Countdown til new cousin is here!!!!

My sister Candace is scheduled for a c-section delivery one week from today!!!! I am just dying of excitement to welcome a new baby into the family. Can't wait to see if it's a boy or a girl and to see pictures! And I am SO excited that they are staying with us in August, while in town for Scott's sister's wedding! My photography skills should have improved by then and I am excited to take pictures of the newly expanded Candace and Scott Smith family:0)

I am enjoying my photography class. There is so much to learn but I feel like I have learned a ton already in just 2 classes. I get pretty tired as the class approaches 8:30 (it is from 6:30-8:30), always the end of a long day, but I really like it. Our assignment last week was to take a series of pictures showing a varying depth of field (i.e. focal point with a blurry background progressing to more in focus background). This week we are to take a portrait of someone close to us, using available light (no flash and on manual mode). Here are some of my practice pictures. One of the hard things for me is getting enough light indoors.