SOOC Friday

A friend of mine has on her blog, SOOC Wednesday's and I really liked her idea, so I am deciding to do it myself, but on Friday's. :) (check her out on the side, her name is Cheryle.) SOOC is the acronym for Straight Out Of the Camera, and I will share my settings with you as well!

I had a new photographer friend of mine come over today for a play date and had a wonderful time. Talked about photography, or photography group we are apart of and our children, it was really nice to enjoy some adult conversation! It is refreshing to talk with someone without reciting the ABCs or counting to 20. Don't get me wrong, I love my best friend, even though she is a 2 and a half year old little spunky one, but admittedly, very nice to have someone around who loves to do what I do and talk about it a lot!

We are planning for me to shoot her family, (in the manner of photography that is ;)) and I am very excited! I have a little shoot to do this Saturday as well that I am excited about....

The family I am doing this weekend is a very special family. I met T on a parenting forum when our little ones were 5 months old, and here it is 2 years later and are wonderful friends, even if we live hundreds of miles away. But she is special in that she and her husband F lost their precious son during her second trimester due to the Strep B infection. Usually, as you may know, if you carry this very common bacteria, during labor you just need to be given antibiotics to ensure your baby doesn't get it, but something with her caused the bacteria to climb up and attack her amniotic sac and caused her to miscarry. They later tried again and unfortunately the same thing happened with their little girl except that this little girl, P, survived. P was born at 27 weeks gestation at 2 lbs and 1 ounce and was in the NICU for some time. She had a very strong set of parents and a wonderful nursing staff that took such good care of her, and she is now a very smart, energetic and perfectly healthy 2 and a half year old girl, and I get the pleasure of taking their picture this Saturday! So come back to check out their pictures, I sure hope I do them proud!

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 So for today's SOOC picture that I started off my blog talking about is my cutetums little 3 month old I nicknamed on the internet, "Sprout". She was just happily playing on the floor with her little toys overhead and I just had to take a picture of her deliciousness! 

 35mm-f1.8-1/30 sec, ISO 200, No flash
(CLICK TO SEE LARGER)

(I have to admit it looks much better bigger, and not on the internet, but hey, what can you do?--and if you do know, do tell!!! :) )