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How do you say no | Vermont portraits

Tobia — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:19:14 +0000

He is 2. All he wants to do is explore. And run. And climb. And poke at things. Usually things covered in dirt and slime. So we took off down the path, he and I. He with his binoculars and I with my camera. All the big kids were done and had headed back. But he knew there was more to climb, run and poke at.
And how do you say no to a face like this?

He came armed with tools of the exploring trade and fingers ready for action.

I hear a bear! No?! Just kidding it was only a chipmunk.

You think that bug was funny, you should see what I just put in my mouth! And the 2nd photo: after he is told that it is, in fact, time to head back.

Hark, who goes there?

Burrrr

Tobia — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:19:48 +0000

It’s cold out there. Take some photos and enjoy looking through them, all warm and toasty, in front of your computer.

Okay, I admit it. These were taken on a porch. But beauty is everywhere to be found. Even from a front porch.

Leading the boy up the hill

Tobia — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:33:25 +0000

So wouldn’t you figure. We spend a whole weekend doing an early family Christmas with my sister and her husband, my parents and the rug-mole-rats. I bring my camera a couple of lenses, a slave flash and somehow only managed to take 2 (that’s right 2) photos the whole weekend.
Nothing of the other fun we had.
Nothing of the gifts or tent forts or trips to town with Grandparents, or all of us out for walks in the snow.
Just these two from the safety and warmth of the living room with the fireplace close by.
As you can see here, Dunedin is leading Uncle John up the hill for his first Northeast sledding.

And here she shows him how to navigate the drifts.

PS That’s the last we saw of that snow donut. I wont say more. I won’t even pop any reckless sledding comments into this post.

cousins

Tobia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:00:49 +0000

At the time of this posting, my kids have 12 cousins on one side. Enough that I had to do a little mental head count as I type this. We were able to see 2 of them who live all the way up in NH over the last weekend.
See if you can spot them…

Below photo is the before photo.
Before this little 5 year old went home and decided to give herself a haircut…

Red barns in my sleep and a Vermont 1 year portrait.

Tobia — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:31:58 +0000

What am I going to do about my red barn photo fetish? Since adorable children seem to be in no short supply and Miss M here can work a red barn photo like nobody’s business- I guess I will just continue to feed my addiction. Feast your eyes on this beauty (and her lovely handlers)

Yup, she is way to cute to be allowed out of Boston.

Almost makes me want more… If my husband is reading I said almost.

Who likes playing in the leaves???

Only thing better than catching a pediatrician Dad doing this is catching a lawyer Dad doing it too…

Pumpkins pumpkins

Tobia — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:06:06 +0000

Ive been away for the weekend. Photography, relaxation, family and fun. Not necessarily in that order- but that is how I choose to remember it.

It is pumpkin time here in New England. Here are a few from the farmers market in Woodstock, VT. Nothing like fresh air, cozy fires and fall in the Northeast to get me motivated for work.

dog days end

Tobia — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:32:38 +0000

And just like that, the dog days of summer have come to an end. We celebrated 2009’s summer’s demise in Vermont with some friends, 2 legged and 4.
Here sits Emmit, proud NYC dog, acting as tough as he can with our “Wildlife” stamping at his heals.

Dunedin spend a good part of this evening asking after her friend Emmit. She would never get this close to a human she had met in just one weekend, but had no problem sidling up to this canine variety.

Zander and Griffin determined to get in on the cuteness. I need to point out that my son (I swell with pride at the thought of this) brought out this chair when he saw us taking photos outside. A son who knows how to please his photographer mommy.

whether you have paws or toes, grass just feels good underneath them

The rare photo of me. Jesse (the photog of this shot below) has no idea how hard it normally is to pry a camera out of my hands, she should ask my husband. He almost lost a finger once.

Griffin, showing off his portrait sitting skills

Griffin, done with the session, cleans up his own props.

Free range children

Tobia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:27:56 +0000

Vermont, where the children need no caging and roam free.

farmer Griffin working the fields

All the berries they picked and ate made them extra sweet.
Griffin, recent escapee from the city

Laughing in the face of water safety
Dunedin leader of the twosome
Mist rising off the roof in the early morning sun

Leapin lizzards

Tobia — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:29:12 +0000

This little guy was discovered by Dunedin in the garden up in Vermont. It is an adolescent presentation of the Red-Spotted Newt. The time in his life when he hops up out of his aquatic home and tries living on firm ground for his rebellious years. For those not sure how the story ends, he will head back to a water dwelling existence after up to 7 years of soul(earth) searching, leaving his color and vigor behind. But the red spots from his youth will remain.
Luckily Dunedin didn’t ask if we could eat him… We are going through a bit of confusion about what is edible these days…

Dunedin is a little naturalist at heart. She studies the world around her with such great attention to detail, losing herself in the her daily discoveries. At the age of 2 she knew all of the 25 birds in our book from the library “Crinkleroot’s 25 Birds Every Child Should Know” by Jim Arnosky and she could identify many of them by their call on our walks. This last weekend, she was able to identify, after only a brief glimpse, a hummingbird. Something she has only seen in pictures before. She picks out animal encyclopedias for her bed time reading. She can tell you what the only 2 egg laying mammals are. She will tell you that a giraffe is an herbivore, that a tiger is carnivore, that an elephant has hooves not paws, the difference between harbor and leopard seals and will tell you that only boy narwhals have tusks. Well, she would likely not tell YOU. She would walk into a dark wooded landscape with far more bravery than if she were to have to enter room filled with people. This is something, that as a mother makes me both proud and sad. I wish for her to find more enjoyment from the people in the world around her and not view them with such distrust. It is likely there is a social lesson she will learn someday and pass through this phase of fearing the unknown stranger. But I hope her being able to find her center whilst inspecting the underbelly of a red spotted newt is something that will stay.

setting the mood

Tobia — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:29:20 +0000

By the time we arrived up in Vermont for our July 4th weekend, our friends A and R had already been there with their shoes off for most of the day. After spending the 3.5 hours driving in the car with Dunedin and Griffin we were READY for some beds to take us in.
*Side-note: I am still not sure why the sliding soundproof divider from Limos in the 80’s hasn’t caught on in Family cars, but I guess that is another post all together.
Anyhow, in our room we found these flowers waiting for us picked by A. It was awfully thoughtful, for a busy new mom to think of. It started the trip off in ever such a pleasant mood.

This is an example of how Black and White can alter the mood of a photograph. I really love adding a warmer, almost sepia tone to my prints. I cant decide which pair I like more.