Kids say the darndest things

Do they fry everything in Greece?
- Walker, in anticipation of his first trip to the cradle of civilization

Eoin Colfer

Liz, Part 2

Liz

We're working on some cool display portraits for the new Highland Pet Supply dog training center.

Liz belongs to one of HPS's managers. She was a real hoot. Look at that lip! She had it curled up, just about to bark at me.

As I always say, you capture children in split seconds, and dogs in microseconds. Liz didn't stop moving the whole time.

Sisters

The Ribbon Book is (almost) here!

Nicholas Kniel came by the studio last week with the printer proofs of Ribbon: The Art of Adornment, and I must say it's quite a thrill to be a few weeks away from the official release of my first book. It's Nick's first book as well, and he's already pitched two more ideas to the publisher that have been warmly received.

The photography reproduced beautifully, all of the nuance, the color, the light and shadow that we spent all last summer creating, it's all there. Wow. There is even a final chapter which features images from the very first shoot Nick and I created together, back in 2005.

And how cool is it to see your name on Amazon.com?! My sister Allison has published several books (see one here). She never told me it was this exciting. :-)

You can pre-order "Ribbon" at Amazon.com

Pug portrait du jour

Tillman

Apple

Another new Sprout

Sprout Club just gets more rockin' every single day! The response has been tremendous, and I can't thank you all enough. What a great job I have. :-)

Porter and Clayton are one!

More wisdom from Babar

"Truly it is not easy to bring up a family... But how nice the babies are! I wouldn't know how to get along without them any more."
- Jean De Brunhoff, Babar and His Children

Kids say the darndest things

"Mommy, am I growing like a weed? Do you need to pull me out of the dirt?" - Tillman, Sept 2006

A new Sprout

Chubb-Chubb at 5

Our son Calder is five months old today. Here he is, hanging around at the studio :)

The Wisdom of Pooh

One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the Forest to see if his friend Christopher Robin was interested in Bears at all. At breakfast that morning, he had suddenly thought of a new song. It began like this:

"Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!"

When he had got as far as this, he stretched his head, and thought to himself "That's a very good start for a song, but what about the second line?" He tried singing "Ho," two or three times, but it didn't seem to help. "Perhaps it would be better," he thought, "if I sang Hi for the life of a Bear." So he sang it... but it wasn't.
"Very well then," he said, "I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I sing it very quickly, I shall find myself singing the third and fourth line before I have time to think of them, and that will be a Good Song."

- A.A. Milne, Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition

Kid Talk

"Dad, I know you hate The Doodlebops."
- Tillman, who knows his dad has coulrophobia (fear of clowns)

"Where's the love?"
- Walker, 10:12 PM, after being told he had to absolutely, positively get in bed and stay in bed

PPA Print Competition

These are my four entries for the 2008 Professional Photographers of America International Print Competition. Last year, I had one merit print and one Loan Collection print.

This year, I'm visualizing four Loan Collection prints. They're all four pretty sweet. :-)