Archive for February, 2011

I wanted to share these images a month ago.  Funny story (though not at the time).  After I took these pictures of my cats the memory card went missing.  I was pretty confident one of the kitties took it and hid it somewhere.  Seung and I searched high and low for days checking every crevice of our condo (including the garage) and underneath everything (the refrigerator, washer, dryer, sofa) where we think a cat would hide something.  We actually gave up on it.  The last time I suspected the kitties of taking something of mine it showed up two years later.  As I was packing my camera gear for WPPI (blog on that coming soon) last week the memory card magically appeared in my Think Tank roller.  Sorry, Jolie & Jonas!  Looks like momma misplaced the memory card after all and blamed it on the kitties.  Anyway, these are the test shots from my new 100mm macro lens.  I can finally take decent pictures of my cats without being all up in their space and scaring them off before taking a picture.  Aren’t they cute??  I have the best kitties in the world.  They sure aren’t your typical lazy house cats I can tell you that.  I can’t believe it’s been over three years now.  They’re our precious babies!  Okay, I’ll stop now before somebody calls me the crazy cat lady.  They were rescued kitties which we adopted and brought home at 11 weeks old in December 2007.

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to photograph a one year old birthday party.  When my friend Jen contacted me to photograph her son’s first birthday party I knew it was going to be a fun one.  Jen’s a crafty person and I expected her to go all out with the party.  Jen describes herself as having “hobbies A.D.D.”.  She’s taken classes for sewing, card making, cake decorating and most recently a Photoshop class to accompany her photography obession.  Knowing this I was excited and couldn’t wait to see what Jen had in store.  I love how nicely she incorporated robots into the party.  Everything was just so cute!  For entertainment there was also a puppet show for the kids.  That was a first for me.  To top it off, one  year old Trevor got to do a cake smash.  Oh you know I was totally jealous of him.

Happy birthday Trevor!  I was secretly wishing I was in that high-chair instead.  Hmmm, I’m thinking I should have a cake smash too for my birthday this year.  Yes?  No?  Is there an age limit on that?

Feb 13, 2011

Normally I would sleep in a little on Sunday mornings (although I try not to), but little Lucus came by to visit so I had to get the place all tidy.  Lucus will be seven months old in just a couple of days.  He came bearing with a surprise too.  He’s already got his two little lower front teeth, hence all the drools.  I snapped a couple photos of him with my new 35mm 1.4L and 100mm 2.8 macro lenses.  I love the macro lens so much (I love the 35mm too).  The reason why is because it doubles as a nice portrait lens as well.  That way I’m not all up in the poor kid’s face with my camera.  The first image was taken with the 35mm.  With that face I can only imagine Lucus saying “lady, what’s that thing you’re putting in my face?”  The rest were taken with the 100mm macro lens.  I was able to keep my distance and give Lucus his space.  I love that I can observe and document from a distance and still get the close-up shots.  I’m sure my cats will agree to that as well.

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