In keeping with my early exclamation that I needed to start photographing my own life more, here’s the latest of my darling husband. Don’t you just love taking photos of your significant others that make you sigh and smile?

I believe he had had a particularly rough day with our little girl, but still always has the energy to greet me with a hug when I get home, and give me a smile when I take out my camera. He also happens to have one of those faces that looks fantastically fabulous with any look he happens to adorn. Our wedding album is full of relaxed portraits of him hanging out with a look worthy of a moody Paul Newman, while all my own portrait shots taken when the photographer said “don’t smile” just make me look like I’m scowling. Something about my nose. Thanks Dad. :)

Processed using my own RAW preset I’ve been working on. In fact, I will happily give away this preset (well actually, it’s a preset and an action) to the first person besides GrumpyFrenchman who can spot the oddity in this photo. :)

Sorry GF, people who have lived with us are excluded, besides, what would you do with a preset anyway?

My photography for last 6 months or so has fortunately been filled with a good deal of client work, however, all clients have been bands, therefore, a large majority (even larger than just a majority) of my shots lately have been live music. Gigs are actually a fantastic thing to shoot, and I’ve learned more during that time about light and live action shooting than I have at any other time in the past. While I’m still loving the music sessions, I’m beginning to long for more day-to-day documentary style shots, like the stuff I was doing during our round-the-world honeymoon. Live music is a leeching obsession, as not only was I photographing the gigs, but I started photographing musicians outside the gigs, guitarists hanging out in our flat (of which there are many), taking my camera to rehearsals, taking my camera everywhere and at the end of the day, wind up with a chip full of artistic details shots of a headstock and so on…

That being said, I’ve begun to realise I’ve been neglecting photographing my own life, which is basically how we all started anyway, isn’t it? So this post is for my husband who unfortunately, has yet to make a significant appearance in my photoblog, save a random shot from Christmas Eve, which just happens to be one of my favourite photos of all time… so HA! :)

So here’s a few snippets from a random afternoon in our home, taken last month I think. I can’t believe how fast she’s growing… *sniff*

All photos processed using my own Lightroom presets.

(I’ve been getting a few enquiries on Flickr, and once I’ve perfected them for more all-purpose use, I may release them. Until then, I encourage all of you to play and explore yoruselves, you’ll be amazed what you can discover.)