through the eyes of a canon

daddy and me

2006-02-08T15:55:00.000-05:00

this is a portrait from a few weeks ago, but with little time to shoot recently (14 month olds keep ya busy), i'm stuck either using stuff already shot, or leaving the same image on the pad for weeks! :)

this is my husband (livitup) with our son, dominik. again in the studio.

rejection

2006-01-31T15:52:00.000-05:00

in the state of virginia, we have to get our vehicles inspected every year. usually you get a nice yellow sticker with the date that the inspection expires on it and everything is nice and happy. last year andy and i bought a used land rover discovery. it can be seen here: http://eight-paws.com/gallery/SALTY. i absolutely love my truck, but when i recieved this light pink REJECTION sticker i just about fell over! turns out that it failed for a few reasons.. i have a brush bar on the front--it came with the land rover from land rover--and a new rule this year is that nothing can be in front of the headlights, well there are these little metal bars to keep the brush from scratching the truck, and they cover the head lights. --rejection number one. rejection number 2: one of the fog lights doesn't work. it never has, i bought the vehicle last year and it didn't work. i just spent 30 minutes dealing with rosenthal land rover in tysons corner --never buy a vehicle from them..they suck!!! somehow they managed to get the vehicle to pass inspection with the broken fog light, but i can't. so .....now we get to either take off both fog lights or buy a new one. (that will be $225 please). grrr. the third reason isn't too bad, we need new wiper plades..easy enough (and fair enough) to replace.

for those of you that live in a state that doesn't require yearly inspections, be happy! it is definately a pain in the ass to deal with!

hume, the monkey

2006-01-30T12:52:00.000-05:00

dominik, once again. he has this monkey named "hume" that he absolutely adores. i have been practicing in the studio recently. i am set to photograph a friend's son for his birthday pictures. besides being nervous, i am completely excited! i also made our company logo last night! (finally!)

seeing red?

2006-01-26T21:18:00.000-05:00

i don't know if it is possible to be upset enough to see red or not. i know this isn't a photograph but it is a proper representation of how i feel right now. i can't decide if i would rather yell and scream or curl up and cry.

two for wednesday?

2006-01-25T15:19:00.000-05:00

this first picture was going to be my photo for the day, but when i went to get it off the memory card i remembered what else i had!!! this GIANT cloud brought alittle snow with it, it was too warm though so it all melted as soon as it hit the ground. it only lasted for a few minutes, but it was pretty while it was around. this was taken from my deck facing towards the mountains.

dominik. again. for lunch yesterday i gave dominik ravioli. the kind that comes out of a can. up until today i had always handled the spoon when eating them, but today i figured "eh, let the kid have some fun!" he definately had fun! i had to give him a bath right after taking this picutre!

it was gone, but now it is back!

2006-01-19T23:37:00.000-05:00

i blew up my laptop this morning. my usb port is broken (the protective plastic part came off, so the tongs are exposed), my battery was almost dead, so i decided to *dun, dun, dun , dunnnnn.....* plug it in!!! well i'm a klutz most of the time and i wasn't paying attention. i touched the power cord to the broken usb port. there was a *spark*, *poof*, and then this smell that was enough to get me out of the room. my laptop went dark. it wouldn't turn on.

i started a quest of finding a new laptop, but none of them were *my* laptop. when my husband got home, he wanted to take it apart, mainly because he didn't believe me about the processor speed. he was trying to find as many little screws to unscrew when he asked if i pushed the "reset" button. i didn't know i had a "reset" button, so ..no, i didn't push the "reset" button. he pushed it, and my wonderful laptop came back to life. it is so nice to be able to type this on **my** laptop, not some imposter trying to be mine!

today's pad image is the back of my laptop. if you look at the right side of the picture, you will see it is all scorched. i really did "blow up" my computer and i have documentary proof.

rocking horse

2006-01-18T13:21:00.000-05:00

yet another picture of my son! this was taken in the studio, like all the others. it has a bit of a cream background because i just bought a hunk of muslin to dye and i wanted to make sure that i liked the size before putting any effort into it. i'm too lazy to put the white back. besides, i need help from my husband to do it! :)

tripod as a prop?

