the girl behind the camera

Utah Trip

2009-08-15T06:31:00.001-07:00

Last post for the day, I've got a busy day ahead of me, hanging out with friends and then a reception tonight. Hope everyone has a great day!

Canada Trip

2009-08-15T06:21:00.000-07:00

I'll come back and caption these in a little bit too. I had such a great time in Canada. It was so beautiful and so much fun. Thanks Bob and Kay for letting us stay with you and all that you did for us while we were in town...especially the great meals and Bob's famous mashed potatoes. ;)

Yellowstone Trip [Post 1]

2009-08-15T06:16:00.000-07:00

I don't have a lot of time this morning, so I'll split up my trip posts so you can see a little of what I've been up to and I'll add more later.

I'm Baccccccckkkkkkk!!!

2009-08-15T06:11:00.000-07:00

In Indiana, in the blogging world, life in general. I've been so busy and trying to keep up 2 other blogs and work and traveling and everything, I've just been too busy to keep up. I have a TON of posts I need to add. It'll probably take a while though because SO much has happened. I may just start posting from my most recent trip. I've been keeping up pretty good with my other blog. If you want to check out a little bit of what I've been up to professionally, it is: www.photochyckphotography.blogspot.com. Hope everyone has been doing well. :)

why my cat is fat

2009-05-05T17:51:00.001-07:00

now we know why we can never get her diet to work..

lighthouse edit

2009-04-25T19:59:00.000-07:00

i ♥ photoshop!

working on reflections

2009-04-25T08:14:00.001-07:00

not sure if i like this one..

trash bag backdrops

2009-04-24T15:25:00.000-07:00

i got a cool tip from a friend who told me to use black trash bags as backdrops to take flower pictures. i think they turned out really good. i'll be carrying one around in my camera bag from now on. :D

spring is here!

2009-04-23T08:54:00.000-07:00

yayyyyyyyy!

randomness

2009-04-22T06:48:00.000-07:00

chasing rainbows

2009-04-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

alex was driving home from practice and called me and said get your camera, i see a rainbow. we couldn't see it from the house, so we went and looked for it. these are my first rainbow pix. i'm excited that they turned out! :)

the other side. :]

i tried to get a pic of both sides together, but by the time we got to somewhere where we were far enough back to get both sides, this side was gone.

it was actually a double rainbow. me and alex saw it, but it didnt capture well on my camera, but i darkened it up in photoshop so you could see it.

seeing double

2009-04-20T15:28:00.000-07:00

they had two sets of fireworks going at thunder at the same time..gotta go. alex sees a rainbow.

please keep us in your prayers

2009-04-20T07:29:00.000-07:00

i just found out that my great-grandmother died.

thunder over louisville 2009

2009-04-19T19:07:00.001-07:00

was amazing! one of the coolest things i've ever seen. dad went with me, we had a blast. lol..no pun intended. i was really excited because i've been wanting to take firework pictures and haven't gotten any since i've been so into photography. and thunder is the largest annual pyrotechnics display in north america. what better place for firework pix?

won a photo contest today

2009-04-15T23:09:00.000-07:00

its not a really big deal. its a daily contest put out by my photography network. i didn't win anything besides the honor of hosting tomorrow's challenge. it made me happy though. :)

i love this shot!

blake's senior pictures

2009-04-09T16:42:00.000-07:00

anne took me and blake out and about and around virginia on the last day of my trip. i had a blast taking these pix! we had such a great day! it was a ton of fun and blake was such an awesome model. he made it so easy to capture such amazing shots. afterwards, we joined the rest of the family to eat dinner at the restaurant that he and madison work at. it was really good and i enjoyed visiting with them. we were so lucky for the amazing weather. thanks again anne for taking time from your busy schedule to be my assistant/chauffeur. lol. i really appreciate it. also a special thanks to robert and donna for letting us borrow their car for some shots. :)

steve's birthday cake

2009-04-09T16:41:00.000-07:00

beth cooked a cake for steve's birthday that she let the kids decorate all by themselves! it was so fun to watch! and they had such a good time. poor steve wasn't as thrilled to try it out. but he was a trooper and ate a piece. haha.

