An Amish Sunset

Last week we "chased a sunset". We've been scoping out locations for different sunset opportunities, and came upon this Amish farm. The barn and windmill were perfect subjects to shoot, and the field had the traditional piles of hay, not the round bails you see most of the time. The last picture was taken looking over a field close to our land on Fund Road. The wooden fence posts and bails in the distance looked like the perfect place to pull over. We hope to expand our sunset portfolio as the weather gets better here in Ohio.

Lexi at 3

Here is our oldest daughter Alexis. She will be 3 in March, so we are starting her 3 year pictures to send out with invitations. This first shoot is her with a flight jacket on, for her Papa Cowgar, since he is a pilot. We are working on a few props for her other shoots, but hopefully we can get them done later this week.

Baby Claire's Newborn Shoot

Here are a few of our favourites from our newborn shoot with our newest niece, Claire. She was a little grumpy at first, but after she fell asleep, it was easy getting lots of shots of her. Look forward to watching her grow, as she will be one of our guinea pigs for photography.

Prints for Sale!

We've finally set up a gallery to sell some of our pictures. We've added the link on the side of the blog, as well as in this post. You can also scroll through our previous blog posts. Pictures for sale will now have a "buy a print" tag below them. Thank you to everyone supporting us!

willowspondphotography.printroom.com

Check back soon for Claire's newborn photo shoot, and Lexi's 3 year photo shoot.

Meet Baby Claire--Hospital Shoot

Here is the newest member of our extended family. This is our new niece Claire Marie, and she came 16 days late, just one day shy of an induction. She was born Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 10:36AM. She weighted 8 lbs. 1.1 oz. and was 21 inches long. Everyone is fine and at home now. We came into the room about 1 1/2 hours after she was born, and got a chance to take tons of photos. Here are a few of our favourites.

Our Christmas 2008

We decided 2 weeks before Christmas to get some shots of the family to put on a Christmas card to send out. Getting the girls to cooperate together is next to impossible, so we did seperate shots for them, and then did our shot after they went to bed. We had about 5 shots of each of the girls to pick from, a few shots of us, some quick editing, and then sent them off to snapfish.com with some express shipping to get them here in time to send out. Next year, hopefully we won't procrastinate as much!

Still Life--Roses

Here are a few shots taken in December of some roses. They were purchased for a special day, so we decided Luke should try out some still-life photography while we had something in the house. We are still waiting on the new baby to arrive, so our newborn shoot may not happen for another month yet.