tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73195836871297014772024-03-13T03:28:21.385-07:00Rose*City PhotographyLocated in the San Gabriel Valley, Rose*City Photography specializes in warm and candid portraiture done on location utilizing natural sunlight. I work primarily with children, seniors/grads and families and look forward to the opportunity to work with you. My galleries are located at: http://rosecityphotography.smugmug.com
Custom collages and photographic art are also available.Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-23285790820946921482009-08-29T11:01:00.001-07:002009-08-29T12:15:44.253-07:00Alex....Class of 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/Spl24n6p6zI/AAAAAAAAAP8/ezuG1mvXt2w/s1600-h/IMG_2294Rcopy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/Spl24n6p6zI/AAAAAAAAAP8/ezuG1mvXt2w/s320/IMG_2294Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375458345403149106" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/Spl2NbScvEI/AAAAAAAAAP0/L_Hmb6101WU/s1600-h/IMG_2286Rcopy.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></div></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-46689456703972516452009-01-06T14:42:00.000-08:002009-01-09T19:29:23.770-08:00Life in the Fast Lane....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfYY-xwohI/AAAAAAAAANE/SOO97KRvHKo/s1600-h/IMG_9759R.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfLWu3LapI/AAAAAAAAALU/0it4sGzG7_g/s1600-h/IMG_9588Rcopy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfLWu3LapI/AAAAAAAAALU/0it4sGzG7_g/s400/IMG_9588Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289419878766963346" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><div>Boy, my apologies for neglecting this blog for the past several weeks...needless to say, I suck at blogging, LOL! I'm great at taking photos and editing, but when it comes to uploading and writing, I need to work on that for sure.<br /></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So, forgive me....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I have some gorgeous things to share - namely THOROUGHBRED HORSES! I grew up living just above the Santa Anita Racetrack, I mean literally, you could place a bet and then walk into the backyard and hear Trevor Denman calling the race! Needless to say I NEVER went to the track...it took me 40 years to get there and I can tell you that this past Saturday I photographed the most amazing, gorgeous creatures.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfY8tguI/AAAAAAAAAKs/b1RCGoKlMlc/s1600-h/IMG_9446Rcopy.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfY8tguI/AAAAAAAAAKs/b1RCGoKlMlc/s400/IMG_9446Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289418927991784162" style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfM-rcoI/AAAAAAAAAKc/CHpqQ1jX3fc/s1600-h/IMG_9370Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfM-rcoI/AAAAAAAAAKc/CHpqQ1jX3fc/s400/IMG_9370Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289418924778812034" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">We met a friend in the morning at Clocker's Corner for breakfast and watched the morning work-outs. I was giddy as a kid in a candy store, armed with my 5d...I shot across the track during the workout. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family:Georgia;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKe6ozj_I/AAAAAAAAAKU/q4zxMRdvkRM/s400/IMG_9352Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289418919855230962" style="text-decoration: underline; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfRidRYI/AAAAAAAAAKk/LIVjrAbPXXQ/s1600-h/IMG_9382R.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfRidRYI/AAAAAAAAAKk/LIVjrAbPXXQ/s400/IMG_9382R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289418926002619778" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ok, so this isn't a horse, but it IS Hall-of-Fame jockey Gary Stevens holding court at Clocker's Corner!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family:Georgia;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfLV7PbMMI/AAAAAAAAALE/GrCmwO7A7SA/s400/IMG_9555RcopyMAIL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289419864910016706" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ok, AND we got to meet him (he played drums with my husband's band in college!) Forgive the Facebook/MySpace/pseudo-gang signs of my almost-7-year-old <sigh></sigh></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Later we took the Seabiscuit Tour through the back barns, into the pre-race paddock, into the jockey's silk room and jockey room, then into the saddling paddock...it was wonderful.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family:Georgia;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfLWOPAhRI/AAAAAAAAALM/oXGp4JwVblk/s400/IMG_9569R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289419870008542482" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSlDTQQtI/AAAAAAAAAMU/wP25k-as2aA/s1600-h/IMG_9604R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSlDTQQtI/AAAAAAAAAMU/wP25k-as2aA/s400/IMG_9604R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289427821352993490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSk-mgw0I/AAAAAAAAAMM/TmJ7RJ0Aduw/s1600-h/IMG_9602R.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSk-mgw0I/AAAAAAAAAMM/TmJ7RJ0Aduw/s400/IMG_9602R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289427820091589442" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;">I feel inspired (almost) to raise at 5 a.m. to go to the track and shoot these beasts through the morning fog..(I said FEEL inspired...I'm not committing to anything because unfortunately my body truly doesn't function well before 10:30 a.m.!)</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfLV7PbMMI/AAAAAAAAALE/GrCmwO7A7SA/s1600-h/IMG_9555RcopyMAIL.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfLV0AI5DI/AAAAAAAAAK8/70xDHd3XcVI/s1600-h/IMG_9538R2copy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfLV0AI5DI/AAAAAAAAAK8/70xDHd3XcVI/s400/IMG_9538R2copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289419862966854706" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfy_ihbI/AAAAAAAAAK0/aQBOpBwHCI8/s1600-h/IMG_9449Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfKfy_ihbI/AAAAAAAAAK0/aQBOpBwHCI8/s400/IMG_9449Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289418934982968754" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">This is trainer Bob Bean of Beans Barn...his gorgeous Appaloosa is *29* years old! We actually had the pleasure of meeting Bob at one of the local restaurants a few months ago (he gave me his card!)...he's been training for more than 55 years!</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfYYIyUMjI/AAAAAAAAAM0/nS4a6-4T32I/s1600-h/IMG_9698R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfYYIyUMjI/AAAAAAAAAM0/nS4a6-4T32I/s400/IMG_9698R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289434196556919346" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">This is Lexi...she for the most part, lives at the track and hangs around with her best friends - Rebel the carriage horse. See her coat? I love it! So fashionista...or is that doginista??</span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSlftAOgI/AAAAAAAAAMk/AD8xOQOMfhg/s1600-h/IMG_9644Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSlftAOgI/AAAAAAAAAMk/AD8xOQOMfhg/s400/IMG_9644Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289427828977187330" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Jockey Danny Sorenson</span></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSlQlxVvI/AAAAAAAAAMc/jhrTstmJ0pM/s1600-h/IMG_9631Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSlQlxVvI/AAAAAAAAAMc/jhrTstmJ0pM/s400/IMG_9631Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289427824920319730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jockey, Corey Nakatani...man, this guy has been around forEVER....one of the last great jockeys...I bet on him when I used to go Del Mar in the '90s....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family:Georgia;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfSlmjX_AI/AAAAAAAAAMs/6n2fTo6_0TU/s400/IMG_9666Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289427830815849474" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfYY-xwohI/AAAAAAAAANE/SOO97KRvHKo/s1600-h/IMG_9759R.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SWfYY-xwohI/AAAAAAAAANE/SOO97KRvHKo/s400/IMG_9759R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289434211050103314" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....I love the track....</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></div></span></span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-2020852025089881122008-12-23T10:36:00.000-08:002008-12-23T10:44:15.108-08:00Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas/Happy Kwaanza....et. al...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SVExPvv10TI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HSjpMF2LeIk/s1600-h/Albright+Fam+2008+HC+copy.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My sincerest apologies...I have been SO behind the 8-ball with the upcoming holidays. To be completely honest, I dread fall - beginning just before Halloween, until December 26....and it's not just this year, it's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">every </span>year. I get overwhelmed by the stress of buying gifts, of end-of-semester projects, of homework, of activities...basically of daily life.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">But...even in all my bah-humbug-ness, I was able to throw together a little note of happiness and prosperity for the New Year. I'm hoping that 2009 turns out to be better than 2008.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SVExPvv10TI/AAAAAAAAAKM/HSjpMF2LeIk/s400/Albright+Fam+2008+HC+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283057984467226930" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!</span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-61423769217963104102008-11-19T10:54:00.000-08:002008-11-19T14:48:54.420-08:00A Day with the Ellison Family<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So, kid #2 happens to have a FABULOUS 3rd grade teacher. Matter-of-fact, Kid #1, had this same teacher (in 5th grade) for science...but at that time I was working full-time and didn't really have the opportunity to get to "know" the girls'</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">teachers as people...merely as teachers.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But this year, not only do I have the chance to work in Kid #2's class every Friday, I work on campus, so I get to see the lovely Mrs. Ellison everyday!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Somehow between making copies and grading tests, it came up that I shoot....and Mrs. Ellison asked me to spend some time documenting her family [Mom, Dad, Ms "E" who is 3, and Mr "A", who is 5 months]. All I can say, is that while every shoot is completely different and wonderful, THIS, was just a fabulous, fun day. I hope you enjoy seeing how much fun they had, (I *think* almost as much as me!)......</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiHG9EL6I/AAAAAAAAAJk/Ks4Y268-5o4/s1600-h/_MG_8534Rcopy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiHG9EL6I/AAAAAAAAAJk/Ks4Y268-5o4/s400/_MG_8534Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270445338195668898" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;">Dad, Ms. "E" & Mom</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiG2iZ83I/AAAAAAAAAJc/q2mWskwzxNU/s1600-h/_MG_8389RBW.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiG2iZ83I/AAAAAAAAAJc/q2mWskwzxNU/s400/_MG_8389RBW.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270445333788881778" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;">Ms. "E" & Mr. "A"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiGYeop7I/AAAAAAAAAJU/2BM8_VX2DaI/s1600-h/_MG_8373RcopyFRAMED.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiGYeop7I/AAAAAAAAAJU/2BM8_VX2DaI/s400/_MG_8373RcopyFRAMED.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270445325720004530" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ms "E" and those scrumptious eyes...a photographer's dream!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiGL0PeWI/AAAAAAAAAJM/O6cR-eEnHiY/s1600-h/_MG_8361RFramed.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiGL0PeWI/AAAAAAAAAJM/O6cR-eEnHiY/s400/_MG_8361RFramed.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270445322320968034" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;">And again...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiF1xUr2I/AAAAAAAAAJE/nqJrgM5BTFM/s1600-h/_MG_8340Rcopy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSRiF1xUr2I/AAAAAAAAAJE/nqJrgM5BTFM/s400/_MG_8340Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270445316403146594" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;">Ellison Fam...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUyKRkZMI/AAAAAAAAAJs/wLv5mC1yEIg/s1600-h/_MG_8553Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUyKRkZMI/AAAAAAAAAJs/wLv5mC1yEIg/s400/_MG_8553Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270501053402735810" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;">Mr "A"....ah...can't you just SMELL him???</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUyWepYTI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/YbaQZHiE1Ck/s1600-h/_MG_8582RcopyFRAMED.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUyWepYTI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/YbaQZHiE1Ck/s400/_MG_8582RcopyFRAMED.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270501056678814002" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUyoYyRjI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Fq10NS3AeDA/s1600-h/8721RFFcopy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUyoYyRjI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Fq10NS3AeDA/s400/8721RFFcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270501061486069298" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUy1xK9RI/AAAAAAAAAKE/RxmNHdgwQgA/s1600-h/CHRISTMAS+CARD+copy.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SSSUy1xK9RI/AAAAAAAAAKE/RxmNHdgwQgA/s400/CHRISTMAS+CARD+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270501065078011154" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thank you so much, Jill & Mike, for allowing me to share your day with you!!!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lynda</span></span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-61490960911664375292008-11-04T11:08:00.001-08:002008-11-04T14:56:57.998-08:00All Hallows "Ween"<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfDGUQL3I/AAAAAAAAAG8/hdRe76n1RRA/s1600-h/_MG_8097R.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfDGUQL3I/AAAAAAAAAG8/hdRe76n1RRA/s400/_MG_8097R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264882839980093298" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">muhahahahaha.....</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">First and foremost, let me expound on the fact that once Halloween hits, I begin to stress out about the holidays. It's not like I'm a Grinch or anything, but I've lost my love of the holidays due to the enormously horrid plethora of marketing that infiltrates our lives (i.e. the Toys 'R Us catalog amongst others...), which inevitably competes with the TRUE meaning of what the holidays stand for. I dislike Halloween immensely - the pressure of costumes, the candy and crap - but I resolve to participate...because I have children, and there is no way to sufficiently deprive them of what </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">they</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> consider to be fun.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><off></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><off></off></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><off></off></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Our neighbor turned 50 this year, his birthday is on Halloween, and the house was decorated to the hilt in celebration.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfB4JeRZI/AAAAAAAAAGk/6tv-nQWzNSk/s1600-h/_MG_8094R.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfB4JeRZI/AAAAAAAAAGk/6tv-nQWzNSk/s400/_MG_8094R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264882818996913554" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfC_ydJII/AAAAAAAAAG0/SOZMiQWTU-0/s1600-h/_MG_8096R.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfC_ydJII/AAAAAAAAAG0/SOZMiQWTU-0/s400/_MG_8096R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264882838227723394" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfCSQCNrI/AAAAAAAAAGs/luiAAj9Ry8A/s1600-h/_MG_8095R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfCSQCNrI/AAAAAAAAAGs/luiAAj9Ry8A/s400/_MG_8095R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264882826003756722" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Joe? Joe? Say it ain't so...50 isn't that bad dude....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(I digress......)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This year, as in years' past, our girls (minus Kid #1, who at 13 was not 'available' to march....this is the first year since her birth, that I don't have a picture of her in costume <sniff>...), </span></span><sniff><sniff><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">participate in the annual Halloween festivities that have been a 17-year tradition, two blocks up. The kidlets, in all their splendor, arrive and mingle, awaiting the arrival of the "King", who mugs for the photos and then leads a procession (much akin to the "Pied Piper") down the street, setting off the trick-or-treating season.</span></span></sniff></sniff></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChcPiBPII/AAAAAAAAAHs/IIkRcftx5uE/s1600-h/_MG_8113R.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChcPiBPII/AAAAAAAAAHs/IIkRcftx5uE/s400/_MG_8113R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264885470973738114" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj34cIVtI/AAAAAAAAAH8/q7vVdsVPCL4/s1600-h/_MG_8115R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj34cIVtI/AAAAAAAAAH8/q7vVdsVPCL4/s400/_MG_8115R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264888144834614994" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfDQTqExI/AAAAAAAAAHE/gHbHMeVh3cU/s1600-h/_MG_8100R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCfDQTqExI/AAAAAAAAAHE/gHbHMeVh3cU/s400/_MG_8100R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264882842661950226" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Kid #3 and her preschool friends (yes, they are in 1st grade now, but this is our annual</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Let's hang with the Boys" night out! Neven...it's ok to smile bud!)</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChbN54C8I/AAAAAAAAAHk/G70MExUw3Jw/s1600-h/_MG_8107R.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChbN54C8I/AAAAAAAAAHk/G70MExUw3Jw/s400/_MG_8107R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264885453357059010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Nathan! Over here....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChZwG68XI/AAAAAAAAAHU/ZFywEaYo6aI/s1600-h/_MG_8105R.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChZwG68XI/AAAAAAAAAHU/ZFywEaYo6aI/s400/_MG_8105R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264885428178841970" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Nathan! Over HERE....</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChaiPZVWI/AAAAAAAAAHc/3x6jH4peMQI/s1600-h/_MG_8106R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChaiPZVWI/AAAAAAAAAHc/3x6jH4peMQI/s400/_MG_8106R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264885441636160866" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hey Nathan! Look OVER there....</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChZSGHk4I/AAAAAAAAAHM/rfNOIMm7yow/s1600-h/_MG_8104R.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRChZSGHk4I/AAAAAAAAAHM/rfNOIMm7yow/s400/_MG_8104R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264885420122411906" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><sigh></sigh></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><sigh></sigh></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><sigh></sigh></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><sigh></sigh></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><sigh></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">While this technically is a kid's holiday, don't let the parents know that....</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj3c4y9lI/AAAAAAAAAH0/SO4i1jFT6PY/s1600-h/_MG_8111R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj3c4y9lI/AAAAAAAAAH0/SO4i1jFT6PY/s400/_MG_8111R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264888137438656082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This is our resident city-councilman! Striking, no?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj4IzZkSI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7fKbjRZHZiM/s1600-h/_MG_8121R.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj4IzZkSI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7fKbjRZHZiM/s400/_MG_8121R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264888149227180322" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 211px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRDIFoC7BZI/AAAAAAAAAI0/6u07UpiWNRc/s1600-h/_MG_8126R.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRDIFoC7BZI/AAAAAAAAAI0/6u07UpiWNRc/s400/_MG_8126R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264927963370685842" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRDIF1hsF5I/AAAAAAAAAI8/iCqCzlMCkRY/s1600-h/_MG_8128R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRDIF1hsF5I/AAAAAAAAAI8/iCqCzlMCkRY/s400/_MG_8128R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264927966989391762" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj4gnS_CI/AAAAAAAAAIU/p7o9I_5-8Tk/s1600-h/_MG_8129R.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCj4gnS_CI/AAAAAAAAAIU/p7o9I_5-8Tk/s400/_MG_8129R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264888155618868258" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is Roscoe...he waited patiently by the door to greet the trick-or-treaters to give him a pat on the head, in exchange for some goodies...I couldn't resist him!</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCltLUTpuI/AAAAAAAAAIk/cuCeelCPJEc/s1600-h/_MG_8133R.