product shoot

On Tuesday I got an email from my friend Brooke, the owner of Velvet Strawberries, which is a wonderful line of body scrubs. She had an opportunity to have an article about her products in Fit Yoga magazine but had no pictures of anything - what's a girl to do? She overnighted a box of all her products to me and I spent last night playing with product photography. It was soooo fun! And as a super special bonus I get to keep all the freaking awesome producuts. Check out her website - www.velvetstrawberries.com - the scrubs are amazing and a portion of the proceeds of each one gets donated to charity.

ingrid's maternity shoot

This weekend I did a super fun maternity shoot with my friend Ingrid. The first real workout of my new studio area! We had a blast and got some great shots; she's due any day now so we just squeaked it in in time. For her first son I think we did the shoot about two weeks before she delivered, I think we cut it even closer this time. Here are a few of my favorites:



I snapped this one after she realized that she was trying to suck in her stomach to absolutely no effect -



I love love love these last two -





Best wishes for Ingrid and M2!

belly shots

Today I was made aware of the fact that I hadn't taken a single picture of my belly yet. Shameful! I took the opportunity to play with my new studio lights in our basement and had great fun setting everything up. Nate put up a nice black backdrop for me and I puttered away for about an hour, posing my belly.

Nate's favorite -



a totally different feel - this one was processed with the Totally Rad Old Skool action, I like the effect quite a bit -





I'm very excited to do this weekly and watch my belly grow over the next six months. It'll be fun to come up with a project that'll incorporate the whole series.

big news!

I'm pregnant! Pretty much the biggest news out there, eh? Whooooooooooooo.

Nate and I are both just tickled pink about the whole thing. I've started a baby blog, which is probably why I've been neglecting my responsibilities to this blog a bit. Shame on me. Please head on over there for more details on how things are progressing if you are so inclined!

Anyway, I will do my best to get back in the habit of blogging here at least weekly if not more often. We are going to Chicago on Saturday for five days so I'll definitely have some fun stuff from there.

Also, I got some studio lights! I have a corporate photobooth (almost, sort of) type gig in July and went out and got myself some AlienBees and a battery so I now have totally mobile portable lights. I'll probably set up a little portrait area in our basement to practice and do progress belly shots of myself.

Here's the announcement we sent out after our first doctor's appointment:



and an ultrasound shot of the little blob at 8 weeks -

nursery, etc.

One last set from our visit to Loveland...the guys were off at Dustin's office, looking at house plans, so Jessica and I decided to get the crib set up and start unpacking the nursery. I know what it looks like, but I DID help put the stuff together; Nate was convinced I just watched and took pictures while she did all the work.











some nursery details -







the biggest lapdog EVER -

jessica's baby shower

While in Loveland I got to attend Jessica's baby shower and had so much fun! The food was amazing (catered by Thadd at J.Salt Old World Food, sooo yummy) and everyone had a great time. Laura and Lauren had a ton of hilarious games...my favorite was definitely the 'draw the baby on top of your head on a paper plate' game.

It was a kid-friendly shower; there were 4 or 5 zooming around -







The hair on this little guy just kills me; he could totally pull off Ed Grimley with just a little bit of gel -





Jessica's sister won the 'guess what is in this diaper' game...her prize was the unmelted half of the candy bars -



The aforementioned 'paper plate on your head' game -





Jessica's mom with her rendering -





I have no idea what he was up to, but she did NOT like it -





after Jessica specified 'no pink!!' on the invites, an attendee with a literary bent wrote her an ode to pink -

jessica

Nate and I went down to Loveland CO this weekend to visit our friends Dustin & Jessica and do a belly shoot for Jessica while we were there. She just looks great and it was so wonderful to see them again. We're planning on heading down after baby K is born to help out however we can and to do some mom/baby portraits as well. Here are my faves from the belly shoot -

On the railroad bridge -



We went to a decrepit old building by the tracks and pretty much stayed there all afternoon -

























Congratulations you two, Nate and I are both so excited to meet her!

On a blog-related note, I am trying a new watermark/logo bit. What do you all think? Any feedback is greatly appreciated!