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another weekend come & gone
Man, time is really flying lately. I guess working every weekend makes the time go even faster. The next few weekends are chock full of shoots, but I am going to TRY to take a break (and get some family/beach weekend time in) in late July into August. Gotta do it or else I’m going to go a little nuts.
The boys had baseball and soccer on Saturday. It was their very last soccer game ever! They are not playing next year, so it’s all done. It’s just not their sport. Too much running (especially for Jack) and they are just not aggressive on the field. Baseball is way more their favorite. They are always excited to play and really enjoy it. It was about 90+ degrees on Sunday and they were all sweating like crazy. Did an "after" team picture- those poor kids! Don’t they look SO hot? Their coach this year was just awesome- she’s such a supportive person and so positive. So great, and that’s the part I’ll miss. Timmy was red and cute and got a spongebob icecream which he proceeded to drip all over my pants and then decided he didn’t like it anyway. Super. (All of the soccer pictures except for the team picture) was taken with my crappy zoom lens. We don’t get along very well. So please excuse the quality of these images).
John is a coach for the boys and during Saturday’s game, called Jack at out first and the boy was PISSED! Threw his batting helmet on the ground and everything. Timmy had fun cheering on his brothers, but mostly he likes wearing the batting helmet. When the boys team is up at bat he spends a great deal of that half inning pouting cause he can’t have a helmet. Got some cute shots of them running the bases after the game and some shots of my friends sons together too. Timmy and their little boy became fast friends during the game. The light under that tree is just YUM! (okay, I’m cheating a little here…the baseball pictures are all from Friday evening’s game cause I didn’t go to Saturday’s game as Timmy was napping it up. All of the baseball pictures were taken with my 85mm lens. The poor guy spends a lot of time just sitting in my camera bag as the 50mm is my most favorite, versitile lens. I forgot how much I LOVE the 85 in the right situation. Great color, focus, and bokeh (background blur) on that one. I must take him out to play more often.)
Saturday morning after running over to the country club to get our lockers for the pool for the season, I did a wedding-ish shoot. One of the families I did a shoot for last year, her dad was getting married. Kinda last minute, but I ended up shooting the bride & groom and the whole mass as well. (I was originally supposed to only shoot the kids while they were all dressed up). Hopefully you can see those later this week. Just one tease…(and isn’t the bride just beautiful!)
Today was my friend Sharon’s son christening, so I was both an invited guest and a photographer. Another 90+ degree today (so pleasant) but it wasn’t so bad if you were inside in the air! Pictures on that later this week. Just depends how quickly I can edit! John took the boys to the beach and I’m sure that the weather was much better down there. They even went into the pool and ocean! It’s kinda early in the season for that, but when it’s that hot out, I don’t think that you care if the pool is icy. Here’s one preview…
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the den family
My second shoot for this fantastic little family. I took pictures for them back in January and had a blast then too. But now, their little guy is a man on the move- full on walking. Almost forgot how I love that toddler toddle! Back to Brooklyn for this shoot but to the other side of the park that I was on last time in Brooklyn so I got to see some more of Prospect Park. It’s so pretty there. It was way more crowded this time, but we managed. Oh, and I found some more interesting hair.
Mr. D got completely fixated on the flowers (weeds- but we won’t tell him that!) and sat forever just checking them out and picking them. Made my life easy with him so still! We just wandered around the park taking pictures and got an ice pop at the end. He earned it!
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the {quarter} Turn
Technically, it’s not really a quarter of the Turn, but saying 2/5ths of the Turn dosen’t sound quite as nice. Did a quick shoot for Brian & Pat while they were playing at a local school fair on Sunday. It was my first time shooting them in natural light since the original band pictures I did (where it was just Brian, Pat & Lance) and that made me happy!
I asked them to look at me once and smile. Pat was kinda against the whole smiling thing (citing the whole rock star glare) but for the few I caught I thought they looked good! They really rocked out and I got to hear them play their newest song which I really liked. When Pat saw me singing along to some of their songs as well as some of the covers they played, I think he was fairly suprised! Okay, so I’m a mom with 3 kids, but I can still like great music, right!?
