Click Click Click; There you go, now smile...

I love taking photos. It's a really great feeling when you capture a moment in time that is so special to someone else.

Yes, I take photos with family and friends all the time with a point and shoot. It's fun too. But using an SLR is in a whole different playing field.

Standing there with my baby (canon rebel xt) in my hands, one eye closed, and the other looking through the lens. Observing what colors and shading are within the len's reach. Finding what the focus of the picture will be and eliminating any distractions. And then hearing the clicking sound as you move around your own body position to get different angles and a different feel. It's all really a great feeling.

Anyway, before I get sidetracked more I'll continue with what I was going to say. I recently had the opportunity to take some photos of my sister and her fiance for their engagement.

You see, I was planning to have a friend shoot them but because of life, it wasn't possible for her to come to the city. I could see my sister was disappointed (she lives in OCN afterall and the photo shoot was one of the reasons why she came this way) so I thought maybe I should dust off the canon rebel and try it out. She didn't have to use any of the photos after all. So how could I go wrong.

We went to the forks here in the city (after a night of consuming more alcohol than we should of by the way). I had them sit around and just be themselves. I thought that would be easy. Turns out Rueben is shy when a camera is around.

It was quite the experience because one thing, I forgot how to use my camera on manual settings. Two, the shyness factor, and three I had to look at this as an actual photo shoot, something I haven't done in over a year.

I took over a hundred photos and after edit I surprisingly liked 20 pictures. But of all of them, these four that I'm posting, there was just something about them that makes me stare in awe. My sister ended up liking them to so in the end it all worked out.

Just by looking at the photos you can see they are definately going to have a long and happy marriage. Congrats my lil sis!






ps- what's even better is I finally started taking photos again. =)

pps- Happy Birthday Momma!