I tossed up a few of Heather’s favorites over on the picture blog.
It’s a goal of mine to get more content over there… we shall see how I do 🙂
-Jordan
Hannah
Posting may be a little sporadic, as some big changes have come to the Nelson household.
At 3:39 am, December 19th Hannah Gabrielle Nelson arrived, all 9lbs 10 oz of her.
As you can see, Heather has already found time to do some posed photography with her, to great result!
I am starting to think will never sleep again, but perhaps I am overreacting. Whatever the case, posting may be less consistent here, and may end up being nearly all infant news 🙂
-Jordan
Pulling Out The Stops
We are now under 50 days until the expected arrival of “Baby N”!
So far we have:
- Prepared a room
- Found and reconditioned baby furniture
- Ordered and assembled a new crib
- Decorated the room, complete with large hand made initials
- packed enough clothes into the room that I suspect “Baby N” will never wear the same outfit twice until well after age 2
- Performed extensive tune-up maintenance on our designated baby hauling vehicle.
What could be left you ask?
A photography studio! Not to fear though, pintrest has guided us to a whole host of ideas to build one right here in our living room!
As you can kind of see, the design is fairly simple. Just some 2×4 stands over some hardwood flooring, a piece of nice wide trim and a fabric backdrop and you have your very own mock room!
We found the flooring (Real bamboo!) at the local Habitat for Humanity “restore.” We were looking for, and found, a partial box of flooring to use, rather than having to pick up an entire case of something. We also found some scrap wood with neat texture to it that may end up in the background if we manage to get it cleaned up a little before it gets too cold.
Now, you may also be wondering, why this was all setup in our living room? Well because Heather had a friend with a two-week old baby who was willing to let her take some pictures. Sadly I forgot to clear it with Heather and the mom so… just to be on the safe side I will avoid posting anything from their session except to say I think you can look forward to some very nice pictures of our daughter in the near future!
-Jordan
Three Years
This post is a few days late… but that doesn’t change the fact that the date seems worth noting.
(Roughly) Three years ago:
We took a basic photography class on the actual day of our anniversary. Perhaps not the most romantic thing we could do, but we both learned a lot and enjoyed the class. I may expand on this later, but while I am thinking about it, it was somewhat embarrassing how little we knew about our camera. On the other hand, Heather is able to turn out amazing pictures just by letting the camera automatically configure it’s own settings, so maybe it wasn’t that much of a detriment.
Three years… A lot has changed in that time. I don’t think Heather and I could have ever guessed we would be where we are, doing what we are doing today three years ago. Makes thinking about the future seem both exciting, and futile as we aren’t going to see the interesting stuff coming anyway 🙂
To put it simply we have had a great three years, and can’t wait to find out what the next has in store 🙂
-Jordan
Winter Weekend Inside
We had the kind of grey, hard, cold, cloudy, weekends that makes you want to stay inside forever. Fortunately, Heather had invited a friend over for the weekend, so we still had something to brighten the day.
Given the options, Heather and Elise decided to work up some new head-shots that Elise would use to help promote her vocal music aspirations. After a fair amount of re-arranging furniture and trying different approaches, they managed to pull together a studio of sorts.
We are really lacking when it comes to indoor lighting for photography, but even on a grey day, the south-facing windows pick up enough to let Heather get something done. While we don’t have lighting, we have sheets and a fan…apparently all vital equipment.
As funny as the makeshift studio looked, it’s hard to argue with the results:
And what was I doing throughout all this you ask?
Well, a week or so back I broke down and ordered a desktop computer from the Dell factory outlet. It was really rough on my pride to buy a pre-built machine, but I just couldn’t match the price they were offering. So, I spent most of the day setting up the new machine and fussing with it.
I think everyone had a good day 🙂
-Jordan
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