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Happy Birthday

by Kay~Kacey on 4/12/2011

Happy Birthday to my favorite son.

young boy

Here he is as a young boy. Always, always wearing an extra large tshirt. Quite often on backwards…

fishing photo

He loved to fish as a young boy…probably because he always, always caught the biggest fish. (notice he’s still wearing the over sized shirt…)

poker hat

He’s always had his own way of doing things…

wheelo

Here he is, my engineer son, fascinated by my wheelo…

pat obriens

Here we were at Pat O’Brien’s on a trip to New Orleans…and if the truth be told, I believe this was our second time there in one day… Along with his adorable wife.

scream

One of my favorite photos of Matt & Steph…because they are just. that. fun.

Happy Birthday, Mattie. You are my favorite!

I thought I’d share some of the photos I took at Nichole Van’s Lighting Workshop that I went to in Houston a few weeks ago. Larger versions of the photos and a complete review is up over at my photography blog Kay Pickens St. Louis Photographer

nighttime off camera flash This little model was so much fun to photograph! Can’t you just see her spunk?

bride in full sun with off camera flash

She also had a bride/model for us to shoot. Loved learning how to use off camera flash to overpower the sun and get the subject lit as well as the bright blue sky.

bride through window Everyone brought their own lighting equipment, so you used your own equipment and set up your own shots.

inside ocf

We also worked with inside off camera flash work.

child photography Nichole provided us with a wide variety of models, both children and adults.

off camera flash at sunset We did day shoots and sunset and evening shoots. I learned so much.

silhouette shot

I’m still practicing at home and I bought some more lights and modifiers that I’m working with. Later this week I’ll show you a full sun off camera shoot that I did with SuperGuy… :hysterical:

The New Bird Feeder

by Kay~Kacey on 4/8/2011

Ah, yes. No house would be complete without a bird feeder! At least not a house of mine! It finally thawed enough for SuperGuy to dig a hole for the feeder post.

digging the hole for the feeder post First step was finding out who he loaned the post hole digger to… :rofl: I helped a lot with the digging stage. “A little more to the left. No, too far. Now come forward about a foot. No, not there!”