Arowyn & Teagan's Photography

Today was such a beautiful balmy day. Arowyn asked if she could go outside to go take pictures with her camera. After awhile Teagan joined her and I could tell they were both having a great time getting to get outside and taking turns with Arowyn's camera. When they came inside they begged me to upload their photos so I could see what they had done. Here are a couple of their fun ones.

Arowyn's Picture of our neighbors tree 

Arowyn's picture Teagan jumping

I poked my head out when they were trying to get 

this shot and i heard a lot of "again Teagan jump again" 

and after many tries she got her shot

Arowyn's picture of Teagan swinging 

 Teagan's picture of Arowyn on the gymset

Teagan's picture of Arowyn 

hanging upside down 

Teagan's picture of the house

Both Cham and I thought this was a pretty cool picture because the perspective is so high. Our awe quickly turned to concern as we tried to puzzle out how he took this shot because there is nothing tall enough in our backyard to get this high if a shot from other than a really skinny tree. After inquiring we were told it was took by swinging as high as he could on the swing set and snapping this photo just at the right second. I don't think I would have the guts to take a photo while swinging that high so I'm impressed that both he and the camera walked away from this in one piece.

On the Job at The Christmas Rehersal

This coming year will be Arowyn's second year working as an intern for our company. But she's not our youngest intern anymore because Teagan's now joined our crew as well. They've actually both been our "littlest interns" for years now but when they went on the job with us they didn't serve a function it was just because I wasn't able to find babysitting for them so they had to come along. Although I guess you could say they worked PR because they were always chatting people up and pointing out the fact that it was their mommy holding the camera taking pictures. During last year's dance season we decided to let Arowyn try her hand at taking some pictures during the rehearsal for the dance performance. She had been using my camera at home taking nature pictures and knew how to handle it with care and how it worked so during the rehearsal she was allowed to stand in the wings and shoot some pictures of the girls dancing onstage. Tomorrow we have a church play that we will be videotaping but today was the rehearsal so I set them both lose to get some shots of the kids during their practice. They had a lot of fun and were very proud to be working side by side with daddy & mommy.

 Our little intern Arowyn circa 2009

 Our little intern Teagan circa 2009

 Arowyn taking pictures today

Teagan helping Daddy man the video camera 

 Arowyn taking more pictures

Teagan and Daddy working side by side

Arowyn’s Photography

During the summer this year Arowyn has started to take a serious interest in photography. After borrowing my camera a couple of times under my supervision and constantly running off with my camera phone when I wasn’t looking her Grandma Julia was kind enough to give her her old Nikon D200 as a gift. Arowyn loves going around the house taking random photos. I love downloading the pictures from her camera a getting that little glimpse into her world and how she sees it. This week she seemed to be working on posing with the help of our cat Buster, Teagan’s teddy bear Brownie & Ducky.

 Buster, Brownie & Ducky 

striking a sleepy pose for Arowyn

 Buster using Brownie & Ducky 

as a pillow for his afternoon nap

 Buster, Brownie & Ducky 

smiling at the camera

Brownie & Ducky pose together in the 

pocket of Arowyn's music gem chart

 Arowyn posing Ducky in a different position

Ducky moves again

And again

The Baby Bobble Heads posed for a group portrait

Daddy & Teagan having a chat

Arowyn's Dance Photos

Let me clarify these are not photos of Arowyn dancing but photos that Arowyn took of one of the dances we recorded. She took all of these completely on her own with no assistance at all from anyone. Her pictures came out so good that some of them were used for the labels and cover of the DVD production that we taped for them.

 The DVD cover using two of her pictures

The Disc Label with her picture