A Judgemental Toad seems like a really mean thing to say.

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Jolene is back for some 18 month photos.

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A great maternity session with Jessica and her family. Very soon her family will be plus one – and I mean soon, like I hope she reads this while she is still at home soon–  and I will get to go back and see them again. In my early days of shooting maternity photos I had a run of luck where 3 sessions in a row were cancelled due to the baby demanding to be in the photos. I used to tell women, book me if you wanted to go early. This little one waited, but it will not be long, big brothers are ready.

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I believe in never complaining about the weather, after all we are in New England and I live here for a few reasons. 1. Can be kind of lazy and all my stuff is here, 2. I know the roads and I have no patience to learn new directions and 3. I like the seasons. With winter comes snow, as long as it does not snow in July I see no reason to groan about it, and on the other side of the coin I rather it not be 90 degrees in February.  But this year is different, I am tired of this weather.  It does not feel like we have had a ton of snow, but maybe we have, or we have had storms at the worst times.  Middle of the week, never on the weekend, I am done with School being cancelled. We have a trip planned this summer and it is contingent on days between the last day of school and some jobs I have booked. So, I guess I am complaining… let’s just end this and jump to April.  I am still not moving though, even if it feels and looks like Hoth out there (non-geeks look it up – I will wait and judge you while doing so).

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If you are from this area you know we are stuck in freezing temperatures. It is like negative 89 degrees outside right now. Cold enough that bubbles freeze. There is a photo blog floating around where someone photographed bubbles in the snow. It was pretty cool, It’s been on my shot list since last summer. I never knew if it would work, they made it sound easy.  So I figured today would be a great day to try.  Actually, my daughter and I tried last night at 11pm to make sure. There we were, on our hands and knees blowing bubbles towards the ground out the back door, freezing to death.  It worked, once, but that was enough.  The plan was today at sunset, but plans do not always work the way you want.  I could not find snow pants so I could lie in the snow, the wind had not died down enough and since I wasted time looking for snow pants the sun was lower than I had hoped for, I had about 5 minutes of good light. I had to accept that large bubbles would not work, only small bubbles could make it in the wind. I used a table and as they landed I would move the table into the rays of light.  5 minutes later, I am soaked from kneeling in snow and covered in sticky bubble solution.  I will try again, though I got better shots than I thought I did when  took them. I would love to get some larger bubbles to freeze and use better light.  I think early morning might work better, less wind warm light.

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