Latest Project:

Last night I had to keep telling myself to breath deeply and be patient. And no, Micah wasn’t giving me trouble; he was already asleep for the night. I was determined to make my photography website design submit to my will. Unfortunately, coding is not my strongest point, and it took me forever to figure out how to put my sliced up Photoshop image back together with html and css. The result? A beautifully customized website that fits my style. It even has roll over image links. I hate templates. If it weren’t for the fact that I needed their structure to get me started, I wouldn’t use them at all.

I have a confession: I teared up a little when I was done because I liked it so much. Is that nerdy or what? Click on the image to go to my photography website and play with the rollover links. While you are there, click the “like” button on my Facebook plugin.

Micah’s Current Stats:

This morning was Micah’s 18 month appointment. He is 25.8 pounds and 32 1/2 inches tall, which puts him in the 50th percentile for his weight and the 90th for his height. Lean and mean: that’s how he has been described from the beginning. This checkup was not as traumatic for Micah as the last one. There were no shots and he only cried a little when the pediatrician tried to look in his ears and listen to his heartbeat. I kept him distracted with my phone and that helped a lot! The really great news was that he had no ear infections, which means the fever and irritability he experienced last week must have been nothing more than a seasonal bug – or teething. I guess we’ll never know. We are still waiting on those 2-year molars, as far as I know. It’s hard to look without losing a finger, know what I mean?

Photo of the Day:

This was taken on Monday morning at my parents house before I left for the dealership to have my new van looked at. (We needed to have the cruise control replaced at no cost to us.) I was excited to see fog because I am doing an engagement session this Saturday and our goal is to get that early morning fog. We are waking up super early. How many people are willing to wake up at 5am just so their photographer can get sunrise and fog shots of them? Not many, that’s why Danielle and Gustavo are so cool!! I’m so excited for that session; we’ll be hitting up the Milwaukee Art Museum as well as a few other places in the city. I love urban settings!

More Photo Fun:

Macro filters are blast to play with! The trickiest part is that the depth of field is so shallow, if you move ever so slightly, you throw your subject out of focus. The white flowers pictured below are very tiny in real life – they are technically a week and grow in clusters everywhere they shouldn’t. Obviously the purple flower is a clover! Do you see the little bug tucked in there? The blade is actually a small palm leaf from a mini palm tree I have growing in my kitchen. And Abe Lincoln never looked so good!