'Tis the Season for Bokeh

It is getting cold and windy here in Germany but still no snow. If it's gonna be this cold, nature should give us a break and give us snow right? I did get a change to do another outdoors shoot though. I got to take pictures of two very cute little boys. There is something very darling about brothers.

Next was my much awaited Beauty/Glamor shoot. It was a ton of fun. Everyone who participated was amazing and wonderful and great! I had two beautiful and talented ladies doing hair and make-up; Shamila Mote and Tamara Martin, thank ya'll. Here are a few of my favorites from the day.

Even I took part...I think I work better behind the camera then I do in front of it.

Now I'm working on the two Christmas sessions I did this week. I love taking pictures of little girls especially Christmas pictures. First was a shoot with a 3-month old girl. I swear she is the happiest baby I've ever seen. She smiled and (I swear) posed for the camera. I've said before that I love to take pictures for people who really want their picture taken and lets face it, babies don't care if I take their picture, but she did. Next was an almost one year old girl. I love this age. They can sit up on their own, they kinda understand when you want them to do something, and you can make them laugh. 

I did both shoots with my new background, twinkle lights. I love it and the bokeh looks great, but now I'm seeing it everywhere. I feel like I'm not standing out much so that's kinda a bummer. But I'm overcoming it.

So now you've read the LONGEST blog post ever, thanks for making it through it.  

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I know some pretty cute girls

After weeks of looking for a Christmas background everywhere I decided I wasn't going to do Holiday pictures. Partly because it's my first Christmas as a photographer and I thought that it would be too much for me at this point and partly because I couldn't find a background that worked for me. I don't like backgrounds that have an actual picture on it and choosing between a red, gold, green or white vintage type of wallpaper background was a never ending battle.
So here I was decided on not doing them all together until I saw this on Pintrest (gotta love Pintrest): http://pinterest.com/pin/92394229824866322/
I did want to spread the lights out a little and I wanted it to kinda still look like Christmas lights and of course I'd never want to completely steal someone else's idea so I tweaked it.

And then I was like, "Hey, you know what would be cute? Ornaments and candy canes!" I was talking to myself of course....

 So I called up these two pretty girls moms' (who happen to be my awesome friends and neighbors) and forced them to let me use their kids. I love how it turned out.