90th Birthday Celebration

Last Saturday, I had a photo shoot with an amazing family for their grandfathers 90th birthday. What a great group of people. They made my job a breeze. Here are some of my favorites!

 

All the kids were great. It is so had to keep that big smile for so many different shots. Luckily, I hit it off with the first shot by talking about Bumble Bee from Transformers!

 I love that we where able to find a location at the grandmas house. With this gorgeous tree and the patio, it will make a great memory of the families house.

 

Great picture of grandma and grandpa, celebrating birthdays days apart. A great reason to get the whole family together. Happy 90th Birthday!

 

Melissa's Senior Pictures

 

My senior session with Melissa at Eastwood MetroPark in Dayton was awesome! If you have never been there it is gorgeous. There is a large pond with a cobble stone bridge with lots of surrounding greenery for pictures. It is also connected to the bike path that will take you downtown or to Beavercreek. Melissa and her boyfriend, Josh, picked a great place for pictures. 

 Here are a few of my favorites for the session, we took them in the park and also at the railroad tracks that run along the park. 

 

 Melissa also wanted to have some pictures with her mom, Kelly, and boyfriend, Josh. 

 I had a lot of fun taking Melissa's senior pictures. She was a great to work with and very photogenic!

Elizabeth's Baby Shower

 It's a girl! I'm so excited my brother and his wife, Elizabeth, are expecting a baby girl in June. Some of Elizabeth's friends and I planned an amazing baby shower on April 29th.

My sister-in-law loves my co-worker's cake pops, cakepops, so I knew that we had to have them at the shower. The biggest debate in the Baldwin house hold is what will the baby girls name be? So until she has a name, we have nicknamed her Da Bomb. Christy did an amazing job making the cakepops look like little pink and yellow bombs.

The best part of showers is playing games. The three we played were: guess how many pieces of candy the is in the baby bottles. Regan won with the most guesses.

 

Everyone had a lot of fun trying to guess with a piece of ribbon how big momma's belly is, this brought laughter and sham. Elizabeth was a great sport, in her cute little dress and black high heels. 

It was really had to win the third game while Elizabeth opened all the cute clothes and baby goodies. The third game rules were you couldn't say three special words: Cute, Baby, Girl. Megan had great ears and called everyone out when the made the mistake of saying one of the forbidden words. 

I can't wait to meet my sweet baby niece. Aunt Meredith is going to spoiler her rotten. :)

Day Trip to Chicago

How I made the best of a day trip to Chicago!

I was fortunate to be able to attend the ASPP 2012 All Day Education and Networking Event in Chicago. It was wonderful, we had Chris Reed from the US Copyright Office speak about present and future copyright laws. Paul Henning and Jody Apap covered creative keywording for image searching. This was a great event for what I do as a photo acquisition editor at ACCO Brands.

As a photographer, I could just sit instead during our lunch break, so I grabbed my walking shoes and headed out into the city. I heard I need to try some Chicago Mix popcorn from Garrett Popcorn Shop and thought I would try and find one. Chicago is one of my favorite cities to walk around. I love the canal flowing through the skyscapers!

       

After the ASPP meeting, I head down to Millennium Park to take pictures of the bean, the interactive fountains and the flower garden.

The Lurie Garden

           

Crown Fountain 

 

I met with one of my stockhouse contacts, Starr from Alamy to have a drink and talk a little business. We headed up to the 96th floor of the John Hancock Center to there Signature Loung for the fantastic view of the city and lake.