My photography goal

My friend Anne was kind enough to let me use her family to practice taking pictures.  I got some fun ones of her kids, but not really any great ones of the whole family.  Taking pictures of kids is HARD!  I will taking any tips on how to get everyone to look at you at the same time, just once.  I think I prefer to take less posed shots, but people like one of those (everyone looking shots) every now and then.  Maybe I can take a class on that when I get back into college someday. 

Anywhooo.  Here’s my goal- to be good enough at taking pictures of my kids so I can capture beautiful memories that don’t cost me $400 plus bucks every time I want a good picture.  And I want to be good on my digital camera so that it costs me nothing but my time and my camera.  Then once I am good enough I can take pictures for my friends too, for free.  Just for fun. Because I enjoy it.  I have a lot of fun learning and taking pictures.  I hope to play more with my film camera, because I think film is beautiful.  But, my digital is also satisfying my need to take a good quality quick pic of my kids.

I need to capture my babies  eyes, so I can remember the way they looked at their mama.  ahhh yeah… sweet babies and funny toddlers.

Here are some of my favorite from two different days with the S family-

Above- Favorite picture of the boys-  I want to paint this in watercolors

I love that his face was all dirty-

He did not want to look at the camera- I think it worked out though

Best Picture of the day-  I think he was trying a Jedi mind trick on me hahaha….ahh good times