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I loved the few shots I got by the win­dow. I was tak­ing a dif­fer­ent pic­ture with the flash just with mom,
but when the lit­tle one came over to check up on things I turned off the flash and snapped two or three can­did ones.

I love can­did pho­tog­ra­phy, if you havent fig­ured that out by now

Yucky day…just about every­thing that could go wrong, did. My head hurts, I think its a head cold. Preparations are in full swing… yucky, busy, wacky day. Go away!

To coun­ter­act, I will post one of my favorite shots with the mom we have been fol­low­ing.
Love it. One of those unplanned per­fect moments.

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Unlike my day today.

The other day a pack­age arrived. In fact, there were two pack­ages. In one was the long awaited, long over­due, severely missed replace­ment of our old video cam­era. It has been close to a year since it died and it pains me how many unbe­liev­ably cute things we have missed since then.

In the last 10 years we have moved through three cam­era media. First were tapes, then smaller tapes and now we are down to small cards. That is all fine and dandy, gad­get tech­nol­ogy doesnt scare me, I am with it, I dig it, I under­stand it. The prob­lems come when that old cam­era dies and you are left with a pile, no load of tapes you can no longer watch, because the tech­nol­ogy is gone.  This is not a hypo­thet­i­cal, this is an exam­ple of what has hap­pened to our fam­ily. We had one box of tapes that havent been seen in years, and now we have another that is being added to it. Now that we are with cards and hard disk I just hope that in a year or two we will still be able to open the footage at least. I hope.

The other weird fact about gad­gets is that as they get bet­ter (and smaller) they get cheaper. My head hurts when I think how much we paid for that first cam­era. This small, cute, HD capa­ble, fea­ture rich grand­child of it that we acquired is prob­a­bly three times cheaper, at least.

The other pack­age, ladies and gen­tle­men, con­tained what actu­ally makes me cool from this day onwards. And I ask of you to treat me accord­ingly. K?

Now I am the proud owner of proper light­ing set up. Yep. I have had the one flash for awhile, the other for not so long, but now I have stands, umbrel­las and the lit­tle thingo maji­gos that hold the stuff together.

It may not be expen­sive gear, I may have bought the cheap­est option I could find, but it doesnt really mat­ter, because the result is what mat­ters. Although, my flash did fall off the clamp when bumped by a curi­ous Popcorn, prob­a­bly because its a cheapo crappo option

I cant wait to play with it more after this party busi­ness passes through.

Signed,
Ms. Way Too Coolova

This was unplanned. The lit­tle one was fin­ished with the shots and undressed and run­ning around.
Then came to touch mama’s belly.
I had a close up of the scene that I think I like a bit more, but I must have grabbed the wrong file.

Here, I like the dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive and view. Also the impli­ca­tion of expect­ing a visit.

Note: you guys may void the deal…just saying.