Well, not much explanation has to go into this photo… What They Wear: Matching Shoes
Joy of Love: 03 Then and Now
I know I am only 3 days into Joy of Love, but this is my favorite assignment so far. When trying to decide what photo to use as inspiration for my “Then”, I thought about using a photo of Noah when he was a baby and showing just how much he has changed over the last 3.5 years. As I was going through my old pictures, I came across this one from February 10, 2008, almost exactly 3 years ago. Noah was almost 7 months old. The photo was taken by my mother-in-law, Shana, when we went out to WA to visit. This has always been one of my favorite pictures because it is so candid and sweet. So, I decided to take my assignment one step further and recreate that moment. Don’t laugh, but yes, I still have that exact outfit I was wearing. So, I dressed Noah in a similar outfit to the original photo (obviously there is no way he would ever fit in that little outfit again!) and convinced him to take some photos with me. Three years later he has grown into his cheeks, but he is still my little cuddle bear.
Joy of Love: 02 How They Look
Today’s Joy of Love assignment is “How They Look”. The description is: Capture your loved one at their best (or at their worst). Or both. What you’re trying to capture is the TRUE essence/expression/attitude/posture that SCREAMS your loved one!
I chose to use Noah as my subject again… Christopher is just lucky that he’s always at work during the day, and I refuse to wake up as early as him to catch him before he leaves. Noah is at the age now that he is pretty self sufficient. He likes to get ready himself, including doing his own hair. This means he always wants “CRAZY HAIR” as he calls it. He even has his own Spiderman hair gel. If we aren’t leaving the house, crazy hair is fine, but most days I make him brush it down. Well, today I even let him go out to the store with me with his crazy hair. And some older woman actually stopped to ask if I did that to him! HAHAHA No, that was definitely all his doing. And here is the proof… Noah doing his hair. Handsome, no matter what his hair looks like!
Joy of Love: 01 What They Do
I have decided in an effort to keep photography fun for me, that I need to start taking photos of just normal everyday stuff. As part of this, I have decided to join up with Joy of Love for February 2011. Now, I know I’m not the greatest at making it a point to take a photo every day, but at the very least, I will be taking pictures more regularly and will get some ideas out of it. I don’t want to make it feel like homework, or it will take away the whole fun aspect of it for me.
Day 1 is “What They Do”. I am supposed to photograph someone I love doing what they do. So of course, Noah was my first subject to torture… I mean, show how much I love. I tried to take photos of him playing his hand held video game because that is the one thing he does ALL the time. He would be addicted to video games if we didn’t put a time limit on them. But in typical Noah fashion, he made silly faces at the camera. So, forget the video games… instead, Noah does silly faces. I should be used to this by now, right?
Smiles
It is extremely rare that I get a beautiful smile like this out of Noah when the camera is out (usually his tongue is sticking out or he is squealing haha), so I am more than happy to use this photo as my entry for this week’s I Heart Faces Photo Challenge for Smiles. Here is my handsome little man:
Check out the other Smiles entries over at I Heart Faces:
