New Tradition – Annual Family Calendar

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Kris

With the x-mas holiday now in the books, we can spill the beans about one of the presents we gave out this year – a 2012 calendar with photos from our family this past year.

Family Photo Credit: Kamila Lonska – klonphoto.com

We gave out three of these calendars, and kept one for ourselves. We created them using iPhoto and they came out brilliantly to say the least. It is definitely something we plan on doing next year, and then repeating each year for the foreseeable future.

This about it, how cool is it to have a calendar with our monthly photo of our growing son, literally a snapshot in time. By age 5, we’ll have 60 months worth of photos and it will be so easy to flip through each and see the progression year after year. Pretty neat.

New Photo Project

After the end of the Daily Baby Project, the next photo project was announced last week on my photography website. It’s named (for now, anyway) the 52 to Two project. It’s a simple project promising to do a weekly photo shoot of Christian for each of the 52 weeks leading up to his 2nd birthday. And while the Daily Baby project was shot using my smartphone camera, these weekly shoots will be the real deal and something to be very proud of when all is said and done.

You can follow the best of each weekly shoot as they happen over at my photography site as well as on my photography Facebook page. I also plan on posting some of the shots here every week depending on how time goes. 2012 is shaping up to start off as a very busy year, but we’ll do our best to keep the photos coming for everyone to enjoy.

The photo shoot from this week was – of course – Christian opening up some of his x-mas gifts. I should have photos posted here in the next day or so.

Until then,
– Kris

Maui ’11 Photos

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Kris

Aloha!

We’ve been back from Maui for about a week now, and have been pretty busy getting caught up on things. Plus, our little guy has taken to new sleeping habits that are taking a bit more out of us than before, but more on that in a bit.

But for now, here are the photos I’ve already gone through, and more will be added here when they’re published. Keep in mind that the first few days of our trip were our own time to do what we wanted, and the remaining days I was attending a photography workshop. Most of the later photos were from the workshops and not the typical Maui vacation we were used to.

Anyway, here you go:

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That’s all for now, but as more are published, they’ll automatically be added here.

Plus, I’m still finishing the final few posts from our Trip Journal over at my Maui blog, so once those are finished, I’ll have new posts here again, too.

Until then, enjoy the photos!

- Kris

First Beach Steps

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Kris

Christian’s first trip to the beach.

Things are going pretty well here on Maui, albeit the time is flying by faster than the helicopter I was on Thursday. I’ll have more details – and of course, photos – when we get back in a few days, but I just loved this shot so much that I wanted to share it now.

Aloha!
– Kris

Hula Pie, Before and After

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Kris

We made a point of stopping by Leilani’s while we’re here in Maui and have ourselves a slice of Hula Pie…

Oohh, yummers!

July Family Portraits

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Kris

Photos by Kamila Lonska (KlonPhoto)

Forget the nasty heat spell we’ve been under, we had a great Sunday!

Okay, maybe it’s not so easy to forget about how frickin’ hot it is outside. But aside from that, what made our day was having family portraits taken Sunday afternoon, and now we get to share them with all of you.

These photos were taken by photographer Kamila Lonska, of KlonPhoto.

She currently shoots for one (sometimes two) of our inline hockey teams on Sunday, so we asked her if she’d be interested in capturing some updated photos of our ‘ohana. With all the studio gear that Papa has been picking up lately, we brought it all over to Kamila’s place to shoot and made an afternoon of it.

In addition to shooting portraits for us, we also took photos of her brother’s family, their 14-month old daughter (who didn’t sit still very long at all) an even some shots of Kamila and her boyfriend, Kamil. Fun was had by all, and we’ll certainly do this again before the summer is over.

Papa and Christian

With Papa taking so many of photos of Christian lately, it felt good to step out from behind the camera for a bit. After all, we can’t look back at his first year two decades from now and only see photos of Christian with his Mama, now can we.

Thanks again Kamila and Kamil for letting us take over your living room for a few hours. These photos are going to last a very long time.

– Kris

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