Memoria.

Me and Memoria...my beloved camera.

I've learned so much about her during this photography class.

I love her more each day!

Moments on Monday. {Week 4}

"...recognize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction."

~Elder M. Russell Ballard

January 23, 2012

Memoria--my sweet little camera.

January 24, 2012

Golden-cream sunlight painted on a little boy's face.

January 25, 2012

Brotherly love.

January 26, 2012

Little Tate falling asleep on his beanbag.

January 27, 2012

Starlight Papasan swing.

January 28, 2012

A present from Aunt Coco: mint baby gel and vanilla hairspray to hold her curls.

January 29, 2012

My fairy princess.

Easton's Photo Shoot (4 years)

This was my first real experience as a semi-professional photographer...and I am so so happy with how his pictures turned out.

I've had a photography blog up and running for several months now, but until now I've had nothing to showcase.  {i now have a baby session, a bridal session, and engagement pictures scheduled.  I'd love love to take your pictures too!!}

To see all of Easton's photos, just click on my photography blog:

http://homespunphotographs.blogspot.com/

Webs.

“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

~Pablo Picasso

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”

~Henry James

{Note:  This photograph was amazingly taken by my very special camera--Memoria.  She's incredible!}

Experimenting.

Opening my camera brought all kinds of nervous jitters and butterflies.  I cradled it in my hands gingerly, scared to scratch or bruise it. :)  I had been waiting for this day for over a year...it was childlike Christmas wonder all over again.  I feel like a new girl with a grand new and glorious journey--capturing the moments of my children and my world to a greater extent.  And I will call my new camera, Memoria.


"She will be a part of our family because of the contribution she will make.  She will be the memory-preserver, and I will be the historian.  Partners in creation, we will strive to capture the small and the mundane, the large and illustrious.  Together, we can weave the tapestry of our family's history, for generations to enjoy..."


And then the experimentation began...here are a few of my shots from Day 1.

A New Member

I am wanting to invite a new member into our family...a DSLR camera to call my very own.

I have loved my little point-and-shoot since it's arrival, but it is time to take the next step.  I've been feeling it for about a year.  I have researched and dreamed for days and months.  I feel like the time to bring her home is coming soon.

She will be a part of our family because of the contribution she will make.  She will be the memory-preserver, and I will be the historian.  Partners in creation, we will strive to capture the small and the mundane, the large and illustrious.  Together, we can weave the tapestry of our family's history, for generations to enjoy...

Soon you will be mine, and I will name you and handle you with care, and take you wherever our family treads, for you will be the dear device that will preserve the memories that I will look upon in the many years to come.