Crazy Kids

Here are some pics I took just messing around at my sister's house. Some of them turned out kind of funny.

Alex's Baptism

Matt's nephew got baptized on Saturday. Im trying to take my camera EVERYWHERE since it's harder than you realize to be a photographer AND a mom. So, I'm just going to be both at the same time.

Audrey wanted a picture too!

Matt

Here's a shot of Matt. Just thought I would show everyone how cute he is with his tools!

Trax

I joined another photography group last night. SL Photo Club. We went down town and shot some pictures. It was so much fun to shoot with people. It would have been a little scary taking these by myself alone at night. Here's what I got. I should have worked my flash a little different, but next time I'll know.

This is the sky walk. I used a gelled orange flash for the bottom half.

This one is a little hard to see because the front is blurred over. You can see the front of the train right in the middle if you around the blue circle.

This is the main library. I just shot this waiting for the train. I didnt have my flash out and was surprised I got it this sharp for hand holding the camera.

Welcome Home Tommy

Matt's brother Tommy came home from his mission in Poland just over a week ago. We attended his home coming talk on Sunday. Afterward we were able to herd everyone outside for a family picture. We have everyone there ....but Ricky. Sorry Ricky (mission in Germany). I tried to Photoshop him in, but the only picture I have of him is on a dark background. I still might be able to do it, but it wont be a 5 minute job. Here are the pictures. Im not very pleased with the lighting so dont judge me too hard. It was a quick and dirty shoot.

Jammies

So, I went to the DI this morning and found some of these cool jammies:I thought they would be SOOO AWESOME for Christmas. Anyways, I didnt end up getting them because I was too tall. Lets just say a certain desert animal came to mind when trying them on. So, I have Audrey with me and we are in the dressing room. She was being a little pill but after time she just laid on the floor and spied out under the door. Just as I zip the jammies up and take a look at my cool self, Audrey bolts under the door with an insanly fast army crawl. I reach for the door and almost step out to catch her but then remember the not so awesome jammies I have on. I take a look at myself in new eyes and decide I dont want the whole store to see me chasing my little munchkin in long johns. So I hurry and get dressed. By the time I get out of the dressing room, she is long gone. Her favorite game in clothing stores is to sneek in a clothes rack and see if mommy can find me. So I get on my hands and knees and looks for two little legs....nothing. I asked the people that were around me.......idiots. I really doubt they didnt hear me yelling and threatening her when she bolted. Finally, I hear her laughing at me and spot her. There she is, climbing on the clothing rack like they were monkey bars. Needless to say, she was buckled right into the shopping cart and we went straight home. I wish she had a concept of Santa Claus so I could tell her that he is not comming tomorrow!

University Guest House

Last spring, I had my first commercial job. I was hired to take pictures of the University Guest House and it's affiliated buildings. They were going to use the photos for a new website and brochures. They have finally posted the new website and I thought I would share. A lot of the pictures on the site were taken by me. Especially the interior and exterior building shots. Another photographer did the wedding ones (except, I did one), most of the ones with people (except the Heritage center), and the food ones (I did some banquet ones). It was kind of fun to see them in action. If you want to see, here is the link. You probably wont know which ones I did for sure though.

http://www.universityguesthouse.com/University-Guest-House