When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~Chinese Proverb

My niece Camille LOVES flowers.....just like her mommy.  She got the ONE and ONLY lily from their backyard.  But carried it around with much appreciation.

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.  

~Carl Sandburg Little baby, 4 week old, in mommies hands, Violet feet!  I love them!

The Chair

On Saturday we went out to do a Easter photo shoot with Ben and my niece Jenna.   This is the chair that I insist on lugging around to all of my shoots.  O.k. let's be honest, it is the chair that I make whom ever is with me lug around to the shoot!  This day I used it to stand on....in which it promptly sank into the sand.  Did I mention it is a kids chair?   Then there is the feat of trying to get a kid to sit in it long enough to take a stinkin cute photo.  But mostly, this is what "the chair" looks like.....empty.

Arroyo

Before

After

So this is a photo shoot I did of Chris's band Arroyo at a gig in the brokers building downtown. It was an art show.  Since this blog was for adventures in photography I have posted these before and after pictures with a small confession.  At this stage of the game I do not consider myself a photographer, I think of myself as an editor.  Case in point.  I don't even really know how to operate my superlicious camera on anything but automatic mode.  SO!  I take a TON of pictures which is fun.....but then I get to come home and play on the computer in photoshop or iphoto!  Now that is the creative part, but also the EXTREMELY time consuming part.  So the top photo is the original photo with no edits and the bottom photo is the cropped, blurred, dodged/burned (what ever that means) highlighted low lighted shin ma gig shizzle and WAHLA! you have an incredibly cool picture of the 3 guitars lined up.  Anyway, the adventure continues.