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!

Whoo hoo I'm blogging.

After months of thinking "Yes, I'm going to write a blog", I've finally put that butt in gear and got started. So here we go! I hope you'll enjoy what I have to share and come back from time to time to see what me, Monkey and Moo are up to.

For my first entry I thought I'd take you back in time and share our Father's day project;

We started off with a morning of art fun, cutting cereal boxes (yes, that was my department) drawing shapes (here I had some help) and colouring them in (all the work of two little Monkey-Moos).

Monkey and Moo were very enthusiastic! A few spats over whose turn it was with the red crayon, but all in all a fun filled and very busy morning.
With props completed we took a long walk down to the common, Mom with camera in hand and Monkey-Moos with enthusiasm in abundance!

Monkey and Moo were super happy about posing and holding up their props, Mom pleasantly surprised by the amount of cooperation!

 

We experiment choosing locations and poses and acting very silly in between. I was very happy with the results (as all moms know, getting two little Monkey-Moos to keep still and smile on cue while staying posed as you've asked is NEVER easy)

 

Lastly to complete our Father's Day gift, we picked our winner, printed and framed it for daddy's desk. (I believe it's on proud display!)