"It's A Great Day For Hockey"

As any one who knows me can tell you, I am the most die hard Pittsburgh Penguins fan around! I can tell you things that happened from eons ago and who played where and what positions and what not.....well the next few entries will be of some my best Pittsburgh Penguins photos. Enjoy!!!

The photo above is of the ever so hard to photograph, Mr. Jordan Staal! He had just turned around as I was trying to hurry and snap this shot for a friend! His nickname is "staalzie"
This photo is of the ever so loveable and sometimes annoying mascot, Iceburgh! He/She really posed nicely for this one! I am still not sure if I like this in black and white or not but decided to do the mirrored frame this way!!!!
This is the ever so talented, Evgeni Malkin. He defected from Russia to play for the Penguins, which has caused him to have some enemies within the NHL. He is currently learning to speak English, and is doing very well if I may say so myself. He currently leads the NHL is scoring, closely followed by fellow team mate, Sid Crosby and fellow Russian, Alexander Ovechkin!

Well I just watch one heck of a game, won in over time by Mr. Malkin so I am gonna call it a night and end this entry!!! Look for more photos to come!!!!!

Miss L wanted me to take her photo with this tennis racket......quite the ham.

This little cutie is the baby sister of my nephew's preschool classmate, who I got to photograph at her sister's bday party at Chuck E Cheese......having 3 nephews made me go wild with the little girls...lol!!!!

This lil girl was too cute...the glasses and the amazing smile....couldn't resist this one since I was totally loving all the girls at the party...:D

My youngest nephew "E"! He loves to do funny things so I will bring out the camera and take his photo. My brother is tickling him so he would give me that big cheesy grin of his!!!!! The photo below this is his brother "B" who totally hates my camera and hides his faces but I was so lucky to grab this shot before he ruined it...lol!!!!!

"B" was in his Bob the Builder phase in this photo......but he goes thru new phases at least one time a week! It's Thomas the Train now...:D We got digital cable with all the children's programing so I am sure his phases are gonna change more reguarly!!!!!!! He just turned four yesterday and I am having a hard time with it! Times flies by so fast when they are little!!!! He's in preschool and loving all his friends and is learning to write his letters and talking up a storm...but there are times when I wish he was a little baby again....:(!!!!!

Children's photography is something that I really enjoy. Capturing their adorable expressions, their milestones in life on film is just something that I really enjoy and would love to do more professionally.

Somalian Refugees in Pittsburgh

I attended my 1st Pittsburgh Flickr walk and while we were walking we came across these Somalian children who were refugees. The first photo was a random shot because I wasn't sure if I should photograph them or not! As our walk was ending , the children were purchasing ice cream and approached our group so I couldn't help but take the next few!!!

This lil boy just melted my heart! He was so proud of his ice cream bar. I tried to get him to put it down away from his face but I am not sure he fully understood me or what I was doing with this big thing in front of my face.

This lil boy brought some big crocodile tears to my eyes. He wasn't able to have ice cream and I had asked for a group photo of all the children. Well he ran away all upset thinking i didn't want him because he didn't have ice cream, which shattered my heart into a bizillion pieces. I found him down the street a ways and I said to him..."Ice cream is something they got but every one has a smile, so let me see that smile" or something to that affect and this is the gorgeous image I got! *choking up again*

These lil beauties were the biggest hams, I have ever seen. They were all about the camera! They had some of the cutest scarves and lil dresses on. These lil ladies sit on my desk at work to make me realize how fortunate I am to have a job, a house and clothes on my back !!!! Ok, this is really choking me up so I better end here!!!! I hope you enjoy these amazing children as much as I did!!

I cant get enough of my images from Friday Nite!!!

This is a group shot of my new friends discussing their images amongst each other. They are Avery, Nina, Avery's mom Steph, Susan, Paige (only her leg), Julie and Mirielle(sorry if this is wrong)

This was the table full of images from our ladies night!!! I have suddenly fallen in love with black and white photos and this one just seemed too be the perfect black and white image!!!!!

More Images from the ladies photo exchange.

I truly "Love" all my new Flickr friends that I made on Friday!!!!! This was an awesome decoration in Paige's kitchen and I had to take a photo of it to express my feelings for this group of amazing ladies!!!!!

Paige's father brought us all home these cute Cars Pez dispensers. Lighning McQueen decided to hang out in Julie's pockets! I cross processed this using, http://www.picnik.com/! I highly recommend this program for editing photos!!!!!

The ladies are discussing the images they received and the images that they brought too share!!! I am so in love with the ones that I received!!!!!!

Pittsburgh Flickr Ladies Photo Exchange

On Friday night, I went to Paige's house for a ladies night photo exchange. We all belong to the Pittsburgh group on Flickr. Paige (shown above in the green) and stephanie came up with this lovely idea to get together and exchange some of our photos amongst each other. Every one brought 5 photos to exchange and their favorite snack food. Paige was sweet enough to offer her house for the event. I dont have friends to hang out with so I jumped at the chance to meet new friends and talk photography and ladies things. After getting lost for 45 mins, I finally arrived at Paige's house and was welcomed with open arms by every one, which I will admit I was so used to being excluded that I made myself sick all day over how Id be treated. WOW is all I can say!

These ladies were so wonderful and made every one feel like part of the group. We mingled and had some amazing snacks......I have to thank Julie (above in the white) for my new love of garlic hummus with Feta cheese..lol!!! We talked about everything from Top Chef and Hells Kitchen to Nina's life in Kiev, Ukraine and how she was "kicked out ". Then it was time for the photo fun to begin....Paige took every one's photos and laid them upside down on her furniture.....and let me tell you there were quite a few photos. Every one got amazing photos and Steph had all the photographer's sign their images, which I thought was a cool idea!!!!!!

These are just a sample of the many amazing images that were exchanged during the evening! The selective colored ones are the ones that I received but the two on the end of the couch are two of mine that someone received. I am still trying to find the perfect frames and the perfect spots on my walls for my images!!!!!!!