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my new camera!

Category: Personal,Pictures | Comments (1) | Valerie @ October 14th, 2007   

I am SO excited! Dan knows how much I’ve been enjoying photographing Brittain at every opportunity. So, for my birthday, he surprised me with a new camera. We had to go through a couple of camera exchanges after trying them out and realizing they weren’t what we were looking for, but yesterday Dan gave me THE camera. It’s a Nikon Digital SLR and it is awesome! I know nothing about it yet, but I couldn’t help myself the last couple of days, testing it out…and you know who I chose my model to be!

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Okay, it wouldn’t be fair to take credit for the next 3 pictures. Dan took these when I “allowed” him to play with the camera for a few minutes :-):

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At Mimi and Duke’s:

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This morning before we left for church:
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We picked Mimi up on the way and took these next few pics at her house:
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Fun-time after church:

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Yeah…I took these myself as well…not so easy:

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shawna herring photography

Category: Personal,Pictures | Comments (0) | Valerie @ October 14th, 2007   

By now, most of you have seen the slideshow of pictures that Shawna took of Brittain (and some of her family :-)) a couple of weeks ago. I won’t go into again how much I think of Shawna and the gift she has with photography (especially with children), but I did want to post some of the pictures from the day so that it would be documented on the blog. I decided I was just going to choose my favorites since there were over 250 photos in all. But, as I’m sure you guessed, I had way too many favorites. So, these are a selection of my favorites. It was incredibly difficult to narrow it down!

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Thanks again, Shawna, for making my birthday one of the best yet!