If I Could Juggle, This is What I'd Do - Seattle Children's Photographer

 Hi friends!!! Can I tell you how much I miss you? I miss being here. I miss writing about real stuff, about the "behind the scenes" part of being a photographer. I know, I left you all and went on to a shiny new, "professional" site. A site for clients, but do you know what? I always feel that there is something lacking over there. I feel a serious lack of Sarah-ness  from that site. It's supposed to be my professional site, so I have to keep all of my quirks and flaws on the down low, right? I don't talk about the things I suck at over there. I don't admit that sometimes I over-expose images. I can't talk about how freaked out I was to shoot our first wedding, and how I get nervous every single time I go out for a session. Or how sometimes I feel like the business of photography has made me a bit more bitter than I used to be.

So, my solution is... da ta da da!!!  I'm coming back! I don't know how many people will read this. I won't tell you I don't care. I do. I love people reading my blog. If I didn't, I would just write in a journal and that would be that. But, I will tell you that I have decided that I need a place where I can be me; where I can write the things that I just can't talk about over on my other blog. Plus, my therapist told me I need to start writing again, because I have emotions coming out of my ears, and, to be honest, the only thing I take time to do anymore is try to keep my businesses and children alive. If I can rationalize this as being for the business, I think I can persuade myself that it is ok to take some time to write, even if it is, secretly, for me.

I don't want this to be a dark and dreary, slit-your-wrists kind of post. I'm not really down in the dumps (if I were, I probably wouldn't use "down in the dumps"), I have just felt a great loss since I left this place.

So, the question of the hour is, "Do you think I will be able to take on all three blogs?"

 HA HA HA! It is a juggling act for sure. Then again, so is running a preschool, starting up a photography business, raising two toddlers and becoming a full-time nanny (notice how I left out running a household? : ) There is a reason for this!). You want to know a little secret? I can't even juggle!!! Seriously. I suck at juggling. Even with just three balls. I've tried and tried and tired and after one round the balls always go flying in every direction.

I'm not going to promise anything yet. I have high hopes (I always do), but with expectation comes great stress. Ha ha! Like what I did there?

I will leave this babbling post with a few pictures of the girls using my new Lensbaby Composer Pro. I LOVE my new little friend. This will be my creative funk lens. My girls also help get me out of my creative funks, even if they hate having their pictures taken!

This wasn't taken with the Lensbaby, but I had to stick in a photo of them sledding. They loved it. Can't you tell? They did once they figured out how to sit on the sled together. Sharing space is tough.

The best thing about photographing kids is that they are so impulsive. You never know what they're going to do next.

To those of you reading, thank you! And I hope we meet here again soon! Maybe even next week (eeek! That wasn't a promise!)

Project 52 Week 5 - Motions

I have been MIA this past week. Man, travelling across the world will tucker you out! I've been waking up way too early and going to bed by 9!! That's crazy talk!  Anyway, I haven't had  much time at all to concentrate on photography (besides my lens fiasco, which I'll tell you about in a few days), but after missing last week of Project 52, I just could not let it slide another week.  I missed you all too much!!

So, this is what I came up with in a pinch...

To me, this captures the love that my daughter and her yaya share. Yaya is going back to Spain tomorrow. There's a lot of motion and E-motion involved in all that surrounds us at the moment. (This was also an attempt to capture motion blur without a tripod. Not perfect, but not too shabby either!)

And I just found the motion in this one so evident, even though there is no motion blur. I am also loving that, even though I'm in Seattle, I'm still able to shoot with flare! Yippy! May the trend continue!!

Now head on over to see what the wickedly creative Shauna, Sudbury Photographer, from Simply Shauna Photography, has come up with.