two year old jules + omi

i was in denver for julian's second birthday a few weeks ago.  i can't believe he's two already!!  and i could not believe how big omi got in just a few months.  she's a completely different baby!

here are my two favorite photos of them from their gangy photoshoots.  just LOVE julian's smile.  he's such a happy baby little boy!

 

and what a sweet girl omi is.  she really just does whatever you tell her to.  and has so many adorable faces!  i'll have to post more once i get to them.  i love those cheeks!!

julian #4

okay, not too many more of these, but i can only slowly make my way through them...

i love his face in this one because i was making strange squeeking sounds to get him to look at me and it worked! i fooled him! he was just staring at me like, who is this crazy person called gangy??

julian #3

more photos!



how cute is he going through the doggie door? it was too funny to stop him... until he lost my trust when he dumped the dog water bowl over and got me in trouble.



family beautiful...

julian #2

julian with his daddy

julian #1

i was in denver this past weekend visiting my godson. here is the first of a bunch of great photos of him. he had fallen earlier in the day and got a scratch on his nose which i was able to get rid of with photoshop. i sort of like it better with the scratch, since that's how i remember him, but liked the challenge of removing it and thought lisa would like it better without...


he's really the coolest thing ever. while he likes men much better than women (lisa's excuse for why he liked morgan more than me...), he still waved at me every now and then, gave me the ET finger touch, and... most of all... he says Gangy!! yay! can't wait for him to keep getting better at it. i'll be back in 8 weeks or so for the birth of his little sister!! (or maybe little brother? are we still saying that?)

holy photoshop

okay, i really need to stop only doing these photos one at a time... but it's a little difficult when i have so many new tools to work with. i upgraded both lightroom and photoshop a few weeks ago and bought a few actions for both from a wedding photographer turned wedding photography entrepreneur.

so here is lisa and julian with some effects done in lightroom and brought into photoshop. i used a "lord of the rings" action which makes the photo slightly blurry except for areas where you paint over to keep sharp, a tea leaf (i think that's what it's called) color effect, and then an edge blur. holy photoshop...

i will probably just convert the original to B&W with a slight edge blur for the final version on my website. but i do still really like this version.

more julian photos

how effing cute is my baby godson? so freaking cute, is the answer to that question. i was able to sneak in a some work on these this morning while i was waiting for the cable car. (although i should have just taken the bus since the cable car made me late for my all-day training session about... wait for it... DATA. yep, just data. which, as you can see, i am really getting a lot out of right now. wait, so actually, on second thought, i should have just stayed at home working on these photos...)

anyway, so here are a few more.





i can't work on them tonight since i have book club. sorry again, mrs. z! but... if you're looking for an interesting book to read, we just read skinner's drift by lisa fugard. after visiting south africa, i was interesting in finding a fiction novel taking place in south africa during the aparteid. it started out slow and somewhat confusing, but all came together in the second half of the book and i really ended up liking it. although, i am now even more curious about south africa during the aparteid. maybe it's time to read some non-fiction history books... (after i finish the rest of these julian photos, of course)

sneak peak of julian photos

i posted these photos to fend off phone calls from mrs. zappasodi in the next couple days asking where they are... haha. just kidding! (really it's to get her to start following my blog)

there are a bunch more i love, but i didn't have time to get to them last night since, as you can see from the last photo, i was working on something else. sorry mrs. z!! (lisa, i posted that so you can approve the color scheme before i start cutting the fabric - obvi)

please note the pants in the 3rd photo. yes, that's how they came out... not even fitting over the diaper. embarrassing. i brought them back to sf with me hoping to fix them before he grows out of them...