Tyler is at Byrnes Camp today, so I'm using Brielle as my subject in these pics. Here, I have one of Brielle's favorite suffed animals, an antique high chair given to my by a friend of mine, and Brielle in a simple off white dress. It was hot and humid today - 95 degrees - so we had to make this a quick practice.
Below I worked on using a narrow depth of field so the background had really smooth bokeh.
Brielle was in awe over a little tiny bug she saw in the grass (mom, it wasn't a snake - don't worry). I like the mood of this photo, the pink, the wonder and dim evening light.
I just had to do a mini-photo session with Brielle now that I have my new lens. Tyler wasn't too into it so he was off playing. Here I've antiqued the picture in CS3.
In this picture I was trying to capture both kids as the played beneath the darkening sky. I wanted to get the eerie mood of the storm captured here... Later that night we awoke to a light show and rumblings of thunder brought on by the storm. 
In this photograph I focused on Tyler's hands making his face slightly blurry - again we were outside, in the evening as the sky was beginning to grey with the thunder storms rolling in.
This picture was taken last evening with the same lens. It was early evening and the storm clouds were moving in, so I had to work quickly. Obviously Brielle was just doing her own thing only to look up when I sneezed and then to ask 'you okay mommy?'