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRCltLUTpuI/AAAAAAAAAIk/cuCeelCPJEc/s400/_MG_8133R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264890159946770146" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And this is what happens when certain individuals make post-all-hallows-ween adult beverages....NOT a pretty picture!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRClsp2OuTI/AAAAAAAAAIc/7dlYzPZIXAI/s1600-h/_MG_8130R.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SRClsp2OuTI/AAAAAAAAAIc/7dlYzPZIXAI/s400/_MG_8130R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264890150962247986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">HAPPY HALLOWEEN!</span></span></span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-80526075389152100632008-10-28T22:05:00.000-07:002008-10-28T22:27:22.530-07:00Faces of Rachel<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">OK, so I'm new to this whole blog thing and for the most part, I've been using photos that I have access to...which primarily are kid #2 and kid #3...because they actually don't mind mugging for the camera. (I use mugging lightly, for in reality, they complain ALL the time when I'm taking pics of them and are non-compliant and, basically, difficult to work with.)</span></span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So, if you've bothered to read this blog, you know I'm NEW to both blogging and my other current addiction - Facebook. Well, yesterday, kid #1 says to me, "WHY am *I* not on your blog...WHY is it kid #2 and kid #3 ALWAYS on your blog?".</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sheesh...maybe because kid #1, when you roll in from school and after complaining how hungry you are and eating me out of house and home, you hole up in your smelly room to: #1 text friends, #2 talk on the cell, #3 text friends, #4 come out to find food, #5 check your Facebook page and write on my wall from the garage...basically, you don't have any time to give to ME...to take your pics and play with natural lighting.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ha...well, today was a different day. I got 13-year-old (um, yea 8th grade...remember when you were in 8th grade? Yea, I do...never want to go back) to come and play in the decreasing sunlight!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Here's what I got!! Isn't she lovely? I love this kid.......she rocks big time....hard to believe she's going to high school next year..and I have only 4 more years and then she's gone...out of the house...(or living here, working and going to school)...sigh........</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">p.s. Sorry for my MONTAGE...it's my latest conquered "learning curve" in PS7</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQfz-lYmOxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/b83Zonhwj6M/s1600-h/R.Montage.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQfz-lYmOxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/b83Zonhwj6M/s400/R.Montage.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262442946118433554" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 217px; " /></a></span></span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-22531309567846250192008-10-28T10:05:00.000-07:002008-10-28T11:09:18.047-07:00Floral Art<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Some days, while the girls are at school and the house is quiet (minus the pawing of the tortoise to escape her box and be left free to roam the house)...I find myself in a mode of procrastination (hard to believe, I know). So I turn to my trusty Canon 30d and take advantage of the time I have to.....well, procrastinate some more. I mean really, taking pictures and editing is SO much more fun than laundry (which is evil and never-ending)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">.<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">One such days when I am avoiding laundry, I take advantage of my front and back yards...we really do have some amazing flowers...and the bees are constantly buzzing around, and kid #3 loves to pick flowers and show them to me...the list goes on. I have not, as of yet, been able to capture the various hummingbirds that frequent our flowers, but that is a goal.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">I have included some of my more recent and favorite floral photos, which I am considering making into note card packets. After all, the economy is tight, Christmas is approaching, and there is something nice about preparing gifts that I was able to create and giving them for the holidays. (Plus, as much as I love email and I do, because it's super convenient...there is something special about sending and receiving a HANDWRITTEN note...you just can't deny that!)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJCjQHjoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/FE687Z_Bn3Y/s1600-h/_MG_9978Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJCjQHjoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/FE687Z_Bn3Y/s320/_MG_9978Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262254997777124994" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Iris" - LA County Arboretum - April 2008</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJCTWKTII/AAAAAAAAAE0/VpOzAOC1hhk/s1600-h/_MG_9958Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJCTWKTII/AAAAAAAAAE0/VpOzAOC1hhk/s320/_MG_9958Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262254993507503234" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Iris 2" - LA County Arboretum - April 2008</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJCK-SdhI/AAAAAAAAAEs/9mywSCoynXo/s1600-h/_MG_0183Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJCK-SdhI/AAAAAAAAAEs/9mywSCoynXo/s320/_MG_0183Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262254991259891218" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Pink" - LA