Cole Family by the sea - Okinawa Family Photographer

More Family fun at Toguchi with the Cole Family, whom I have known for a few yrs here on Okinawa!

Sisters...

Mum and Dad

Smile!

I do enjoy shooting dogs! And I must look and sound like a complete fool whilst doing so, but if I get the shot then I don't care :)

Everyone loves the cave and rightly so!

One of my favs to do! On top of the world!

Family...

Red silhouette love

I love this one of Dawn!

Goodnight Okinawa! Thank you Cole Family for trusting me to be your photographer and glad we finally got the shoot done!

2 adults, a 2 yr old and one lucky dog!

This is I think my 3rd or 4th shoot with the Salgado Family...

It is great to have repeat clients because you get to another comfort level...

Where the client can trust in you that you are going to get the shot they want no matter what...

Now you wouldn't believe that Mr. D was being a 2 yr old and doing what most 2 yr olds are supposed to do and not be interested in photos during the shoot!

Which is fine, because I will just follow him around as he is getting on with his day of PLAY and investigating!

Somewhere along the way bits of magic happen...

And we mustn't forget the other family member...Lucky Dog!

Lucky and his Mum! This is inspired by the great photographer Elliot Erwitt

Thank you Mary and Family x
I also want to share with you one of the Salgado Family's framed photos and what Mary wrote about their shoots with me...

"Thanks Pamela Oliveras for perfectly capturing my baby boy's growth in your art work! We will definitely miss your fun photo shoots when we leave Oki!!! I think being a good photographer takes more than just getting good photographs. Its having professionalism, flexibility, great attitude and a rockin' personality...and you got all of them!"
I think it's important. Whatever photographer you hire, you need to be able to feel comfortable with not only their style of photography, but their service and personality!
x

I Heart Faces - On Your Feet

I have a diary/journal that a friend bought me with images by Elliott Erwitt. He has some wonderful black and white dog and human feet images. On a recent session at the end, I tried one out, I like this and my client did too! I kept this one colour, but I have some ideas for some black and white feet images that I will get to eventually I am hoping! Check out 'on your feet' at I Heart Faces! There are already over 400 entries!

I Heart Faces - Pets

OK, I know this is not a pet. But, if I had a net and caught it and brought it home to fly around my apt. then it would be ha ha. I am calling this 'The Galloping Butterfly'!
I took this last week while on a city photo walk about with my photography group. Right at the end we came across an overgrown lot and found these butterflies. They were really pretty tame. And they were really pretty! My friend had lent me her macro (Nikon speak=micro) for the day. Earlier on the walk, I mentioned I needed some butterflies to photograph and BOOM, I got my butterflies! Love it, and loved chasing these! There was also this HUGE bee that was so laden down with pollen that it looked like it might drop from the sky, but I didn't get a good shot as it was pretty far away!

Ruby makes three!

Jocelyn and Larry wanted photos on their favourite beach. Memories for a time on Okinawa before PCSing back to the States soon...

Here's Ruby on her own!

She was such a good girl on the shoot and must have wondered what was going on: there's a big black square thing in front of a crazy lady making some odd sounds, oh well, I'm a dog, I'll just go with it!

Jocelyn definitely wanted to get some of the green mossy stuff on her backyard.

The sunset was hazy, but lovely colours...

As everyone knows, you can't keep a good dog down!

Then, we had an intruder into the shoot!

Oh no, that's just Barry, Jocelyn's brother who had literally just got off a plane to visit!
So, the boys were done with being photographed, let's get one of Jocelyn. I love her cheeky expression!

Beautiful! Thank you for the fun shoot!
After Jocelyn's shoot, I stayed behind, cracked open the tripod and took some long exposure shots for fun...

I created a collage to show the different editing effects from one shot. I like the way the sea was so calm and looks like a silky blanket. Next time, I will get some crazy waves long exposure.

I Heart Faces - Pets!

I definitely wanted to enter this shot in the I Heart Faces pets week.

This dog has some personality for sure and LOTS of energy. He was appropriately names Blaze! Full blog post HERE.
Blaze on over to

to see hundreds of pet entries :)

Walkiessssss...

The anticipation of a shoot is quite exciting. From juggling the weather to wondering how the shoot will go. Once at the shoot, it's like I have tunnel vision, I am totally into the shoot, it's all about the images and whomever is in front of the camera. There's always one I just absolutely know is going to be my fav. So, here it is!...

Yep, you saw that right, that's Blaze the Retriever! Jessica wanted to capture her puppy and the love between them...and there was loads of energy going on. He is a big lollipy puppy! If you don't believe me, check these outtakes out!

Yes, don't let his calm-butter-wouldn't-melt-sitting-next-to-Mama look deceive you!!!

It was actually a beautiful day after what seemed like months of yuckiness...

The sun was most definitely shining in reality and on the walls!

And dogs? Well, they just wanna have fun!...

Thank you Jessica and Blaze for a super fun session! You were both great stunning models :o)

DIY, it makes me so high to do DIY, la la laaaa

What a DIY Sunday. First off, April and I set off to Pet Box and looked at all the animals for a fgood hour. Next, we went to San-A..cool supermarket type place, bought some cool Japanese food and some curtains for our huge living room window...lots of NVC going on since there was a slight language barrier, but the ladies helping me were very nice. First there was one, then two, then three and finally four. All helped me get the right size curtains. Ate lunch in McDonalds, yes that place is everywhere. Tried on a bunch of funny looking hats, came home and fell asleep in the 'lawn' furniture, that Albert has decided is "comfortable and practical". I am always right! Next said superstar DIY king hubby, put together a BarBQ and then a big black satellite dish. Meanwhile, April had crashed a kids party across the street and we had some fireworks. Talking of fireworks, last night we spent a couple of hours on our roof watching the Ginowan annual firework display. I will post some pics soon. I can't seem to plug the camera in the computer these days, it is just too much of an effort!