SmugMug

Hey, do you all know about SmugMug? I love it for sharing photos. Totally worth the price. I have never ordered prints from them, but it's possible as well. My girls were both adopted so it is really nice to take a bunch of photos and send a link to their birth families. Here are the photos I took of my baby today. They probably need more editing. Click on photo to see the whole album.

Maybe I am too eager on this site. Let me know if I start to post too much :).

Helen

Hi new friends! I have only recently become interested in photography. Last year I injured my shoulder and after surgery couldn't play sports for 6 months, so I decided it was time to learn a bit more what my camera could do. We have a canon rebel xsi that had never been taken off of the automatic setting. I had no idea what all the buttons were. So, I started by reading my users manual and experimenting with shooting in manual. Then, I read the book Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson. It was such a great help for someone new to photography! Then, I paid a little money for a one day workshop held by a friend of mine, Mandi Nuttall. I knew she would be nice to me even though I was totally green. After the workshop, I invested in my only nice lens, a 1.4 50 mm. I love it! I hope to add a nice zoom lens and a wide angle to my collection sometime. Any recommendations?

My passion is children's photography, especially of my own. But, I am most proud of this photo that I took of my niece, Ruby. I wish I had edited it, but I had my friend Mandi do it. She added more grass in front and did some sort of faded action. I love it! I work in Photoshop Elements, and I shoot in RAW. I do very limited editing, and when I have a nice photo worth printing, I just pay Mandi to do it for me.

Thanks for letting me join the club! I am excited to learn from you!

Oh, and my favorite photography blogs to stalk are Peekaboo Photos, Heather Gibb Photography, Nuttall Photography, and Meredith Carlson Photography. Mandi and Meredith are friends of mine and I think Katie and Heather just rock at photography.

welcome new friends!

I just invited two more people to join us here.  They are in our facebook group too.  My friend Karen - who lives in Virginia and is just starting up a photog business.  And my cousin Helen - who lives in Utah.  It's her daughters that I posted last.

I'll let them do an introduction post when they accept their invites!

Karen and Helen - go HERE to read the intro questions.  You can also read all of our intros HERE.

PS - Shayna! What have you been doing the last two months?  We need your intro too.  Just go put that 2 month old down and get on it! ;)

AND - do you guys want to get an email when someone posts here? It will go straight to your inbox so you know when there is something new to see?  I think we can also have comments emailed too.  Just wondering what your thoughts are on that...

fall images and then some

I'm afraid I missed the best leaf taking days.  I always saw some gorgeous trees and thought to go back, but never made it.  Here are a couple from the tree in my backyard.  (That is now totally naked!)

and these aren't fall related, except that I took them of Maggie last month on the day of her 6 month checkup...

this one I edited (can you tell? j/k, I hope you can!)

and you know what I've decided I really like doing?  Taking pictures of stuff.

There you go Haylee.  It's your fault I overloaded you all with pictures now!  Just kidding, I know I've been negligent.  :)

fall light

I'm a little slow to post my favorite fall images... but I just shot this sweet family {that you might recognize} & I was loving the light.

afternoon fall light & all the warm colors.... mmmmmmm!
happy fall... is tomorrow really december?!?

you can see more on my photog blog here

inspiration

i just found this group on flickr - do you guys use it at all?  Well, this is a newborn photography group and there are some priceless images on there.

Exploring Sea Life

I went to the aquarium the other day with the kids and got a few good shots. What adventures have you been on lately? Share some of your favorite photos from a recent adventure.