Photo Friday ~ 9 ~

I had a bit of trouble choosing just one picture this week.  Let me explain.  This is a photo of my super adorable niece that I just took this morning on a whim.  You see, I went back through my photos and realized that she has been rather neglected on my blog.  Which is completely unintentional, because clearly, she deserves some screen time.  So I got out my camera and snapped a few cute ones.  This one is my favorite because I love the little hint of a smile tugging at the corner of her mouth.  And the slightly raised brow.  Could she be any sweeter?!

Next up, my daughter.  She doesn't usually make it into my Photo Friday either...mostly because she is in that stage where as soon as she notices the camera she feels the need to completely ham it up and make ridiculous faces.  See examples here.  Or she decides it would be really funny to run away or move around really fast so that everything ends up a blur.  I have much better luck with her outside since I can bump up my shutter speed much higher and catch her in action.  But I like this picture of her.  Mostly because her eyes look so blue.  They are a very dark blue, so sometimes in pictures, they seem almost brown, but the color of the pillow is really making them pop. 

I had to include this picture of my son because I just love it.  He isn't usually one for pics either, but I caught him in a good mood the other day.  I feel like I keep changing all my pictures to black and white lately, mostly because I keep ending up with some distracting color in the background.  I'm going to try to be more aware of this in the future since I love the color of his eyes and hair, but it gets all thrown off when I have a bright red chair right behind his head.  Plus, black and white does wonders to even out skin tone.  He keeps putting his teeth on his bottom lip which has resulted in a lovely red spot just below his lip.   You can still kinda see it, but it's much less distracting in black and white.  I'm looking forward to hopefully getting some outdoor pics for next week since the sun has finally decided to start shining again!