05.17.09

Soccer, Morels, Tummies, and Gardens

Posted in family, home, photo at 8:22 pm by heidihoho7

So i had 1 crazy weekend in mid May that was full of great photo fun. I started out with some cute soccer pics from my niece and nephew’s practice games. It was quite cold, but at least they got to run around to stay warm… all i had was some hot chocolate that they quickly drank

After the games we had Bennett’s 5th Bday party, we took a ton but these are some of my faves.

the next morning i woke up early and bribed my dad to take me out morel hunting. for those of you that don’t know what morels are – they are a type of mushroom that are only found during spring. I believe they grow in both North America as well as Europe and are considered a delicasy by many. Although to many of us farm folk it’s just a way of life- dad/whoever goes out and brings back big bags of them and you eat them for a week or two in many different forms until they are all gone and you are all morel’ed out This was a surprise to my good friend Astrid who got them occoasionally from neighbors or any city people who have never had them. Lucky for Astrid we did find a few on our hunt- just 5 in 1 clump but dad had some already soaking at home so i was able to bring a few home for us to cook up. while i was out hunting i happened upon many other mushrooms growing in the forest, which i thought would be perfect for my faerie photo project, so you may see more them of soon!

After i got back to town, i went over to Kendra’s house to force her to pose for fun pregancy pictures. I didn’t need or want to do anything too artsy but i’m starting to explore portrait work so she’s my test subject! I think a few of them actually turned out too

After a short break for lunch, i had to rush off again to get on the road. This time i was headed to a portrait workshop in Rockford at the Anderson Japanese Gardens – beautiful as always but we were there for the model pics not the gardens (maybe next year!). we got to practice natural lighting with reflectors, then off camera flash, then mac daddy lights. overall a great workshop from Nels Akerlund!