Water

This time of year we enjoy lazy days on the river so I used a slow shutter speed to capture the ever graceful movement of water and on since we live near the birth place of Mardi Gras you can find on any typical day kids playing with their left over Mardi Gras decorations and costumes, the mask definitely added to the allure of the photo. 

I converted the image to black and white and add just a little color to warm it up.

Entry for Rock The Shot April Photo Challenge:Water

Spring Sessions

It is simply perfect outside, the flowers and tree are blooming. Such a wonderful time to go out and play, let me tag along and we've got an awesome portrait session in the making.

Love those pink boots!

Sunday Best

So sweet, my little girl wearing the same dress her big sister wore at the same age 6 years ago, how fast they grow.

5 votes for my camera phone!

I don't carry my "fancy" Canon 5D mark II camera around with me, especially when we take walks, it would just be to heavy especially when I usually carrying around a tired 5 year old and I definitely don't carry it when I run out at the last minute to vote. 

But I did happen to grab the phone before we left and isn't it nice to know you can still get a great creative pic from a phone! It's not even an iphone. I'm always amazed and jealous of my friend who have an iphone, all those apps and it takes amazing quality photos for a pocket device.

 I then used some photoshop actions download free from Pioneer Woman they really made the camera photo pop! Be sure to stop over on over and check them out.

Spring is Here!

The weather has been near perfection! Most of the time my kids are spending the afternoon playing basketball among the blooming Azaleas in our backyard. I shot this one holding the camera using the hail mary technique looking through our tire swing. I just love how it turned out, the pink flowers really pop out against the black of the swing.

Be sure to stop over at Rock The Shot Forum for their March Photo Challenge: HERE

Lytro Camera

Lytro Camera

No need to focus the software inside will focus the photo where ever you want, how cool is that!

Fun Finds: vintage camera Blackberry skins

How cool are these Blackberry skins, wish they had them for my phone.

via Etsy HERE

It's in the Bag!

Look what arrived today! A boy in a bag  My Kelly Moore camera bag!!!

I so excited to finally put all my gear into one spot. I spent an afternoon watching every one of their videos and finally decided on the Libby, I love that it has two handles along with a messenger strap it can fit all the camera equipment I need and my 17" Macbook Pro, how cool is that!

Check out the Kelly Moore Bags and videos HERE

FOLLOW UP on the Kelly Moore Libby:

I love the space this bag offers but I absolutely HATE the handle!!!! I will use it for gear storage and wait until the Epiphanie Lola bag is back in stock.

So Sweet

I came across this photo today, it must of been when we first move in our current home and I was testing out the little barn in the backyard to see if it would work as my studio.

Little E looks so sweet I'm glad it didn't get lost in to the digital photo oblivion like so many other snap shots of my kids have.

Banner Year!

This is what I was doing when my Camera hit 10,000.
Then I had some fun adding the banner in Photoshop.

I labeled 2012 our banner year, it's definitely been full of milestones and banners so far and today is no exception, my camera hit 10,000 actuations! In only 13 months that's good and bad, the good is that Canon says that their 5D mkII is good for about 150k okay it will last me 14 more years (if I continue to shoot at the same rate) the bad news is I will most likely break it before then   my archiving is backed up or well not backed up! 10,000 images has to be stored somewhere! If you're familiar with Actuations (or shutter count) it's the amount of photos your camera has taken. And this is an important number because your camera has a life expectancy and if it's 100K or 150K that's important! Archiving is important too! and apparently using exclamation marks in this post.

Read more on Actuations: HERE

If you want to know more exciting thing about Photography join me on March 3 for my Hot Shoe Mommas Workshop! Just email me to sign up: katerealiphotography@gmail.com