Wednesday, February 13, 2008

the beach

I really LOVE going to the beach. We are so blessed to live only 40 minutes away. It was just the girls and I on Saturday. I told them that if they played nicely together in the morning, we would go to the beach in the afternoon. I think we finally left the house around 2:30pm. Kinda late, I know! By the time we got there, it was clouding over and really cold.





M decided it was perfect weather to hunt for seashells and was loving finding little "beach lagoons" in which to wash them off.





I'm a sucker for photos of hands and feet. I had fun playing around with some black and white convesions of these. What do you think?







An hour after we arrived, it stated to rain. Yep, rain. Poor A was freezing and walked back to the car whimpering with her head all covered up. We still had a great time, though. I can't wait to go back on a nicer day.

25 comments:

  1. Kristina!

    Your photos are absolutely amazing...I love them! When did you start getting into photography?

    I am so glad David sent me the link to your blog! I hope you all are doing wonderful!

    Talk to you soon!

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  2. Kristina,

    Grace and I loved looking at your Blog today. You are soooo artistic!! I wish we lived close to you so you could take pictures of our new baby. Sadly, we are very poor photographers.

    It is wonderful that you live so close to the beach. I loved going to the beach in Southern California as a young boy growing up.

    I hope someday we might be able to visit you guys in Orlando and get to know you and your girls better. It was wonderful for us to see David a few weeks ago in San Antonio.

    Blessings,

    Ben

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  3. Very sweet pictures. How lucky are you that you live somewhere that you can go to the beach in the middle of February!

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  4. I love all of these but my favorite is the one with the feet in the sand...the angle that you took that photo is so different for a foot photo...I LOVE it!
    Cari

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  5. ok, i am so jealous that you can go to the beach!! we have snow. lots of snow. great pictures! love the ones of them washing the shells.

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  6. Beautiful pics of your beautiful girls, as always! I wish we could have gone with you. We're going Friday--hope the weather's good.

    I always love your black & white pics, but I think I like those particular ones better in color. I like the way the color of M's hands pops out against the monochromatic background. Just my opinion, though--they're beautiful either way.

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  7. I really like the hand shots...very cool pooling of water underneath.

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  8. Oh wow, those are stunning. Love the conversions you did.

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  9. All your photos are so awesome. Nice and crisp. I so love the beach and miss it. When we lived in Fl I think we went to the beach everyday.

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  10. These are just beautiful. I love the one with her wrapped in her towel. You can just feel how cozy she is. I want to go to the beach!

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  11. Love the water ripples! And the toes shot is soooo cute!

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  12. Beautiful photos!!! You are so lucky to be near the beach!!! I am tired of the "white stuff" that keeps falling here!!

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  13. Nice beach shots! A treat for those of us in the snowy north.

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  14. love the hand photos!!! especially in black and white!! Great job.

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  15. Hi Kristina,
    Beautiful photography! I was not aware we shared a love for artful pictures. Thank you for sharing your life in Orlando.

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  16. the beach is one of my favorite places. these shots make me want to go there now. very nice.

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  17. Ahh these are great!! I love the beach and wished we lived close to one!! These are great, amazing clarity!!

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  18. 40 minutes?!?! Oh, I'm so so very jealous! You got some wonderful shots! I love all of the b & w ones, but the feet in the sand is my favorite!!

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  19. these are all gorgeous!
    but i really LOVE the feet one!!!!!!!!!
    tara

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  20. I love the beach! Those photos make me want to be there! I'm here in the snow, but have a beach vacation planned for the summer! Your shots are fabulous! Love them!

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  21. kristina,
    these pics are professional! seriously, they are so good! they make me want to go back to the beach just to take hand and feet pictures! LOVE them!
    see ya tonight at jazz!

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  22. these are really great! i really like the shots of the hands...

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  23. Beautiful! You did a great job capturing these photos!

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  24. How fun to see life in a warm part of the world in winter! :)

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