Anna Elliott Photography Blog

Anna Elliott Photography Blog http://www.annaelliottphotography.com/ en Copyright 2009 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:43:56 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification we've moved (again) into the darkroom did it last year, but lately i've been wishing i had more control over certain aspects. i want to be able to change out the header without having to pay for custom time and i'd like to have control over the fonts and stuff like that. so i found a new provider and spent the weekend customizing my new site.

so do me a favor and update your bookmarks and your google reader feeds with the new url:

www.annaelliottphoto.com

(the one you're currently on is www.annaelliottphotography.com). to see my portfolio, you'll probably still need to come back to this site - at least for a few weeks - until i build up my portfolio on the other site. bear with me :)

thanks!
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we met up this morning at their home and wandered around town for about an hour or so. they brought along their first child - their dog, rami - and we let him in a few photos (because we all know that as soon as that baby gets here, rami is going to find himself slightly neglected).

here are a few of my favorites so far; isn't havi just about the cutest pregnant woman ever?

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six months ago laura passed away suddenly and unexpectedly after heart surgery and jim was suddenly a single dad to two little girls. i haven't seen jim since laura died and when he asked jeff if i might be available to do a session with him and his girls, i jumped at the chance. jim said he didn't have a lot of photos of him, katie and carlie because he was usually the one taking photos of laura and the girls.

so we met up yesterday and huge props to jim and his mom - they had the most fabulous outfits for the girls and they totally got the idea of coordinating but not matching. i'm going to use some of the photos from their session to show other clients how it's done.

i don't usually post this many photos from one session, but i had too many favorites to choose from:

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so a few months ago mandy emailed me to tell me she and her family were coming up from texas for a wedding reception in baltimore and would i be available for a photo session? um, yes!

it was great to see her and to meet her husband and her two (adorable! well behaved!) little boys. we wandered around the inner harbor yesterday and these are a few of my favorites so far:

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if you've been following my blog/photography for any length of time then you've probably seen this little guy before:

(my nephew, seth)

my older brother. enough said.

it wasn't until i finished proofing the photos that i realized i had almost no photos of my kids or my other nephew and niece. just can't keep my camera off seth, i guess.

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the cutest kids i know besides kate and jack:

tommy:

katie:

casidy:

alyssa:

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my original plan was to snap a few photos along the way, but to mostly help the kids find the animals. i'd forgotten how beautiful savannah is, though, and ended up trailing behind jeff and the kids trying to take photos of every single beautiful building and iron gate and ivy-covered staircase. i could have spent an entire day just walking around with my camera. sigh.

a few snaps (same disclaimer applies: i'm proofing this on my uncalibrated laptop and make no claims that the colors you are seeing are what i'm seeing) :)

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so. we're in hilton head for our annual vacation with jeff's family. i look forward to this every year...a week to do nothing more than sit in a chair and read. and the reading is spectacular this year thanks to the kindle jeff bought me for hannukah this year. i don't have to lug 14 books to the beach anymore (seriously - i could read two books a day). all i have to do is download the books i want and off i go. several people have come up to me to ask me about it and i swear if there was a church of kindle that i would be a missionary for it. i love my kindle. go buy one.

a few photos from the first two days here (disclaimer: i only have my uncalibrated laptop with me and have no idea if what i'm posting is what you're seeing; the colors could be totally wonky. all i did for these photos was adjust levels and curves a bit and burn a vignette in a couple of them).

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turns out they published a bunch of them and my mother-in-law tore the page out for me so i could see them:

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we headed out to one of my favorite spots in howard county to shoot at and it turned out that there was a festival going on last weekend. it didn't start for a couple of hours so we got a chance to use some of the vendors and food stands as back drops.

i loved watching this family interact - it was so clear how much they loved thomas and he, unlike most 12-year-olds i come across, wasn't embarrased to be hugged and kissed by his mom. it gives me hope that jack will still let me kiss him when he's that age.

check 'em out:

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N-I-N-E.

did you ever?

so not only is she beautiful, but she's a total ham. she loves acting (coincidentally, she was one of the leads in the play 'Annie' in which my niece played an orphan) and she laughed and giggled and flitted her way through our session.

check out the gorgeousness:

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and now? now i still stop when i see a young mom in the mall pushing a newborn in a stroller and dragging a 2-year-old behind her. sometimes i forget that isn't me anymore; i haven't used a stroller in a couple of years and can't remember the last time i had to pack a diaper bag or a 'just in case' bag when i went out for more than 45 minutes with the kids. i don't wish for those days back (dear god in heaven, no) but it still takes me by surprise sometimes when i realize i'm not a young mom any more. that in a few months i will have two elementary school children. that the years are going faster and faster and before i know it i will be blogging about having any empty nest.

how did i get here?

jack, back in october 2006 just after starting preschool:

jack last month at a tball game:

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