cool lighthouse

2009-04-09T16:40:00.001-07:00

i thought it'd be cool to have in blake's pictures and i've been wanting pictures of a lighthouse, so i killed two birds with one stone and went to the lighthouse for part of his photoshoot.

i love this pic with anne's bench

this one's neat too. got this through the glass of another lighthouse that we climbed to get pix.

photography accident

2009-04-09T16:40:00.000-07:00

gave me a black eye. owww....
:(

note to self: never take pix of aiddan jumping on the trampoline.

when's the mail coming?

2009-04-09T16:39:00.001-07:00

screenshot of my website

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from my phone, so its not that great, but you get the idea. if you want to see it, then you can just go to it: http://www.photochyck.smugmug.com/. :)

photography blog

2009-04-09T16:38:00.000-07:00

adding a new blog for just my professional photography.

http://www.photochyckphotography.blogspot.com/.

linda's baby shower

2009-04-09T05:42:00.000-07:00

while i was in virginia, linda and tim also came out for a visit. her friend wanted to throw her a baby shower since she found out that she was coming into town. she planned it for a long time, then got diagnosed with lymphoma, so grace offered to host the shower at her house and to make the food and decorations and everything. it all was very nice. everyone had a great time. i didn't take as many pictures as i'd have liked to though, i had sprained my ankle the day before and was also visiting with people i hadn't seen in years, but i still came out with a bunch. congrats on the baby guys! can't wait to meet him! if you want to see more pix, i'm sure linda will post more on her blog soon.

dc preview

2009-04-06T08:40:00.000-07:00

i have about a million more, but am going to wait until tonight to post them. dont want to spend my last couple of days here blogging. here's a preview of our day yesterday:

it was so much fun! thanks so much beth and steve for the awesome DC trip!

the sun is waking up!

2009-04-05T05:42:00.000-07:00

over the ocean. one of the most amazing things i've ever seen. loved every second of it! thanks beth and steve for getting up before dawn and waking up the kids and taking us all to the beach so i could experience this phenomenal morning!!

i have about a million more, and i know there are a ton that i like even better, but here are some for now. i'm leaving for dc, but will post more tomorrow. have a great day!

got some 'trashy' pictures today!

2009-04-04T20:05:00.000-07:00

and i posted an album on FB. but am too tired to post them on here tonight. i have to be up in a few hours to take sunrise pix then off to DC for the day! but i'll definitely be posting a ton more pictures monday! o.O

here's a preview of what's to come:

if you want to see more, you can find a whole album on my FB page, but i will post more at least by monday. :)

picture within a picture within a picture

2009-04-04T07:57:00.000-07:00

haha. we had 3 of my cameras out this morning. austin took this of me taking one of aiddan of her taking one of austin

my other little protégé

2009-04-04T07:54:00.000-07:00

backflip

2009-04-04T07:52:00.000-07:00

i'll add more later. thought this one was cool. like the sunspot.

fountain shot

2009-04-04T07:50:00.000-07:00

always missing..

2009-04-04T07:49:00.002-07:00

sooooooooo cute!

2009-04-04T07:49:00.001-07:00

aiddan's weigh-in

2009-04-04T07:46:00.000-07:00

seahorse

2009-03-30T19:10:00.000-07:00

found this little guy washed up on the beach. along with a very interesting lady. she wanted to save it but didn't want to touch it so i put him back in the ocean. then she openly said a prayer to make sure that the seahorse lived and thanking God for letting me help and for letting this miracle happen. she was so excited about the whole situation. she said she'd prayed that she'd see a seahorse and then she did. she talked for a long time. then on my way back from the pier i ran into her again and she was so excited that she ran into me...and in the exact spot where we saved the seahorse. she was talking about how fate brought us together again and asked to see the picture because she couldn't believe what a miracle it was and gave me her email and wanted me to send her the picture so she could hang it on her wall and look at it every day and she went on and on and on. it was an interesting experience to say the least. anyway, i did think it was cool to see a seahorse on the beach and alive and everything. here's a couple pix of it:

no trespassing...

