It's Austin time!

So this weekend, Tyler and I made a quick trip to Austin to see my friend Lisa get married. Before the wedding, we met up with Tyler's family for lunch and then visited with them afterwards at their new "log cabin" they just moved into.  I took a few pictures of their property for Nicole to share with friends, but I also was able to take my first kid pictures of her daughter Ashton.  Lucky for me, Ashton was more than willing to be my model.  One thing to note - I was feeling adventurous so this was my first time to switch off of aperture mode and onto manual mode - SCARY!  I definitely could tell a difference in my pictures when I set the shutter speed and aperture in different ways.  My goal is to continue to shoot on manual mode as much as possible so I can learn more about how to manipulate the light coming into the camera.  Here are a few pics of Ashton:

They also have a great dog with big brown eyes, Bailey:

And they also have a pony as a neighbor! This pony came running across a field just to say hello to us:

What do you think?

-n

It's Max & Greyson time!

So I haven't had much free time lately, but last weekend I was in Houston at my parent's house so I took some pictures of their cat, Greyson.  Greyson HATES me - its because he's jealous of cute little Max, so it was hard for me to get close to him to take pictures, but I did get a few good ones.  There are also some of the cutest little kitty in the world, little Max.

What do you think?  Next post won't be cats, promise. :)

-n



It's Max time!

Here are some pictures of my favorite little fur-baby, Max.  I mean, honestly, its not like there could be a bad picture of him because he's so darn pretty :)  So on a photo related note, the more I play with my camera the more I tend to like the look of pictures taken using natural light rather than indoor/halogen/fluorescent lighting.  I think the pictures just look so much more realistic and nicer.  These pictures were taken in my living room with the curtains drawn so all the natural light flooded in to highlight the little fur baby.



Fur baby - so pretty



Close-up



I wanted to play up the contrast of the colors in his fur so these next few are in black and white.



Thoughts?

xo, n