We have Misty, her husband Nathan, and their adorable son Caleb.
And the newest addition, to be introduced at a later date: Amilia

I had the most excellent time shooting this family, along with some former coworkers Sarah Smith and Andy Stacy. Misty, who also is a former coworker, was a real trooper as she had three different photographers harassing her for quite some time. The rest of the photos from Misty's session can be found on Sarah's blog and Andy's blog.

Experimenting with some technique called free lensing. Slightly dangerous. It entails actually removing the lens from the body of the camera and holding it near the camera mount. Manual focus is necessary, but the results can be gorgeous.

First session to shoot with the new 5D Mark II.

Not going to lie, I could get use to this camera.

Just look at that bokeh.
"bokeh: (BO-KUH) Japanese: [boke]) is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image..."

The 5D Mark II arrived on Wednesday.Ohmygawsh holy full frame 21 megapixel camera Batman. I think this camera will take my work to a whole 'nother level.

Some of the stand out features for me, personally, are: 21 Megapixel (Had to throw away the 1GB memory cards, and buy two 8GB CF cards, this thing's file sizes eat 1GB for breakfast.) Expandable ISO to 50. (I haz no noises whatsoever!) FULL FRAME! (Is this what 50mm looks like?) Weather sealed.

I finally got a chance to take this thing out on Saturday and see what this thing can do. Below are the results:

I bought a new camera.5D Mark II. Arrives Wednesday.

For a family that has a photographer as a son/brother, we sure do hate having our photos taken. I've never convinced anybody in my family to let me take their photo, outside of the occasional snapshot. So when my sister, Emily, finally gave me the opportunity to have a hour and a half mini-session I was excited to see what we could get. And alas. I totally love it.

After mom saw Emily's photos she was finally convinced maybe I actually do know what I'm doing with a camera and allowed me five minutes to get a shot of her.

Special note to Elizabeth, next time I see you, I'm fully expecting to have you on here as well. :)

"...we as photographers tend to give them (clients) what we think they want, and so clients tend to see the same things everyday, just different versions of it. They see the same lighting, the same photoshop tricks... So when they see the personal work, they see the things that you would be doing outside of what they want..."

-Jeremy Cowart

I'm going to be posting a lot more personal work to the blog. I highly recommend if you're a photographer you take a look at the interview video I took the above quote from. Very inspiring interview with one of my favorite photographers, Jeremy Cowart.