arizona wedding photography ~ brenda eden photography

. summer . [magical]

Here are some more pictures from one of my favorite summer days....the Sunday afternoon in late June when we took pictures of Annie & Aaron and their kids Alison and Andrew.

 

 

It's so cute how sweet the kids were with each other, although I also think they were hamming it up for the camera! What do you think? ;-)

 

 

     

break!

cute kids = cute parents ;-)

Owls? Fairies? Shooting stars? Icecream floating in the sky? I honestly have no idea what the kids were looking up at here. Becky took this pic just as the sun was going down and a little dust storm had blown up. I love the color the sunset turns here in Arizona, it's so incredible and so different every night, but this had to be one of the best sunsets, we could see it from inside the restaurant and had to run outside to see it more fully. After this we still took a bunch of pictures. Although it was getting dark, these canon lenses just are magical at dusk and we ran around a lot more and had more fun. I like the icecream stains on Drew's shirt here, his mom had them dressed so clean and cute, but oh well!

After all the running around Drew was ready to sleep.

  

 

I want this lens

I want this lens.

                                       

I was just looking at the pictures Jessica Claire took with this lens. Oh my goodness, fun and gorgeousness!  But it's like $6000!

This one would be nice to have too, and while it's still aspirational price-wise, I could eventually see getting one.

                                      

Tonight the plan was to go to the Apple Store and look at computers, but that didn't happen. Instead, my sister Becky and I fixed the living space for our chickens that was damaged when a huge eucalyptus tree branch fell during a recent monsoon storm. Actually, let me be more honest here, Becky did about 99% of the fixing, from using the chain saw to cut down all the branches, climbing up on the roof to attach boards, and staple gunning the shade screens back up. I did stuff like going inside to fetch the hammer and find the staple gun and took a little time to read Jessica Claire's blog and look up stuff like how much those gorgeous lenses actually cost.

So I think I will find time sometime tomorrow to go to the Apple store to look at computers. The plan is to eventually get one to make processing photos a lot more fun and easy (and most importantly, a lot quicker!) Right now though, I think it's time to relax and go watch some more Olympics. While I'm watching the Olympics, I like to catch glances of photographers in the background and try to see what kinds of cameras and lenses they are using.

{Playing horses}

 

My friend's son and daughter have these adorable, bright toy horses that they play with.