Home School Photography!

How do you do!

These past two weeks have been sooo great…I have had some wonderful children come here to get their school pictures taken and am having a splendid time!

This little cutie came today with his siblings and was very serious…but I really love this one! Mommy does, too.

Mr. J

I love the way his face is spattered with light and the way Phil’s gardens look behind this little guy…he was just climbing the stone steps and paused for a moment…what a beautiful boy!

His older sisters looks like they just stepped out of “The Secret Garden”

Miss C. exiting the Garden!

Dahlias!

Phil and I were playing with my lens last night, just trying to see how close we could really get….and

also playing with the low light and fast ISO…some are grainy but I like them that way!

Whatcha think?

Home”School” Pix

Spinning!

I am so excited! The month of October is just around the corner and it is time for Home”School” photographs!

For the last two and a half years I have been taking pictures of beautiful home schooled children in the fall, and having a great time doing it!  But the most exciting part is… I got a new lens and cannot wait to try it out on these sessions…..

It arrived yesterday when our Catholic Co-op was finishing up at my house with lunch….we had had a full day….

We had a wonderful priest come and talk to all the kids about his very long and sometimes hard journey to the priesthood. He spoke to them about how much he loves Jesus. Jack asked him what God’s voice sounded like and he told him God speaks to us in a whisper and in order to hear we must be still and quiet.  Our children learned so much about Love and Devotion and Perseverance from this very Real man!  We then all went to Mass, which our priest friend was the celebrant, and then we ended up at my house, ate lunch and because the kids were so fantastic at the talk with Father that we had some playtime as well….them and us!! Complete with Chai!

After everyone was gone Jack and I decided to play with my NEW LENS!!!! Yeah!!!

Mouse....My pet name for Jack

It was raining and Jack wanted to do the “Singing in the Rain” thing….so he did and I had a blast shooting!

It is soooo much fun when you have a willing guinea pig around to play with….and not to mention, a big ole’ ham, too!

Ham!

He couldn’t wait to try to be airborne with the wind gusts and his umbrella!

Leap of Faith!

All in all a very satisfying day…..even if I didn’t get any wash done….lol!

Straw into Gold!

So I am at this point in my life that seems to me to be like a crossroads…and I was reading “Simple Abundance” by Sarah Ban Breathnach( a close friend just gave it to me)…anyhoo she retold the story of the miller’s daughter haviing to spin straw into gold for the king or loose her life….and Rumplestiltskin came in three times and saved the day (more or less) …the thought that keeps running in my mind is that the quthor was saying how we all are every character in the story….including the straw and the gold!

I guess this strikes me cuz we are all capable of said spinning….just have to believe it…in ourselves and then live accordingly…what’s the addage..”Live like your life depends on you…pray like it depends on God!” or something like that. I think at Mass yesterday a clear message came to me at some point…that I have to work my business like my life depended on it…like my life depended on it! Did I just repeat myself? My life does depend on it…because besides the fact that I was created to love God, marry Phil, raise our four children, homeschool, etc…I was created to show God’s majesty through my camera!  Be it a photograph of nature or one of a beautiful child.

In Flight

I have four beautiful children and two beautiful grandchildren and see His majesty in them all the time. The idea for me now is to pick up my camera again on a daily basis…whether I have a job or not and play, play, play.  Take pictures of Jack(my last one home), take pictures of the dogs and cats, take pictures of Phil’s flowers, play with the light, work on different aperture and shutter settings, join contests, grab every job I can…enjoy the straw I have and spin it into gold! The story of the talents comes to mind…do we bury them or take the risk and invest them…that was my reading this morning…to me it seems funny that all this is coming at the same time, not funny haha either…funny interesting…funny WAKE UP STUPID!

Saw my grand daughter Marlo last weekend and took some pics…

Each time I see her I fall in love a little more…can’t help it she is one real cutie pie.  As you can see for yourself. And she loves her Mama and had such a great time with Uncle Jack….who is by the way and natural with little ones.  He just loves them right away.

This is definitely a straw into gold kinda day!

This is a pic of my grandson Rowan when he was exactly 12 hours old!

welcome to froghouse photography!!

Welcome to Froghouse Photography! The people in the photograph above are my family…Phil(old guy), Joe(glasses),Lessie(beauty), Alex(perfect eybrows), and Jack(little guy)…my favorite subjects in front of the lens! I am sooo excited to be working on this site…I’m still trying to figure all the lingo and widgets out, so bear with me…and wish me luck!