Flash from the past!

I was so excited when the phone rang a couple of weeks back. The voice on the other end I knew immediately. As a child you tend to spend day after day, weekend after weekend, hanging out around the block with the other kids in the neighborhood. As you get older you may forget a face (Let's "face it" our bodies do change with time!), but not a voice! It was Kim a good friend of my sister's. She was on "the end of summer holiday wind-up" list and had yet to accomplish her goal of getting the kids pictures taken.

We arranged a studio time and she came down with her mother (Who, by the way, still looks like she always did-disproving my previous statement- I wonder what her secret is...). Alex, Anna and Logan were so much fun. It is great to not only see the characteristics of a parent passed down to their children and feel like you were transported back in time, but also to experience the wondrous interaction between the siblings.

I loved the above photo of Logan and Alex as you can just feel the patience Alex had for his younger brother and the brotherly adoration Logan had for his older brother.

Anna is just the image of her mother as a child...

And yes... sometimes it's hard to sit still- but I just go with the flow.. a little fun editing technique to capture the moment... Children having fun while having their picture taken always produces natural smiles!

Logan discovers he likes my cow bucket!

EVERYBODY (Stuffed animals included ) onto the bean bag!

Coffee Feelings

I've been reprimanded... See I've been posting albums to Facebook and forgetting that some of my blog friends and followers do not have access to those albums that I post there... One friend reminded me of that fact the other day. I had mentioned in passing about my coffee antics the other week and she had very confused look on her face.... "I haven't seen any coffee pictures, Ebonie, I'm not on Facebook...."

Opps!!!! Lets just fix that situation right here and now. Let the story begin. Something completely different than family, children or wedding images. Let's talk coffee.

It was one weekday morning-early-the sun was just coming up when I shuffled into the kitchen to get some breakfast and put on the coffee to begin the day. I don't know what year I actually began to appreciate coffee in a whole new light but at some point I realized coffee just tasted better with fresh ground beans- so, I purchased a coffee grinder. This particular morning however, habit, routine (What ever you want to call it) just didn't happen for me. I poured the Starbucks coffee beans into the grinder and turned it on.

You may have noticed I didn't say "put the lid on the grinder". Yep, a very essential step when grinding coffee beans especially if you hope to keep a few to put into the coffee machine...

It happened way to fast, and 2 seconds later (There was a sleep induced time delay before my brain processed what was actually happening) I had beans all over the house, in my hair, in my clothes... EVERYWHERE!!!

When I finally "came to" and realize what had happened, I began to laugh. (I remember mom use to say "no point in crying over spilled milk" wonder what she would say about coffee beans!) And then the gravity of the situation hit me... I had hours of clean up to do with no COFFEE!!!! (Okay, I admit it I'm addicted).

I sat down in the middle of the kitchen floor amongst the scattered coffee beans to ponder the situation (You have to remember it's early and I haven't had my coffee yet!!!) I let my brain wonder, pondering the benefits of coffee, that I was yet to taste that morning. That is when I remembered the coffee assignment I once had to do as a board assignment in photography school and how much different I would do one now, especially in this situation. How would I do it? How was I feeling at the moment, could I translate those feelings through my photography? (My brain obviously does strange thinking without coffee...) I went and got my camera and the following is a documentation of the event that lasted about 10 min....

I think I'm feeling the effects of no coffee... I'm focusing on the coffee cup but things are going a little blurry...I could really use a cup of coffee...

The cup it's really calling to me... "Where is the coffee??? "

Something small is really growing to a larger concern, I REALLY need that cup of coffee!

Everything just seems brighter with a cup of coffee in the morning....

After the 10 min., when I could no longer stand it, I left the mess, my camera in the mess,

jumped in the car and drove to Starbucks , wisely letting someone else make the coffee that morning! Can you believe I was still finding coffee beans in various rooms of the house weeks later!

Just in time for Mother's Day!

Wow! I love it when I can combine my two favorite types of photography-Pet portraiture and children's portraits! I was fortunate to find the most adorable pet bunny named George for my next promotion! George, an angora rabbit, is not your typical rabbit. Far from the rabbits that hop around outside eating the shrubs in my yard-this bunny spends his days indoors watching T.V., hopping from one room to the next, and yes, on occasion I've seen him shopping at Costco!!!!(Yes, I had to do a double take!!!) His favorite pastime-Snuggling!

George's owner Ruth has so generously agreed to share her precious pet to be photographed with children to create one- of- a- kind Children's Portraits session- just in time for Mother's Day. If you know of anyone looking for a unique Mother's Day gift let them know about this Special! Space is limited so book early!