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It’s been a real long time since I’ve blogged something here.  My brother keeps reminding me!  We’ve had a very full summer.  We did some trips to both NJ and Indiana, have spent many a day and evening pruning our fingers in the neighborhood pool and I’ve been launching a photography business.  And the next few months are shaping up to be just as busy. The boys are sick today so I’ve had some time to catch up on tasks and do some editing of our family pictures.  These are from an evening when traffic was light so we all … Read more →

I think this month’s Clickin Mom’s challenge, shallow depth of field, is a favorite amongst photographers.  I know it is for me.  Shallow depth of field is when your focus falls on a very small portion of the photo with the fore and background falling quickly out of focus. Chasing two toddlers around, I very rarely have a chance to position them so that distractions are eliminated, opting to capture them in the natural (cluttered) environment.  I use shallow depth of field to isolate them from the background A LOT! Here are a couple of my favorite images where I … Read more →