2009-03-30T19:05:00.000-07:00

oops. rofl

some shots of the kids at the beach

2009-03-30T18:59:00.000-07:00

the lighting was amazing just before sunset. got some good pix of the kids.

sand angels

2009-03-30T12:57:00.000-07:00

faded

2009-03-30T10:05:00.000-07:00

some cute faded shots of aiddan

cool shot from the ride home

2009-03-30T10:01:00.000-07:00

liked the lighting on these lights

robert's birthday dinner

2009-03-30T09:41:00.000-07:00

beth and her family and robert and donna and me all went out to dinner for robert's birthday at a place called tijuana flats. it was really good. it had some really cool artwork on the walls, so of course, i got pictures. it was a neat place and we had a lot of fun.

happy birthday robert!

such a gorgeous day!

2009-03-30T09:09:00.000-07:00

shipwrecked!

2009-03-29T22:32:00.000-07:00

found an old abandoned shipwreck. it was really neat!

trees with a beautiful night sky

2009-03-29T22:29:00.000-07:00

absolutely love this shot. its my camera wallpaper. lol.

peyton's pictures

2009-03-29T22:09:00.000-07:00

a few from her many shutter-crazy shots:

she took several of me, this was my favorite.

and this is my favorite shot that she got the whole day. its very unique and creative. and she came up with it all by herself. i love it.

my little protégé

2009-03-29T21:34:00.000-07:00

peyton took some pictures of me at the beach today and some pix of the beach and the sun and random stuff and really got into it. she actually did a pretty good job too. she got some really great shots and one that i really like of me. [which is hard to do, i usually have to take my own pix. lol.] she was talking to me earlier and said that taking pictures is a lot of fun and she wants to be like me when she grows up. it was so cute. nobody's ever told me that before. it was definitely cool. anyway. i got some pictures of her taking pictures.

haha. i love the way she's standing in this one.

i really like this one too.

super cute

2009-03-29T21:32:00.000-07:00

some silhouettes

2009-03-29T21:07:00.000-07:00

i'll post more later. couldnt decide if i like b&w or color better..

i love this one

2009-03-29T20:00:00.000-07:00

this one too!

ship at sunset

2009-03-29T19:44:00.000-07:00

click to enlarge. detail is so much better bigger

crazy cat lady

2009-03-29T19:37:00.001-07:00

seriously..who takes their cat to the beach? this lady had her cat on a leash and they were just relaxing by the ocean. what the heck lady?

in flight

2009-03-29T12:13:00.000-07:00

reflections of peyton

2009-03-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

i'm hoping to redo this shot when the water is clearer so that i can get a crisper reflection. but i still think this turned out okay.

question of the day

2009-03-29T12:04:00.000-07:00

where's landen's other shoe?

there it is! [he lost it 3 times yesterday. we spent a good portion of our time at the beach looking for it. haha. what a cutie.]

this one's neat too.

2009-03-29T11:59:00.001-07:00

i did this one a few different ways. this one's kinda cool cuz it looks like you're looking through like a periscope or something to see him. i like most of it being blacked out.

you can see the actual picture in this one better though and i really like it. austin was completely oblivious to this bird that was racing towards him. it swooped to the side before hitting him, but it got pretty close. lol

i know i already posted this but..

2009-03-29T11:56:00.000-07:00

i love it in sepia. this is one of my favorites. there's just something about it. i think its the pov. idk.

more beach pix

2009-03-29T03:04:00.000-07:00

didnt sleep at all last night. its a little after 6. i've been messing around on photoshop with pix from my trip for a while now. here are some of the edits. more later. i may be able to sleep for an hour before i have to get up for church.

beach pix

2009-03-28T13:06:00.000-07:00

more later. just a few more for now.

guy surfing under pier..click to enlarge

i found a lady bug!

king neptune

austin

the old man under the pier

pacific avenue

surfer dude

such a beautiful day!

here comes the tide!

coming soon..

