So excited to finally have some pinup stuff for my portfolio.  People want to do it, but they don’t always want it displayed for the world to see, so it’s hard to advertise that I do it.  So, professional model Izzy is okay with posting – more than okay. By the way, she’s the best model I’ve ever worked with in life.  Just push the button on her back and her batteries keep her going with little or no direction for hours.  Super professional, super talented. Amazing!
Here’s a SOOC sneakpeek.  Will post later with more edited photos.

As far as WordPress themes are concerned, you usually get what you pay for. Support is worth every cent of your purchase. However, short of a full-price, full support theme, I’d rather use a free theme than a half-supported theme. There are actually some really good offerings out there.

In addition to my favorite mom and pop shop for free themes, builtBackwards, I just found this new collection of high-quality free themes, at Web2Feel. I’m not yet sure what the catch is, haven’t tested for hidden links or any of that, but their offerings look excellent, especially their tumblr-styled themes.  Let me know what you think of these, especially if you’ve ever used any.

Addendum: Found some promising WordPress child themes from WPCharity.

For security sake, consider using these sites for malware, base64, backlinking and exploit checking:  builtBackwards Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin   or   Donncha O Caoimh’s Exploit Scanner

Playing  in Photoshop with some photos from my roses in the backyard and found this lovely quote from famed photographer Gordon Parks.

Here are some more finished shots of the baby I photographed on Memorial Day. She has so much personality already.  She’s super strong – was trying to roll over onto her back already at 9 days!  She was not loving being on her belly, but it’s the best way to get all the squishy face shots with gravity helping.  When babies fall asleep, their faces just go limp in a way that adults don’t.  They let it ALL go!  So on their backs, you sometimes get a more distorted view of their face. She finally succumbed to the sleepies and went back down.  Early on, she’d open one eye and give us a look of disapproval, but I don’t remember her ever crying a peep.

I have a boy owl hat, but hadn’t yet gotten one for a girl.  Everyone had been having boy babies.  I’d been holding on to this rosette fabric for a year and half, waiting for a newborn girl to come along.  Was considering selling it on a photographer swap page.  I’m super glad I didn’t.  I love it and it came out so perfect with her hat too.

Here she is:

I’m excited to be back from a Memorial Day shoot for a 9 day-old newborn girl. She woke up and gave us some sketchy looks, like, “what are you people doing? I’m trying to sleep!”  But on the whole, she slept most of the time.

Here’s a sneakpeek, SOOC.

Today, I didn’t need any backdrop stands or clips.  I was instead assisted by big brother, grandma, mom and grandpa.  Pays to have a few helpers in the house!  Here’s a behind the scenes shot of grandma, holding up the edges of my rosette blanket.

It’s been a week and I’m still in love with this baby!

I got a chance to see him again, when I took had a picture viewing for his mother, and she let me hold him and he didn’t protest at al.  What a lovely, little one.