So I missed Inspiration Sunday yesterday.  I’m still trying to get caught up with life after vacation.  I’ll get the vacation photos up shortly after I sort them.  In the mean time, here’s a nice sunset from champ1013.

As promised last week and just in time for Halloween, I thought I’d share with you just a few quick tips for photographing kids in costumes. Read on for the details… First off, I know I’ve said before that you should shoot kids on their eye level, but sometimes it’s fun to break those rules, [...]

Last weekend, we took Chloe to a pumpkin patch at Cal Poly University in Pomona, California. I wanted to take some shots of her interacting with the pumpkins and get an autumn flavor. There are two key elements to getting this wide angle look. One is using foreground elements and the other is shooting in [...]

You can all rejoice.  I’m home again.

Leaving our old house of 25-years last week, was quite a melancholy experience. It’d been a good house and has survived earthquakes and teenagers since it’s construction in 1942. In addition to Amy’s and Stephanie’s articles about taking pictures of every phase of your kid’s life, your home (or homes) that you’ve lived in can [...]

I recently posted a review of Serif Software’s PhotoPlus image editing software. The responses to the article were interesting in that each commenter brought up a different piece of software that they loved to use and that didn’t cost them any money to get rolling with. Free software. For parents living on a shoe-string budget, [...]