Rhylie, my youngest little girl, was standing on a chair next to me while I was doing some photo-editing on the Mac. She was peering out the window at the family of birds perched in our tree. She was so lost in thought, so I figured it was the perfect moment to grab my camera and photograph her — the window light was just right — her face was illuminated, and the light tapered off behind her — it was beautiful. I’d never really used window light intentionally before, but I think the results are great! :) Here are a few of my favorite shots…

The girls and I decided to pass the time between sessions by testing out new places around our house to take pictures — we came up with two — inside the bed of daddy’s truck, which is parked in front of our house, and right inside the garage!

It turns out, garages are perfect spots to take closeup’s, or even full length shots. It was about 1:00 in the afternoon when we were doing this, and the light was soooo bright! I placed Robyn just inside my garage, enough so she wasn’t all squinty-eyed, then stood far back from her and used my 70-200L f/2.8 IS to zoom in close. The result — a nice, smooth, light gray background. See below:

The second is a shot of miss Rhylie sittin’ on the bed of my hubby’s monsterous truck! We were far enough from the house, that if I stood back in the middle of the street and zoomed up close with the same lens, I was able to get that nice background blur — nice and creamy colored. See below: