Twice a month, the El Dorado Hills Photography group meets at Mountain Mike’s Pizza to learn and share knowledge about photography.  Yesterday, the meeting was a dog shoot for Halloween.  Costumes were optional.

A big thank you to Jay Lensch for setting all this up and teaching us students while photographing these dogs.

This was a super fun event. The highlight were the police dogs we were fortunate enough to photograph and well as a singing member of the Ravenclaw house.

Take a look and tell me if these pictures just don’t make you smile.

So my son has photographer’s child syndrome. He absolutely hates and refuses to have his picture taken. Which is heart breaking for me since he is such a beautiful boy. He will either run in the opposite direction or simply make contorted faces. The last time he allowed me to photograph him, I had to pay him $10.00.

Well tonight, he wasn’t interested in helping dad pull weeds. So he decided to be my model…and for free.

I could just die with how well these came out.

This momma’s heart is full. 💙💛💙

Yosemite is God’s country.  Nature in all its breathtaking glory.  I had witnessed the beauty of Yosemite in early Ansel Adams photography books that I received for Christmas.  But it was not until I was able to visit in person, did I truly appreciate the gorgeousness that is Yosemite valley.