Jean Smith Photography...

Saturday, May 7th may have been my awakening...

For my birthday this year Tony paid for me to go to a photo workshop with one of my all time favorite local photographers, Jean Smith.  It was like a two for one experience as her husband Travis who specializes in shooting models and seniors co-hosted the workshop with her.

Spent the day in Detroit with so many talented people who share the OCD nature I have to take the perfect picture.  I learned that photography can just be like any other career, taking something you love and warping it into something that controls you. 

It is amazing what you can learn in a day when your plugged in I truly feel that I shoved 3 years of a learning curve into a 14 hour day...time well spent, enough to keep my creative juices flowing for a year :-)

Eggscellent day with the chicklets!

Can I get a WooHoo...Cam scored an amazing goal!

Love Cam's hair, partly because everyone tells me he looks just like me rather than Tony!  Sad and weird all at the same time...but hey I hold on to what I can.  After I took this pic I decided OK maybe it's time for a trim so we caved and yes Cam did get his hair cut on Saturday...just an inch here and there!  If Cam doesn't play soccer for AC Milan someday...I am still banking on the J Crew Model thing :-)  Cam scored an amazing left footed goal on Saturday and of course I didn't get it :-(  Told him next time try not to have three guys covering you...whatever Mom! 

This never happens...

The sun and the moon aligned and my nephew had a baseball tournament in Dexter the same day Cam had a soccer tournament in Ann Arbor with the two only being 10 minutes apart.  I was able to jump back and forth between the two.  Cam's tournament was inside and Bryce's was outside where I got to weather the wonderful Michigan elements of 35 degrees rain and sleet...but through my lens it somehow looked like a beautiful day!   Bryce's team placed second in the tournament and the Airport Jets did a great job...I got to meet some of the great people that my brother talks about all time.  

The best thing about the day was watching Bryce pitch as I spent many years in the bleachers watching my brother pitch and really it felt like the last 25 years hadn't happened...Bryce is my brother to the core.  How great genetics are, that you can have a child that not only looks like you but also acts like you down to just simple mannerisms.  It made me feel like I was 12 years old again...which was totally awesome, I loved being 12 :-) I am sure Brian would like to be 16 again pitching for the Trojans!

 

 

 

 

Photo Class

I have spent the last two Saturdays in college taking a photo class...which has been great!  To be honest I want my pictures to be perfect, I want that moment when you sit back and just feel that it couldn't have been better...the Holy Grail, right!  So practice makes perfect and I have been practicing alot...attached are a few pics from our field shooting in Depot Town.  Which required me to take pictures of things that usually you don't see graced in my blog...for one there isn't one of my kids popping up :-)  Secondly, normally these things aren't beautiful to me nor would I take the time trying to get texture, negative space, perfect color match and depth.