Photographed sweet little Elle this morning in her nursery.  I had to include this first photograph in the peek because of the way the light is hitting her hair – see the red?  LOVE IT!

Elle fell into a nice deep sleep and then her mommy and I were able to move her around and take photographs on different quilts she has.  I love the elephants in this next one and how curled up Elle is.

Now I have a whole bunch of other favorites, but I think I will leave you with this black and white.  This is one of my favorite angles to photograph because it’s the view I remember most from when my kids where little – sweet little cheeks and nose with a bit of lips!

Hope you got to enjoy some of this beautiful day – I think mother nature heard me say I want to move someplace without winter so she is tempting me to say with a mild one.  I’ll take it!

~  Judie

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Big fan of hats too!

Thank you Kara for all your help, you are an excellent big sis!

~  Judie

I had a fun session with my young friend Abbie last weekend, she brought a cute mermaid tail with her.  I really like this one of her looking bored.

While I take photographs, we always end up chatting.  This time the conversation turned to Toddler’s and Tiara’s, you know the show with really young kids all dressed up and wearing lots of makeup, doing pageants.  Abbie told me about this new photography technique I had never heard of, it’s called Glitz.  I did a search and have to say those girls end up looking like avatars from a video game to me.  Anyways, I went back to the session I did for Abbie for her dance costumes to find one of her with some makeup on and gave it a try.

Here’s my first attempt – it was a miss.

The before picture.

After:

Now my second attempt came out a little better.

Before:

After: 

She kind of looks plastic-y and fake, right?

Success!!

Of course it’s a total fail in terms of her mascara – they must draw on those perfect long black lines around the eyes.

So here’s what I learned – the photograph that worked best was lit with studio lights instead of natural lights.  Both eyes are evenly lit and so is her body and face.  The first photograph she was being lit from above with window light and her arms and shoulders are darker than her face.

Thanks for the idea to try Abbie!!

~  Judie

See why I had a hard time – so cute!!

~  Judie

It was hard to pick just a few to share – isn’t this one sweet?

And I had to share this one -  I don’t care what the experts say – this baby is smiling!!

I could spend hours just watching him sleep – all the little expressions!

~  Judie

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They convert to some really beautiful black and whites too.

Great seeing you all again – have a great holiday season.

~  Judie
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I had a hard time picking just a few to share – I love all the action shots!

I had to include this movie star sunglasses shot….

…and this is the one I redid because I thought Hannah was too far in front of the lights, but in black and white I just love it!  I think she looks a lot like her mom in this one too.

This one is my absolute favorite – Hannah is on the swim team and just rocks these swim goggles!

I still need to practice more so let me know if you have a ten-year old with PERSONALITY who would like to be my model.

~  Judie
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Nice location with some great backgrounds – love the warm wood colors and yellow and red leaves -  here’s a peek!

Great family, they made my job easy!

~  Judie
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Dylan is seven months old now and just beautiful!

Even though I moved the session from yesterday due to wind, we still had quite a bit of wind to deal with at Gulf Beach.  I got a few great family shots that you will just have to wait to see, this is one of my favorites from that location.

A quick drive to their own neighborhood and we had some great spots for photographs plus no wind!

Photographs with the family pup reminded me of working with siblings!  Challenging in a fun way!  Dylan just wanted to stare at her four legged friend.

Some of my absolute favorite shots are from when we moved into their home.

Incredible light + Dylan was really happy = Great shots

I had fun, hope you did too.  Big thank you to Bob who assisted me today.

~  Judie
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I’ve redone my pricing to give clients a bigger selection of choices, including digital options I’ve been trying out and found to be very popular.

I am pulling out my studio lighting and brushing up on those skills to offer some exciting new sessions to choose from – look for the samples soon.

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I had such a good session with Samantha and Cole.

Cole is such a little man – just loved his hat!  He was kind of shy at first but really warmed up when we got to this playground equipment.

Samantha was outgoing and vibrant right from the beginning!  We had fun capturing some shots with her curls bouncing up.

Nice Day + Beautiful Children = Success!

~  Judie
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