A Disturbing Trend

Twice today on my daily blog stalking, I came across two disturbing events that have been happening on some of my favorite photographers' blogs. Mean people are effecting their blogging. Susan Stripling has to censor all posts left on her blog due to rude (aka jealous) people and Stacy and Mary are now no longer posting work related pictures due to rude phone calls from clients (mad because a photo they didn't like was posted). The former I really don't understand because when hiring a photographer, you should know what type of images to expect from them. As for posting rude comments, if you don't like- don't look. No one is forcing you to look at the blog. People are weird.

On an unrelated note... look how cute Andy and Chelsea are.

Do We Really Need Trees?

Because they are seriously causing me some allergy pain. Yuck my throat tastes gross and I can't breathe again.

Tired Flowergirls

Weddings are a long day for everyone. These poor girls just needed a nap :(

Also, it doesn't help that some strange lady keeps shoving a camera in your face.

I Really Should...

...be working on Devon and Anahi's wedding photos but I am just too excited over the Kalamazoo wedding. The Gilmore Car Museum is an awesome venue and you just can't go wrong with doing your wedding there. I want to be able to move to Kalamazoo because all the images I did there turned out amazing!

I am NOT an Idiot

About two months ago, I went to buy a new flash for my camera since my other one had a mysterious death. Two hours after reading the manual multiple times and being almost forced to tears with frustration, I gave up. I haven't touched it since until a last week. Still no luck. Finally, I took it to my local camera store and was prepared to meet humiliation ( I was sure they were going to do something in about 30 seconds and have it working). I am not a technical person. Well... I am not an idiot after all. It took them about 20-30 minutes to figure out it out. It was suppose to be set on Channel 3, not channel 1 like all other cameras. Who knew?

But in the last week, I was able to update Isaac's porfolio now than he has turned 5 and got a new sassy haircut. Can boys have sassy hair?

20 days...

to break down and buy a new lens. Check out how hot my husband's foot is. I can't wait to put this baby to good use!

Itchy Fingers

I am trying to resist buying a new camera lens. My other new lens is great but I am looking to get one specifically for portraits and I am such an impulse buyer. The lens that is tempting me is the Nikon 50mm 1.4 lens. My reasoning for wanting it is for low lighting situations and to be able to create bokeh in images. Don't know what bokeh is? Neither did I but I knew that is what I wanted to create.

Bokeh is:

borrowed images from Wikipedia

See how the background is completely free from detail- that is what bokeh is.

We will see how long I will be able to resist.