Day 14: Super baby

Today was lovely and hot, David, Rosina and I went into Woodstock and had a look round (David brought me a giving birth day present, hehe, of a ring) and we went for a spot of lunch, then to the park. The park was lovely to play in, and I took alot of beautiful photographs. After the park we went to meet Parvaneh at Cory's house, and Rosina played for a while with Amelea. This evening we are going to watch a film called Candy with Heath Ledger in so we shall see how that is.
      The main photograph today is of our beautiful Rosina grabbing onto the monkey bars while David was holding her, she is going to be an adventure kid when she is older (Roxy she has taken over from us).
      I also wanted to add two more photographs of my beautiful little girl, one with her Daddy and one with Amelea. I know i use Rosina alot in my photographs but she is my best model.

Day 13: Down at the bottom of the garden....

These are two moose...... Well not in this state, but they are in the Natural History Museum where we went today. David and myself had a day to ourselves without the baby (who we did miss). We went to NEW YORK CITY BABY! We have been twice before on this holiday so decided today we would hit the Natural History Museum, which was very interesting. Afterwards we had lunch and then spent the rest of the day wandering around Central Park, and Time Square. It was a gorgeous hot day and we had a lot of fun spending time as just the two of us, thank you Parvaneh and Richard for looking after our Rosina.
       Todays picture as you can tell isn't taken at the bottom of the garden, but is of stuffed Moose in the mammal section of the Natural History Museum. The photograph was taken through glass in a very dark room, and has come out looking like a painting, which i like.
       I also wanted to add a photograph of the both of us, also taken by myself very amateur style but a nice photograph with a natural light source coming through into the photograph.

Day 12: Happy 1st Birthday

Happy 1st birthday to my gorgeous daughter Rosina, today was a very special for us all. We had a lovely morning involving opening her birthday presents. We got her a American girl doll which she is a little young for but it is something special she can keep and treasure forever. As my Dad gave us money to chose a present for her, we got her doll some cloths with it. We also got her a toy tool box which she loves playing with. Parvaneh and Ricard gave her a beautiful painting of a frog holding heart balloons, a Parvaneh Holloway original :) For a treat we took her to the baby gym where she got to learn how to do roly polys and backwards rolls. Then we went out for a buffet lunch, where she got a lot of attention off everyone there. A friend Chester is 59 years her senior so in the afternoon he came round for ice cream cake which is delicious.
      Today photograph, or I should say set of photographs is of some of the special moments from throughout today, including the birthday card that David and myself made her.

Day 11: Reservoir sunset

Hot, hot, hot has been the weather today here, and so I've heard, in England too. Stop complaining though people, and enjoy it while it lasts. It's better than rain! We took advantage of this lovely weather and meet up with a friend, Joan. She lives in a place called Olive which is very much in the deep countryside, but they have a lovely outdoor town pool which she took us all too; so we enjoyed an afternoon of swimming. Then we went back to her house, for dinner including barbecued pork which everyone enjoyed eating in her beautiful garden.
      The main photograph I have chosen, is of the last rays of the sunset going behind the Catskill Mountains, with the reservoir in front. It is a beautiful place we saw on the drive to Joan's house. So on the way back I took the opportunity to take some photographs and even in the dim light, there is added mystery, and the beauty of the place is still there.
      I also wanted to add a very cute photograph (today for all you dogs lovers out there) of Joan's very lovely dog Harper Lee.

Day 10: Water

Rosina hasn't been sleeping well recently, seems like she is having nightmares of something as she wakes up early and its not as though she is hungry, it is very saddening. But luckily she is still her happy self in the day time, and isn't too hard to settle. Today has been quiet we didn't do much this morning, then David, Rosina and myself went to the mall this afternoon and found some new shoes which is nice :)
     I found today picture the hardest so far, I took some in the mall and worked for about two hours on photoshop with them this evening trying to make something more from them, but it just isn't working as well as i hoped. Its getting late now so i decided to use this other picture I took today, of Rosina playing with the water from the bathroom taps. As you might be able to tell I love photographing hands i feel they say so much about a person and are very interesting.

Day 9: H'orderves

Today Parvaneh, Rosina and I went shopping again, while Richard and David did some cleaning thank you both for that :) I manage to find myself a bargain of a $120 dress for $32 so I was very pleased with that. We also ordered Rosina another ice cream cake for her birthday on Tuesday. This afternoon i carried on with Rosina birthday card which is nearly finished now and looking pretty good. Then in the evening Elaine and Chris came round for some drinks and we served h'orderves.
      Today's picture is as you can tell a photograph of the platter we laid out and the wine. I felt although a good photograph, the subject was slightly mundane so this sepia colour tone gave it a more interesting feel, and enhanced the photograph itself.

Day 8: Bonding

Today started off rushed with me waking up with ten minuets to get ready so that we could go to the library for a music/reading group for Rosina. After the library we looked in town at a thrift store and I managed to get the book of 'The cat in the hat' for $2 so i was pretty happy with that. When we got back Sonya was round, and we all had fresh bagels and vegetables for lunch. In the afternoon David and Parvaneh, played with Rosina and Sonya in the studio while I drew Rosina's birthday card (perhaps I will post a photograph of it once it is complete). Half joining in playing and designing the card took up the majority of my day by which time it was bath, dinner and Rosina's bed time.
       Today main picture is of Rosina and Sonya, they love to cuddle and play together as i have mentioned before, but their active spirits and vast amounts of energy does make getting a good photograph of them together difficult. It normally ends up with one looking the wrong way or various other problems. But in this photograph I feel I have captured the special bond between them both.