a recent shoot of a friends daughter. i've been shooting her since she's been in her mom's belly. she stayed still then, lol. this time she couldnt sit still for a second. the shoot didnt go like i had hoped.

kenzie eats in her highchair for the first time, yessterday! the girl was just getting way too messy otherwise!

i got the oppurtunity to shoot a newborn about a week ago. i had fun! i got to shoot all in natural light and in THEIR home, which i so want to do more of!! i'm really grateful that i can have a studio in my house, but i really want to venture out of it more. so this is a start. this is also my first newborn that i've done for someone else! this young at least , 2 weeks!!

i'm particularly proud of this pic because i shot it in my bedroom which has the %&*(*)()$$## light. i opened up the blind slits and shot just using that light and in manual mode (which i'm afraid of, lol)!

i know , i know i seem to post to my blogs in spurts. lol. just a few pics from the past week or so!

all of the hurricane aftermath is so devastating. i cant really stand to watch the footage on tv, but i cant stand not too. so depressing, so heartbreaking, so unbelievable. my heart breaks for these people. i just cant imagine. what are all these people going to do? no homes, no jobs, no food , no clothes, nothing. still, daily i see survivors on the news saying how blessed they feel just to be alive! i was watching some news coverage last night of recovery efforts. the rescue team was taking the boat down the street when they heard someone crying out. it was an elderly lady trapped at the top floor of her house. when, they went over to her, she said "come back for me tomorrow, there are women with children in the house next door, get them first". what an affirmation of human kindness and sacrifice! last night, when i went to bed, i had such a h ard time sleeping. just remmebering all the news coverage i had seen over the past few days. thinking of how i get to go to sleep in a nice, dry, safe place when others are far from being as fortunate. SBB/www.scrapbook-bytes.com (as well as other scrapbooking sites) are offering things that you can buy with the proceeds going to relief funds. i am contributing on that project as well as donating elsewhere. but, with the mass effort needed and the mass amount of dispair, it just seems like its not enough. i want to do more. i am praying constantly, which is all i can do at the moment. so so heartbreaking. there is a shelter (the victory house) very near us that some refugees have started bringing brought too. we will take some items there. not to go out on a tangent, but why is it taking the goverment so long to get everyone out of there?? i guess i am just very fustrated. my feelings are minimal though to what those directly effected are actually feeling. Lord please bring some help to these people! on a good note, my uncle had been missing/ not heard from since the hurricane blew through. this morning, he has finally been located! he is not in a hosptial as we had heard earlier, but it seems that his house has been serverely damaged. thinking of all of these events from a purely selfish point of view, it is a wakeup call to me to stop sitting around and to live my life! some arent as blessed to have that oppurtunity!