There’s a whole world out there…

These pictures are from the beginning of September, but I just found them now as I was sorting through pre-vacation photo folders.

Love the cheek.

I love this little face.

Someone lost a tooth.

And she’s pretty pleased about it!

A few more of Miss C.

I had such a hard time picking out a few more of my favorites because there are so many I love from this session.

When I first started getting into photography, I really tried to avoid the sun.  I’m slowly getting over that, though, and I’m learning to use good sunlight to my advantage.  I kind of like the hazy effect in these first two images.

It’s so interesting how different the light is with just a small position change. Miss C is in the same spot here as she is in the previous photo…I just moved, and so the effect is completely different.

I love white dresses on little girls.

And because I can’t bear to do a post without a black and white, here’s one more image.

Some chilly swimming

Our neighbor behind us owns a pool, and though he gives us a free invitation all summer long, we only ever seem to make it over once a year. I don’t know quite what’s wrong with us!

His pool is chilly, but it does have a cool slide.

I don’t often use the action setting on my camera, but it is awfully handy for water slide pictures.

Lisey, shivering.

Zoe was smart enough to realize that the pool was too cold for anything but dipping her feet.

The most wonderful thing about swimming at this pool is that all we have to do is take a walk through our yard, and we’re home.  Easy-peasy.  Remind me why I don’t do this more often??

I will do better next summer.

Peaceful.

This is my nephew, who will soon be 4 months old. I plan to do an honest-to-goodness session with him to mark that, but for now, here’s a quick snapshot I took of him at the pool last week.

One lovely thing about babies is that it’s so easy to catch them sleeping. I hardly ever get to take sleeping pictures of my children anymore!

These are Zoe’s flip-flops.

She’s obsessed with every sort of creature that lives in the ocean, especially fish. But, Old Navy had no fish flip-flops…only seahorse flip-flops. Zoe didn’t mind, though.

See the two little black dots on the inside of her flip-flops? Those are there because even though there’s a 50/50 chance of getting flip-flops on the right feet, Zoe gets it wrong 95% of the time. So, before she puts on her shoes, I tell her to make her dots kiss. She loves doing it (she giggles every time!) and it works like a charm.

Mmmm….soft serve.

Due to her propensity for dropping ice cream cones onto the sidewalk, Zoe had her ice cream in a cup.

And so did Sonia.

Joshua and Lisey can easily handle cones.

Have I mentioned that I feel really fortunate to have two blue-eyed subjects that live with me? My husband and I both have brown eyes, so having two blue-eyed children was a nice surprise!

I like my brown-eyed ones too, though.

Happy Birthday, Miss C!

This morning, I had a photo session with a young client whose first birthday is right around the corner.

We met bright and early.

And it was quite a hazy and warm morning.

I love baby hands (I can still call her a baby, right? She’s not technically one yet).

And doesn’t she have an adorable little smile?

Of course, I can’t resist doing a few black and whites.

I’ve said this about Sonia before, but I think Miss C looks just like a perfect little doll too.

I’m still busy sorting through the mountain of pictures I took, and I’m thinking I might feel compelled to share at least one more post’s worth of her pictures before I’m done.

Bubbles are no good for eating.

I brought some bubbles along on Saturday for my photo session with this little guy and his family.

He was pretty fascinated with them.

And all was well, until he tried to eat them.

He decided that maybe wasn’t the best idea.