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(working) vacation photos at last

We uploaded photographs of So Cal to the studiodetro.com blog and thought it would be wise to post them here, on our more personal site.  If you make plans to visit, please take me with you!

Now I don't wonder half as much as to how those San Diego wedding photographers end up with pristine color saturated photographs week in and week out.  Nor do I wonder why every portrait and event session is outdoors.  Just keep repeating: "at least we don't have earthquakes ..." (humidity, hurricanes, heat, lots of rain & penny sized mosquitoes - but no earthquakes!)

Enjoy!  And remember to include me in your upcoming trip plans ...

video of lazy horses

Relaxing evening at the ranch. The horses are both curious and too lazy to come say hi to me while the camera is running. I did have a chance to photograph them when they eventually sauntered over.

Except for Chief, he's the one outside the barn and he barely moved 3 feet.  Grass feast.

They each acknowledge my presence and continue their normal activity (eating or picking on each other). We've mixed in some beautiful still photographs of the horses as well as observe them milling around.

a park and a happy happy dog

We took the pup for a photography trip to a park near our house the other week.  Loving the way he attacks his "here" ... that dog hauls!

We're looking forward to the day when he gives on up the annoying garble and whining noises ... other dogs probably think he's weird.  Good thing he's so really really good looking.

gruene

And we super love the little town of Gruene, Texas and spent a few hours tooling around enjoying the town and making some photographs (not mutually exclusive activities).  Two words: peach smoothie.

When I get another little window of time, I'll have the Southern California photographs up ... these are to "prove" that Texas is beautiful too!  Warmer, but beautiful.

san antonio

Several weekends back, we hit the Riverwalk and trekked over to the Alamo.  And we have some photographs to prove it.

I sure am loving photo-ing with Grant.

in and out (of town, not the soon-to-come-to-texas hamburger joint)

Well, this is a post about being mobile.  We've been traveling and photographing almost at the same time. Check out the hot topics of: our backyard, our dog and the fog at the ranch.  (Don't yawn!)

Grant's photo of Hut and his indestructabone has to be one of my favorites!  That dog always pops his hiney in the air to play.  How can one resist the indestructabone with that kind of presentation?!

We've got some scenics documenting the summertime at the ranch.  And also a great diptych of the dogs playing with the sprinkler and Dad giving some sort of instructions that involve pointing (always!).  I love summer (and my dad)!

I visited a great friend in Dallas - Mary Kathryn - and, though she narrowly escaped being photographed herself, we did go out for gelato.  And her dog sits in chairs.  Makes "the flying Hut" look almost normal, right?

And I was showing off the posterous e-mail to blog function on July 6th for Mary Kathryn.  Thus the extra long post that day. 

We're both photographers, she and I, and we're loving how much our different styles and genre focuses actually have in common.  It's crazy!  So, we've always had a lot to talk about, now even moreso!  We made the Dallas SMUG meeting and I am so excited about seeing more SmugMug in my life, you should be too.

And, as the closer, we have documented "squirrel as chillin villain".  I mean really, hang out in our backyard = eat our ladder?! Heartwrenching drama.

more photo friends

The Katie

Katie's Blog
Katie's Website

I have a few more photographs to share of the time Katie and I spent at her place in Colorado.  And before we get to those here's a photo series she snagged of me:

The Pack

And back in Houston, I had a great opportunity to hang out with some great photographers:

Kim
Kim's Blog
Kim's Website

Julie
Julie's Blog
Julie's Website

Since there aren't a lot of foothills or mountain vistas in H-town we hit the tracks.

there and here

Again, I've been back in Houston for a few weeks (after visiting Katie Jenkins) and I have some visual comparisons to make. Unfortunately, the photographs didn't upload to the blog quite right. 

So we're back to the ol' slideshow method!  We'll start with a stunning view from my porch, followed by wild and crazy Hut photos.  Then are the amazing birds Katie spends her mornings and evenings observing.  (I love the little series of the Goldfinches doing a head bob.) And we wrap up the re-post with Katie's porch view.  And it beats mine.  By alot.

So, no comparison, really! (Especially when there are photographs included.)

~Jenna Dee

here and there

I've been back in Houston for a few weeks (after visiting Katie Jenkins) and I have some visual comparisons to make:

The view from her porch (outside Fort Collins, Colorado):

 

And mine (inside Houston, Texas):



There are other things to compare.

How about the wildlife that frequents her place:



... compared to our wildlife in Houston:



So, no comparison, really!

many faces of hut and other things

We are working on flash photography.  Hut seems to be the logical subject of choice. 

How can something so cute and furry also harbor so many expressions of boredom and disdain (for the ever improving photographers he lives with)?  I'm sure we'll have more images like these to come ...