County Arboretum - April 200</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">8</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJBzlBvII/AAAAAAAAAEk/EkQO1fWvM8k/s1600-h/_MG_0181Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJBzlBvII/AAAAAAAAAEk/EkQO1fWvM8k/s320/_MG_0181Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262254984979922050" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Hibiscus" - LA County Arboretum - April 2008</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJBOnLVYI/AAAAAAAAAEc/Zxme7aX7d_0/s1600-h/_MG_0167Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdJBOnLVYI/AAAAAAAAAEc/Zxme7aX7d_0/s320/_MG_0167Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262254975056827778" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Cactus Bloom" - LA County Arboretum - April 2008</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMvPLva-I/AAAAAAAAAFc/YWjPpT1kXMY/s1600-h/_MG_9983Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMvPLva-I/AAAAAAAAAFc/YWjPpT1kXMY/s320/_MG_9983Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262259064019053538" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Iris 3" - LA County Arboretum - April 2008</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMu0NYvsI/AAAAAAAAAFU/NUWAye79wAU/s1600-h/IMR00078Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMu0NYvsI/AAAAAAAAAFU/NUWAye79wAU/s320/IMR00078Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262259056778198722" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Mum" - Altadena, CA - October 2008</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMut1evLI/AAAAAAAAAFM/Jowf3CM2COM/s1600-h/IMG_6481Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMut1evLI/AAAAAAAAAFM/Jowf3CM2COM/s320/IMG_6481Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262259055067315378" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Trumpet Vine" - My Front Yard - September 2008</span></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMuU7E1TI/AAAAAAAAAFE/eYn0EgFPbRk/s1600-h/_MG_9985Rcopy.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMuU7E1TI/AAAAAAAAAFE/eYn0EgFPbRk/s1600-h/_MG_9985Rcopy.jpg"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMuU7E1TI/AAAAAAAAAFE/eYn0EgFPbRk/s1600-h/_MG_9985Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdMuU7E1TI/AAAAAAAAAFE/eYn0EgFPbRk/s320/_MG_9985Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262259048379897138" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Iris 4" - LA County Arboretum - April 2008</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdSg5CtIEI/AAAAAAAAAF0/pAoxn-Q-ayk/s1600-h/Sher.Flower.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdSg5CtIEI/AAAAAAAAAF0/pAoxn-Q-ayk/s320/Sher.Flower.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262265414627172418" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; ">"Kid 3 Painted" - My Front Yard - July 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdSgSiNPKI/AAAAAAAAAFs/Mo64JpxYIYI/s1600-h/MacroFlower.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdSgSiNPKI/AAAAAAAAAFs/Mo64JpxYIYI/s320/MacroFlower.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262265404290317474" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 259px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; ">"Salvia Macro" - My Front Yard - July 2008</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdSfr51ERI/AAAAAAAAAFk/Fx-qKQLnmes/s1600-h/Bee.jpg"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdSfr51ERI/AAAAAAAAAFk/Fx-qKQLnmes/s1600-h/Bee.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQdSfr51ERI/AAAAAAAAAFk/Fx-qKQLnmes/s320/Bee.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262265393920413970" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; ">"Bee" - My Front Yard - July 2008</span><br /></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-17039858406611169042008-10-27T12:49:00.001-07:002008-10-27T21:03:16.753-07:00The 70s vs. 2008.....<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Kidlet #3 has been wearing glasses since she was about 2 1/2...poor child inherited my eyes - I had the same condition, at the same age. THANKFULLY, kid #3 isn't living in the 70s, because I have to say...the 70s were unusually cruel for spec-wearers and I clearly was a victim of bad glasses styling. See...here's proof of what happens when your conservative 70s mother picks your specs:</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYrdsyTyHI/AAAAAAAAAEU/b5bDrCf0cmM/s1600-h/RL.Kids.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYrdsyTyHI/AAAAAAAAAEU/b5bDrCf0cmM/s320/RL.Kids.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261941003867375730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, so as to not induce poor self-esteem onto kid #3, I've always given her the opportunity to choose her own specs. I mean, after all, SHE is the one wearing them and SHE needs to feel good in them, you know? She had a tendency to keep to the straight and narrow, wearing the affable wire-rimmed. Really...she only changed color, moving from brown to lavender - because "purple is my favorite color"...and who am I to argue with color selection?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYca2Ru7RI/AAAAAAAAAEM/V6kceJUlIr0/s1600-h/_MG_9913Rweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYca2Ru7RI/AAAAAAAAAEM/V6kceJUlIr0/s320/_MG_9913Rweb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261924462201072914" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Last week she had her two-year update. I reminded her that she had the option to keep her current wire specs (which had, more times than naught, become the play toy of school friends who had the bad manners of taking them off her face), or getting a new pair. To my absolute amazement...she elected to get new ones. I was THRILLED! Really, I love her optometrist dearly, but when we were seeing him weekly for spec adjustments, it was getting a bit old.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">INTRODUCING...the new & improved (and tres FUNKY) kid #3!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYcaYJgn_I/AAAAAAAAAEE/8uGPf28Mwos/s1600-h/_MG_7998Rweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYcaYJgn_I/AAAAAAAAAEE/8uGPf28Mwos/s320/_MG_7998Rweb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261924454113517554" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYcZzXGTCI/AAAAAAAAAD8/1fIGisREC-Q/s1600-h/_MG_7996Rweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYcZzXGTCI/AAAAAAAAAD8/1fIGisREC-Q/s320/_MG_7996Rweb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261924444238400546" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">p.s. Don't mind the Shrek ears....I think she's going to go far in life! Now for a haircut.....</span></span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-49564054717343565652008-10-27T10:26:00.001-07:002008-10-27T21:04:11.871-07:00Lost Teeth & Beautiful Faces...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYXJqFa1rI/AAAAAAAAAD0/S7xLTn_kCBw/s1600-h/_MG_6514R+copy.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I try to practice my natural light shots, using my kids of course, because #1 - they are accessible, #2 - I'm usually pretty quick (so I can usually bribe them into giving me 5 minutes of their valuable time), and #3 - I need the practice, and what better to practice on, then one's own children? However, there are ALWAYS those days when they give me more grief the help. I mean, hey...it's just a few pictures...can't you help me out?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Take for instance, a couple of weeks ago...child #3 had lost her 3rd tooth (a topper) and she has that 'oh-so-cute-missing-a-tooth-gap'. I thought "I can kill two birds with one proverbial stone here"...get some practice with light, get some cute shots. Yea, ok, I got one.</span>..</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYBUp3SGjI/AAAAAAAAAC8/D5NITgOQQxU/s1600-h/_MG_6498R+copy.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYBUp3SGjI/AAAAAAAAAC8/D5NITgOQQxU/s320/_MG_6498R+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261894668975741490" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Because *1* is all the kid was willing to give....no more, no less...as cute as she is, she refused to look at the camera AND plugged up the gapper with her tongue (and nevermind the icky glare on the specs, which is why I PRACTICE!)...</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYFQkSWSEI/AAAAAAAAADE/CiZT5dwu0i0/s1600-h/_MG_6500Rcopy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYFQkSWSEI/AAAAAAAAADE/CiZT5dwu0i0/s320/_MG_6500Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261898996805683266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I mean, I birthed the child, you'd think that she would give me SOMETHING....nope...in reality, she just insisted on messing with me and it's painfully obvious and clear here....</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYILkA4wRI/AAAAAAAAADM/LPRRDxFEy4M/s1600-h/_MG_6505R+copy.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYILkA4wRI/AAAAAAAAADM/LPRRDxFEy4M/s320/_MG_6505R+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261902209367982354" style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So...I went to child #2...hoping for some better results, maybe a bit more cooperation (forget the fact that whilst I was trying to get child #3 to cooperate, child #2 was actually encouraging the non-compliant behavior!)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Well....this is what I got:</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYMUinzrFI/AAAAAAAAADk/4Q43ykfQ4mA/s1600-h/_MG_6512R+copy.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYMUinzrFI/AAAAAAAAADk/4Q43ykfQ4mA/s320/_MG_6512R+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261906761659690066" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYMUdMNk9I/AAAAAAAAADc/sMOp77LdP70/s1600-h/_MG_6510R+copy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYMUdMNk9I/AAAAAAAAADc/sMOp77LdP70/s320/_MG_6510R+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261906760201769938" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYMT_QPo9I/AAAAAAAAADU/BQwghYKwkKI/s1600-h/_MG_6509R+copy.jpg"></a><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYXJqFa1rI/AAAAAAAAAD0/S7xLTn_kCBw/s1600-h/_MG_6514R+copy.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYXJqFa1rI/AAAAAAAAAD0/S7xLTn_kCBw/s320/_MG_6514R+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261918669312284338" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYXJS41AkI/AAAAAAAAADs/MszW7dK9ZWI/s1600-h/_MG_6513R+copy.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQYXJS41AkI/AAAAAAAAADs/MszW7dK9ZWI/s320/_MG_6513R+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261918663085457986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">S-I-G-H........gotta love kids</span></span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-16799351047479112942008-10-24T14:55:00.001-07:002008-10-27T22:16:44.933-07:00Markle Family<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Se</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">veral years ago, Lawren played bass in my husband's band. Those were the carefree days! Now, Lawren and his beautiful wife Mary, are parents of twins. Talk about a curve ball!