My Wonderful Hubs

This is my wonderful husband, the Navy Chaplain, getting ready to attend the Marine Corps Ball in Las Vegas. Doesn't he look smashing?

Officer and a Gentleman

That was one of my favorite movies growing up. Who knew that I would actually marry one. haha Congrats to my hubs who passed all his interviews and is now on his way to being ordained in June. Although, I'm not liking the fact that people will actually have the right to call me a Pastor's wife now. haha As he was getting dressed for his final interview, I decided to take some portrait shots of him. Doesn't he look dashing? ;)
Oh, FYI, this is not his usual Navy uniform. Since he is currently stationed with the Marines, this is his Marines uniform. I always tell him he looks like he just popped out of a 1950's catalog.

Me & Hubs

So lately I've been trying to take more photos of me and Hubs so that we can start to fill our empty frames. He is very impatient with my trial and error techniques, but I think we got a few funny ones.

And how could I end without posting a picture of our baby. These moments of her sleeping are few and far between because usually she is up and about tearing something apart. oh Zoe!

Self Portraits...again!

This is what one does when they have nothing to do at home. They photograph themselves because their trusty sidekick dog won't sit still long enough to be photographed. Instead, the sidekick dog decides to jump on its owner while she's busy trying to take some self portraits.
The reason I decided to do this is because a while ago when I was taking a photography class, we had to do a self portrait series. I didn't know much about my camera at the time so I wasn't too thrilled with the results. Now that I know a little more about how to use my camera and have a MUCH better lens and camera, I decided to redo this project. Yes I'm a little bit of a narcissist. Can't you tell?

I guess I should've polished my dresser before I took this. That scratch on the bottom drawer has Zoe's name written all over it. She's in trouble now!

Testing out some free textures I found online. Cool stuff! Gotta love the web!!

Meet The Spies...

...pronounced "Speez". Being a military family themselves, they are one of our closest friends here in Oceanside, CA. As a matter of fact, we wouldn't be living in the house we are now if it weren't for Dawn's resourcefulness. And that's only one of the many things she and Dan have helped us with as we transition into our new life in California. Their son Isaiah is a total hoot and Zoe has developed a liking to him. Almost a little too much than he'd prefer.

So one rainy Sat. morning, over Thanksgiving weekend, Hubs and I managed to take a long hike (half a block to be exact) to their house and take family portraits of them. I had such big visions of an outdoor session, but b/c of the rain and my 30 min. time limit, we decided the fireplace would be the best backdrop. Here's a tidbit of what I caught.

Self Portraits

Ok so being that I'm so self absorbed, this week's assignment was a BREEZE!! hahaha Yes, we were asked to take self portraits of ourselves and I had a field day. There were so many more pictures I wanted to post, but I didn't want to bore you so here are my favorites. I wanted to try a blk/wht series too. Oh! and I forgot to mention, I used my new Manfrotto Tripod and I LOVE it!!

Portraits of Glo

So this week my assignment was to take portraits of someone. Luckily, my sister had her morning free and after much coercing, she agreed to be my subject as we took some photos in front of a stranger's house in Rutherford, NJ.