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ciao!

In my ongoing quest to organize and consolidate, I've decided to go in a new direction with my photo blog. I'm retiring mamarazza and will continue to post my favorite photos on my new photo blog: wenmei hill photo blog

I hope you'll come visit me over there!

first day

My sweet boy’s first day of preschool

bonnet

Ridiculously adorable bonnet from Urban Baby Bonnet

teeth

brotherly love

This is another spontaneous shot. I’m so glad I had my camera handy!

siblings

bump

The bump on her forehead is from the wooden toy in her lap.

singing

The easiest way for me to get a picture of him is to wait until he’s strapped into his high chair. However, our dining room is painted a deep terracotta, hung with amber-toned Craftsman light fixtures, and filled with cherry furniture. All of these rich tones mean that the light (as scarce as it is) is very orange. So in order to avoid making him look like an Oompa-Loompa, I converted this picture to an antique sepia finish.

close-up

I had to do a fair amount of post-processing on this one because it was blurry, thanks to the high rate of approach of my darling 2.5 year old subject.

easter dress

Yes, this a highly processed image. I generally don’t do a lot of post-processing on my photographs. However, I will tweak a photo if I really like it, but it needs a lot of work before it’s ready for prime time. That usually happens when I’m just starting to shoot and I don’t have my settings quite right, so several photos are over/under-exposed or blurry. It also happens because one of my usual subjects is a very active 2.5 year old who doesn’t fully appreciate the difficulty of taking pictures of a moving target in a dark house painted in deep, warm, and light-sucking hues such as terracotta, marigold, and midnight blue. So if you see an obviously processed image on my site, you can safely assume that I messed something up when shooting and tried to salvage it using the magic of Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop!