Fueling Up

Posted by mobile phone:
Getting ready for the drive to Colorado. I just fueled up the beast and wanted to try a new method for posting to my blog from my BlackBerry. We shall see.

Rynders Reunion

Day two of Jennifer’s family reunions.  Jennifer was able to attend today, so that was a little nicer.  This reunion was for all of the children and families of Jennifer’s maternal grandmother.  Jennifer is one of 27 grandchildren, so the Rynders can be a fairly big reunion.  It was not too big today, I guess not everyone could make it.  None the less, it was a nice time.

To see the rest a couple more shots of the entire family, look at my Smugmug site under the Family section.

Of course I took a couple photos of my girls.  Not many, just a few while they were playing the game Pretty Princes.  I am not sure what brought it on, but at one point Mia wanted to make sure that her cousin Katie knew exactly what she wanted. 

Olivia was a little more loving when she posed with Katie.

For the rest of the photos from the day (as well as the previous day), look at my Flickr page and look at the Reunion Weekend set.

Gibbons Reunion

Today I was at the Gibbons family reunion (Jennifer is a Gibbons) and was lucky enough to get the chance to photograph everyone.

It was a little tricky to light such a large group with only two small umbrellas, but with the help of Lightroom, I think the group photos turned out ok.

There are a couple other options on my Smugmug site under the Family Galleries, but I chose to use the one above in this post because Mis is being her typical silly self. (Look in the bottom left, third child in from the edge)

I also got photos of two of the families while we were together.  If any other family would like a family portrait, just let me know.  It is fun to photograph families!  Send me an email or drop a message from my Contact page.

While I was setting up my lights I made Katie be my test model.  Little did she know that I would then post those photos to my Flickr page.

Be sure to see the photos of Katie trying to win at musical chairs.

Listing of links:

• Group photos on Smugmug
• Photos of Katie on my Flickr page
• Photos of Katie playing musical chairs
• The contact form on my website.

Sprinkler Time

Just a quick post to let you know I added some photos to my Flickr page.  These photos were made when the girls decided it was time to play in the sprinkler. 

 

To see the rest of the photos from the fun, look at the Sprinkler Time set on my Flickr page.

RAIN!

Last week we had a great summer downpour.  It was one of those hot, humid summer days when in the late afternoon the sky just opened up and dropped large, glorious rain for about 45 minutes.  Not only did our lawns and plants need the water, but so did my girls.  At the beginning of the storm they were on the front porch, protected from the rain, but still able to enjoy it.  Over at our house were their two best buddies for the summer Jaeda and Britt.  Sitting on the porch I saw Mia looking cute and I thought the light might be nice, so I went in and grabbed the camera. 

 

 

 

I have taken enough photos of my girls that they don’t really flinch when the camera comes out, but when I focused on Britt, she gave me a typical here-is-my-camera-smile pose.  Cute enough, but definitely not natural. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then made Olivia sit on the wall of the porch and tried to make a photo of her in front of the downpour.  The rain was coming down so hard and our gutters are old enough and probably clogged with leaves that the rain was pouring over the sides and made it appear that it was raining even harder than it actually was. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some how, one of the girls got the idea to go out in the rain and wave to Jaeda & Britt’s mom who was looking out the door just two houses over.  From there it was all over.  The girls were out in the rain, laughing, squealing, running and having a great time. 

 

The best shot of the day is the one of Britt where I was on our front porch and she was playing in the spillover from our gutters and loving life.  If I have ever made a photograph that captures the pure personality of someone, this one of Britt is it.  If you know Britt, you know this photo is her wonderfully vibrant personality.  If you have never met her, well now you know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still had my camera in hand so I was playing around with trying to capture the rain, but none of them really did much for me.  Although, I do find the birdbath photo somewhat interesting.  As I was manually dialing in the correct settings to take some photos of the sky, when out of his house comes Jaeda and Britt’s dad, Jon.  Now Jon is a former NFL running back, so not someone who would typically walk around with a lacy parasol.  But out he came with Britt’s parasol, trying to protect himself from what, I could not tell.  I swung around and clicked off a few photos, but forgot to change the exposure settings from the sky.  The result, pure black.  Oh well.  Fortunately through the magic of Lightroom I was able to at least lighten it up enough to make it possible to keep the memory.

To see the rest of my photos from the day in the rain, go to my Flickr page and search for the tag: rain

Red Hots

Over the weekend I was able to watch and photograph my niece Katie’s softball team, the Red Hots. While the rain screwed up the schedule, it could not put out the fire of the Red Hots.

(How is that for some really obnoxious writing?)

Anyway, the team did great and I posted photos here.

If the link does not work, go to my SumgMug page and look under the Sports galleries.
http://pomranka.smugmug.com