January 10, a nice present!

Yesterday I picked up my son from school, and he was all excited because he had a present for mom in his bag. Well, he was actually all excited because he thought the present was for him but when we opened the package he soon realised it was for me and that was OK too! I just love the little present he made for me, a 2009 calendar with his picture, a photo that happens to be too cute! I just love kindergarden teachers that have great ideas!!! the picture of the present is not the best, but will do :-)I am also quite happy with the fact that my kids are FINALLY starting to like apples! And it is so cute to see them eat them:

And finally, what I really like about photography is that while trying to take *the perfect picture* or while just documenting life, you sometimes just catch expressions that are cute, silly, typical or priceless. This one would be labeled "silly". But cute too! ;-)

The good news is that it is Saturday!! After a week at work, I'll finally be able to go out and take picture during daylight hours again! Yep, I'm hooked ;-) Thanks for looking and I loooove comments!!

January 8, Beauty and the Cat

Hello all,

I'm in a hurry this morning, so not much text! Just a couple of pictures of my girl and the cat! Taken with the 70-200 lens, priority aperture.

And no, the cat is not necessarily comfortable in the pictures, except for in the last one ;)

Thanks for looking!

POTD January 7 - Portraits!

Oooooh, I missed a day, and am late posting on this day :-O It's really hard to keep up with POTD every day now that I'm back at work, I don't have any daylight to take picture in because I leave home before sunrise and come back home when night already starts, like most people :) So for today, some more portraits taken in the house in the evening. Pictures taken with my 70-200mm lens, aperture around 5 to get the bokeh.

Alban playing with his new Lego, he loves it! He's making an airplane here, which is finished in the next photo:
His mouth is not dirty, it's actually irritated :-(
And finally a picture of Naomi, who is seriously tired after a day at school, and to be honest, maybe a little fed up with pictures :-O But she's still my beautiful little girl!

I don't work on Wednesdays, so that I can stay with the children who don't have school on Wednesdays, Yay! This means that some serious playing will be done today, as some "serious" photography of course! Thanks for stopping by at my blog!

January 2d, portraits!

First of all, a huge Thank You for all your comments, I love comments!



The photos for today show portraits of my kids. I really wanted to give the blurry background a try, so I took these pictures with my 70-200 lens, f/4.8 (I believe) in manual, yes yes, I'm trying! Like this you meet my family at the same time :-)



First my boy, who is the youngest:

Picture taken outside, while he was on his bike. The background is basically our driveway, couldn't get any trees or other goodlooking things in the background and to be honest, didn't think of that at the moment! Then meet my girl, the oldest of the two:

She was in the living room, which isn't very tidy as we speak! hum hum. Well, I might not buy these pictures of a professional photographer ;-) but for my first attempt I quite like them. Oh, and I don't do any photo editing, simply because I don't know how to do it!

Thanks for any comments or CC, see you tomorrow!