Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Day 344
Completely fantastic family photoshoot at a completely fantastic location. View full post at: http://sarahandersonphotography.blogspot.com/2011/12/cuteness-in-dracena-park-piedmont.html. I just love this photo so much. It just makes me smile.
Day 342
Christmas cooking with my buddy, Christmas music, and a beer equals a fantastic Thursday late afternoon! Sometimes parenting can be complicated, challenging, and cranky making . . . but it is imperative to put EVERYTHING else aside, find the joy, relish in it, and cherish it.
Day 339
I had a little mini photoshoot in the backyard with Liam because I've been trying to get him to wear this shirt for a year now ...I finally talked him into it yesterday for the family photoshoot and now he's decided he LOVES it and wanted to wear it to school and he just looks so cute in it and grown up and we got him new jeans and mostly because I felt like I couldn't focus on getting a good shot of just him yesterday without him running around or growling at the camera and now I'm done with this horrible run-on sentence..... :) He's just about the cutest freakin thing in my life...hope he makes you smile :)
Day 338
Ahhhh...the yearly family "self" photoshoot with tripod and camera timer. Slightly maddening, slightly annoying, often argument provoking, but always humorous and entertaining nonetheless. It goes down like this: "guys, go stand over there, no not like that, no over there, no, move over a little bit, ok now don't move (fool with camera for five minutes), guys, seriously stay still, ok, now mommy's coming...wait, here we go (set timer, run to join boys in heeled boots through the grass, and realize I don't know where I'm going to stand), Liam look at the camera, no not at us, no come back, (camera clicks), shit. alright, let's do it again...." This goes on for literally a half an hour until I get one that I'm not frowning and Keegan's eyes aren't closed and Liam is not a complete blur of three year old movement. Oh well, somehow in my mind, they are completely different images so the perfectionist in me suffers, but somehow it doesn't matter because they are pretty cute regardless. Next year, I'm hiring a professional :)
Monday, December 5, 2011
Day 337
When I was recuperating from my ACL surgery, a former coworker contacted me to see if I would be interested in taking some photographs of her new blended family. Just hours after my arrival home from the hospital, my hopes of ever being able to run after a family with my camera again were somewhat diminished. But I basically had shot myself in the foot (or the knee actually) with the timing of the surgery falling right when everyone wants their holiday photos taken so I was lusting for a shoot. I hastily agreed not really knowing if it was feasible in 4 weeks from the email or not. At any rate, it happened and it was great. Luckily, the girls were slightly older so no running required really. See the full post at http://sarahandersonphotography.blogspot.com/2011/12/sunset-on-farm-pt-reyes-family.html.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Day 336
A self portrait of sorts, this concept stemmed mostly from the scars on my knee and the ever increasing physical self criticism that we all encounter, especially as we increase in age. In the end, I couldn't get a good one of my knee, but in the process, came out with a few good ones of other areas.
Day 335
Slightly voyeuristic in nature perhaps, but really it was just meant to be a innocent depiction of a scene I have wanted to capture all year, which is the funny way my cats hang out with me while I take a bath. It's this love/hate relationship that they have with water that draws them in and then Henrik takes the bath ledge and Henning takes the toilet pretty much the entirety of bath time. At any rate, I was laying here feeling self conscious of my body, my scarred knee, my changing love handles, etc. (bath time is supposed to be relaxing mind you) and I came up with the concept for the next day's shoot . . .
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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