outtakes from the lake

Wow, you guys! Thank you so much for your wonderful comments on my picture of Livia with the balloons! :-) You know, it's funny...that little photo session turned out SO the opposite of what I was going for, that initially I thought it was a major fail. I wanted to take the 3 kids out for some silhouette shots with Livia holding a bunch of balloons. The sun was going down, so I imagined it would provide beautiful backlight for the balloons, and the kids would be silhouettes. Wrong. The sun was too low, so instead of the balloons glowing vibrantly, they were blah. And even though we were high on a hill, there were some trees in the distance that made everyone's legs look cut off in the silhouettes. I didn't think I had one keeper from the entire evening.

As I looked through the pictures more and more later than night, I began to fall in love with the shot I shared with you on Saturday. It might even be one of my all-time favorites of Livia. :-)

Here are a few more outtakes from that evening.


I love how it looks like she's trying to get a grasp on the balloons - LOL! :-) (The taming of the Tornado?)


I don't know what it is...I'm always a big fan of deep blue skies with swirly clouds, but for some reason the black and white conversion is more magical to me.

OK, this is certainly an outtake in every sense of the word, but to me it is imperfectly perfect! Actually I didn't even realize I had captured this moment until we got home. I can almost see the dust being kicked up from the gravel as Livia threw herself into daddy's arms. ♥♥ (Her skinny little legs just melt my heart!) :-) This shot on a giant canvas would make me happy.


And finally, here's a shot that was somewhat my goal of the evening. A silhouette! Not the picture of my 3 kids with the balloons as I'd planned, but still a sweet reminder of the evening.


I definitely think the balloon/silhouette idea deserves a re-do, so we'll see. :-) Hope everyone has a wonderful week!