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!

so after 2,000 pictures i had some editing to do but overall a wonderful weekend full of great photo fun!

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03.15.09

Fun in the sun and some darn cute kitties….

Posted in photo at 5:02 pm by heidihoho7

So both Bela and I had a bit of a busy weekend – though mostly apart. He spent most of his weekend at Vertical Endeavors pushing the annual membership sale while I kept myself busy with some ideas i found for photo fun. I thought i’d share some of my favorites from the weekend.

After getting some climbing in I went to visit my friend Astrid who just got her 2nd kittie Istra (black and white) who joins her other kittie Marizpan (white with some gray). I’ve been wanting to get some photos of them and i finally got around to bringing my gear.

Sunday ended up being a beautiful day – where i probably should have been outside kayaking, biking or something active but I had set my mind and kept to my original plan of working on some photo fun that required full sunlight. I am now a huge fan of olive oil and sparkling water Hope you enjoy some of these funky images!

I uploaded a few more pics to my picasa library so feel free to check them all out

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03.02.09

One Frosty morning

Posted in photo at 7:42 pm by heidihoho7

as is usual i’m a bit slow to post cool photos. I think i do have a good excuse in that i do have 4500 photos to fully edit and color correct from our Yellowstone trip i don’t think i ever posted these so I thought i’d share them now…

I was running late for work one morning and it was pretty chilly out. I had to put my new registration sticker on the jeep and as i was walking around to the back i noticed some of the coolest frost “growing” out of the plastic windows on the Jeep. They were some of the most amazing bits of frost I’d ever seen, so i immediately dropped my stuff and ran into the house to get my camera and macro lens.

And as the sun rose above my garage I knew time was very limited so I spent the next 5 minutes or so trying to capture the coolness. The top area was already melting by the time I decided to head into work. I was very thankful i had been running late that day- otherwise it might not have been light enough to capture the photos and if I’d been any later I would have missed it completely!