Friday, February 29, 2008

Practice Makes Perfect?!?

One resolution this year was to increase my photographing in a way that developes my skill (not just random shooting like last year, but systematic study and practice). I had a fantastic time while Uncle Mikie was here, but I need to work on capturing my very fast very cute little boy in various lighting conditions. It's a work in progress, but I do feel quite hopeful after this weeks efforts :)

Which one is your favorite?






Here's some extras...
Sam tried to blow dandelions...when he was done tasting them, he turned his attention to a tulip :(

About a year ago, Sam had his 7 month photo taken in this tree.

This year, he was quite worried about giving the tree an 'owie'

March 9th last year...


We're retiring Sam's sweater...maybe I'll dig through the archeives for some a proper tribute...maybe tomorrow...

Adam's laying Sam down so here's an oldie or two (Oct 06, Sam was 2 months):




With the fine weather comes lots of outside time, which translates into lots of photo time :)



Monday, February 25, 2008

Feb 16th, Plant Eats Pancake?!?

Man eats pancake...


Plant eats man...


We fulfilled Mike's IHOP craving and were pleasantly surprised at how well Sam behaved :)



We then headed to the Gardens too walk off some of the pancakie-goodness (Sam walked a ton!). We were in luck...we saw lots of animals!


This pic is for you, Mom. Check out the green-ness!





























PS-Once Samuel stopped meowing everytime I said "cactus owie, no touching," he seemed to understand and warned Mikie several times during this and other outings :)

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Feb 23rd, Sneak Preview...

I thought I'd tell you my trick for the next series of photos...after greatly struggling to get 18 month pictures of Sam, yesterday I plugged in "A Collection of Memories," a dvd made by Jan and Shawn for us two years ago for Christmas, figuring that photos of our loved ones (and of himself as a baby) would keep his attention...and it did...a little too well :O




This was until he figured out how to open the dvd player to remove the dvd (I guess he didn't like that it was making me cry the second time through-first for Sam's pleasure, the second for my homesickness :P )...