have you seen an enchanted faerie in the woods?

happy tails ..

My girls are very lucky. They know it. Happiness is when they have a furry companion. They have two. A white dog and a black cat. The dog is all cute,
and the cat named "Sweat Pea" is really true to its name. So sweet.

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Digital scrapbooking

Finally caught up on scrapping and posting to blog.









Lyrics from my favorite song of the year "Everything by Michael Buble".. He's got a sweet voice. He makes singing so easy. While I don't listen to rest of his frank sanatra's style, I love this one song and I can listen to it over and over..

More photos from an outdoor session.

I am actually happy I was able to capture many great smiles under 30 minutes. That's all the time I had. The first photo I take, my girl gives me a fake smile.
Can you believe that she is especially difficult in front of a camera? She walks away, and says that's enough.

Tickling her and picking my camera with a zoom lens is harder than said. She told me tell me something funny. So I told her silly jokes. I kept talking and before she knew it, I was clicking away. I walk with her to a new spot, all the time telling her some jokes and silly things that I just made up or acted goofy.

Now I can't get her to stop laughing. I tell her to look serious and she laughs.
At times when I ran out of ideas, I asked her to tell me a good one. I need to write these down in a joke book journal. So I am ready next time!

Pictures at the park/ outdoors..

Yesterday my favorite model was done with the week, so no need to do homework. We took a little break and did a photo session with the agreement that she gets to play on the monkey bars- I get about 30-40 min, and she gets to play for about 30 min.

A boy with his toys..

For months, I haven't blogged. It was nice coming over! We should go around more in San Ramon and find cool places we could photograph! This photo is a family photograph on their black coach. We should do some outdoor sessions.

Let me know what you think about the boy playing with his toys in his room. There are 2 different versions, with different treatments. I like the enhanced black and white with a little blue.

Flower Girls .. outdoor portraits.

Outdoor portraits.. I found this little waterfountain and pond at the school. After my girls finished up their piano recital (and they were appropriately dressed), I took these photographs.






These photos in my "signature" digital layout:
And another layout. This photo has been texturized to look a little "grungy" as you can see the textured wall. Played with blending textured grunge image and brushes. The effect is subtle, cant tell much on web, but would be better in print.