Max Rocks

This past weekend, we celebrated Max's First Birthday (aka Dohl in korean). He is just cute as a button, but he also has this "don't mess with me" personality about him. I love it!!! and that hair!!!

This is Max before the party got started; Just chillin' in his mommy's arms.

So in the same sense that all Brides have a photos of themselves getting into their wedding dress. Every Dohl birthday boy should have a picture of himself getting into his Hambok. It was quite a challenge.
Then of course he had to take a break to pose in his diapers with his parents.After all that hard work, mom is still smiling.

There were kids everywhere!

Cherry Blossoms!!

So I had the privilege of accompanying Maggie Choi on one of her family photo shoots in Branch Brook Park (Newark, NJ). This park so beautiful with all its cherry blossoms and was literally a 5 min. drive from my house. Considering she made me get up at 6:30am, I was thrilled it was so close to my house. :D We had a fun morning of chasing Meagan around like paparazzi.

WELL Tots

Kids are so much fun to photograph b/c they are such hams and not afraid to bare it all in front of the camera. Here are some of the Bethany Well baby/ Toddlers that I managed to get to pose for me. As you will see below, Abby was the star of the show.

Babysitting

So this is what happens when my sister and BIL leave their kids with me for an evening. I spent most of the evening chasing them around with my camera and of course b/c they knew I wanted them to sit still, they did the exact opposite. Although, I think Richie is finally getting the hang of modeling for me. haha They are the cutest kids an Aunt could ever ask for. Don't you just want to eat them up?

and introducing the new addition to their family Johann (I think that's how you spell it; if it's wrong, I can guarantee that BIL will leave a comment correcting me. hahaha)

FYI...I did not pose them like this. The two dogs were just lying there like that and Richie took it upon himself to mimic them. I'm just dying over how cute they all are. Too bad Chloe would not cooperate. hahaha

Star Struck in Kuwait

So as most of you know my husband Dave is in Kuwait. Alot of people assume that he's suffering out there, but things can't so be so bad if he's meeting celebrities. haha He won tickets to a premiere showing of the new Star Trek movie and got to meet the cast. Here is the guy who play's Spok. If any of you guys are HEROES fans like Dave and I are, you'll know that this is Sylar from the TV show Heroes!! I'm jealous.

Photoshop Trickery

It's been a while since I've shot so I decided to take some old photos and do some photoshop tricks. I also learned about The Rule of Thirds, in achieving a well composed photo, from Punam. So I googled it today and did some more research into it. The photos that I've worked on today demonstrate not only my agile skills of cropping/ stretching/ cloning in photoshop (j/k haha) but also demonstrates what I learned regarding the "rule of thirds". Enjoy!!

These first two photos I just put up b/c I like them. haha

So here's the BEFORE:

and the AFTER (of much cropping, cloning, & stretchging):
(notice how I tried to follow the rule of thirds by making sure
Richie's eyes landed on the intersecting lines. Also used
the handy blur tool to mask some of my erroneous cloning
and stretching on the left side to extend the picture out.)
BEFORE:
AFTER:
(this one was quite a challenge b/c I had to draw in a big
portion of his shirt at the bottom and sides.)
TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!