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The Cutest Family Ever!



This is my friend Shelly she lives in my same apartment complex. She has the cutest little family EVER! I loved photographing them. I must admit that her two year old kept me on my toes! Heaven help me when my baby turns two! How do moms do it?! I’m so happy that we were able to take advantage of the fall leaves and nice weather. Here are a few of my favorits. If I have time I will post more later.

China

Seeing the olympics end made me think of these. My husband and I lived in China for the second year of marriage. It was a wonderful experience. And I can say that now that I’ve been home for about a year. China is a hard place to get use to. It smelled, was very hot and humid, cultural differences, and I didn’t like the food. Now that I’ve been home I’m missing China. I miss cheap taxies, subways, fresh fruit, and the close conections we made there. My husband is studying law at the U. He hopes to practise in Beijing. I love Beijing. I love the city and the culture there. Here are a few photos of Beijing.
I didn’t like Nanjing as much. It is still more old traditional china. Nan (South) Jing (Capital) was the old capital of china. These photos were taken outside of the Presidental Palace. I guess you could think of it as the forbidden city of Nanjing.

Baby Photos

Every month I set up my home studio and take photos of my baby, Mary. It’s fun to see how much she has grown and to document her progress. I decided that since I set it up anyway to have friends and nieghbors come over for photos too. Here are some of my favorite photos from this month.

I’m the best model ever! Aren’t I cute? I love sleeping babies! So precious! Too bad Mary doesn’t believe in sleep! I’m ready for my closs up! How stinkin’ cute is she!? She is such a doll! You can tell this one is mine because there are the most photos of her. What can I say? I love her. You can see more of the other two shoots at ravenberg.instaproofs.com Karate Baby!This apple is tasty!

Mary’s getting ready for back to school!

You Tube

So I was curious as to other photographers who do photo booths at weddings. So I was searching youtube and stumbled onto this cool art projcct. They set up a photo booth but also video taped it at the same time. So you could see the people talk and communicate and laugh between photos. Looks like a fun concept. Check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4-b-lwnk7I&feature=related

The Newton Machine

I love Topshop! It’s a shopping store in the UK. I absolutely love their clothes, so I signed up to get their newsletter sent to my email. Topshop is hosting a “Newton Machine” to honor Helmut Newton. Come to find out Helmut Newton was reputed to be one of the most expensive photographers ever, demanding £100,000 to £200,000 per day, plus expenses. (why didn’t I learn about him in a photography class? ahem–byu photo teachers) Anyway a “Newton Machine” (I love when photographers name things after themself–another favorite is the rayogram by Man Ray) is a machine; well, a camera, lights, tripod, huge mirror, and a twenty foot long cable release that lets the models take photos of themselves. Basically it was a way for him still to get paid his exorbinant amount of 200,000 pounds a day and not do anything. I thought it was a very fun idea and wasn’t that unsimilar to my photo booth idea. Now I just need a huge mirror and a long cable realese and we are in business to bring a “Newton Machine” to your wedding. Brilliant! This is why it pays to go shopping!

Here is a link to see a Newton Machine in full swing. It looks like a ton of fun!

business card

Here is a rough draft of my business card. The instructionsare how to make a pinhole camera using the business card and a 110 film cartidge. The card will have a hole were the second 0 on photography is. This acts as the aperature of the pinhole camera. It really works! So next time you see me ask me for my card so you can try it too.
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Pregnant Photos, before it’s too late

When it comes to photography I have slowed down a little bit in anticipation of my baby.  Okay, so really I am the thing that has slowed down the most.  But you must admit it was impressive to take Kristen’s bridals in the train car when I was seven months pregnant.  Really the impressive part was her fiance helping me down from the train car at SEVEN months pregnant.  I am picky when it comes to photos of myself, like everyone I like to look good.   To make maters worse I usually take the photos of myself–well, myself.  I wouldn’t trust anybody else to make me look right!  So if I don’t like them I can only blame me.  This can be frustrating.  But, my two best friends from high school are also pregnant with their first babies and they are always asking to see photos of me.  So I finally broke down, dusted of my 5d, grabbed the tripod, and started taking photos.  Here are a few of my favorites. 

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