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />I had the privilege of shooting their family on October 5 - a gorgeous Sunday morning, the day following the boys' 3-month birthday. I wanted to emphasize to them, the importance of capturing the aspects of parenthood - spilled milk, blurp, I mean seriously, is there a perfect baby anywhere? LOL. As it turned out, aspects of parenthood is what we got...One boy slept, while the other was awake. One cried, while the other smiled. But in the end, we got some gorgeous photos!<br /><br />BTW, Lawren is about 6'7"...I absolutely adore the one below, of him holding Baby "K"...the strength of the arm with the fragility of that tiny baby body...ohhh wowza.<br /><br />And Mary, by far, one of my personal all-time favorites. She is just so lovely, and the tone is so....maternal. And I must admit, the last one with their lovable doggie, Yeates, truly is a winner as well!<br /><br />Thank you family for allowing me to capture these beautiful images! See you soon.<br /><br />Lynda : )</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF4kQ1OaI/AAAAAAAAACk/tU5-c2RDAt4/s1600-h/_MG_7128Rcopy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF4kQ1OaI/AAAAAAAAACk/tU5-c2RDAt4/s320/_MG_7128Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260844152831424930" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF4XR_YmI/AAAAAAAAACc/vObNfm6qzFE/s1600-h/_MG_7062R+copy.jpg"></a><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF4w7FtBI/AAAAAAAAACs/XuZElaGFCHM/s320/_MG_7072Rcopy.jpg" /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF37_PQpI/AAAAAAAAACU/34UqwKfSKdU/s1600-h/_MG_7152Rcopy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF37_PQpI/AAAAAAAAACU/34UqwKfSKdU/s320/_MG_7152Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260844142020215442" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF4XR_YmI/AAAAAAAAACc/vObNfm6qzFE/s320/_MG_7062R+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260844149346624098" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF3enjadI/AAAAAAAAACM/at235dJkkKI/s1600-h/_MG_7270Rcopy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 261px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQJF3enjadI/AAAAAAAAACM/at235dJkkKI/s320/_MG_7270Rcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260844134136244690" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7319583687129701477.post-83804284087913935612008-10-23T15:09:00.000-07:002008-10-24T13:37:27.431-07:00Welcome to Rose*City Photography @ blogspot.com<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ok<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">...so let me preface this by saying: "I've been using Internet for years". So much so, that my husband keeps telling me to ditch my email because it's not "me" (well it really is...it is my college alma mater & sorority mixed together - ok, so it's like a tad old, but it IS me). I guess he d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">oesn't realize the implications that would come with simply changing my email...which would entail remembering every single account that is hooked up to said email account.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anyway, I have been reluctant, as much as I love computers and all this new technology, to start a blog. But, my photography is beginning to take off and because my girls are now in school and I have time...I thought it was appropriate to 'get with t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">he times', so to sp</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">eak!!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So, to confirm, I am a photographer (but then again, who isn't?). I don't like calling myself professional, because I believe pros to be people who have their stuff published in National Geographic or some other major magazine [I haven't]. But, I guess when someone purchases something that you've created, it changes the rules. I really do consider myself mildly-obsessed-with-the-fact-that-I-love photography. So be it!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Second, I want to verify that my photo site and my company are ROSE*CITY PHOTOGRAPHY...my BLOG is ROSECITYPHOTO. I know...lack of consistency, but ROSE CITY PHOTOGRAPHY @ blogspot dot<dot> com was already taken. You can see my galleries at http://rosecityphotography.smugmug.com/</dot></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I absolutely ADORE photography, I love computers, I'm now (mildly) obsessed with Facebook (who KNEW it could be so addicting?) and now I'm really loving this blog thing. So, here is my youngest kidlet modeling her Halloween costume. I love picting my kids, they are my inspiration to say the least and I'm sure you will see lots of them herein.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQEMCDJixXI/AAAAAAAAAAc/gRp_QXisnEk/s320/_MG_7973R.jpg" /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQIxfOirOII/AAAAAAAAABA/vkNir5dQ9_4/s1600-h/_MG_7969R.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6IL3yR1Bs/SQIxfOirOII/AAAAAAAAABA/vkNir5dQ9_4/s320/_MG_7969R.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260821727271401602" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px; " /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; ">I've got to run...this is really my test run anyway...more later! Thanks again for stopping by!</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Lynda :)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family:Georgia;font-size:11px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div>Rose*City Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16048809048872711839noreply@blogger.com0