Antique baby portraits

This little girl is one of the most beautiful babies I know. She has big eyes, the most gorgeous curls, and she likes to wear bows on her head (neither of my girls can keep them on for a second so I'm jealous of this). And she has a darling personality too, she's got it all! I was so happy to take these (and many more) pictures of her. Thanks for coming!

Old fashioned antique portraits - portrait party & special!

I was asked to do some antique portraits for one of the most beautiful babies I know - her pictures are coming in the next day or so :) - and I loved the set-up so much that I did a few with my "models" also. These are SO much fun! I found some antique toy props for boys also, so this is for little boys or girls. It's not a huge set, but we could do small groups of children also. If you're interested in booking an antique session, give me a call or email. I will do 10% off these sessions through May and June.

I'm also going to do a portrait party here with this set: Friday, May 29th. These will be short sessions - I'm going to book them 30 minutes apart. No session fee, regular print prices. If you're interested, call me ASAP because I always book solid with portrait parties.






One wonders what she expected to see in the teapot, and what she found instead. :)

Newborn baby boy portraits

This darling little boy came a couple of weeks ago for his first portraits. I loved him! He did such a great job - sleepy and didn't mind having his clothes on, or off, or being moved around. I always love newborn shoots but this one was especially smooth. His mom is so beautiful - you would never guess to see her that she'd just had a baby! (I hadn't even known she was expecting one - I'd last seen her before Christmas & it wasn't at all obvious.)
Oh, and I got some great newborn yawns, I love that!

Easter portraits

Some more from today. I think I might have to get a new canvas. :)

New camera getting a workout

Three days with my new camera and I'm up over 1000 shots already. Yikes! I photographed a really fun party on Saturday, that was a lot of pictures, and then today I did some portraits of my kids in their Easter clothes. (I say Easter clothes, but only my oldest daughter actually got a new Easter dress. My son had a nice shirt already, which he never wears except when I make him. And my youngest has so many beautiful things passed down to her that I don't think I've bought her anything more than socks her whole little life.)

Anyway.... this is the first picture I processed out of my whole-lot of pictures from today. I curled her hair and it is SO cute - it makes her look very angelic (if you know her, you know that's not necessarily how she behaves).



I've heard other photographers say they have a hard time getting good portraits of their own children. I have three. At almost no time were they all looking at the camera. Even promises of marshmallows (which were delivered BTW) and funny puppets falling off my head failed to get all 3 of them looking AT ME and SMILING at the same time. Luckily, Photoshop is going to really make this session a success for me :).... eventually.

We spent a lot of time this last fall and spring with soccer. My little boy played for the first time (with Rush) and loved it! He had a great team, and such a great coach! We're all ready to sign up for fall soccer just to spend time with Coach Brandon again. My little guy almost tears up when he realizes that it's Tuesday or Thursday and there's no soccer practice. (We haven't told him yet, but I think his coach is going to do a 3 on 3 tournament thing this summer - he'll be ecstatic if it works out.) He scored 3 goals - proud moment! - at the last game, and every goal = an ice cream sundae in our family. We stretched it out, one per weekend, and just finished our last sundae. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Anyway I put together a fun collage for the other families - it's a team picture with black & white action shots around the border. Just for fun -

New camera

After 2 1/2 days of indecision, today I bought a new camera. I tend to be financially conservative so I surprised myself by upgrading my camera instead of just replacing it. I totally waffled because my 40D was a fantastic camera, I loved it. But having the 5D could be an advantage, and upgrading when the insurance is going to pay for part of it just seemed like too good of an opportunity to miss. So I've been playing with this beautiful new camera all evening. It's so fun! I don't have a great lens - I still need to replace my favorite one that was stolen, but even with what I have I'm really happy.


I love that she is still very happily wearing moon boots on April 30th - on the wrong feet no less.


What's amazing about this is that it was taken at ISO 2000. I think the 40d only went to ISO 1600. And the high ISO settings on the 40D had a lot of grain.


This is just a un-retouched crop of the previous picture. Amazing clarity for ISO 2000! And hardly any grain.


I put this in because my husband never appears in pictures (he has a problem with photographers :) ), but he was helping me test out the new camera. I think this is meant to be his new facebook profile picture.

A sad day for Pam

We are having a hard time here at our house - a.k.a. Etherdox Photography - our home was burglarized and my camera and laptop were taken. Matt has also had a bunch of tools stolen from the garage. It's upsetting to us - the burglars forced a window open and were in the house while I was being "parent helper" at the preschool yesterday. Very disturbing. That said it could have been a lot worse - my desktop computer is still here and that's where all the pictures are. We are grateful to be safe and that we weren't home & in any danger. We have already done some major fortifications to the windows and the rest of the house. Even though we were being careful just in general, obviously there was more that should have been done.

So this post is my tribute to my last set of good pictures from my beloved Canon 40D. I still have my backup camera, and my backup lenses, so I can still take pictures (another blessing). But I will miss that 40D very much - and the lens that was on it.

I saw some pictures like this that another photographer did for a bar mitzvah, and I loved the idea of using scriptures like this. The kids loved it too, they were perfect models (they even loved the flash going off in their faces).