2009-03-28T10:19:00.000-07:00

beach pictures! i dont have a lot of time to go through and pick them out and load them, but we went to the beach today and i got some awesome pictures! i'll load them up here tonight after the kids are in bed. :)

woke up this morning at 6 am

2009-03-28T10:10:00.000-07:00

to a little knock at my door.

i ♥ aiddan

goodnight everyone!

2009-03-27T20:27:00.001-07:00

for mom

2009-03-27T20:24:00.001-07:00

i haven't gotten it to your cell yet, but here's the video you wanted..

corrupted?

2009-03-27T19:45:00.000-07:00

i'm pretty sure it is. meaning that i lost all the pix i took on it today. and they were awesome ones too. i'm so bummed. anyone know if there's a way to recover corrupted data?

smoothie!

2009-03-27T19:40:00.000-07:00

beth bought me a smoothie! it was like something lime something. idk. it was good though.

aiddan thought so too! lol

dieting gives me a headache!

2009-03-27T19:35:00.000-07:00

all i can say is that my life is pretty plain...

2009-03-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

apparently i talk too fast..

2009-03-27T19:31:00.000-07:00

i actually got this error while i was on pogo earlier today. wow. haha. beth thought it was pretty funny. she said she gets it all the time. lol

i knew someone else had my glasses!

2009-03-27T10:16:00.000-07:00

it got lost in all the pix...

speaking of planes....

2009-03-27T10:12:00.000-07:00

here's one!

new shirt

2009-03-27T10:05:00.000-07:00

i had a layover in baltimore and picked up this shirt. and according to this guy i met on the plane who lives in baltimore, its about right. he said its a really mean city.

knock knock

2009-03-27T09:40:00.001-07:00

landen, the stand up comic:

listen to my heart

2009-03-27T09:19:00.000-07:00

austin played a little trick on maryn. he told her to listen to his heart with the stethoscope. then quickly put it to his mouth and blew into it. maryn jumped pretty high as the air entered her ears. it was hilarious.

good morning!

2009-03-27T08:42:00.000-07:00

i woke up the other morning a little before 7am, to the sound of aiddan running down the hall yelling my name over and over and knocking on my door. i opened the door and this is what i saw:

and the first thing she said to me was..."take a picture of me!"

it was the cutest thing ever. i was cracking up all morning.

bedtime!

2009-03-26T21:11:00.001-07:00

dont forget to brush your teeth!

more posts tomorrow.

goodnight!

oh dang..

2009-03-26T21:07:00.000-07:00

26 pounds! ugh. i gotta quit snacking between naps.

this one's pretty nifty...

2009-03-26T21:06:00.000-07:00

ok. ummm....

2009-03-26T21:05:00.000-07:00

what next? i really wanna do park pix or experiment night. but there are a ton of pix for both of those and i'm pretty tired. i need a short one. hmmmm...

chipmunk!

2009-03-26T20:59:00.000-07:00

the bishop gave her a gumball after church and peyton got one too and didnt want it because it was red. she asked aiddan to trade and she said ok then took both and popped them in her mouth. rofl. this is her chipmunk face!

monkey!

2009-03-26T20:58:00.000-07:00

froggy!

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and now a series of posts...

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of different animals that beth's kids impersonate! well. im-animal-ate! rofl.

the naughty chairs

2009-03-26T20:56:00.000-07:00

why is everyone so fascinated

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with my glasses?

the coolest crayon i've ever seen!

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its like 6 colors in one!

homework time!

