this little light of mine

The song "This Little Light of Mine" continues to flow through my thoughts like a mantra - it will not leave my mind.  This past week has been filled with profound events in my community and in my life, and someday I may write about it, but not today. 

I can tell you that in the moment I am typing this, the sun is striving to break through the clouds and cold, life is a gift and I am filled with affirmation and hope. 

So it seems ultimately appropriate that I share a few peeks from my latest session with a six day old baby boy...

Isn't he gorgeous?


Lisa

It is often our smallest gestures of kindess that have far-reaching impact. Remember to let your light shine. You never know where it will refract and land.

more joy

I'm posting these "joy of love" photo exercises as of way of holding myself accountable to actually do them.  I'm learning an awful lot here.  I'll write more about that in the days to come.

then and now...

When I first met Bill in high school, he wore large glasses - now he wears contacts (so you can see those awesome baby blues better), he had the cheesiest peach-fuzz mustache - now he can actually grow a mustache, and he did have a bit more hair in those days.  To me though, he has never been more handsome and sexy as he is now. 

the little things that annoy you...

Bill caught me taking this picture the other day, and since he knows I'm doing these photo exercises - he guessed right away what the theme of this particular one was...

I mean, come on!  push the drawer in ALL the way! :-)

what they wear...

My daughter has been wearing converse since she was a baby.  I loved them when I was younger and she loves them too.  You can see how "loved" this particular pair are.  She wears a pair almost every day to school.  (Yes, she has more than one pair)

what they love (besides you)...

In the interest of giving each family member their equal time, and mostly so I don't drive any one of them particularly crazy with my camera all up in their business every day - I thought I would let our dog, Ruby, be my subject. 

At 10:30am every day she gets a treat, and her internal clock knows exactly when that is.  She receives it in the same spot every day.  In fact, when I was out of town a couple of weeks ago and Bill and Sophie were gone all day...the minute Bill walked in the door he expected Ruby would need to go outside - no, she was in her spot waiting...first things first.

It look a bit of effort to get this picture as she was more than a little freaked out at my trying to take a picture of her "special" time and kept running from me.  :-)

More to come...

Lisa



ready or not...

I am aware of more than a few babies on their way into this world in the next couple of weeks.  One of them is a sweet baby boy due the middle of this month. 

I recently shot part one of a maternity/newborn session.  If there are already children in the household, I like to get a few photos of them before they become a new big sister or brother - because in the coming weeks there will be a lot of attention on the newest member.  Here are a few of big sister...

And here are a few peeks of the belly...and a pretty adorable one at that...

I'm looking forward to meeting the newborn boy who will be here in just a couple of weeks!

Tomorrow I'll post more of my "the joy of love" exercises.  I've been having so much with them.

Lisa

how they look

So I'm participating in a month-long exercise/course called "the joy of love" which involves a daily photograph exercise.  Yesterday's assignment was to capture an essence/expression/attitude/posture that SCREAMS your loved one. 

I asked my daughter to dress in something she thought she looked great in - and then I got her looking in the mirror...

Like all of us, there are many layers to her personality and I also think that this captures another aspect of her...



With all the photographs of children that I take, you think I'd take more of my girl...SO glad I'm doing this.

Lisa

exercise

As I posted previously, last week, I was up in NYC for a quick visit.  On Sunday morning, I picked up my camera and  headed outside.  Before going out, I decided that I would take pictures of whatever drew my eye and this particular morning, I had also decided that I would not take any pictures of people.  The temperature was in the teens and I think the windchill brought it to feeling even lower than that, so I only lasted about an hour. 

Outside of the temperature, it was a glorious morning in the West Village.

I need to do more of this, not just in the city, but every where that I am - to be present, to really see things and begin to explore different ways of "seeing".  This particular morning I was drawn to words, to isolated spots, to texture, to color and "quirk". 

Here are a few of my favorties from that morning...

Lisa