Love the kiss face.

Happy Friday everyone.

*and remember if you see your image up here on “friday finds” and you email me within 24 hours, I’ll send you the digital file of the image.

I just sent out my last newsletter ever. If you missed it–here is what it said. And because posts are always best with photos–I’ve included a few of those “best of” images.

Big changes are in store for this family. I can’t wait to see what their new little one will look like.

The youngest for only a little bit longer.

The fun and fabulous oldest.

Thanks for having me out again!

The Academy Award nominations were released today. On the list for best picture was Midnight in Paris. I just saw that movie over the holidays and I was probably very annoying to our family that watched with us because I couldn’t help but blurt out whenever I saw a place that I visited when we went to Paris last June.

And, it was wonderful. I have visited some amazing places, and I have so many more that I want to visit–but I will go back to France I hope more than once–it was that amazing.

Here are some images from Paris.

Right across from our hotel.

It was fun to photograph people making photographs.

The Louvre.

You could take photographs in the Louvre. It was fun, but I swear no one was actually looking at the art–just snap, snap, snap…

The Eiffel Tower at night was as cool as you would image.

It isn’t often that I get to do a winter session outside unless we are going for snow photos. This day, was so unseasonably warm that I had to venture outside for a bit.

This little sweetie turned one on the day of the session.

big brother

Love these shots with the little girl and her daddy.

Thanks for having me out again.

There are so many photographs I want to show off. There are sessions that never make it to the blog because I am too busy. There are images that are never ordered. There are images that were okay when I first viewed them, but then when I come back again to the images they really stand out.

So, to address some of this–I have created Friday Finds for my blog. Every Friday I will find an old image that either never got ordered or never was really given a chance to show off on the blog.

And, just to make it more fun–if the image is of you or your family and you send me an email within 24 hours of the image going up I’ll email you the file–or send you a print if you already have the file.

First up–these fun brothers showing off some wrestling moves.

When I arrived this little girl was listening to a book while sitting next to her mother. One hand was on a sippy cut and one hand was on her mom’s belly–more specifically the belly button. For the rest of the session she stayed close to the belly. I wonder if she will be as excited about the new baby when it arrives.

Can’t wait to meet the new baby in February.

Hi there little sweetie.

I love getting to hang out with and photograph first time parents. For just a little bit I get to remember that feeling that I had when I became a parent for the first time–the fears, the excitement, the special form of sleep deprivation. It was a time when you could still remember your life before kids, and no matter how much you were warned, you still thought it wouldn’t be this hard. Remember?

I was so happy to be asked to photograph this newborn. I first photographed this family when the older brother was still in his mother’s belly and now he is the big brother. How wonderful.

It is taking me so long to get through my France photographs that I can’t really remember what part I am on.

Travel Tuesday continues in France–still in the Burgundy wine region of Beaune.

I might have picked a cleaner window to take our portrait in, but the wine makes you not care about those things.

Just wandering around in the vines.

It is great to have a car to travel about, but I always wondered what we would do if another car tried to go the other way–such narrow roads.

One tree to take your nap under while tending to the vines.

Having fun with a little tilt shift lens.

Jason said that this pavement reminded him of Missouri.

After wandering around the vines we stopped off for a lunch and fabulous wine tasting of the Oliver Leflaive wines.

Street photography.

Finally back to our bed and breakfast for a rest before heading out to stuff ourselves again.

While walking about we came amount this little restaurant–Le Goret (The Pig). It is in the photo below. The cook lived upstairs with his teenage children, and his dog rested in the restaurant while we ate.

The menu hung from the walls–I think this is what we ordered.

Jason said this was his favorite meal while we were in France. His was the one on the left, mine on the right. I have no idea how we finished our meal, but we did.

Next up—Paris!