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An Outing With The ESRB & SF Giants Players

by Adel Posted on May 18, 2012

I’ve been a little MIA on my blog this week. Well it’s been a little bit of a crazy one. I’ve got a very special birthday I’ve been prepping for that’s kept my hands full. And I also had an exciting little opportunity fall into my lap recently.

Earlier this week, I took my favorite little guy to our favorite place in the city for something other than a baseball game.

And we got to meet a couple of our favorite SF Giants players – Buster Posey and Ryan Vogelsong!

Wanna know details? Read more about it here at Hapama.com!

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Giant Date With A Little Guy

by Adel Posted on May 5, 2012

Of the many things I love about being his mom, this ranks high on that list. If not tops it. There are few things that bring me more joy than spending a few hours of the day with my son at AT&T Park watching our San Francisco Giants.

It was a muggy, wet afternoon at the yard that day. I stole him out of school for our date. Our seats were pretty awesome. Lower lever inside first base and just under the overhang so they were dry but we still got plenty of light! And an excellent view of our boys in orange.

The game itself was one of frustration. Game 3 of our series with the Marlins. The Marlins had won the first two so we were trying to prevent the sweep. Tried and failed. Ugh. So frustrating.

It’s really hard to watch our anemic, injury-riddled offense right now. But as always, we watch. And wait. And hope. He’s an old pro this one. He’s been doing this with his mama (and sometimes daddy) since he was 3 months.

As great as he is about sitting through the game even though he doesn’t completely understand the little nuances of it all, he does get pretty antsy at the end. So we get up and wander around right about the 8th inning.

And after a while we head out early before the last out to catch our train. Yes he got a new ball today. I always let him pick up a little something for himself when we come to the game.

We almost always Bart and Muni it to and from the games. I love the simpleness and the routine of it all that we associate with many happy hours spent at the yard. Even the rides home. I hope he cherishes these memories when he gets older of these outings to the park to watch our Giants play as much as I do one day.

My little Giant. He grows bigger and bigger too fast these days. But I’m happy he still loves going to the game with his mama!

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Project 52 – Symmetry

by Adel Posted on May 4, 2012

Yeah this week’s theme was not that easy for me. I don’t see symmetry real well. Looking for it all week all around me definitely helped me train my eye to see it more. I’ve noticed that about all the themes we’ve done. It’s a great exercise in creativity that I’ve found I carry out even after the week for a particular theme is over.

Here’s my take on symmetry. It was taken inside AT&T Park when Rex and I went on our date! He was embarrassed to do it with so many people walking around looking at him but I promised him a baseball for it.

And that is how I got my shot.

Love him.

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Holiday Photo Session Exchange

by Adel Posted on December 6, 2011

A couple of weekends ago I had the opportunity to do a photo session swap with a mom photographer I met on the ClickinMoms forums. I’d never done anything like this before and jumped at the chance! I was definitely a little nervous about shooting her family since I’ve only ever shot mine. Luckily she did our session first so I was able to follow her lead on the workflow of the shoot.

We decided to go back to AT&T Park for our holiday photos again this year.

One of the main things I learned from being both in front and behind the camera during a family photo shoot is that it is NOT EASY to get everyone looking at you at the same time with a smile or at least not blinking or making a weird face!

It was a little different being in front of the camera with my family after constantly being the one taking all the pictures the past 6-8 months. I’m so grateful to have some nice ones of me and my kids

And even a few of just me and Grizz in nice outfits too! Usually the only ones of us together are with my iphone’s front facing camera or taken by Rex.

Even though I have lots of shots of Grizz and the kids, I adore these she caught of them

Jack-Jack was especially difficult to get to cooperate or sit still for more than a few seconds. In the end I brought out a cookie. There were lots of shots with her mouth stuffed but at least she stood in one place for at least 7-10 seconds!

The details of our swap were pretty simple. We agreed upon a location in SF (or close) for each family and a session length of about an hour. No edits were expected, just the transfer of all RAW files to the other. However we both edited the other’s session just for fun. These shots here were taken by Celeste Wyrick but edited by me. She is a family/portrait photographer that has just recently located to the Bay Area. You can find her post on our session with her edited versions here on her blog post. It’s pretty cool to see how differently someone else edits the same set of shots. I love her versions too!

It was a really fun experience for me. I’ll post some shots from the session I did with her family in a post later this week.

Thanks so much Celeste for the beautiful shots!