veit family

had a ton of fun playing with the camera this weekend with one of my favorite families.  omi was an amazing model at only 9 months and hand julian some bubbles and he was too!

gina loves stephen

here is the link to all the photos from gina & stephen's wedding on my blog.

stephen loves gina

a few more gina & stephen

i feel more accomplished when i post a few at a time since i only have time to work on a few at a time with my super busy schedule.  i knew this first one was going to be my favorite when i first shot it and i love how it came out.  i might love yesterday's slightly more though...  no way to know, really.  the 2nd and 3rd ones here will probably be re-worked a bit.  i think #2 is too contrasty and #3 needs a little more pop.  this is why these take so long!!

gina + stephen

i had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of gina and stephen this past weekend outside of philadelphia. they had been practicing their serious faces for over three years now and it paid off! here's my first favorite:

baby blair

this is my favorite of all the photos from Photoshoot Blair so far.
i'll follow up with all my favorites once i have time to go through all 12 gigs of them...

miss her :(

blair's yellow lace dress

i was able to knit this dress in only one week thanks to a few car rides, a plane ride, and a knitting night with friends.  of course i didn't pay attention to the fact that the medium sized dress would be for a 2 year old and blair is only 7 months...  so it's a dress for her future! (and maybe a tank top when she's even older)

the pattern is here and my ravelry notes are here.  it's for size 7 needles, but because of the large size and lace pattern, i may try it with lighter yarn on size 3s.  that will create a smaller dress and hoping the lace details show better.

i'm really not happy with the fact it still rolls up at the bottom even though i blocked it twice.  blocking a dress turned out to be more difficult than i expected.  luckily for me blair's mom likes the rolled up bottom.

happy valentime's!

cool turquoise water this morning from the weird sky...

goodnight moon

moon sliver setting over gigi last night

quinoa & tofu salad

at work a few weeks ago we had a healthy potluck lunch.  i'm not a huge fan of the health food, so googled "healthy potluck" and found this amazing recipe.  i've already made it twice since the potluck and am pretty psyched i found a recipe i liked that can actually be considered healthy.

i love how easy it is to cook quinoa - right in the rice cooker!

yeah, so i took some photos while i was making this the other night, what of it??

the wine in the first photo is another fabulous selection i got from this amazing washington wine distributor

HBD Al!!!!

brooklyn bridge

a friend was recently browsing my photo collection to look for a photo to put on a canvas and asked me for this one.  i really do love this shot.  i took it with a fish eye film camera i bought at an urban outfitters when i still lived in new york city and wanted to take this shot before i moved away.  i got the roll developed at my local duane reade and got the digital CD with it.  this photo was made from the digital file on that CD.  it's definitely raw and not the highest quality, but it's not always only about the equipment with photography.  i think i might need to hang this one up in my apartment too...

e & b

a few weeks ago i had a photo shoot with a family at the discovery museum at cavallo point.  what a great location for photos!  it was pretty cold out, which made it a bit difficult, but it kept the crowds down and we were able to get some nice shots.