Week 51 - "Hilarious Outtakes" Photo Challenge

This weeks challenge over at i ♥ faces is hilarious outtakes. I love this theme. I usually erase a lot of my outtakes but when I started to go through my pictures I realized I still have a bunch and then it was hard to narrow it down, luckily this week we get to post up to 5 pictures.

This is my daughter when she was about 7 months old. Her hair stood straight up it was so funny. I kind of miss that static look. This expression is just so funny.

We were playing on the trampoline this summer and I was taking pictures of the twins of course. Jayse got really close to my camera and gave me this face. It instantly became one of my favorites.

I wanted to get a picture of the twins in overalls in this bucket. I set them in there and could not get them to smile. This outtake turned into one of my favorite photos.

I was trying to get a picture of my daughter in this chair and for the most part she did pretty well until the end she just would not stay in it and laid on the ground.

This is our visit to Santa this year. I knew the twins would probably cry but I expected nothing like this. We sat Jaelee on Santa and she was ok there, she didn't like it but she was ok. Then we tried to put Jayse on Santa - he started kicking, screaming and rearing back. Santa told us he could not sit on his lap because he was kicking too much. Once Jaelee saw his reaction she had enough and got down. Greg tried to keep Jayse by Santa so I could just get one picture and here it is.

 

H's Christmas Photo Shoot

This little guy is just simply adorable, I'm not even finished editing all his photos but I had to hurry and get some posted because he is so stinkin cute. His mom and I were pregnant with our kiddos at the same time, they were born only 2 weeks apart. I have been taking photos of him since he was a baby and he is now a year and half old - I can't believe how fast time goes! It was difficult to get him to stay put, he is a little adventurer/monkey - he climbs on everything.  When we did get him to stay put he would not smile for us.  Towards the end though all the sudden he sat on the present props and smiled - it was awesome to get a few cute pictures of him smiling.  I had a lot of fun seeing little H and his family.

 

Week 49 - “Pets Only!” Photo Challenge

This week over at i ♥ faces the photo challenge is all about pets.  I have looked at several of the entries and there are a lot of great pictures of pets.  Please head on over there and check them out - but be warned you will loose hours with out even noticing it.

Now to my entry of course I had to enter in our adorable dog Bo.  I had a hard time choosing the photo because I have a lot of cute photos of Bo with our kids but I settled on this one so he could have this photo moment all to him self. He really is the perfect dog for our family.  He has been a great hunting companion for Greg and a great friend and protector for the kids.  He is calm, lovable, adorable, and just plain fun.  We love you Bo!

 

Fix it Friday

I love this weeks photo over at i ♥ faces , it reminded me of high school.  In art class every year our school and many others entered into a poster contest for one of the local rodeos.  We would scour over images like this of cowboys riding bulls, horses and wrestling steer - then we would put the image on canvas and paint it.  The winning painting became that years poster.  I never won the poster but one of my paintings did get chosen for that years childrens tee shirts and I was featured on the front page of the local newspaper.  Ahh memories...anyway I thought this photo was pretty great all ready.  I played with cropping it but in the end I liked the original crop.  I wanted to keep my edits simple and not over do it so I just adjusted the levels, curve, added some saturation, sharpened a bit and added a vignette.

 

O Christmas Tree

We put our Christmas Tree up this weekend and I thought it would be a great backdrop for the Christmas pictures of the twins. It turned out to be a great backdrop but they were very difficult to photograph. To get them to sit in one place is hard but to get them both to is even harder. I found this rocking horse at a yard sale this summer and it was great because they couldn't get off of it.

 

Week 48 - "Sweet Dreams" Photo Challenge

This week over at i ♥ faces the photo challenge is Sweet Dreams. I immediately thought of this photo that I took when my twins were about a month old. It is hard to believe that they are all ready a year and half old.

To see many more sleeping beauties head over to i ♥ faces

I Heart Tooshies

I took this photo of my brother a couple of weeks ago when we did his senior pictures photo shoot.  I thought it would be great for the i ♥ faces photo challenge this week - which this week is all about Tooshies.

Head on over to i ♥ faces to see a lot more tooshies!

New Look

I have updated the blog with a new look. I hope you like it and I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Two Face & Slim

There is this place I have been dying to take pictures at.  It has a bunch of old cars in front of a 100 year old abandon school building and it would be a perfect background for pictures, especially for my sister B because she is not a girly girl and needs a cool background.  Well yesterday we decided to go try out this place.  I have been by there several times and always noticed there was a dog out front so when we got there I was too scared to go into the yard but my sister has always been good with animals so it didn't scare her.  She got out of the truck and walked up to the dog - it was friendly so J my sisters best friend and I got out of the truck.  We yelled out to see if anyone was there but didn't hear anything so we went next to this truck and I took a picture of my sister. 

After that one picture we heard a dog barking from inside the school and then we heard someones voice.  We were a little scared and my sister and her friend J started to run back to the truck when we heard a door opening, out came another dog and an old man.  We told him that we were there to take some pictures in front of the cars and asked him if that would be ok, he said it was fine but mumbled something about staying away from the road because of the police.  We made small chit chat about how interesting all the cars were.  He told us that he had some really interesting cars in the back of the school.  We followed him back there and saw this really cool 1960 something car - I'm not really a car person so I don't remember what it was.  At this point the two dogs had started to fight with each other.  I mean fight like I have never seen before, they were tearing each other apart.  We didn't know what to do the old man told us that if we tried to break them apart with ourselves the dogs might turn on us so we just sat there and watched these dogs fight.  He picked up a wood stick and started to hit one of the dogs - we didn't like it but we didn't know what else there was to do.  The dogs didn't stop fighting and the old man said that if we walked off they would stop but just then he started to get something out of his pocket and bent over and a gun fell out.  Of course this scared us and B & J started to run towards the front of the school.  I just slowly turned around and headed towards the front as he picked up the gun and put it back in his pocket.  We waited in the front and finally the old man came back and the dogs were done fighting.  We continued to talk to him for a while and found out his name was Slim and his dogs name was Two Face.  The other dog was dropped off at his place this summer by somebody and he didn't know what to do with it and asked if we knew of anyone that wanted a guard dog - unfortunately we don't.  We also learned that he is in bad health and that his dog Two Face was very dear to him and he had had him since he was a pup. After all the commotion we decided to leave with out taking anymore pictures but promised to come back.  We are going to go back and visit Slim next week.

Senior Photos of my little Bro "H"

I took Senior Photos of my little brother and he is so much fun to photograph. He has a great smile and is photogenic - and he loves his picture taken! We found a great new spot for photos.  I love the colors - great for fall.  I think I might take my fam back to that spot for some new family photos.  There are so many I like it was hard to just post a few of them but here they are...

October Special

My goodness how time flies. It is all ready October. I had a lot going on in the month of September and didn't get much photography in. So for my October special I am offering the same special I had in September with an extra bonus. In October I am offering a free 8x10 photo and free sitting fee for your child's fall portraits.

 

Sneak Peak of Cute Little "K"

I had a fun time photographying "K".  She is my cousins daughter and we have made it a tradition for me to photograph her girls on their 11th birthday.  "K" was so nervous.  It was cute because normally she is a talkative bubbly little thing. We had a lot of fun.  We went to some train tracks in Kuna and while we were trying to take pictures not one but two trains came by.  We hurried and got the train track pictures and moved on.  Luckily we got the pictures taken before this cold weather has moved in.  Here is a peak at some of my favorites.  Happy Birthday "K"!

 

September Special

I just got back from vacation and am ready to take some more pictures!! I had so much fun taking children photos last month that I decided that is this months special. So for the month of September the session fee is free (this is for one child, sorry but it just gets harder with the more children there are) photos after the first free child are a great deal though, it would be $20 for each additional child. We can take the photos outside while the weather is still warm or we can do some indoors at my home, I have a lot of fun back drops & props. Email me at darci@jaebugphotograpy.com if you want to make an appointment.

 

Cheetah Chair

I love going for a walk and taking the twins with me pulling them in their wagon. A couple of nights ago we went for a walk and we brought Jaelees new cheetah chair. We stopped in this field of grass and had a little photo shoot. Here are a few of my favorite photos.

 

Cousins

I got to photograph cute baby "L" again and her cousin. These two little girls are just adorable. It was really hot outside but these adorable girls did such a good job.