I love taking photos and capturing moments wherever I go. Thank goodness cellphone cameras are getting better and better all the time for those random moments that cannot be prepared for, although its never a good substitute for my DSLR. 

I bought my Canon Rebel XS about 18 months ago when my neice Natalie and nephew Ben were about to be born and my second brother to be married, Steve, was about to have his wedding.

Before I get off on a tangent about how awesome it had been, I am getting ready to do Ben’s 1 year old photos this Friday. I can hardly believe a year has already passed. With Ben, the last pics I took were for Christmas when he was only a few months old.  Now it should hopefully be a lot easier to get some expression out of him, but I still need to figure out some fun poses with him plus mom and dad.

I love photography, and don’t mind doing it for free for my close friends while I’m still learning how to do it effectively.  I definitely owe some thanks to my friends who helped get me started on it, as I moved from just having ‘a cool toy’ to actually using some of the more advanced features that helped my pictures pop out a bit more.

Keep an eye out in the albums section, as the photos this Friday will be there shortly. And soon I will fill in the photography section with the portraits and landscapes I have taken.

Hopefully there will also be another photoshoot with Natalie soon, as her last photos were taken about a month after she was born.

Soon enough I will be doing photography professionally!