Pretty Kitteh

Some of you are already familiar with my kitteh Shelby.  She's Johnny's older adopted sister.  I sort of neglected her during these first few weeks after the baby arrived, but I am making amends by giving her free-range organic chicken breast and taking her portrait!

 

And because I simply can't help it: a baby picture!  Johnny is a month old now!

Crazy About You, Baby

Another set of baby photos.

You might expect quite a few of these as I am currently baby crazy, but the good news is that I loaded a roll of Kodak Portra 400 film in my Zenit this morning and soon I'll be posting some analog shots here too.

Johnny is turning out to be a very photogenic kid.  He smiled for me today, and he looked impossibly cute in his Daddy's arms.  He never looks that way in my arms.  Usually he simply demands milk and gives me his red angry face.

The photos of me and Johnny are taken by John.  

And yes, I promise to photograph this baby in some other position when I get the chance...

Sweet Child O' Mine

Even though I haven't photographed anything but Johnny lately, I still have the feeling that I am not photographing him nearly enough.

I love how his eyes shine in the morning light.  

First Baby Portraits

This is my son Johnny.

He's 9 days old and he's one happy baby.  I managed to get over my sleep deprivation today and shot a few frames of him to use for the thank-you cards I want to send out to family and friends.

When Life Gives You Sunshine, Go to the Beach!

Soon, there won't be much time for shooting anything but my own baby, so I went to the beach with my family and made the best of it.  The light was impossible (it was high noon), and I only used my 50-300mm, but I had loads of fun nevertheless.  Here's Half Moon Bay the way I saw it today.  More on my personal blog.

The llama must be my favorite.

I Pink I Can

I haven't used my camera a lot lately - I just feel too pregnant to shoot, but I took the opportunity of my in-law's visit in town yesterday and I took these:

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Oh, Baby.

While I am still to explore the maternity photographic genre, I took a great pleasure in taking pregnant self-portraits throughout the past 8 months.  You see only five because I kind of skipped most of the first trimester, and I believe I also skipped month 7, during which I took many Instagrams of my belly instead.

Here's the result.  You might notice the utter technical unpretentiousness, and the similarities in the setting.  What I did was I simply climbed on my bed, turned to expose my left profile, pointed the camera towards the mirror across the bed, and shot a few times till I got the right focusing.  Not very elaborate, uh?  It was loads of fun, though, and did the job for posterity well enough!

Today.

Don't be fooled; I actually spent the entire day indoors.  I snapped these while I "walked" my cat on the patio. 

But all things considered, it was a good day.

At Angeli Caffe

I don't particularly like Los Angeles, so every time I find myself there I try to make my experience as positive as possible, and we all know that instant gratification of the senses is most easily achieved through food.  

During our trip down South last September, my sister, my husband, and I found ourselves at Angeli Caffe - an unpretentious gourmet Italian place where we had a spectacular artichoke pizza, apple and cheese salad, and seafood pasta.  The light was just right in the late afternoon and the olive oil bottles on each table made a great prop for these shots.  Also, Angeli had the most delicious fresh baked bread I've had since my childhood in Bulgaria.

A Natural Progression

Meet my friend Anne, her husband JP, and their adorable son Kieran (who grew from a baby bump to a BIG baby bump to a real baby in front of my very eyes).  He will be celebrating his first St. Partick's Day this weekend, so stay tuned for more images of this  handsome Irish lad.