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Saturday ~ December 25, 2020

Posted by Dave Updegraff on December 26, 2020
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Happy Saturday!

As crazy and dysfunctional as this year has been we celebrated Christmas in an almost “normal way.”

The kids got tons of presents from their Mom and Dad, from Santa, and of course from two sets of Grand Parents.

Addie enjoyed new selection of rings, which will go with her colorful watch.

Austin waiting patiently for  his turn to open a gift.  It’s a neat tradition.  Each person opens one gift of their choice and then the next person does the same thing until we go clear around the room.  That way everyone gets to see what everyone received.

Joshua shows Julia his new iPod Santa brought him.

Gabby is always happy to show Addie how to play with her new toys.  🙂

Enjoy your day and be careful.

Monday ~ November 12, 2018

Posted by Dave Updegraff on November 12, 2018
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Happy Monday and Happy Veterans Day!

A huge thank you to all our wonderful Veterans for their service.

I had a great weekend.  I did a photo shoot for a family in Dubuque this past Saturday.  Wonderful people and they were very gracious and patient.
This was the art director for the project.  🙂

She found a napping place in several of my photography equipment bags.

This is one of the backgrounds they chose from my website. They also chose a more neutral gray for the second background.  I had a lot of fun working with three generations of the family for this shoot.

Each time I do a photo session I come away with new techniques and better ways of lighting.   I learned a lot of things from this shoot and as a result I will cut down on the amount of stuff I bring on the next session.

One of the must have items (for me) is the Color Checker Passport™.  It has a graduated gray card and lets me build a color profile for the particular shoot I am on so that I know the colors are correct.

Anyway I would love to show you some of the images from the shoot but because of privacy concerns I cannot.

Enjoy your day and be careful.

 

Wednesday ~ June 27, 2018

Posted by Dave Updegraff on June 27, 2018
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Happy Hump Day Wednesday for my working Friends.

I’m taking a brief hiatus from the New York trip to show you three images of our grand kids today.

Austin and Gabby enjoyed riding around the yard in their electric vehicles.  No accidents were reported and no property damage.

We had dinner with Angie and Ben Sunday evening to celebrate Ben’s birthday.  He did the grilling and I sat and drank wine.  Bummer that he had to grill his own birthday dinner.  🙂

Addie is now sitting up and is doing a modified crawl.  She is so fun to watch and very expressive.  She was not thrilled with me taking flash pictures.

Enjoy your day and be careful.  More NY images coming.

Saturday ~ January 13, 2018

Posted by Dave Updegraff on January 13, 2018
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Happy Saturday!

I enjoyed lunch with two of my favorite ladies yesterday.  We always have such fun and this day was no different.

There is a saying that goes something like “What is the best camera?  The one you have with you.”  This was taken by my iPhone.  You use what you have.  🙂

Enjoy your day and be careful.

Sunday ~ November 12, 2017

Posted by Dave Updegraff on November 12, 2017
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Happy Sunday!

Yesterday, we celebrated the seventh birthday of Joshua.  Angie and Ben hosted a light lunch and birthday celebration for the grand parents and uncles.

Josh is really into Star Wars and most of his gifts revolved around that theme.  He is very good at taking complex Lego® projects designed for 8 – 12-year-old children and completing them in quick fashion.

Gabby consoled herself that this was Josh’s day and so she watched attentively while he opened and awed at each of his presents.  🙂

Austin found other ways to amuse himself with all the balloons.  He would pull them down from the ceiling and then let them go.  He had a great time doing this while Josh was opening his presents.

 

Saturday ~ August 26, 2017

Posted by Dave Updegraff on August 26, 2017
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Happy Saturday!

Addie J. Roling joined our family at 2:07 p.m. August, 25, 2017.  Mother, Father, and children are all doing well!

Mark came up from Kansas City to be there for the birth.  He has made every one of the kids’ birth day.

