Day 2... Channeling my inner Sue Bryce

Three things that I love (today that is) are 1.) Sue Bryce 2.) Black and White Images and 3.) My nieces (well, two out of three nieces. One of them was at her back to school night so unfortunately she wasn't a part of the mini session that happened this evening.)

Sue Bryce....have you heard of her? If you haven't, you should seriously move out from under that rock you've been living under. :) Sue Bryce is a GODDESS!! She's a natural light glamour photographer based out of Australia. (Oh man...don't EVEN get me started on those HOT AUSSIE MEN....That is seriously another blog post that could go on and on and on... :)) Well, she's an international natural light glamour photographer who's based out of Australia. :) And she's a GENIUS!! Please, do yourself a favor and go check out her work here.

Anyhow, I first fell in love with Sue when she visited the folks at CreativeLIVE (I'll blog about these awesome people another day) to teach a free three day course (free when you watch live. You can also purchase the course to be able to download the videos and watch whenever you please) on Glamour Photography earlier this year. Honestly, at first I wasn't going to watch. I've never heard about her before and glamour photography just made me think of Glamour Shots. Remember those? And I wasn't really interested in doing that type of photography. My oh my was I wrong! I watched her little promo video and I was instantly hooked! Her glamour photography is nothing like I've ever seen before. Seriously...go click on that link above! You'll fall in love too!

This week Sue's back at CreativeLIVE teaching more about Glamour (every day this week!). I unfortunately can't watch during the day because of work, but the beauty about CreativeLIVE is that they replay the course for the PM folks and anyone else around the world to watch. (Wow...did that make sense to you?) Anyhow, I caught a little of today's course when I got home from work and I'm completely amazed at her. She had a little segment where she tried to do as many poses (I think) in one hour. After 60 (and 1/2) minutes, she ended up posing a woman 102 different times. And guess what? It was all in one little corner. I COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS!!! One hundred and TWO different poses in ONE HOUR!!! And that my friends is how great and talented this lady is. I am serious when I say this, a new goal in life is to meet Sue and give her a great big hug. :)

Once I got home from the boys' swimming lessons, I quickly grabbed my two nieces and my camera. I wanted to take advantage of the natural light that we still had coming through the living room window. First up is my littlest niece, my god daughter, who seriously cannot sit still! LOL..

And because I don't have the control to just chose one image, I decided to choose these three and stick them in a side-by-side..equaling one photo. :)

And because I can't just put one niece up on the blog, here is my other niece. She's the third child and she's the biggest diva I've EVER MET!! The little one above takes after this one.

She was just wearing house clothes and wasn't feeling too well. She's got a cough, but that doesn't stop her from jumping in front of the camera. It's funny because I asked her if she wanted her picture taken and she shook her head no. Of course a minute later she wants to jump in. Such a diva.

These photos lead me to my #3 love, black and white images. (Oh wait...it was listed as #2 above. Oh well, you understand. It's all there. :))

I LOVE black and white images. Always have, always will. Back in high school, when I took up photography we shot black and white film. (I soooo miss being in a dark room.) I love black and white images and how they bring out the emotion in a photo.

These images above looked good with their original color, but converting them into black and white just made my heart melt. So that's how I kept them. :)

Oh, and I tried channeling my inner Sue Bryce when I posed them. It didn't work as well because they're only 3 and 5 years old and so far I've only seen Sue pose teenagers and up.

Tomorrow I hope to be photographing and posting something other than my family, but it's not a guarantee. Sorry. LOL.