Now that Oliver has his own digital camera (see Oliver’s birthday post) we will from time to time include some of his images on our blog in an effort to foster his creativity and to share his photography with our family and friends. Since getting his camera in May, he seldom leaves home without it. In fact, he takes many images and movies inside our home, often times catching us off guard and creating some images that will never see the light of day 
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The title of these ocassional posts will be “A few from Oliver’s View(finder)”. We hope that you enjoy seeing a bit of what Oliver caprtures from his 8 year old perspective.
A few images from our trip to the west coast. What impresses me most about Oliver’s images is his ability to compose his shots and to shoot with his camera very level (a feat that eludes even some professionals). This one was taken on out first day in California after crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.
Back in San francisco, we grabbed a quick bite in the North Beach neighborhood (Little Italy) and Oliver asked me as we left the cafe if I would escort him into the middle of the street to capture this view.
North of the Bay area, we stopped to take some pictures of the redwood forest. Oliver took this one of me as I was trying to get him to be still for a few seconds so I could take one of him.
Oliver snapped this self portrait from a mirror hanging from the ceiling while at his Granparents 50th anniversary celebration.
More from Oliver’s first game.
Oliver sitting with his team. Mom watching from the first base side.
Taking his position at the mound. Going after a grounder.
Waiting for a fly ball. Telling the batter to “hit the ball into my glove”.
The moment after his first hit.
There are 23 ways a ball player can reach first base, this was Oliver’s first.
Thursday Night was Oliver’s first Baseball game he ever played in. After lots of hard practice at home and with his team, the big day finally arrived. The pay-off was in the form of his first base hit (Which was also an RBI).
Oliver turns 8 today. Have a GREAT DAY!
The second photo below shows him sporting his new watch and his new camera (for the record, my first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 44, not a Leica like his ).
Cecelia just turned one and we did a photo shoot of the whole family for them. Brian & Eric go back many, many years. Brian was a groomsman in our wedding and Eric stood up in his wedding to Carrie a couple of years ago.
We shot this at their place in Chicago and had a lot fun getting together with them.
While Terri is away in Denver shooting all week, Oliver and I had to find ways to cope without her. This post is our online postcard to her with a GIANT “Wish You Were Here”.
When your day starts at Soldier Field, you know it’s going to be great! On Saturday morning we started our adventure at the home of the Chicago Bears for their 5th annual “Candy Run”. Basically you line up kids and their parents on one sideline and scatter candy across the field. On the count of 3, you run across and grab all the candy you can. We had alot of fun, and came away with some cool treats. Oliver was equally excited for the candy as he was just to be standing on the same field that his favorite Bears play football on. He even found an opportunity to be on the BIG screen.
After that, it was a quick bus and elevated train ride to the Michigan Ave bridge to watch the ceremonial turning the river green. A short walk from there and we checked on the progress of the Trump Tower, one of Oliver’s favorite buildings now under construction. Lucky for us there was a McDonald’s right next door so we had a short stop for lunch and Oliver’s first ever Shamrock Shake.
Once refueled, we walked down to Millennium Park to visit the “Cloud Gate” sculpture, It was the most crowded we have ever seen the park since the St Patrick’s Day parade was just a block away. One last trip on the el train and we were heading back to our car to go home.
Allison had warned me that Rex was a very active, energetic dog before we had the session and she was not kidding. At all.
Rex is such a big sweetheart! At times I thought for sure that me and the lens were going to get big ole kisses from Rex-especially when I was right up in his face.
During the session he hardly ever just stayed still-it was like photographing a toddler. They both have so much energy and hardly ever stay in one spot for any length of time. It’s a good thing I am fast on my feet!
The bottom photo captures it all : ) Within moments he had run around the mailbox and was on the other side of the snowbank. If he had a longer leash he would have been halfway down the street.
Anyone who has met Oliver is not surprised that he is very tall for his age-given that I am 6″ tall and Eric is 6″3″. I’m sure he is also destined to have big feet-with my size 12 and Eric’s size 15 we can pretty much guarantee he will have a hard time finding pants that are long enough and decent shoes in his size.
He also taught himself the paint program when he was 4 years and is now learning photoshop and loves to manipulate images on the computer-he wanted me to make sure I wrote that about him. LOL.
Another not so surprising fact about Oliver is that he really enjoys taking photos-always wants to take photos or look at photos. Now he really likes to sit next to me while I am editing sessions. He loves to know all about our clients-who they are, where they live, what they do, etc. We talk about composition and why we took certain images-he is fascinated by the process.
Today while I was on the computer he wanted me to go to our blog-so I did. He demanded to know why 2 sessions had not yet been blogged. My explanation that it was on my todo list wasn’t quite what he wanted to hear. So I asked if he wanted to help me pick out photos for the blog and he jumped at the chance.
The images picked for Francesca’s & Baby Claire’s blog posts were mostly picked out by Oliver. Does this mean I now have to up his allowance? : )
Oliver’s artwork this morning seems to have been inspired by a certain “pop” artist’s work we saw several pieces by yesterday. (see yesterday’s post below).
Which in turn inspired lunch.
Our last day of Spring Break starts with a quick stop at the BK Lounge to fuel up and then it’s off to the DAM (Denver Art Museum). Lots of amazing exhibits and some fun drawing activities. The day was capped off by a trip to the Denver central library.
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