pyper's scale photo...

Finally got what I was looking for...  Had to do a quick re-take today of Pyper on the scale.  Couldn't convince myself that any of the previous photos from Wednesday would work. You can't even imagine the look on Maci and Sherri's face today when I said, "I think I want to re-take Pyper's scale photo."  I had to do quite a bit of color adjustments to get the wall and Pyper just how I wanted them.  For the detail-oriented person, notice that the scale reading is right at 7 lbs 11 oz (Pyper's actual birth weight)...

am I crazy...

I have photo ideas running through my head constantly.  I know it is weird, but it sometimes makes it hard to sleep.  I've got to find a toddler and an older man, another older man for a picture in a cemetery and diner, some old christmas decorations and last but not least I am waiting on Pyper...

more Maci and Tyler and oh yeah, don't forget Pyper...

A few more shots from last night.  Glad we got to capture these moments.  We all had alot of fun doing this...  When I was modifying the pictures today I noticed right off that I made a slight (or stupid) mistake on the camera settings. I had been messing around taking pictures a few days ago and I changed the ISO setting to 400.  Well, I forgot to change it back and I took all of the photos last night with this ISO.  The result was alot more digital noise than I planned.  Definitely would have rather had this setting at 100, but it is one of those things that you can't have a do-over.  Technically I could have a do-over but I wouldn't want to be the one to tell Maci that I needed her to do this again...  Will definitely pay more attention when I take the pictures of Pyper.  Modified all of them using Aperture 3, Silver Efex Pro an Color Efex Pro.  

Maci Silhouette

Here is a quick preview of one picture from last night.  I shot several pictures of Maci and Tyler trying to catch her right before Pyper is born.  She is 37 weeks today so I figured that I better take the opportunity while we had it.  Next photo shoot setup will be the birth announcement.  Finally found a old set of baby scales for the occasion...

i am second...

I snapped this quick picture over the weekend of Sadi and me.  Another picture taken in our garage.  I love the shadows that show the direction of the light.  I modified it using Color Efex Pro to increase color/contrast and then Silver Efex Pro to change it to black and white and increase the contrast a little more.  IMO, this created some neat effects.

For some reason I always like being the first to post a picture that I took, but Sadi beat me to it on this one.  She added it to her Facebook pictures just a little bit ago.  She has already received more comments than I will get here.  In many ways I guess that makes me second...

just a dog...

A totally random picture that I took about a year and a half ago at a Dallas White Rock Lake 5K.  Rest assured that I was not running the race.  I was just the nerd with the camera.  I keep running (no pun intended :)) across this picture and I always think about posting it.  So here it is.  One totally random dog...

light up the sky...

This was taken at Bellingham Bay on my trip at the end of November.  Tried to line the sun, that was peeking through the clouds, up with the light bulb in the lamp post.  Thought this one turned out pretty good.  The sky was blue but there wasn't that much sky showing...

semiahmoo coast...

Here is a version of the Semiahmoo Coast picture that I took during a trip to Bellingham, WA at the end of November.  It was one of those times when I really didn't think that I would get any pictures.  I wanted to get a sunset photo, but it ended up be a cloudy evening and we got there much later than I wanted.  It was starting to get dark, but I took some pictures anyway.  I really like the contrast of this picture.  I converted it to black and white because that helps bring out the contrast in the light grey sky, the dark grey parts of the buildings and the black rocks.  Love the reflections in the water...

last pictures taken in 2010

So this is my last two pictures that I took in 2010.  It was a couple of quick pictures of Sadi and Mikayla taken in our garage when we were on our way out the door.  The first one was modified in Color Efex Pro and the second one in Silver Efex Pro.  Both were taken with my Leica M8.  The more I take pictures with this camera, the more I love it.  Hopefully by the time that I go on my next Honduras trip taking pictures with this camera will be second nature.


What a year 2010 was!  I feel fortunate that many of the things that made 2010 so great were captured with one of my cameras.  I look forward to 2011 and most of all the memories that are waiting to be photographed!  May God bless 2011 for us all...