School photos - Zac October 2016

I really am not a fan of the school photography people. The images are all exactly the same with no feeling to them. So I have taken my own for several years. I like them SO much better. On occasion they do take the odd good one. Anyway, this is the ones of Zac that I took. He is tired of me pointing my camera at him all the time and has become self-conscious of his teeth so doesn't smile much. Braces follow when baby teeth are out. So here he is:

Natalie's autumn senior photos 2016

The official school photos were taken in September but Natalie had work that interfered with getting her hair ready for the pictures. She was not happy with the first lot so we aimed to get them redone in October. So we took her to have her hair curled on the night before, hoping that the curls that don't usually like to stay in her hair would in fact still be there the next morning.When we got back I took some images of her for her fall senior pictures. Here are my favorites:

         

         

 

Natalie's senior photos. 2016

I cannot believe that my daughter will be graduating in May next year (2017). It blows my mind! I decided that we would take her senior photos over the four seasons that occur during her last school year. So we started in late summer 2016 and will continue through each of the seasons. It has worked well so far. We'd better get some snow this year otherwise it'll defeat the whole purpose of the four seasons spread. These are the summer images:

 

Doing some catch up. August 2014

A lot has happened over the past little while. Well, at least since I did any kind of decent meaningful post. I took the kids to San Diego. We found a really lovely condo complex right on the beach. Fantastic. We'll definitely be going back there. Spent the time watching the waves, the beach goers, the dolphins and the shoals of fish you could see. Oh and I saw a sea lion. It was amazing.

My son had only seen the ocean once before, well truthfully we'd been at the beach three times before this but the second time had been shrouded in so much fog that we could only hear the ocean until we reached it by walking blind through the fog. He was mesmerized. He spent ages watching the waves. He was six then. This time he was ten and was just as mesmerized as before. 

We had visited San Diego before but it had been incredibly wet and cold so we hadn't spent any time by the ocean. It had been December. We had spent time wandering the area there and further north into LA, We had gone to Balboa Park not knowing quite what to expect. I had found that there was a miniature railway museum there so we had gone along. We were all quite surprised at just how lovely the place is.So this time around, we went again.This time, I had more money because we didn't have the bother of a second adult and we went into all the museums and galleries that I could persuade them to go to. So much to see and so many things to explore. We love San Diego.