From the Vault: Becca Grocery Shopping

During our recent move I found this picture in an old file box.  The back of it reads "Jessica Legg, Black & White Photography 6-15-92 through 6-19-92.  Becca, 11 months, in Festival Foods pushing kiddy cart."  I'm so glad that I was apparently a meticulous labeler at the time, because I have a terrible memory now.  My school district growing up offered a whole bunch of enrichment summer school classes, and I do remember scouring the booklet of classes each spring figuring out which ones I was going to take that year.  In the summer of 1992, when I was 11, I took my first photography class, and this picture.  It was the first of many pictures of my first favorite subject--my little sister, Becca.

From the Vault : Limelight

I started this blog a year ago, and it has really been a driving force in my photography since then.  I feel like a bum when I let it go too long without new posts.  But, I've been doing photography forever, and I have a decent backlog of pictures. (Not sure if I should admit this, but I just checked my external hard drive and it's at 21,000+ files... and I've only had that since I went digital!)  So, I've decided to post some oldies but goodies.  I think I'm also going to re-edit some of my older work and post it.  I've learned so much about Photoshop in the past couple years that I'm interested to see what I can dig up and fix up.   This picture isn't really that old--2010--but I really like it, and it did well in a DPChallenge back then, so it's my first "From the Vault" post.

Here I am High Desert

This is the first time I've gone out shooting since our recent move up to the Hesperia.  I was scoping out locations for the family pictures I was having done the following day--finally going to get to cross off one of my 2011 goals.  All of these were taken in the area of Summit Valley Road and Highway 138.  They're posted in the order that I shot them, and I like seeing how the light changed throughout the day.  One nice thing about the High Desert is the clean air!

  

Can you spot the ghosts in this one?  Flawed, yes, but I still like it for some reason.  Somebody should have brought her tripod.  Another High Desert staple is gusy wind.

 Sadly, there was plenty of trash as I hiked around...

 Loving this mid-afternoon light!!

 ...and this early evening light.  I wonder what book this is.

 A quick self portrait to see if there was still too much sun for a non-squinty portrait.  At 4:45 pm the light was just about perfect...

 But as the sun goes down so does the temperature.  One last shot, before my fingers were too cold.

Grace's Newborn Pics

It's so hard to believe that this beautiful little girl is three and a half months old already!  We got to see her Friday night and she's just getting so big... and laughing!  I just can't believe how time has flown.  Without further ado, here's a look back at Grace at just one week old.

November Brag Post - Rudy T.

My November Student of the Month was Rudy T. from my Advanced Photo class.  He was an easy pick, because he's been impressing me with his work since last year.  I seen a whole lot of photographs over the past four and a half years that I've been teaching photography, and sometimes I feel like I've seen it all before.  I absolutely love love love new ideas, and I think that is what stops me in my tracks as I pass by Rudy's computer.  He also persists with editing until it looks exactly the way he wants it.  Rudy's work definitely stands apart from the rest, and I can't wait to see what else he'll create this year!

Snow Day

We took the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway up into the Mount San Jacinto Wilderness Area.  It has been a long time since I've seen this much snow, and it was beautiful!