At the fair, the Turn was taking donations for Tunes 4 the Troops. Where people donate their CD’s and DVD’s and they are shipped over to Iraq, Afganistan, etc. to the troops fighting so they have some good music to listen to. A great cause, if you are interested in donating some of your used or new CD’s or DVD’s see their site here: http://www.tunes4thetroops.org/
The Turn will be playing next in Huntington at Finnegans on Friday, June 6th and then at RJ Daniels in Rockville Centre on Saturday, June 14th. Come hear them play if you are around. Then off to Webster Hall at the end of the month (Saturday, June 28th) for the final, finals of the battle of the bands. If they win, they are going to Germany to play in front of like 30,000 people at a music festival. They want me to come. Uh huh…cause I’m with the band!!
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the wed family
Here are the tiny, very new (8 days old in the pictures), adorable twins, glowing parents, and beautiful sister I mentioned over the weekend. I did a shoot for them on Saturday which turned into a three hour session. Ya, three hours. My big aplogies to the family again as I invaded their house for like ever. I usually figure on two hours for a newborn shoot, but as I really, really should have known, it took an extra hour with twins. In an average newborn shoot, there are a lot of breaks for feeding, changing, settling, etc. I guess I kinda forgot to double that. Well, let’s just hope that the family thinks the very extended shoot time was worth it once they see the pictures!
They were just the nicest family- so warm and welcoming. And calm. With 3 kids two and under. So impressive. Doesn’t mom look wonderful? She had twins via Csection 8 days ago!!! Turns out I went to High School with her and I pass her sister (didn’t know it was her sister) all the time on my way to pick up the boys from school. The world just keeps getting smaller.
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another weekend recap
Can’t believe another week has come and gone. Time is flying. This whole year is kinda a blur so far and now that people are starting to book sessions with me up thru NOVEMBER, it just makes me realize how fast the summer is going to go, too. Time needs to stop for a little bit.
Busy weekend again. Friday night I had my beaches n buckets party here. A client of mine started her own business, selling flip flops and beach accessories. Super cute stuff- visit her site and do some shopping! I invited 108 people (yes, 108) and probably had about 35 all told. She sold a ton of stuff and I booked 2 shoots that night. I think it was a big sucess for everyone! Robin even came down from Conneticut which was so great. The only problem….waaaaay too much leftover food.
Timmy got "better batter baseball" this week for doing some good sleeping for the last two weeks (he now has a sleeping chart hanging in his closet and gets a sticker for every night he sleeps well or if he takes a nap- the nap is quickly becoming a thing of the past). And he got it from "toys from us"– not toys r us. He’s really getting good at it and whacking the hell out of the ball. Starting him young as he has years of baseball in his future.
Saturday my scheduled shoots were rained out so I moved my indoor one up a few hours. It was newborn boy twins and their 2 year old sister. Can’t wait to show you those pictures!! I can take all the twin pictures I should have taken about 8.5 years ago! And they signed up for the ‘growing up squared’ plan but they plan on doing all 4 shoots over the next 4 months so I should have lots of pictures to show you soon. The boys baseball game got rained out and their picture day was postponed. You know, I used to get so excited about picture day for school, for sports, etc. but now that I’m doing it myself, not so much. I know my pictures will be better than theirs (sorry if that sounds snotty)! I’m sending back all of Timmy’s school pictures except for the class one. They are just not HIM.
Jack is in rare form lately- way funny. When I told him that Aunt Robin was coming Friday night, his reaction was "yeah, like that’s gonna happen". (Aunt Robin & Uncle Joe kinda missed my parents whole wedding- they forgot. But you know thats something this family will never forget!)
Sunday, I had two shoots- one of which cancelled due to sick kids (hope they are feeling better, H!) but we are working on rescheduling that one. Ended up that I still had two shoots cause my favorite band- The Turn- was playing at a school fair and I shot there for a bit before heading into Brooklyn for my second shoot. Brooklyn was great (even though parking was a nightmare!) and those shots should hopefully be up later this week along with the Turn’s. John took the boys to the beach for the day and it seems like everyone had a lot of fun. Oh, and finally as promised here are pictures of some of the around the house projects I’ve been working on. The picture wall still needs one picture on the top above the double frame- something panoramic I think.
Hope everyone has a good week. More posts to follow tommorrow…
