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Things have been fairly quiet on my blog here because last week I was out of town for vacation in Destin, Florida! The vacation included myself, my husband, our son, my Dad, my two sisters and my middle sister’s boyfriend.

We had a great time and I always like sharing some of my vacation photos with my followers (check out my post last year from Gulf Shores, Al)! I took most of the photos pictured with my first DSLR, which remains my backup camera (a Canon Rebel T3i). Obviously, I had some limitations with taking this camera instead of my real gear. Plus, I took what I consider my backup lenses (a Canon 50mm 1.8; a Canon 70-300mm f/4 which only works on my T3i). The exception to that is that I did take along my Sigma Fisheye, but you won’t see a HUGE amount of fisheye distortion in the images because I was working on a crop body, thus minimizing the effect. I say all this because a lot of time people get hung up on what gear they are working with, and the truth is that this “backup” gear worked just fine for my vacation. A trained professional is going to see the difference–and I see the difference–but capturing memories is so much more important to me than sweating it about ruining my top notch gear. Okay, so that’s my random side note for the day. 🙂

Our main activity was hanging out at the beach. The surf was really rough the first three days of our visit, but that didn’t stop the older ones from riding the waves on floats. My son stuck mostly to the sand and surf.

One afternoon the boys in our group went golfing and the ladies (plus my son) went to the Gulfarium just outside Destin. It was basically a half indoor/half outdoor marine aquarium and I was really impressed. They had a mama dolphin with her baby, penguins, sea lions, sting rays, turtles, alligators, tortoises and a touch tank.

The other big activity we did was a sunset dolphin excursion. My son was totally not feeling the whole boat thing at first, but eventually he warmed up to the idea and some of my favorite photos were from that outing.

Remember, you don’t have to be on vacation to capture family memories! Email me to learn more about scheduling your family photography session this summer!

H. Parker Photography specializes in newborn, baby and child photography in Trophy Club, Texas and surrounding areas including but not limited to Dallas, Ft Worth and Roanoke.

*All Images Shown were taken by H. Parker Photography. Posing setup done by Silver Bee Photography* I love my job as a Ft. Worth newborn photographer! So, I can’t tell you how excited I was to have the chance to expand my skills this past week as I was mentored by the amazing Hillary with Silver Bee Photography in Austin. There are so many workshops out there to choose from, but I had Silver Bee at the top of my list because her images are classic, timeless and are a great match for the style I currently strive for. On Day One, Hillary showed me her techniques for soothing little ones and we worked almost entirely on the bean bag (at my request!). Our first little girl of the day was such a little doll. She had some fussy moments, but Hillary is a great talent at soothing and she was able to demonstrate several bean bag poses for me with our morning model. I enjoyed seeing Silver Bee Photography in action as she got our first baby in a very snuggly wrap and was able to capture a few wide-awake shots. This is something very challenging—even with a baby that is calm and awake, it is very unusual for a young infant to make good eye contract for photos. We lucked out though and this is one of my favorite shots: I was totally swooning over Silver Bee Photography’s setup for her tie-backs, bonnets and wraps!! She has been in the newborn photography game for awhile, so her collection is quite vast. I was so jealous of all her goodies, and I confess that I went back to the hotel on night one and might have gone on a mini Etsy shopping spree for some extra accessories to add to my own prop closet. On Day Two we had the most handsome, squishy baby boy to work with. He was zonked out from the moment he entered the studio, so I was able to watch Hillary transition through several poses. I was also able to work through a pose or two myself, but I am definitely looking forward to hosting a model call in the near future so I can really perfect some of the transitioning skills I learned. Another thing I really enjoyed was getting to try out Hillary’s macro lens! I’ve had that lens on my wishlist for a year now, but this was the first time I actually got to use one myself. It is such a fun, artsy lens and lets you capture the little details like cutsie baby toes: Again, I can’t say enough what a lovely time I had and how much I gained by attending this workshop. I feel it is so vitally important to always grow with my photography, and my time with Silver Bee Photography certainly added to my newborn knowledge.

Heather of H. Parker Photography is a Ft. Worth Newborn Photographer also specializing in baby photography in Fort Worth, Texas and surrounding areas including but not limited to Dallas, and Roanoke.

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