Mother's Day FILM

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Yup, another roll of film. (Or actually, the second part of this roll.)

For Mother's Day, we took a picnic lunch to Arbor Hills after church. I just took my film camera, but I sorely regretted that decision when the girls started splashing around in the stream and I ran out of film! Just means we'll have to go back. ;)

Nikon N80 + 50mm
Portra 400 (rated at box speed)
Scanned by Indie Film Lab (large scans)






















Llano River Trip: FILM batch 2

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Here is the second roll of film from our trip to the river with Nick's fam.

Nikon N80 + 85mm or 28mm
Fuji 400H (rated at box speed and overexposed by 1-2 stops)
Scanned by Walgreens (So disappointed by the awful lines going through all of these. May just bite the bullet and send them all out to pro labs from now on.)

I'll have one more "Llano River Trip" post once I get my digitals done!









baby clark

(from April 19)

Meet Clark! His claim to fame is that he was born in the car. You read that right! Visit Kelly's blog if you're interested in that story! She also has a wonderfully honest post about the transition from 1 kid to 2 she posted recently. Check it out!

Kelly is one of my great friends from my LensBaby meetup group. Her daughter Claire is between Kate & Caroline in age, and the three of them have a lot of fun together. We're so thrilled for our sweet friends and their darling new boy.

I believe Clark was 13 days old when I met him for our photo shoot. I definitely don't claim to be a newborn photographer, but Clark sure made it easy on me. He slept so soundly the entire time I was there!

Here are a few of my favorites-











Llano River Trip: Friday Evening FILM

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 We spent last weekend down at the river in Llano with Nick's family. We had a great time, and we hope to make it an annual thing. The girls weren't too excited to get in the water, but wanted instead to stay close to Nick and me to just dip their toes in and splash.

I have more digital pictures (and a few more on another roll of film I need to finish), but the digitals have to get culled and edited. I'm VERY behind on my digital editing. That's the beauty of film... so quick just to pick my favorites from the roll and post 'em! ;)

Kodak Portra 400, rated at box speed and overexposed 1-2 stops by metering for shadows
Nikon N80 + switched between my 28mm and my 85 I think (or maybe I just left the 85 on??)
Scanned at Walgreens (not sure they did so great... the color looks pretty good, but there are lots of dust spots, splotches, and lines running through them)




"Asleep!"


"Awake!"























kate's dance recital

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Kate had her dance recital today! Their song was Shirley Temple's "Animal Crackers in my Soup." After their dress rehearsal yesterday, I didn't think things were going to go so great, but they delivered! Kate especially was in a bad mood today (really packed weekend!), and I couldn't even put on her makeup since she was so upset. We did manage to get the costume on and she had no tears on stage. In fact, she did way more of the dance than I even thought she knew! :) Video wasn't allowed during the performance today. (I had planned on buying a copy until I learned they were $40.... Ummmmm, not happening.) So, you'll have to make due with a video I took in class the day they got their costumes. (Scroll all the way down for the video.)

 

 

And here's the video from a few weeks ago. Kate's the one on the end on the right.

 

it's the little things: motherhood

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My baby turns two on Friday. She has been bursting with personality lately, and she has grown up so much over the last couple of months. This is such a fun age, and I just want to bottle it all up.

Motherhood is longing for my baby to stay a baby for just a bit longer. 

Elicia Graves' post is next up in the blog circle. Be sure to check out her beautiful work.