Posted by DrewB on January 19, 2012 · 6 Comments
If you can deal with the traffic, smog, ridiculously high costs of living, and EARTHQUAKES, Southern California isn’t that bad of a place to live. Especially when it’s 85 degrees at the beach. In January.
This was Kennedy’s very first trip to the beach. She didn’t hate it.
5 days later we drove an hour and a half and spent the weekend up in the mountains. There wasn’t a lot of snow left. But, the boy found enough to make a couple of snow balls.
And he loved hunting for pine cones.
This whole outing lasted for about 5 minutes and then he had to go back in the cabin because he was FREEZING. It was in the high forties. Thank goodness we don’t live in Minnesota or Alaska. There’s no way we could survive!
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Posted by DrewB on January 17, 2012 · 10 Comments
Dear Kennedy,
Can you slow down? Please? 5 months went by in the blink of an eye. I want to freeze this stage. It’s my favorite. The “super happy, content baby” stage. The “I can give you a million kisses stage and you won’t smack me (like your big brother)” stage. The “I laugh at anything” stage. The “Mom, you are the coolest person in the whole, wide world” stage. The “non-mobile before the chaos of crawling and walking starts” stage.
I want to bottle you up right now. Your cute babbles and your chunky thighs. Your HUGE gummy smile and your sparkling eyes.
I know you can’t stay like this forever. And I’m okay with that. Because who is going to be my shopping and mani/pedi partner if you don’t grow up. I’m just doing my best to cherish every, single second of this stage. My favorite stage.
Love,
Mama
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Posted by DrewB on January 16, 2012 · 9 Comments
Happy Monday!
Canon 5D Mark II, 50 1.2
F 1.6, 1/100, ISO 1600
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Posted by DrewB on January 13, 2012 · 17 Comments
We have this song that we sing with Kennedy, “Kenny is the big girl, the big girl, the big girl. Kenny is the big girl. She’s so big!”. The kid loves it. She gets the biggest gummy smiles. I wanted to capture it today, but had no one to take the pictures. So, what does that mean? Remote shutter time!
This shot was a little harder to set up.
- First I put my camera on my cheapy tripod (got it at Best Buy a few years ago for $15) and opened up all the windows.
- Then I had to frame the shot. I laid on the bed and through trial and error I figured out where I needed to be.
I put a marker down (the remote) to remember where I should lay.
- Then I figured out my settings
- Next, I had to focus the shot, which was the hardest part. I put a pillow in my place and then manually focused on it. I did all of this while Kennedy was sleeping so everything was set up and ready to go before she woke up.
- And then I got the baby in the shot. I took a couple and went back to make sure they were ok. It took Kennedy a couple of tries to figure out she should look at the camera. But, when she did it was perfect. I love it.
*** Shots of Kennedy taken with Canon 5D Mark II, 24-70 2.8
F 2.8, 1/125, ISO 640
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Posted by DrewB on January 12, 2012 · 11 Comments
Last year I attempted to do Project 365 and failed miserably. Within the first week.
This year I’m doing much better. I’ve made it to day 11 so far and I’m motivated to keep going because all of the pictures are of this cute girl:
I think it will be fun to document her and a lot of her firsts over the next 366 days. Yes, because it’s leap year I have to do one extra day!
I’m posting all of my images on Instagram (username: drewbphoto) and I plan on putting all the images on this cute poster when I’m done!
Are you doing a Project 366?
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