My bonus daughter is taking a photography class this year, and her most recent project involved making stock images. So we set up a fun Halloween shoot with candy and some fall decor I had lying around, and got some fun ‘stock images’ out of it!

I can’t believe I almost have a five year old! Sometimes it feels like she’s growing too quickly; sometimes time can’t move fast enough (hello tantrums). Either way, I love watching her grow.
To commemorate her upcoming milestone birthday, I brought her to Silverwood Park to take pictures by the giant metal ‘5’ sculpture. It was a beautiful day, and we had a lot of fun walking around the park. 10/10, highly recommend.

My coworkers and I went on a fishing excursion for team-building, but I’m not big on fishing so I brought my camera instead.

I brought my camera with me to visit my friend and her kids on this rainy Memorial Day, and experimented with window reflections.

This weekend, the girls and I met my friend Kim and her family at a park in Ham Lake for some impromptu Easter pictures, and to let our girls run around and play together. They had a blast, and while we weren’t able to get posed pictures with the Easter setup I brought, the girls […]

I wasn’t sure how I wanted to do the challenge this week, so I decided to run with the ‘focus’ aspect a bit, and I used my manual focus 135mm lens. The first shot here is truly out of focus, a shot of my laptop keyboard. The other shots are of these awesome dragon candles […]

This week’s challenge prompt was ‘your everyday’, so I just took photos of my girls during my lunch break at work. My 18 month old napping on Grandma, and my 3 year old being her silly self. I thought about photographing my desk, since that’s part of my ‘everyday’, but it’s messy and not something […]

Towards the end of 2018, I bought myself a new camera, and I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the new features. That, along with two new lenses (ok, one isn’t ‘new’, but a new-to-me old film lens), and I just want to push myself a bit more this year. So this year, I’ve […]

A couple months ago, I came upon a Minolta camera bundle that included a 50mm f/1.4 lens. Now, I hadn’t touched my film camera in years, but the temptation was too great, so I gave in and bought it (yes, just for that lens). Bought new batteries for my camera, swapped in the ‘new’ lens, […]

Summer is my favorite season, and always seems to go by too fast; this summer was no exception. This summer was the first summer that we had 3 birthday parties to organize, as we had my husband’s oldest daughter living with us until the end of July, and our youngest just turned a year old. […]