Ashley @ MSU Children's Garden

As you can probably tell from my website and blog, I am very new to photography. I am constantly learning how to improve myself and welcome any tips, advice, and practice opportunities that I receive. I was extremely excited these past few days as I was allowed the chance to practice photographing a couple of families and had the opportunity to sit down & talk with a local photographer (more on that later).

This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to photograph a very cute and beautiful little girl named Ashley who loved to run & explore new things. We explored the MSU Children's Garden and the surrounding south gardens on MSU's campus. I absolutely love the beauty of the gardens in the summer when everything is in bloom (as evidenced by the millions of flower photos on my flickr page).

Here are a few of my favorite shots from that day:

Home Sweet Home

Upon entering my parents' house this past Friday, I was greeted rather enthusiastically by our golden retrievers (my shirt carried the slobber & hair as proof for most of the day).


I love visiting and spending time with my family, most of all with my sister. Not only is she simply amazing & a complete goof-ball, she lets me practice photographing her too. :)


I was super excited to spend the whole day with my family & try out my Dad's new boat (& of course hopefully get some good pictures out of it in the process). Unfortunately, the weather was against us & we were unable to take the boat out. I did get a couple cute pictures of the dogs & my sister though!

Behold, the amazingly long tongue of Jesse:

Intro

Hi! I'm glad you've stumbled upon my website and blog! Take a look around, I hope you like what you see. :)

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My new lens (50mm) came in the mail a couple of days ago! Whee! I was super excited to try it out and see if I could experiment with taking some self-portraits (yay for a wireless remote) for my website. I headed up to Sleepy Hollow State Park (which actually isn't too far of a drive!) for the first time to check it out. Its actually a pretty nice park...the beach area is clean & I was able to find a quiet spot by myself to set up my tripod & take pictures. Also explored a picnic area in which NOBODY was there (its on the backside of the park). Someday when its nice & I'm not wearing a skirt, I'm gonna go back to the park & explore/hike around a little more. :)

I did discover that I would like to acquire a stand to hold my reflector/diffuser disc so that when I'm by myself, I can still use it. Also--taking your own picture is quite a lot of work/guesswork...& its hard to disguise the remote yet still allow it to send a signal to the camera!

Here are a few pictures from the day: