Baby Pictures...?

Hello there dear readers! I apologize for not posting since the start of this month. To put it bluntly, I got grounded. For doing what you ask? That's right, failing a science test. (which compared to the other two i also failed this one I got the highest score) I was grounded for a month and so explains my absence.

Since I last posted  I had a birthday, and learned (again) the joy of having a thick book to read. I also may have started applying for jobs but that is not the point.

For those of you who don't know, my mother is very close to birthing my seventh sibling, making the infant my second sister. Just last night my mom started hounding me about the one thing I plan to do-ake pictures. My mom, who knows my passion is NATURE photography, is hoping -expecting- for professionally taken images.

While I doubt my ability to take "adorable baby pictures of her looking like this…" my mother has pointed out the fact that literally haunts me -how are you going to learn if you don't try -l.e practice-?

The only problem about this is while I don't  mind taking the pictures, I mind people -family- watching me work my -horrible- magic with the camera. Of course, once I start taking images, I suddenly don't have a problem with people. I get lost in what I'm doing and poof, the world around me disappears. Which I guess is the only way I am able to even come close to describing how I feel when behind the camera. Just focus on the subject, and the world dissolves.

Of course, I have taken  pictures of human subjects. For example, about 2 years ago or so, I spent a day, in lateish fall spending up to 2 hours taking pictures of my siblings. The good ones turned out to be of my sister, and younger brothers. The middle ones didn't clash very well with the style I was after. More recently, back in July, I was one of the photographers for my aunts wedding, which is probably the most comfortable I have ever felt while getting pictures, with people having the ability to stare at me openly. I mainly traveled rather quickly, barefoot, through the church, on a whim and only sat down twice, if I remember correctly. AND I go to work with my dad and get a lot of rather boring pictures of his guys doing well, Army things.

LONG STORY SHORT - I will have to somehow, take baby pictures of my unborn sibling with my mother giving me ideas and tips on the side. I can already see how that's going to turn out.
On a happier tone, here are some images I took the other day, of my favorite subject of course, nature. :)
-Olive