Weekend recap

So at last weekend's barbecue I had taken a few pictures of the newest addition to our crew... baby Jake!




I was very excited when Jake's mom asked me to come over and do a full-on photo shoot. We had initially scheduled the session for Saturday but the weather forecast was calling for rain all day. We rescheduled for Friday and I was on my way down to Norfolk after work when it started raining. Sad! We got a few nice shots indoors but I am looking forward to shooting outside another day.

We woke this poor little guy up from his nap:






I had a little fun editing this one (PW's vintage action):


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On Sunday my sister and I went to see the Flaming Lips at the Bank of America pavilion and it was AWESOME. They put on quite a show. I'd never been to the pavilion before but it is a fantastic summer venue. Unfortunately, I was too chicken to bring my nice camera. In retrospect, I totally could have (and should have)! Oh well... please forgive the quality of these as they were taken with my point & shoot:


Umm yes, this is Wayne Coyne walking over the audience in a plastic bubble:


Lots of balloons:

Summertime... and the livin is easy

It was HOT around here this weekend! Marc and I spend our days cooling off by the pools of family and friends who were nice enough to invite us over. We headed down to Franklin for a pool party with some college friends on Saturday.

Sangria is always a hit with this crowd. This peach, apricot and mango version was sublime and the beverage jars were so cute!


My friend Sapana was a fabulous hostess as usual:


We enjoyed hamburgers, hotdogs and this delicious rosemary grilled cheese:


And of course, icy cold beer:


We relaxed:


And played lots of pool pong. Because I am a nerd, I made this animated GIF showing the intense action, haha:

In business

Yesterday, I had my first PAID photography gig. YAY! I responded to a craigslist ad for a photography assistant and to my great surprise and excitement, I got the job! I assisted Karl Baierlein with lighting for a senior portrait shoot on Hingham Harbor. I did not shoot but I had fun and learned quite a bit about lighting. Thanks Karl!

So I will be pinning my $20 (cha-ching! haha) over my computer to commemorate the occasion, restaurant-style...

After the shoot, Karl approached a group of kids barbecuing in the parking lot and asked if we could photograph them with their VW bus. A few of my favorites are below. I took this opportunity to play with some of Pioneer Woman's Photoshop actions. She just posted updated sets that are compatible with CS4!

I thought the "seventies" action was particularly fitting on these next 3:






This one uses "PWs B & W":




And I liked what the "fresh & colorful" action did for this one: