when I’m a mommy…

 

 

Anna always says, “When I’m a mommy I’m going to do that…”.  Well honey,  whatever it is that

you do…my hope is that you take the time to watch your babies sleep.  That you relish the rise and

fall of their chest and that you take in their breath and realize that its all fleeting, short-lived, and small.

 

I love you my sweet….

 

Anita Nichols - Lindsey – you are just amazing! I miss seeing you but I know you are find because you have your great husband and sweet babies. I am so happy for you.

By the way, the photo if absolutely stunning!!

Anita

Inspiration : Reflect

This week’s theme is: Reflect.  I had a hard time with this one but then saw the light from the window reflecting off our walls.  Yes, AG’s sad little face is because she was in time out!

 

 

Check out tami’s blog for her take on Reflect

Amelia - Love the light

Tami - cute! Love the way the light reflects and I hope she was spending her time reflecting on why she was in time out too, lol :)

Friday finds

We are all inundated by what we see on the internet.  I find so much on the internet, facebook, and pinterest that inspires me.  Too much sometimes.  To be inspired but not to find things to desire.  I am sure many of my mother friends read this article this week and felt they could relate.   I know I do.  Its too much sometimes to see all that is out there, all that we desire, all that we want to accomplish.

I think the trick is to set up your own filters.  To be able to say thats really cool and maybe someday Ill do that but my focus right now is….(my children, health, family, business…fill in the blank).  I like pinterest as I can store these things for another day…or at least that is what I tell myself.  That I will someday do all the things I desire but I refuse to waste any more time dwelling on all I haven’t accomplished and think about what I can do today.  That doing something useful today is better than wasting hours thinking about what I won’t get done.

So my goal is to each week recap the things that inspired me. As a photographer I am constantly looking at other people’s work.  It helps me expand my own mind and make my own judgements.

Here are some things/photos that inspired me this week:

loving this photograph

 

I have been wanting to make a camera strap

 

Need to find a way to do something with this for this years anniversary

 

Love that the kids drew the people

Beautiful lighting and portrait

I am missing the bighorns now that it is spring…and fishing with my brother.

Mike Roberts - That is a beautiful portrait, and what fun the camera straps are — certainly not boring.

Why can’t they stay babies forever?

Here is just a few photos for the day on my little…AG.  Can’t believe how fast she is growing up.

Megan Dahlgren - Love the color picture! I think of your “natural lighting” often when I am trying to take a good picture and am very jealous of your great ability to find it.

Inspiration: wings

So this week’s inspiration word was : wings.  I had a hard time with this one.  I didn’t want to do anything too obvious so I decided I would capture the idea of wings in an expression.  Not sure how successful I was.  But here is my little MG thinking about flying!

 

 

For those out there who follow my blog and are interested in photography… I took this on my bed this morning with all the windows in the room open.

 

Check out Tami’s take on the theme here.

Nicole Gerhardt - I love your interpretation!

Tami - beautiful, love this expression!!