & white kick lately, so I am posting both color and BW versions.

An ode to the beautiful people- Blogging all about Pebbles and BamBam

Well this post is so long overdue that I am a bit embarrased to share it. But because I love these pictures SO SO MUCH I have to share. Sometime in mid-August we made the drive to see my brother and his family in their new house in Roseville (Rocklin, really). Surprisingly, it wasn't too hot and we just sat outside and enjoyed the house warming party that they were having. This was one of those rare times lately where I didn't have my camera out the whole time and only snapped a few photos. I was having such a great time that I didn't want to bury my face behind the camera. But, I did have my camera with me and I caught these few pics of my neice and nephew, that I just adore. I titled this post, "ode to the beautiful people" because these two are so darn gorgeous and cute! I could build an entire portfolio around these two!

We had such a great time seeing my family and I wished that we lived closer so that I could spend more time with them and be there with my niece and nephew as they grow up. Maybe one day...

You now have a piece of my childhood- Blogging all about Pebbles and BamBam

More than a couple of weeks ago we were in downtown Burlingame having dinner. We had some extra time to roam the shops and I was so EXCITED to see that there was now a Vans shop open on the Ave. Seeing this store brought back some warm fuzzies for me. I can still remember my Mom driving us to Vans store in Southern California (Covina, I think??) to buy both my brother and I our Vans. We both got the white slips-ons. Those of you who had parent that bought Stride-Rites for you as a kid(and you know who you are...), my mom was the cool mom that bought Vans instead! I love that she did those small things, and still does those small things for my brother and I as adults! Nate knows how long I have waited to buy both Noah and Nicole a pair of their own Vans, and so he suffered the almost 45 minutes in the store to pick out just the right pair for each of them. And now, they each have a piece or memory from my childhood to have as their own.

all pictures taken with my 50 mm lens on manual baby!

Yay the Bloom Forum is OPEN- Blogging all about Pebbles and BamBam

Head on over to new and fabulous Bloom Forum.

For those of you who don't remember, it is the Bloom Workshop that I took this last summer to grow my passion for photography. The instructors of the workshop, Brenda Acuncius and Kristy Lane, just recently opened up the Bloom Forum. There is an incredible group of women over there that have come together to encourage one another to become better photographers and share their passion for this art. If you want to learn more about your camera, photography, and meet some really awesome people, head on over to the newly launched Bloom Forum.

This months October Creative challenge is all about You. Check out the forum and join in the fun, and find out the details about this month's challenge. You can play too!

Hope to see you there!