i’ve started moving more of my photography related stuff over to my other site and blog. you can see the newest post here: http://www.davidmonnerat.com/blog/2009/12/02/photography-starts-at-home/

i had these grand plans yesterday to write a blog post, and to start doing one every sunday to get at least one thing written every week.

i even had material. we took some pictures of junior yesterday, and i was going to put them up, and talk about them, and tell everyone how amazingly awesome he is, and how handsome, and how at 5 weeks old i think he’s going to be a doctor hockey player astronaut something special when he grows up. i mean, it’s certainly not easy but, knock on wood, it’s not as hard as some of our friends have had it recently with their newborns who had stuff going on medically. we’re both tired, and he’s a lot of work, and there is a lot of stuff we’re trying to figure out still (and likely will never figure out). he cries, he has gas (a lot) and is often inconsolable, but yet, it’s still the most amazing thing. HE is the most amazing thing. i swear he smiled a couple of times already, and a few of those weren’t gas related. but as many times as he’s been endlessly crying, he’s also fallen asleep in my arms, or just lied there and looked at me.

see? i can’t even stay focused. i was going to say what happened yesterday that prevented me from writing a post, but i just get so wrapped up in how amazing this experience has been so far that i can’t seem to complete a thought. well, being really tired doesn’t help, either. but its mostly him ok, right now it’s definitely him, crying on the cough next to me (still awesome, though).

ok, so where was i? something about sundays turning in to monday, awesome 5-week olds, lots of (current) crying, him grabbing my finger with his tiny little hand, getting peed on, epic bowel movements, little sleep, and a whole lot of love. the moments right after (or hours after) he finally falls asleep and makes a noise, and you wonder whether he’s gong to wake up. FINALLY being able to stay asleep yourself when he makes some of the routine noises in the middle of the night.

ah, i have no idea where this post started or where it is ending, so i will end it (and start getting ready to get some sleep) with a few of the pictures we took yesterday.

see? isn’t he awesome?

we took a few more pictures tonight. i wanted to try to get some feet pictures, and we tried a few different poses. of course, he’s not really strong enough yet to do some of what i’m trying to do, so we wound up with a bunch of pictures with really funny faces. blackmail for when he’s older!

ok, maybe it’s just us. it’s not, though, but for the sake of not appearing too biased, let’s pretend. but this kid is darned adorable! we took advantage of one of his waking spells today to grab a few shots. of course, he is my son, so having him naked on a chair was dangerous, we knew, and he didn’t disappoint. fortunately i was just far enough away to avoid the stream.

critical me, of course there are things i want to do different next shoot, but he’s going to be around for a good long time, so i’ll have plenty of time to practice. poor kid!

he’s a little past his due date, but i think he’s just giving them time to get their season on track…

the one good thing about junior not being here yet is that it gives me more opportunities to work with the maternity shots. sure, that’s great for me. for kerri, um, not so much. actually, we’re both pretty anxious at this point. we’re a few days past his due date, and there are no signs that he is even really thinking about coming out to meet us.

in any case, here is another batch of shots from last week!

last weekend was out one year anniversary. we celebrated with dinner at the restaurant that catered our wedding, and sunday kerri had a surprise for me.

i had no idea what it was. i knew we were going up to estes park, and that we had to get up there early, which meant we had to get up REALLY early. out the door before 6 with the camera gear, swing by starbucks for the drive, and on the road. we get to estes around 8, and park at  the visitor center, where the surprise is revealed.  a morning with landscape photographer and guide james frank.

it was an amazing time. we went in to rocky mountain national park, starting off at the lake where i proposed to kerri. we talked photography, landscape composition, where to shoot, when to shoot. of course, i left the house without any polarizers, which is requirement #3 in the landscape photography world, but made the most of it and fortunately james shoots nikon so i borrowed one of his lenses since we didn’t have any matching filter sizes.

here are a few shots we got out of the trip.

another unbelievably thoughtful gift. i’m not quite sure how she keeps outdoing herself, but she does!

there is a street that i pass every day that i’ve wanted to take countless pictures of. (of which i wanted to take countless pictures?) it’s got a cool little S-curve to it, and every time the road has a cool shimmer to it or the sky at the top of the hill looks dark and ominous, i drive by and think “i should stop and take a picture”, but i never do.

until this week! i started taking the old d70 with me now to work and just generally try to keep it around. of course, i always have the iphone, and i generally have the olympus, too, but i wanted to have the d-slr with a few lens options incase a bug bit me and i decided to get creative.

in any case, i was on my way home the other day and finally stopped. we had been getting a little bit of rain over the past few days, so the road was a little bit shiny and wet, and the sky had some clouds, and this is what came out.

i’m in the process of moving some of my photography related posts over to a new site dedicated to that side of my life at http://www.davidmonnerat.com. the site is a work in progress at this point, but i have goals!

there is a new post on the blog over there with some new pictures of kerri, too:

http://www.davidmonnerat.com/blog/2009/09/16/kerri-34-weeks/

took a few maternity shots last night, just messing around with some subtle lighting.