when:  Sunday 6/26 and Tuesday 6/28 – around 7pm

where:  my favorite field in BP

what:  more to come.  I took so many that I really like a lot!  So as I have time I’ll add more here.  Working on a slideshow too!  I was excited because she actually cooperated pretty well!  OK and yes, it cost me another $20 and a lunch at Culver’s, but I’d say it was worth it.  :-)

We did go out of town for a couple days for my sister-in-law Kristy’s 40th birthday party (more to come on that!) and we stayed with my parents on their little farm.  Here’s Sugar!  My dad said that he and Sugar were having a talk the other week and she was saying how much she’d like to have a boyfriend.  So he put an ad on Craig’s List asking for a boyfriend for her and in no time at all, they had Willie over for a “date”!  It was apparently successful and Sugar should be a mama in about a year from now.  My dad doesn’t like keeping boy donkeys around (they try to ‘get with’ almost everything that is female and has four legs), so Willie was out of there as soon as he served his purpose.  ;-)Then Shadow had a talk with my dad and said that it wasn’t fair that Sugar got a boyfriend, but he didn’t get a girlfriend!?!  So they went and bought a girlfriend for him (also from Craig’s List!) Meet “Sunshine!”  She’s soooo adorable!  She looks like a mini palamino!So in about 11 months or so, these two will most likely be parents!  :-)btw….this was Shadow almost three years ago when they first got him – he had been so badly neglected/abused.  He’s changed so much!  Lost all his fuzz too!

So my dad’s “hobby” is the animals and taking care of them….that and fixing up old cars, etc. So what does my mom do when he’s busy with that?  She’s a Master Gardener and bee keeper of course!  Here are some of her beautiful flowers that happened to be in bloom (or almost in bloom!) when we were there.

{her current FAV!} btw….all the animal photos were taken with my 24-70 f/2.8.  The flower ones/mom were with my 60mm f/2.8 macro – all on manual focus.  :-)

It’s actually my parent’s 45th Wedding Anniversary today so Happy Anniversary mom & dad! I love you both very much!

where:  my favorite areas of Brooklyn Park.  :-)

when:  Thursday 6/2/11 around 7pm

what it cost me:  $20 – so she could buy a yearbook and an Oreo Blizzard.

where:  Brooklyn Park, MN

when:  5/26/11 – mini session – 9am

what:  Logan was also supposed to come to my minis on 5/19, but he had a little accident and got a bruise on his face right under his eye – so I was glad to see he was pretty much healed up a week later!  He was so good for his photos!  What a cute family, huh?  Thanks for coming again guys – it’s been great working with you the last year +!

when:  september 27, 2010

where:  brooklyn park

what:  finally getting around to posting some of these.  I added a gradient map to the blown out sky….hmmm….still experimenting w/ that.  Fun stuff!

When:  December 31st, 2010 at around 3:15pm

Where:  Champlin, MN

What:  I really wanted to take pics of the kids by the Christmas tree barn – COOL signs & lots of pine trees!  But it just never worked out.  We finally just set a date and did it – even though as we were driving to the session, FREEZING RAIN started coming down and continued for almost our whole session (my poor camera had frozen ice drops on it!)   Anyway, they were great sports!   Tech:  Nikon D700, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 (at 2.8 the WHOLE time since we were losing light & it was very overcast), ISO 640, shutter varied.  Letters were printed on 8.5 x 11 heavy paper and cut out – from this kit and stapled on to black ribbon. After the session, we went back home and had yummy Chai tea with lots of marshmallows!

Where:  The Farm – WI

When:  October 16, 2010