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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Can You Hear It?



“Bbbbbbbbbbbbspit!”



Remember Evan from his newborn session?



He just turned 1!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EVAN!
I got some great pictures of him and his mom and dad the other day. Be on blog watch for lots more pictures and a cool slide show coming soon!

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 8:53 am  

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Sarah and Ben Engaged!



Click the picture
— or click here —
for Sarah and Ben’s engagement session.

Be sure to turn up the sound! When the slide show is finished, it will jump back here where you can leave a comment for Sarah and Ben and answer a fun contest question to win them an 8×10 print! Have fun!



I love fall shoots!



I was being really still, waiting for Sarah and Ben to do something spontaneous when this squirrel decided to join in our photo shoot. He sat there for a good while, until I snapped the picture. I guess the shutter click freaked him out.



Probably a good thing Sarah and Ben’s doggies were elsewhere at the time!



A sweet family unportrait. :)



I LOVE this one!



And the light in this one looks beautiful on Sarah’s hair.



Love the light in this one too, but for an entirely different reason.



Name the specific college campus where we were shooting.



I’ll give you a hint. There’s a famous pond there with one of those great colege legends. (There’s a nice picture of the pond in the slide show.) Bonus blog praise for the commenter that tells the legend.



One of my all-time favorites. I love fall colors!

Thanks Sarah and Ben! Say hi to the doggies for me!

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 4:14 pm  

Thursday, November 15, 2007

What Happens During ‘Leaving’

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Wisdom according to Gregory: The period of time in autumn when trees become bare should be called “Leaving.”

I think he makes an excellent point. Above, my Japanese red maple yesterday, backdraped by a street tree.

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Street tree on a foggy morning.

A quick glance at her journal page will illustrate how much she’s grown.
This is the “farside tree.”

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This is the “driveway tree.”

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Dogwood from afar in fog. The dark sky is making her appear fully red, but she’s fully not.

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 7:50 am  

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

View From the Clouds

tallest first grader

I’m always telling people that my Gregory is easy to spot in a clump of first graders. Here, on a foggy morning before school, he glares before giving me the evil index-finger-point as in “GO HOME, YOU’RE EMBARRASSING ME!”

Check that out: he’s almost as tall as the teachers in the back of the line.

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 3:23 pm  

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

A Teaser for Sarah and Ben



Sarah and Ben are getting married next May, so we took some engagement photos at Rutgers recently. I’m working on their slide show now, but wanted to put up a little teaser.
Be on blog watch, Sarah and Ben!



You’re going to love it!

I LOVE my job!

Oooh! One more for now —->



(I’m SUCH a tease!)

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 11:35 am  

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Tree Update: Later in the Afternoon

Dogwood fall

A rainy morning broke free! But I doubt my dogwood will shine with red wine color this year. It’s been too warm and too dry for too long.

royal red maple fall

I totally missed my royal red maple this fall, not that it has any fall color to speak of. Of all my trees, it loses its leaves earliest and fastest.

dawyck purple beech fall

My little dawyck purple beech is doing well in her little pot by the kitchen window.

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She’s a coppery-yellow this fall. Not sure if that’s typical though, since this year is so weird.

Why so many tree pictures all of a sudden?

I got a new lens for my camera and the absolute best place to test any new camera equipment is the way I learned to use ALL my camera equipment — in nature where the light is forgiving and the subject unconditionally cooperative and patient.

;)

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 5:33 pm  

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Tree Update: Fall From My Window



There is a tiny bit of yellow showing in the Bradford pears today, a rainy morning. You can see it only on the leaves that have fallen to the ground though.



This is the view from my window. Foreground: My Japanese red maple. Background: one of the Armstrong maples, a street tree planted by the borough the year Gregory was born. These trees have really taken off this year, much like Gregory has! Those Armstrong maples are a perfect example of a red maple tree that does not turn red in fall.



Jeff from Linden will be interested to see my October Glory red maple today. Just a touch of color, Jeff, though one leaf in the center is bright red! Do you see it?



This picture shows how the Bradford pear and October Glory are growing together now, a perfect screen of trees blocking the neighbor’s windows eight months of the year. (But we have very little grass left and lots of leaves to rake.)



And finally, the sugar maple is a nice soft yellow today. I’m hoping it will still be pretty when my mom arrives from South Carolina on Sunday!

Can’t wait to see you, Mom!

:D

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 11:10 am  

Sunday, November 11, 2007

‘What Was That?’



You say if I check the blog ten times a day and don’t see my picture that all I have to do is make some noise?



Once I put up a few of Dawn’s Central Park pictures, it wasn’t long before I got a pleading e-mail from Kevin and Krista, another family from my Central Park shoots.

How could I keep from posting these gorgeous eyes ANY longer? SO handsome!



More to come soon!

By the way, I LOVE the wardrobe for this fall shoot. Dark and rich, the clothes really help bring contrast into the pictures so that the focus is on the faces of the people and their eyes and smiles! Stylish, coordinating, classic. Great job!

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 7:20 am  

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Grease for Some Squeaky Wheels



Here are just a FEW shots from Dawn’s family shoot in Central Park last week.



Because I’m LITERALLY running out the door to a shoot.



But Dawn’s kids have been DRIVING HER CRAZY to see a preview of some of the pictures.



So here you go! (Squeaky wheel gets the grease around here I guess!)



I LOVE this one!



Who knew you could have a snowball fight in Central Park when the trees are still almost completely green! (That’s a pile of ice from the Trump rink at Harlem Meer.) More pictures coming soon! You guys were GREAT!

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 12:49 pm  

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

They Did It!



Click the picture
— or click here —
for a slide show from the NYC Marathon. Be sure to turn up the sound! When the show is finished, it will jump back here where you can leave a comment for this special team of runners from Finland.



The runners on this team were part of an impressive project to study how people with asthma can accomplish anything with proper treatment and training.

Click here for more information on the project.



More than 38,000 people ran the marathon this year, every single one of them had a story.



The winner of the women’s race gave birth to her daughter only 10 months ago!



I wonder what the runner-up’s story is? Personally, I find it amazing that the lead runners can keep up that pace for 26.2 miles.



But our team’s story is one of a long year of treatment, tests, training and fellowship.



Prior to signing up for the project, none of the athletes knew each other.



These two crossed the finish line holding hands so that their times would be exactly the same.



When does a picture of the bottom of someone’s shoe become important?
(At the end of a marathon of course.)



The crowd of runners making their way down Broadway elbow-to-elbow after the race did not end…



… for FOUR HOURS!



One thing I love about the NYC marathon is the sheer civility of it. Here, a jazz band provides soothing music at the runners’ entrance into Central Park at the northern end — about three miles to go at that point.



Congratulations to all the finishers! What an amazing accomplishment! You DID it! WOO HOO!! I’m so proud of you, and so happy to have met you, and to have witnessed your first marathon!

(See my earlier post about the project here.)

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 5:02 pm  
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