7 Months and Growing Big!

Today, I did my little man's pictures! He has gotten so big and I love seeing him every Tuesday. He is very busy and quick he is constantly putting things in his mouth. He is the happiest baby in the world and has the biggest smiles as you can see! His mom didn't want studio pictures and it was a great learning experience for me to learn that I need a new camera!

The shots that started it all...

I just wanted to post the pictures that started it all, the ones that let me really love photography and made me fall in love with my own work. It's crazy to see life in still images but I think about everything as how it would look on camera. It's really strange! Enjoy!

St. Charles in September

About 2 weeks before the wedding, I tracked my happy self all the way up north to St. Charles. I went to look for good spots for engagement photos for a friend of mine in the spring. I had a very relaxing day, just me before all the chaos. I also got to have lunch with my Dad at Lewis and Clarks restaurant, it was a great day over all. None of the pictures I am posting are of any of the places that I decided I would take engagement shots but they are all ones that I really love. The picture of the door and the window is what really inspired my Windows on the World book. I love the two rose pictures, there is something interesting about a shot that has one part in focus and the rest blurry. I stumbled upon the feather on the brick it was so unique and alone. There is something clean about cobblestone and I love it. Keep checking back for more shots there will be alot more coming up in the next few weeks.

Photoshop.. I LOVE IT!!

Here are some photos that I didn't post but I have edited, I absolutely love being able to color accent the photos. The first one is of a construction worker at Ground Zero and he was so hallow. He looked like he had been working there since day 1 and was just fried emotionally, mentally and physically. Drew took the picture after a big cement truck had left ground zero and they were shutting the gates. The shoes picture I took at a corner somewhere past Times Square I love! The woman wearing the shoes was straight out of gossip girl, she looked so professional and her black shoes were just eye catching to me. I have no idea who she is and maybe that is what I like about this picture, she can be any woman and every woman all rolled into one. I used a color accent to keep the shoes shiny and make everything else gray scale. I love it. The 3rd picture is what I am calling Window's on the World, I would love to eventually do a book full of them but this one I adore. There is something magical about how alive the tree is and I feel like I am looking out the window instead of into it. The MM's rock my world too, there is something antique about the black and white and futuristic about the color. I like that the reflection of the candy is black and white. I don't know it may just be me but I dig it.

Great Falls National Park

There are no words to explain the beauty of this park so I am just going to post the pictures.

Arlington National Cemetery... enough said!

Arlington National Cemetery was really interesting much better than I thought it would be. We saw a lot of interesting people's graves and I learned that I am distantly related to General Richard Montgomery and he was the guy who decided Arlington would be our national cemetery. We visited the Kennedy graves and I guess it was just before our time because I didn't feel the same emotion that a lot of the elderly women felt as they stood there crying. We were also privy to the changing of the guard at first we thought we had missed it but the guard stopped us so the new guard could come out. It was really cool to see all of it from beginning to end. Drew took about 202 pictures of just the changing of the guard I won't bore you to have to see each step taken. Side note I just learned I can spell check on here, I will be doing that more often. 2nd side note, I also type like I speak and since I don't feel as though I am being graded that is what you are going to get. There were alot of great scenic views from Arlington Cemetery and rows and rows of military graves. We learned there are 350 from the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and 293,000 graves from other wars. Oh, I forgot to tell you how we got lost before getting to Arlington and accidently went to the current Fort Meyer , we pull up and the guard is like go to the right make a U-turn and exit out of here. We make the right and it pulls us up to check point where people are opening their trunks, their hoods and all the doors so their cars can be searched. It was so creepy! It makes me so sad that they have to do that.

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A few more D.C. pictures before Arlington Cemetary commentary and pictures.