After a bit of rain this morning, I noticed this leaf on our patio with these beautiful beads of water on it. It was hanging out there all morning, waiting for me to capture it. John and I had some errands to run and we have been wanting to swing by Sunny Schick, a local camera shop, so we headed out there today. My mom watched Miles so we could have the afternoon to ourselves. After doing a bit too much damage to our credit card at the camera shop (more on that later!!) we took some time to practice snap some photographs downtown to get some experience shooting in a richer environment than our house and yard. (I have been DYING to get out of the house to shoot, but it’s not so easy to keep your eye in your camera and on your baby at the same time.)

By the way, we aren’t in love withourselves, it’s just that all of our friends were busy this weekend with Halloween stuff, so nobody was available for a shoot. So sharing these photos is not about sharing photos of ourselves, it’s more about sharing the shots we have captured. We love shooting other people as we have enough photos of ourselves to last a lifetime. Tomorrow we are going to shoot my sister in law, Becky, so stay tuned for her. We had so much fun playing with our camera, though it was freezing outside!

I LOVE the detail of the ivy in this one and of course, John is such a cutie.
I think this picture above is kind of funny. I look like a commercial for a drug company, like I should be saying, “I found a hormone therapy I can trust. So can you with Zeritol.” I’m such a dork, but that’s all I can think of when I see that photo. We found this trash bin by the Salvation Army that had glass, broken christmas ornaments and all sorts of trash strewn around it and it made for some awesome texture. We weren’t able to really capture that, but perhaps next time we will. Here’s the best one from that area. BTW, we attracted some attention from the workers who were very curious. That was a little interesting, but they were just curious and wanted to give us some tips. I can’t tell if I like this shot. John likes it, so we’ll keep it. I was standing next to this part of the trash bin that had allll of this shattered glass. I wasn’t standing close enough to it to make the shot make sense, so it ended up being a head shot. Shiny, happy John! After cropping this one 8 million different times we finally made this shot work.

No Miles on this shoot. You’ll have to see the post below for one. We had SOOO much fun shooting but we left the house with a half dead battery (duh!) and we were cut short. Glad we get to play again tomorrow! Becky is BEAUTIFUL, so I’m excited about getting some great shots.

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