This is what you get when you try to teach a five year old how to peel potatoes.

Here are the kids in their Christmas pajamas, all ready to go to sleep and wait for Santa. Merry Christmas!

Here is a photo of the cake I made for my Brother-in-Law’s Wedding. The base is 9″ high and the top tier is 3″ high. It is a vanilla pound cake torted with wildberry pie filling and covered with buttercream icing and rolled fondant. The topper is fresh red gerber daisies with cranberries and decorative ribbon elements. Photo taken by C-man.

B-Boy sings Mele Kalikimaka

Crazy-L sings Six White Boomers

Clarissa’s Book Blog has a beautiful new theme. Check out the great reviews by Clarissa and myself here.

We went camping in Waterton this weekend. It was B-Cookie’s first camping trip and she was a great baby. I must admit camping with four kids is a lot of work, but we all had a great time. Next time we will definitely stay longer because setting up and packing up are not the funnest parts of the trip.

More baby feet, and more of Grandpa’s hard working hands. I wish I had a fancy quote for baby feet, they make me feel closer to heaven. Although I had a friend and her baby girl kind of had stinky feet. I still don’t know how you get a baby to have stinky feet.

This is a one light set up. A SB600 1/8 power directly above and behind camera about 2 or 3 feet from subject shot through a shoot through umbrella. I am shooting about 2 feet from subject. Camera set at 1/80 f3.5 ISO 200 with a 50mm 1.4 lens on a Nikon D200. The baby’s legs were wrapped with a piece of black velvet that was spread out to make a light sucking black background.

B-Cookie holding Grandpa P’s hand. Newborn babies are great because they tend to sleep a lot and ignore the camera.

This one is a two light set up.
1. Key light SB600 1/4 power 3 feet from subject 45 degrees camera right through a shoot through umbrella.
2. Fill light LumoPro 120 1/8 power 3 feet from subject 45 degrees camera left through a shoot through umbrella.
3. There is a large North facing window behind the camera.
I am shooting about 2 feet away from subject with a lower shutter speed to capture ambient light, settings 1/30 f7.1 ISO 200. Shot with a 50mm 1.4 lens on a Nikon D200. I wanted very gentle soft even light. Baby is laying on a fuzzy/fleecy white blanket.

Announcing the newest Baby Foss! On here we will call her B-Cookie. She was born at 6:51 pm on July 12, and was 6lbs 14oz. She has the cutest little face and some red hair too!

Would you give this man a gun? I sure hope so. It’s a photo for his gun license. This is a one light set up.

1. Key light SB600 1/4 power slightly to camera right about 4 feet from subject through a shoot through umbrella.
2. Subject is holding a large white reflector bouncing light into the shadows under his chin.
I am shooting about 3 feet away from the subject camera settings 1/100 f3/5 ISO 100 using a 50mm 1.4 lens and a Nikon D200. The subject is about 4 feet from the background. The background is actually dark grey, but is far enough away from the lights that it falls to almost straight black.