Photographing Family

Last month we were blessed with some fabulously sunny weather, the first real promise of the coming summer months. We took this sunny opportunity to get out into the park, charge up the camera and have a little photography session. If there is one thing I regret, it was not taking enough photo's when I was pregnant with Monkey-Moo #1. There are just so few of hubby and me, and a belly fully of Monkey-Moo. We made up for it, with Monkey-Moo #2, some may even say we went a tad overboard. (hurrumph!)

That said, I couldn't allow my brother and his wife, who are expecting their second little girl this May, to let this precious time pass without capturing the memories in photographs. Natural light, outdoor setting and relaxed atmosphere made this glorious sunny day the perfect time to document a time before they became a family of four!

 I used their camera, and foolishly didn't check the settings in the glaring sun (not that looking at a camera screen is easy in harsh sunlight-but enough of the excuses!) and so the first half of our shoot was rather overexposed!Groan! More time to be spent editing photo's to see what could be saved. The best outcome seemed to be turning them into black and white shots. 

While all this was going on, two little Monkey-Moos were happily posing for daddy, who was snapping creatively away with my camera. Didn't he do well?

Despite the mishaps, we came away with a few super usable shots! Now we wait for Baby to arrive so I can snap away again, with them a Family of Four!