The rest of the family got to meet Addie around 4:30 p.m.  Josh had a cold hence the mask.  You can see the rest of the family was more interested in a movie on the iPhone.  🙂

Gabby claims Addie is her sister and she just wants to hold her.

Enjoy your day and be careful.

Sunday ~ August 20, 2017

Posted by Dave Updegraff on August 20, 2017
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Happy Sunday!

First, a thank you to my life long friend, Diana!  Thank you for checking on me to make sure everything was all right.  I tend to get in these motivational / creative funks from time to time and it takes a while to get the energy flowing again.

Last night we celebrated Jeanne’s birthday a couple of days early.  Angie and Ben had us over for a birthday celebration and we had a wonderful time.

A couple of weeks ago I gave Josh my little Nikon Coolpix camera that I normally carry on my bike.  He has shown a keen interest in photography and so after getting his Mom’s permission I gave him the camera.  My wish is that he develops a real passion for photography and that we can spend some quality time teaching and learning from each other.

Gabby also likes to take pictures.  This is a little camera that actually takes pictures.  I don’t think you can download the images to a computer but you can see what images there are on the back viewing screen.  I’m sensing a pattern here as I’ve been taking pictures of the kids since day one and maybe Gabby will want a better camera as she gets a little older as well.

This was the birthday dessert from last night.  Angel food cake with strawberrys, whipped cream, and home-made ice cream.  I paid the price for eating this but it was worth it.  🙂

That’s it for today.  Enjoy your day and be careful.

Friday ~ July 28, 2017

Posted by Dave Updegraff on July 28, 2017
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Happy Friday!

It wouldn’t be a proper vacation without some snapshots of the family.  So I have three images for you today and it just so happens I have three grand children.  🙂

This is my 6-year-old grand son Josh.  He was a little trooper on the boat and fished almost all the time.  He finally caught a nice 3.5 pound Northern Pike and he was thrilled beyond belief.  I was so happy for him.

Gabby took a turn at fishing but it didn’t last long.  It wasn’t her favorite thing to do  so she amused herself with other things.

This is the only image of Austin I have from the boat.  We were on our way in and he was not a happy camper.  Normally he has such a great disposition but something was bugging him this evening.

I hope you noticed that I snuck in another sunset for you.  🙂

Enjoy your day and be careful.

Monday ~ April 17, 2017

Posted by Dave Updegraff on April 17, 2017
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Happy Monday!

I hope you had a wonderful Easter celebration.  Today I have three images for you and they are all about family.  We started off with early church and then went to Angie and Ben’s home for Easter Brunch.  Lot’s of visiting and playing and then just before the brunch Angie invited us all to the back deck for an announcement.

She gave each of the children two balloons.  Josh got two blue, Gabby two pink, and Austin two yellow (the yellow plays not part in the story.)  🙂

Josh and Gabby were told to release the balloon that did not bare the gender of the unborn baby that Angie is carrying.

Now I had a feeling for the longest time what the baby’s gender was going to be and so I really focused on Josh and sure enough he let go of his balloons right away.  Gabby dutifully held on to her pink balloons, (YEA) and Austin wasn’t sure what he was supposed to do so he just smiled.

So now they will have two boys and two girls.  I feel so blessed and I am so happy for them.

Mark and Julia were able to join us for the brunch and celebration.  Then it was nap time for Grandpa.  🙂

Enjoy your day and be careful.

Monday ~ January 30, 2017

Posted by Dave Updegraff on January 30, 2017
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Happy Monday!

Mark was home this weekend and so we celebrated his birthday a couple of days early.  Angie, Ben, and the Grand Kids were here as well so we had a nice brunch for the whole gang and of course lots of playing with stuff.

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Austin is always smiling and when he came in the house he yelled Papa.  Melted my heart.  He is a lot of fun and such a happy young man.

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This was about the only image I could get of Gabby.  If she sees this later in life she won’t be too happy with Grandpa but for now, well it’s okay.  🙂

That’s it for today.

Thanks for stopping by the blog.  Enjoy your day and be careful.