2009-03-26T20:33:00.001-07:00

this is a pic landen drew of me for his homework. he had to draw things that started with the letter C. he drew a camera in my hand too. haha. soooooo cute! its my facebook pic right now. i love it!

the many hair styles of maryn

2009-03-26T20:21:00.000-07:00

i've got a ton more, but here are a few for now:

just maryn

pebbles flintstone

cindy lou who

jimmy neutron

rock star

halloween in march

2009-03-26T20:13:00.000-07:00

me and aiddan were helping with laundry and aiddan wanted to wash her clothes so she took them off then she found a witch hat and she had been carrying around a broom and decided to put the hat on and ride around on the broom.

rescue mission

2009-03-26T19:57:00.001-07:00

oh no! kitty is stuck on the roof! this is one of peyton's webkinz. it's name is cupcake. it apparently decided to go for a jump on the trampoline and got a little carried away and ended up jumping onto the roof. haha. austin stepped in for the rescue! and eventually succeeded and all was well once again.. oh the joys of childhood!

omgosh.

2009-03-26T19:55:00.001-07:00

so many pictures so much to blog about. where to go from here...

super cute pic

2009-03-26T19:47:00.000-07:00

this is maryn and her little boyfriend tyson. they're so cute together. seriously, i've never seen kids their age connect like they do. its so cute to watch. i LOVE this picture. one of my favorites of them.
he's giving her a flower...awwww. :)

one of the cutest videos of all time

2009-03-26T19:39:00.000-07:00

aiddan likes to make up stories and she told her mom this one and everyone laughed so she kept it going. i finally got it on video. the ending is my favorite. the events discussed in the video are totally fiction. debbie wanted to me make sure i added that. lol. this is super cute! enjoy!

btw. make sure your sound is up!

my new flip flops :)

2009-03-26T19:31:00.000-07:00

or slippers, as beth calls them. or thongs as debbie calls them. lol. debbie is steve's mom, beth's mother-in-law. she flew out from las vegas and spent a couple of weeks here too. we overlapped by a week, so i got to spend some time with her. she is an extremely talented crocheter. she made a ton of barbie clothes for peyton and blankets for all of the kids and while she was here she made several pairs of flip flops. and she made me a pair! i can't wait to wear them! the weather hasn't been good enough since she finished them for me to wear them outside. i dont want to ruin them. anyway. the first pair is mine and i'll post a group shoe shot after. rofl.

before

after :)

all of them. well. she did one more pair before she left but after i got pix.

cool shot i got while she was working on them

thanks debbie!!! :D

chelsea and austin's ring dance (aka junior prom)

2009-03-26T19:13:00.000-07:00

i took some pictures for this really sweet girl, chelsea, and her prom date, austin. it was so much fun. out here they call junior prom 'ring dance' because thats when they get their class rings. i'd never heard it called that before. it was totally a last minute thing to decide to have me take pictures so we were very limited on time. but we had such a good time! we took some pictures at austin's house and then on the way to drop them off at the restaurant, chelsea's mom, penny, (who is also really cool and reminds me a lot of my mom. they'd get along great!), stopped the car and we took some pictures by this cool colored kinda stained glass wall and some really awesome graffiti and then back into a beat up alley. it was so neat! i think me and chelsea are gonna try to get together again while i'm out here and do some more pictures. i'm so excited. she's such a good model. :) these were some of my favorites:

so...

2009-03-26T18:20:00.000-07:00

i haven't been on here in over a month. so much has happened i dont even know where to begin. i think i'm going to start with the most recent stuff and work backwords because i have the pictures up already and its whats currently happening in my life right now. i'm staying with my aunt beth and her family for three weeks in virginia. i've already been here a week so i'll be here another two. so far i've taken like 1400 pix. mostly of the kids. she has five. they're so cute and fun to be around...mostly. haha. its been pretty cold or rainy since i've gotten here so i haven't done a ton of stuff outside yet. i went to the park one day but besides that, we've been going places inside. its supposed to warm up though and start being nice over the next few days i think. i'm going to the beach on saturday. i'm pretty excited about it.

