Happy 31st Birthday Damon!

He is like little kid in a candy store today. We got him a Wii for his birthday. Its 11 AM and he hasn't gotten dresses to go to work yet. He is taking the morning off(which he wasn't planning to do), and I am guessing, he will take the afternoon off too. He loves it. I am glad I didn't get him that Bulova watch he has been eyeing. I think he will enjoy this much more. The morning was a great breakfast of mini frittatas and grilled ham, wii-ing and opening his other presents. The plan is Jason's deli for lunch, and chicken teriaki with a culvers ice cream cake for dessert. What a fun day! I will post a more sentimental offering to the birthday boy tomorrow.Isn't Liam hilarious in this!? He figured out how to open the box of milk duds in the birthday kit ( a gift with all of the birthday boys favorite things, milk duds, cashews, coke zero, Doritos, ect) He stuffed as many as he could in his mouth.
(Yes, I realize my white balance is totally off in these pics, they look blue. Oh well, they are still fun.)

A Photographers Dream

I had the privilege of photographing Taylor for her 16th birthday. The first thing I thought when I got home and looked at the photos on the computer is, "She looks way to beautiful for a 16 year old." As her mother says," We have the eyes in this family." That ain't no exaggeration either. Just look at them! I am so excited to have her in Laurels now! Hooray! She is amazingly pretty, and I got to photograph her with my new camera. Like I said, a photographers dream!

Tay's mom Kelly! Well, now you know where she gets it from!

Liam's 1 year pics

Isn't he adorable!?
My Liam Boy.

Picssss

So- This will be a lot of photo babble, but I have to tell you all how amazing this camera is.

I know this is of Polly pocket princesses, but I was playing around and it came out really cool! This was taken at night with NO FLASH at 3200 ISO. 85 mm lens F1.8 ss60. NO NOISE! For those who are reading this, 3200 ISO is like a really fast film speed. Really sensitive to light. But, also really grainy, which is called noise. The D300 is amazing because they have figured out a way to shoot at that 2000+ ISO with no noise! My flash use just got cut in half...

ISO 250, ss1000, f 7. LOVE that it keeps a exposure log for me.

I love how the shutter release feels. Like Butta. And the whole 51 point focusing thing is super fast and AMAZING! I took over 30 frames of Zoey on the swing, expecting to get 5 or 6. All of them were crystal clear. I am so impressed. Needless to say, Nikon has made huge strides in digital SLR market. Canon cannot touch them anymore. I know 3 photographers that have switched to Nikon because of the D300 and the D3. For a pro photographer, that is huge. If I switched to canon, I would spend about 10 g's just to replace the equipment I have.

I love this because you can see me holding the camera in my glasses lens.

Playing with my fancy lens. I was trying to confuse the camera's focusing ability, but it did exactly what I wanted. I would have had to manually focus my D70 to get this shot.

I am in Love...with a camera...

IT CAME!!

My Camera is here. Safe and sound! I always get nervous ordering things like that online. I did Spencer Broomheads ( Clara's son) groups prom pics with it and I am in love. I feel a little guilty because I have been totally ignoring my family, but not bad enough to stop! This one I LOVE!

Isn't she cute!

Anticipation

So my D300 is coming today. I have checked UPS tracking site like 50 times today. I am not leaving the house. I have things to do, gym, return some things, drop off Bridal shower invites, shop for some groceries for the weekend. But not until my D300 is in my home and charging. I am litterally crawling out of my skin with excitement. I took a 3 minute shower, becuase I didn't want to miss the UPS guy. I didn't blowdry my hair becasue I wanted to hear the door bell ring. I even took down the 'please knock' sign during Liam's nap. I have issues, and I'm OK with that...

GlamaMom

So I was thinking when I was out for dinner/dessert with a few of my fabulous friends, that we should come up with a term for fabulous mothers. WE ARE GLAMAMOMS! I mean it. Its hard enough to take care kids and a husband. But to do so while looking good, that is a noteworthy accomplishment. We could all give up, not care about make-up or looking good. But we don't. We do it all, and take care of ourselves. We work out. We dress cute. We take care of ourselves. AND the rest of our family. Having worked with and photographed what the world thinks beauty should be, waif thin, uneducated "Glamazons" who can't describe anything with out using the "F" word, I can tell you this. You are Beautiful. You are Amazing. You are Glamorous in a totally Unglamorous job.

So to all my fellow GlamaMoms, keep workin' it out.

We make being a Mom look Good. ;)