Ok this week is a pretty lame attempt at recreating the snowflake macro shot. We are in the beginning of another weekend snow dumping so before it got too deep out there I trudged out in the cold to attempt this shot. One of these days I will have a real macro lens but for now the poor-woman’s technique will have to do.

Sweetness overload of sugar and spice and smiles from my kiddos for our Valentine’s Day session. They girls had a lot of fun in their dress up while my son was liking the stickers I bought him (and of course giving me lots of silly faces).

This week I am featuring the guys again. This is my son’s first year in Boy Scouts. Next weekend is the Pinewood Derby race. Of course we waited until the last minute to work on building his car. Luckily my hubby has lots of experience from his younger years with making one and the guys set off to the garage to cut and sand.

Then after a trip to Home Depot for more supplies, paint and weights, the car takes shape.

Once this dries then wheels and stickers will be installed. I sure hope the trial run goes well. I will be crossing my fingers for next weekend that his car performs OK since my son is still working on his good-sportsmanship skills. Wish us luck!

I seriously loved this photo of my daughter playing in the beautiful sun. However, the sky was totally boring and called for something special. So this week I decided to play in the iheartfaces.com texture challenge.

Now the photo is much more interesting and fun.

Check out more texture fun here:

Ok, ok I know I am a day late at posting my weekly shot but I really did take these photos yesterday. I am also breaking the rules once again to post two shots since I could not decide between the two. My son was in rare form yesterday acting quite fun in some rare sunny weather at the park. So I, of course, took the opportunity to spotlight him and his very energetic and goofy personality.

Oh and after these shots were taken, I did get him a haircut. His hair is just so curly and I can’t imagine where he gets that from?!

As always I had a vision for what I wanted to post this week. But, as always, it rarely turns out the way I envisioned. I wanted one good shot of me and my girls. I set up the tripod and even let the girls take turns with the remote, which resulted in some very funny outtakes. So I settled for this one of me and my baby big girl.

My 4 year old has been taking ballet and tap classes this fall/winter. This week was her dance ’show’. She was WAY more excited to be wearing this pretty Tutu than to be preforming for us. So of course, like any proud mama, I made her pose for me before the big event.

Welcome 2010! With this new year comes new hopes and dreams and photography projects. My 2009 365 Project was a huge success and tons of fun for me. I will admit that I did start to get burnt out in December and did something for the first time in over a year, put the camera down for a whole 7 days.

This year I want to focus on quality instead of quantity. Once a week I will try to take one good photo of anything I that inspires me.

Therefore, without further ado, I present week 1. My older daughter has been cooperative lately and sitting still while I practice.

I love color, especially beautiful vibrant multiple colors all in the same photo. However, Black and White Photography can also be quite stunning.

And quite silly:

And quite cute:

I am offering some in-studio Mini-Sessions for all the Ghosts and Goblins out there from now until Halloween. For only $40 you get a 30 minute session including 1 free 8×10 and 1 free 5×7 and a private gallery of 10-15 images to choose from. Send me an email at Jessica [at] thegagglephotography.com to select your spot.