Babies!!

As most of you probably know, I'm not at all interested in having my own baby right now, but it's fun to play with other people's babies sometimes, and even more fun to take pictures of them! Luckily I have an abundance of friends who have just had babies, or who are expecting one soon and I got to take pictures of two of those babies recently.

Samuel:

And Zack:

He didn't like the wagon very much, but he sure looked cute in it!!

Ok, that's enough babies for now ;)

Dear Edwina,

If you don't know Maddie, you might not fully appreciate this post (but you'll definitely still think the video is cute!). You may remember her from videos such as these ones, where she can be heard (over the music) loudly "asking" her little friends to do her bidding. It should be no surprise then, that she recently played the part of Edwina, a 6th grade "advice-columnist" who answers questions from her neighborhood friends in the form of a musical show. I didn't make it out to CA for the show, but when in was home in January she was already rehearsing and there was one line that stood out to me, it was something like "Too bad there's not a prize for telling others what to do" (if there was, Maddie would win it hands down). Edwina's brothers and sister are always getting prizes for their achievements, but Edwina's talents aren't really the kind that win prizes ;)

Anyway, it was all caught on tape, but the file was really big so my dad just posted this clip for me, enjoy:



I'm so proud! I think she's awesome, and I wish I could have been there. Can't wait to see the whole thing in a couple months...

Complementary Colors

Here's this last week's shot for Color and Light, highlighting the complementary colors red/orange and blue/green.

 And this week's shot which shows analogous colors:

 This is the beginnings of my final project for this class, which I was forced to narrow down a bit this week since I had to turn in a proposal explaining exactly what I want to do. Most of the photos I take from now on in this class will be geared towards my final project so that I'll have lots (hopefully!) to choose from in the end. I'm going for a mysterious feeling, where you're not really sure what's happening in the photos, you never get the whole picture. Another example...

By the way it's still really cold here and I made Brent take of his jacket for an extended period of time while the wind was blowing, and there was minimal whining/complaining. What a trooper.

Now off to start a new project...I'm kind of nervous about this one. Hopefully I'll have something worthy of posting in a couple of days...

Maddie's Twelfth, and my BIG debut...

Over the years it has become a tradition for me to fly home for Maddie's birthday, and there was no way I was going to miss it this year because she turned 12!! I know, I can't believe it either. We always have some kind of crazy party for her and this year it was a real LIVE concert! Seriously. Here's the invite (that I made):


And now for the best part! My brother Chase is in "Carbon Charisma" the band (he says it's not a "band"...you can be the judge) on the invite poster, and they played for like an hour at Maddie's party. I told him when we asked him to play that he would have to do at least a couple of "girly" songs, and he reluctantly complied. Then about a week later I got an email from him asking me if I would sing the girly songs so he wouldn't have to! ha. Of course I said yes, and got to work memorizing lyrics, though as you will see, it wasn't really necessary...



Don't I make a great Miley!!?? haha. I'm not a huge fan, but you have to admit that song is awesome (and it was stuck in my head pretty much the entire month of January). Ok, next up: Taylor!! So the guitarist is totally awesome, and I think the acoustic versions of these songs might even be better than the originals (seriously) but somehow we started this song waaaay lower than when we practiced it that morning...you can tell when I'm reaching for those low notes! ha. Still fun though, and the kids pretty much sang the whole thing for me, so no worries...



Maddie is the crazy one with the short hair, in case you were wondering. Climbing up on top of everyone and grabbing the mike for her own solo! Needless to say the party was awesome and a fantastic time was had by all. Thanks Madeleine Pickett for the awesome flip camera skills (and the singing! I totally heard you ;)  I already can't wait till next year...