2006-01-11T22:07:00.000-05:00

i am particularly sore today. yesterday i started doing an exercise routine and it just about kicked my butt, somehow i managed to go back for more today! basically i can't stand up, walk, sit down, bend over, relax... i just can't give it up, though. i feel sooooo wonderful for about an hour after the routine, that as soon as the high is over i'm ready to start again! :) i'm turning into an areobic junkie!

my husband was in the studio editing his pad photo, and i was bored in the family room. i scooped up the kid and headed down to the studio with him again. i hope that you all aren't too tired of seeing him. i'm sure there will be awhole lot more of him to come! my husband and i are trying to start a photography business. i would love to photograph kids in the studio and my husband wants to do stock photography. i am using dominik as a learning tool since he is the perfect age to not pay attention to a single thing that i am trying to tell him! today he was particularly moody. he skipped his nap and it is about 10pm. he is down right exhausted, but i made him put up with me for a few minutes. the second shot really shows it. he was content in the first image, not looking at the camera, but still a cute shot. i call the second one my moody model shot. he is walking off the set in a funk! i thought it was too cute and showed way too much emotion not to post!

hope you all enjoy!

little boys and thier tonka trucks...

2006-01-10T14:47:00.000-05:00

this is my son, dominik. he is 14 months old today! one of his favorite activities is sitting in his giant tonka truck while we push him around the house. in honor of being 14 months today, i took him into the studio and shot this picture. his hair is a mess today, nothing has tamed it, but his smile can melt me. :)

i like flowers

2006-01-09T22:18:00.000-05:00

i have come to realize that flowers seem to be my favorite thing to photograph. my sweet husband has put up with my love of flowers for many years and i hope that he will continue to tolerate them!!!! this particular carnation has been in the house for a week. some of the "vase-mates" are starting to wilt, so i figured i needed to photograph it before it was too late! i edited the image very little in adobe raw, but it is basically how it was shot. i used my husband's nikon d70, which was an adventure for me. i couldn't get the darn thing to focus on my flower. it kept trying to focus on the background. grrr. luckily my husband showed me how he has it set up and i was able to focus. :)

gala, the apple of my eye

2006-01-05T14:31:00.000-05:00

in an attempt to better myself this year, i not only want to take a picutre a day, but also eat better. i was looking at the giant bowl of fruit on the kitchen's center island and saw this one lone gala apple...i picked it up, looked at it, and ran down to the studio and shot it! i think it turned out pretty well. i didn't do much post processing, just played with the levels a little bit, burned the stem a tad to help it stand out, and added the border. whatcha think?!

meanie bird

2006-01-04T22:52:00.000-05:00

carson. the 7 month old quaker parrot. this picture was taken at the kitchen table while my husband (livitup) held him. he has managed to get the nickname of "meanie bird" due to a period of time when he wasn't getting enough sleep at night. he was the most evil little green thing in the whole world! we have mostly fixed that and are now starting to struggle through birdie puberty. fun, fun, fun!

hope you enjoy! he is such a beautiful little bird. my wonderful husband has been working on getting him to say "quack, quack, i'm a duck" and just tonight he said the "quack, quack" part. of course, since daddy said "quack, quack, i'm a duck" dominik had to walk around trying his hardest to say it too! awefully cute!

too busy for a picture? yup, so far

2006-01-03T17:22:00.000-05:00

no new pictures today. the day was spent cleaning up the studio, trying to figure out where we want to eventually put what--when we eventually get around to finishing the basement and studio space, and taking picutres for the challenges on DPC that end today!

i think that my shot is pretty good but i don't want to post anything about it until the challenge voting is over next week. i wasted alot of time on an idea that just didn't work out the way that i wanted it to. i first set it up on the kitchen counter and loved it there, but when i moved downstairs it just wasn't what i wanted. maybe i will try to shoot it again tomorrow. new day, new outlook.

sorry about the lack of picture again.
-=lee=-

the first of many!

2006-01-02T21:46:00.000-05:00

I was playing with my macro lens tonight, so everything is up close and personal :)
my lovely coffee table, up close and personal.
my son's beautiful eyes, up close and personal

family room ceiling fan, up close and personal

my son has great taste! he gets the canon love from me (daddy uses a nikon)..again up close and personal.