I'm starting to love this technique. I take my regular shoe-mounted flash that is normally pointed straight towards the ceiling. This causes the light to scatter and bounce off the [white] ceiling before illuminating objects. In this picture, however, the whole camera is turned sideways, so the flash is pointed left. It's bouncing off the carpet on the stairs and returning to Henry with the appearance of being a soft off-camera light.

September 03, 2011

It's already been over a week since I posted. Where did that time go? My brother was here for three and a half days. Other than that, I've just been hanging out watching tennis. Henry is horrible at napping. Nap time is when I usually have some time to work on my site.

Henry is six months old today. This is the milestone I've been waiting for. And right on schedule, he's been a lot of fun for the past week and a half. He smiles and laughs at absolutely everything. If you hold his hands, he can stand on his own power for a long time, maybe five minutes. He doesn't seem to have any interest in crawling though. Fine by me.

We just got a call that we can't take Henry to the doctor this Friday because our doctor is out on an emergency. Fortunately we already know that he's a big, healthy boy.

August 26, 2011