(these are all of beth's kids' feet. i took it when they visited in december. i dont remember if i ever got around to that post before. i'm such a slacker. i have so much to catch up on. anyway. its super cute. i love all the toes!)

wayyyyyyyyyyy behind

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on posts. will do a ton tonight. lots has been happening!

dusty and bana

2009-02-25T17:00:00.000-08:00

"GET THIS STUPID BANANA AWAY FROM ME!" --Dusty (while gritting teeth)

for beth

2009-02-22T12:45:00.000-08:00

there is a little bit of a glare on the glass of the pix, but you get the idea..here's how we set up these pix in our living room. and i'll take pix of the ones in my room sometime next week after the rest of my pix arrive.

new furniture!

2009-02-22T10:45:00.000-08:00

living room:

old recliner: leather, regular-sized, unheated, non-massaging, footrest broken

new recliner: microfiber, oversized, heated, massage, footrest not broken. :)

old couch: scratchy material (so we covered it with a couch cover..and it never fit right), felt like you're sitting on a rock, three seats

new couch: microfiber, comfortable..non-rock, six seats :)

old couch: nothing to complain about this couch. i loved this couch. i wish we could of kept it but it wouldn't fit anywhere. i miss it, but am glad it found a good home. :)
new couch: see above..its the same couch as the other sectional. :)

oh...and there are two storage ottomans/footstools that replaced the coffee table. we moved the coffee table in front of the other sectional. we may replace it with more ottomans at a later date.

overall video of the room

dining room:

old table: non-padded chairs starting to fall apart and wobbly table

new table: very sturdy and pretty and padded chairs

alex's room:

coming soon! i dont have any before pix because we started gutting it before i got a pic, and i dont have new pix since we got the new comforter, just the pictures of the bed and dresser right after it was assembled. i'll post it later.

my room: coming tuesday...because thats when my futon gets here..we ordered it separate.

furniture shopping

2009-02-22T10:25:00.001-08:00

me and mom have been looking at furniture stores for a couple of weeks now since we decided that we needed new furniture. we found a dining room set the we liked and dad and alex joined us last saturday..valentines day..to make sure they liked it and to help us pick out the rest of the furniture. we all liked the dining room set right off the bat. then we looked around at couches and found a sectional that we all liked. so we put that on our list. then we went to look at recliners. then bedroom sets. then mattresses then bedroom sets again then couches again, and decided just to get two of the same couch rather than get two different ones. so we got two sectional couches, two storage ottomans that match the couches. then we got a recliner and alex found a mattress she liked to fit the bed that she liked that matched the dresser and mirror set for her room. we jumped around between different furniture a lot, but finally came to a decision. it was fun trying out all of the different chairs and beds and everything. oh. and since it was president's day....with every purchase of $50 or more, you got a free 5x7 picture of obama. haha. the frame matched my room, so i took obama out and put one of my own pictures in it. :)

alex trying out mattresses. she took several naps while we were looking at other furniture..had to make sure it would work! haha.

testing out the couch. getting really bored at this point in time..we were there for quite a while..

dad trying out a really weird recliner. who sits like this?!?

me and mom were walking around the store when we came across this...dad and alex simultaneously plopped down on different mattresses. idk why but we thought it was really funny. we're easily amuzed. anyway..i missed the video op, so i made them do it again. lol. this one was totally mocked up.

check back later for pix of the new furniture!

update

2009-02-22T10:07:00.000-08:00

sorry its been a while since my last post, we've been super busy over here.
i still havent heard back from stoops, but alex got a car from a friend of my uncle. she got a red 2006 chevy cobalt..i'm gonna haveta post pix later because she's been gone a lot since she's had it or its been covered in snow and i dont really have many good pix of it. but anyway..after the whole stoops situation, just thinking about going to another car dealership made me wanna scream. plus, its really hard to find a reliable car for that price. so. i decided that i dont really need a new car right now, that i could continue to bum cars off of my parents or alex and that we could use the money that would have been my car to get furniture for our house. so..we got new furniture a couple of days ago..yay! we completely refurnished the living room, dining room, and alex's room and i got an storage ottoman and futon for my room. i also ordered a ton of new pix for my gallery and for our living room to fill the frames that i bought last week. pix and videos to come soon!

more snowflakes

2009-02-16T10:43:00.001-08:00

i edited them with lighting and color.