Farmington Friends and Fun

After a four year hiatus from Utah, we introduce the first annual Farmington Trip.  At least that is our intent after the fun we crammed into two days in the end of July.  I somehow neglected to photograph day one (which also happened to be my anniversary), but day two was action packed, starting with a meetup at the park behind the neighborhood where we used to live--with the old crew, of course.

For more pictures of our fun day go HERE.

Chasing a Moving Target: Family Portrait - Ward Family

I tend to take a LOT of pictures.  I recently filled up the hard drive space on both my laptop and my desktop.  It's true, I could stand to use the delete key a little more! Even still, I really needed a better storage solution.  So I purchased a couple external hard drives and have transferred my images there--yea! Back in business.  But with all these great tools at my disposal, I need to better utilize those tools--Lightroom and Photoshop, and of course, my camera.  Since I do take a lot of pictures and I recently upgraded to the 5D Mark II (Merry Christmas to me!), people tend to assume I know what I am doing.  I try to assure them that is a dangerous assumption!  But since I would like to be as good as my equipment suggests, I practice and research and even (just last month) took an online photography class--which was great.  If you care to know more about that, or the instructor, Jessica, check out her website: 503 Photography.

So when people ask me to take pictures for/of them, I may hesitate, but not long, because I really need all the practice I can get!  So a couple weeks ago when a friend and neighbor asked me to take some pictures of her family while her husband was home on leave, I said yes, of course.

And I learned some very valuable things.  Namely, when three little children aren't interested in getting their picture taken, things get a little tricky!  Note to self: work on being interesting to persons under 6.

Whew!  I hope she found something she liked!

I have been watching some lightroom and photoshop tutorials to better use the two together.  I am glad I have, because I have learned how much easier it is to do things than the methods I had been employing!  I was editing less because the process was so cumbersome before.  Practice, practice! I should probably go clean my house now, however!

Happy Independence Day

        

**Nevermind the "stuff" coming off my roof--it's in the process of being re-roofed.

Fun in the Sun Flare

I just finished a little photography workshop and it really helped me get used to using aspects of my camera that I didn't use to their fullest potential.  Also, I learned a few tricks for working with harsh light and how fun it is to play with sun flare.  I'm finding it a little addicting. . . or maybe it's just the sun I'm finding addicting, not having seen much of it for the past nine or ten months!

Kendra + Aron: Wedding Day Part 1

Prepare yourself for a very long post with LOADS of pictures.  We ended up having about an hour and a half to take pictures on the temple grounds because some of the family got lost and we had to wait for them to get there to take family group photos.  On the positive side, the scheduled rain held off for the whole time!  Can't beat that!

It is a good thing I took a lot of group shots here, because I didn't get the chance to take many group family shots at the reception. . . which I will try and post tomorrow.