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My Korbenator, the silly-head, during our wait to pick up James from school this afternoon.
Canon 30D :: 10-22mm :: VSCO film
It never ceases to amaze me… How sore I am the day after working a wedding. I have joined Doberenz Photography as a videographer. (I went to high school with Allen and his wife, Elisa, so some of you readers might also have known Allen.) We had a gorgeous large wedding yesterday and added a 2nd video camera that works a lot better with all the fancy stabilizing equipment. I can’t wait to see the final video for last night’s wedding with as much glide/steady cam work as I was able to capture!
But today, I need a wheelchair. Ok, not quite, but I’m for sure going to spend the day totally chillaxin’ on the couch with my boys and a whole lotta yarn. (I haven’t shown y’all the blanket I’m making, yet, have I?!!)
iPhone 4S :: Instagram & Diptic
Pssssssst! If you’re curious, {here} is a wedding video from my third wedding working on video with Allen!
Yesterday, I pulled James out of school for a family field trip (minus Dave; he had to teach). We headed downtown to the Long Center to experience the Architects of Air Luminarium display, Mirazozo, with a group of professional photographers here in the Austin area. One of them set us up as a group and got us VIP access (hurray for skipping the line!) and we headed in to the … thing. It was amazing. Korben was probably the most affected by it as he calmed down inside whereas James went bonkers and wanted to play on it like it was some kind of playhouse-toy-roughhouse-thing. Lowell was curious but reserved, same as always.
We got down there at 9 AM for a 10 o’clock VIP appointment, so I parked a good distance away at the other end of Butler Park near a clean public restroom. The boys went bonkers running and exploring on the way over to the Long Center. They hadn’t been in such a wide open grassy space in a long time. I think the walk over to the luminarium was a blast for them. I love seeing them being silly.
When we got to the box office, we met up with the group and got our tickets and headed over to the luminarium where we were greeted by Shanti Freed, the Exhibition Manager for Architects of Air. She was very nice as she took our tickets and guided us to the airlock. I didn’t take any pictures of her, though.
I did take a few short videos, but with three boys and just me… I had to keep track of them so the video snippets are really short. Here is our entrance into Mirazozo.
Korben, chilax’n by the tree
Oh, and in case you’re curious, here are a couple of professional videos about the Architects of Air from Sydney, Australia. We watched these with the boys to prepare them for the tour and they kept asking if we were going to “that city” to see it. Oh how I wish we could hop a plane for a quickie to Sydney. That’ll be the day.
I was kicking myself for having completely forgotten my “big girl camera” but I remain convinced that the best camera is the one you have with you, so the iPhone 4 it was. Thankfully, it also captured video as well.
iPhone 4s :: edited with Instagram
Korben is having a hard time. His team is very very poorly coached. Hopefully the YMCA will get involved with that this next week as there have been complaints and only 4 of them have been showing up to games.
Lowell is doing great. He loves it! He has a great coach that you can tell loves kids.
I still don’t know what either team chose as their mascot. I’ll try to find out at their next game, on the 28th.
EOS 30D :: 85mm f/1.2 :: Processed with VSCO film
Here is a peek at our weekend.
iPhone 4 & iPhone 4S :: Instagram
He’s at Grandma’s house right now. We miss him here at home, but we smile, knowing how happy he is to be spending time with Grandma and Grandpa without either of his brothers with him. He was so giddy to leave us. *sniff*
Here, he has drawn a super mario level out for us on the chalkboard wall in our garage. Notice the stick people going through the path.
EOS3 :: 50mm f/1.4 :: Portra 400, desaturated
We layed low (laid low?) for Christmas Break this time and stayed home for the most part. On Christmas Eve, we drove up to my mom and dad’s house and came back on Monday, the day after Christmas. Our New Years was just an “everyday” kind of day and I have to say, it was awesome staying put. We got the house back in order and culled through a LOT of outgrown clothes and baby toys, relaxed, played on our iDevices to our heart’s content, and stayed in our pajamas the whole livelong day. Downtime is awesome.
I also got to know my EOS3 pretty well and, coupled with a 5dMk2 as insurance, shot the opening of the presents with off camera lighting. I am quite pleased at the results and I had fun getting all of these pictures on film. Literally. (These are all film scans, btw)
The last day of the break, we headed downtown and let the boys go absolutely crazy at the playground at Zilker Park.
EOS3 :: 24mm 1.4L :: 85mm 1.2L :: 50mm 1.4 :: Portra 400 :: PRO 400H
Walgreens scans (seriously)
Remember when God said “Not Yet” to a prayer of mine? The first week of January, He changed His answer. I didn’t think it was the right time — I had to work a wedding that same day and it would mean leaving the house at 8:30 AM without getting home until after 11… it was just busy and hectic and … God said “Go!” so I did. I was scared. I was excited. Everything went off without a hitch. Well, one hitch. My film body has focusing issues. Everything can’t be perfect I suppose. Not until we get to heaven.
And the best blessing of it all was meeting someone just as crazy and backwards and twitter-pated and addicted as I am.
If you’re still wondering what the heck I am talking about, visit my biz blog!
The day started with a party of sorts. Korben opened his presents from his brothers, then we headed to Krispy Kreme. I didn’t take the camera into Krispy Kreme. Or maybe I did, but I certainly didn’t take any pictures with it. Oh well. From there, we headed to bowling at Mel’s in Georgetown. Where Korben wiped out the competition. Completely. They didn’t get to play a whole game because the entire bowling alley was reserved (Bowling with Santa or somesuch) about 30 minutes after we got there, but they were nice enough (wanted our money enough) to let us bowl until the event started.
After a generally easy afternoon, we were joined for cake and presents by my parents and ended the night building knex toys. He had a blast, I’m sure, and he loves telling everyone he’s “Tfweee yees owld!”
Canon 5D Mark II :: 24mm f1.4L :: 50mm f/1.4 :: Processed with VSCO film
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…..
I seem to have misplaced my CF card reader somewhere between here and Kempner (it’s probably up there, as I’ve searched this entire house and it is not in this house), so DSLR Christmas pictures are going to be quite late. I’ll run to the store tonight to buy a new reader (and then we’ll locate the old one the next day, as this is the order of things). I’ve tried connecting my two DSLRs to the iMac to no avail. There is absolutely no recognition from the computer to the cameras. Good thing I don’t shoot tethered!
In other news, I’ll hopefully have my film scans back from Christmas this week! Cross your fingers that those turn out!
UPDATE: I FOUND IT! Woo! I’ll start getting pics offloaded when we get home!
Today was a blast! I had to run downtown to drop off all of Doberenz Photography’s video gear that I had at my house and David thought it would be fun to go as a family, so we did! After meeting Allen at Umlauf sculpture gardens, we headed over to the Zilker Playground and let the boys go crazy for two hours. Keeping track of three boys in a sea of kids is a full-time job.
We took a rear-end-numbing train ride and had a blast. The boys acted like they’d never seen a train or a playground before. They certainly hadn’t seen a train that goes right smack through the middle OF the playground. They even got up on the “bridge” and waved at the train going under. It was absolutely crowded and James claimed it was the most fun Sunday, ever.
After the playground and train ride, when the light was fading fast, we loaded up the van and headed over to Hula Hut for dinner. It was so nice to actually go out for dinner, on a whim, where we wanted to go (in other words, not limited by the gift cards we have in our stash), order a XX (Jen; Dave doesn’t drink beer) and eat really, really good food. The boys fell asleep on the drive home and Dave and I held hands, enjoying the silence. It was the perfect ride home.
What a fun Sunday! Now for the pics!
iPhone 4s :: Instagram
