My own Maternity Photos!

I had recently bought an indoor studio light that I never got around to even testing out.
Once I hit 34 weeks into my pregnancy I thought it was time to take some photos of my belly to remember, and what a perfect time to test out my light for the first time.
Obviously, I needed some help from Michael (husband) as they were photos of myself.
Here are a few of my favorites:

Robin and Glen - 08/08/08

I had my first chance to second shoot my first wedding last weekend. The popular 08/08/08 date.
Although I wasn't able to shoot any formals here are a few images I did get.

Aug Long Weekend

After a long time being cursed with "morning sickness", Michael and I went away for a couple days to hang out and enjoy summer (and the gorgeous weather we got) with a friend at her cabin on the lake. We had a great time just hanging out enjoying this time before we become a family of 3 (well, 4, if you include Lexy) :)

Finally Back... with a new lens!

After a longer than expected time away I am finally back! During my trip down to Vancouver and Washington in April I found out I am pregnant!!! Almost immediately after I returned home I was hit with the good ol' morning sickness... except mine last all day! Now, 5 months pregnant I am still sick... but I do feel a little better at times so I decided it's time to get out and take some pictures again. I bought a new Tamaron 17-5omm 2.8 lens. Here are the first images taken with it:

Away until April 20th

I'm leaving early Thurs to travel down to Vancouver, Bellingham, WA and Vancouver Island with my sister and mom.
I guess it will be a girls getaway.
While in Vancouver I will be attending another workshop about my on camera accessory flash (Speedlight). Then when I get to the Island I will hopefully have sometime to take more maternity photos of my pregnant cousin as well as couple photos of my other cousin and her boyfriend.
I hope to have some fun pictures to share when I get back.

See you all in 2 1/2 weeks!

Photo Workshop

I attended a photo workshop during easter weekend.
It was a Basic/Intermediate Intensive workshop that basically covered the technical side of photography, as well as a few other things. The instructor said everything we learn in these two days, he learnt in his first year of university!
Most of it I had already knew, but I never formally took any classes/workshops so I figured before I branch out into other interesting workshops I would take this one :)
At the end of the second day our instructor brought in two models and set up a lightbox and told us to go at it. I'd never used studio lighting before and I've never had any training on it, but I'm pretty happy with how most of these turn out :)



































**Sorry they're so out of order..... I'm still getting used to this site! lol