The S Family | Chicago Maternity and Family Photography

The S family traveled all the way from Indiana for their maternity/family session at the Garfield Park Conservatory.  Mother nature tried to foil our plans by sending a rainy snowy mix, but we took advantage of the beautiful greenery inside the conservatory, which made the perfect backdrop to their session.  We had a wonderful afternoon - I so enjoy spending time with families full of such happiness and love.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! | Ireland Photographs

Since I dug out some old images last night to share with some friends, I thought I'd share them here, as well. The images below are from a 1996 trip to Ireland. They were taken with an old point & shoot film camera and scanned in from the prints at a later date. Enjoy, and happy St. Patrick's Day!

Blarney Castle

Cliffs of Moher

Lakes of Killarney

Limerick

January Wrap Up :: Chicago Photographer Personal Project

You can catch up on the photographs I haven't posted to the blog in my 365 gallery over at the main Amy Beth Photography website. You'll find the 52 week gallery there, as well.

I also created a little slide show this evening that will quickly catch you up on my January personal projects. If you are on a feed reader, click through for the embedded slide show. Or click this link for the HD version (recommended).

Catch up Time! :: Chicago Photographer Personal Project

I have been hard at work behind the scenes getting my intimate portraiture site up and running, as well as starting to attack the redesign of the main website. I have made time to capture an image each day, but I've fallen behind in the sharing. So here's your quick update on the 365 project. A self-portrait update will come later this week.

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1/16/2010

Peggy Notebaert Nature Center in Lincoln Park

I could spend hours and hours in the butterfly room. And I often do.

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1/17/2010

From a trip to the World of Coke on one of my Atlanta trips

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1/18/2010
Still life arranged by my niece and captured by me (check out her version in my 365 gallery on my main site!)

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1/19/2010
My sandalwood mala beads

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1/20/2010
Happy hair cut to me!

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1/21/2010
My niece curled up with a book

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1/22/2010
Knickknack

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1/23/2010
Hula in the snow - there will be a full blog post on this on Wednesday, so be sure to stop back to view more!

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1/24/2010
One of my favorite finds from the Container Store, enhanced with a texture I photographed and modified

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1/25/2010
One of my sweet kitties

All That Glitters :: Chicago Photographer Personal Project

Time to drop off a few more photographs from my 2010 project:

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1/13/2010
I need to keep this thought at the front of my mind

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1/14/365
Playing around with some off camera flash and soon to be taken down Christmas lights and my niece

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1/15/365
I stacked my extension tubes on my new 100mm f/2.8 macro lens and played with some craft glitter. Somehow, the out of focus blur of this image was my favorite of them all. Because technically perfect isn't always best.