Category Archives: just for fun

Focus!

I am just beginning to go through images from 2010!  I really need to update my portfolio… needless to say, I have only blogged a small portion of images over the last year.  As I was poring over some images from the end of summer, I came across these fun images.

I remember the day!  It was a beautiful summer day.  We had wasted away the entire day and somehow didn’t even make it outside.  I was still trying to figure out how to balance the newborn with the other 3 kiddos.  Anyway, I remember the evening beginning to fall, and  I could feel the light fading.  I just had to get outside!  The baby was sleeping and the girls broke out of the front door.  They both went over to the large daisy bushes on the side slope, and then they tried to make a break for the neighbor’s houses to play.  Even now, as I think back, I can almost hear the warm summer breeze blowing through the large palm trees at the front of our house.

Ohhhh summer… come again… SOON!

I was trying to throw the image out of focus, by placing my focal point at the very bottom of the frame.  Then I judged the focal distance and set wide… and put the camera down on the curb- SNAP!  Here are the two images I caught.  FOCUS!  It’s Campbelle walking the line! Rylie is sneaking away ;o)

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Skater Dude- Watch Griffyn Go!

Ok, so this image was one that was conceived by Wesley, and put together by Mike.  I tried to put a ramp like this together before, but when I looked at the test pic. (taken with my iPhone) it didn’t look like a ramp.  So I asked my hubby to make the ramp.  This is what we came up with.

Griffyn is getting so big now.  He wakes up, kicks around, and smiles for the camera… all at a whopping 3 months old.  This made it a bit difficult to make the skateboard look like a skateboard, because he kept kicking it! How dare he??

The hot chick Barbie fans were a fun little added detail.  Campbelle is excited that her dolls are making it into this photo series.

Also, the hat/helmet, is the same one that I photographed Griffyn in on his way home from the hospital.  It barely fits him these days!

Enjoy!

I’m still aiming for 12 of these for a calendar.  I’m running out of time these days, now that I’m back to work.  I’m going to have to get a move on it.  Griffyn will be rolling over soon, and then these type of images will become even more difficult to capture.

Have a blessed day. (images to come of our first days back to school)

XO,

Katrina

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Summer Play…

Why is it so hard to find time for things?  I remember a time, not too long ago, when my best friend and I did just about everything together.  Now that was before we were married and had children.  I guess we were roommates at the time too!  But in my mind, sometimes, that seems like just yesterday. Anyway, life has just gotten so busy for the both of us… and most of our communication these days is through text message and phone calls while we are driving between all the “have to’s” of life.

A few weeks ago, I took my dear friend up on a play date invitation.  I know that we are always trying to make an effort to get the girls together… but somehow it doesn’t happen nearly as frequently as we would like.  I sure do hope that they will be close… even though they don’t go to school together, or play soccer, or Daisies, or… well they don’t DO anything outside of just play when we get them together.  They do have a great time when we manage to put them in the same room.

Little Cam & Liv are both starting kindergarten this year!  Whoa.  How time flies.  They were both pretty excited to take pictures together.

Eva is a little “cheese” ball.  It is hard to get a picture of her when she is not scrunching up her nose and giving you a toothy grin.  I love how Liv’s pony tails are totally crooked… and the bling around her neck. (Campbelle has Aunti M’s fancy bracelet on too.)  Notice the Princess Bell sticker on Eva’s shirt too!  These images are to be treasured as memories of today!

The girls being silly and screaming.  Funny… they do this ALL the time, but when I pointed the camera and asked them to scream… they thought it was really funny.  Campbelle hung upside down and actually wanted me to take this other picture.

Sweet, sweet Maddy.  That look!  I have seen it so many times.  Especially when she is looking and loving her kids.  She is holding a sleeping and swaddled baby Griffyn in this picture.

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Air Guitar- Watch Griffyn Go!

I saw this bright orange shirt while were shopping at the Carlsbad outlet mall a few weeks ago. I immediately put this image of the little rocker together in my head. It took a little while to actually find time to put him into the scene, but I finally did it.
My older kids got a kick out of watching me set it all up… blankets, guitar & sock monkey! They wanted to dance around on the pretend stage too. Then I dismissed all of them to the back yard, climbed up on my ladder (literally) and snapped a few pictures on my family room floor.

I’m aiming for 12 images that I can use in a calendar for 2011. It will be so fun to look back on these ideas of what Griffyn might do, when he is big- some day! (a long time from now)

I’ll be working on a skateboarding scene soon bere, at the request of the big brother:-)

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Walk the Dogs- Watch Griffyn Go!

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