alison bickel photography

So glad that it is finally Thursday!

1.  I didn’t watch Hope for Haiti, but this past week I was shopping around iTunes and came across this song and then found the video footage on YouTube.  As many of you know I have a total weakness for acoustic guitar…

2.  Over the past few months I have been collecting different quotes that catch my eye.  I have a folder in my email and it is now quite full.  So here is one that I saw last week on iheart quotes that seemed to fall in my lap at just the right time.

“never compare yourself to anyone;  you are only comparing your worst to their best.”

Perfect.

3. Finally, my favorite picture of the week.  Teaching Henry how to make the ‘fish face’…I think he’s got it down.  ;)

have a great weekend!

alison

how I love his soulful smile…

FINALLY the sun has made an appearance and I am loving it!  The last couple of days we’ve been working on a little picture project for Valentine’s Day and the light has been warm and beautiful.

Come back for tomorrow’s 3 things Thursday–see you then!

alison

So I am going to try a little something new on Thursdays, doing posts about 3 things I just want to share.  It’ll be personal, business, music…really anything that just happens to catch my eye during the week.  Here goes…

1.  If you’ve visited here before you know that I am a follower of Kal Barteski’s blog.  She is a canadian artist that wonderfully creative.  Her daily blogs about life with her  ’girl tribe’ (2 young daughters) make even the most mundane tasks worth reading about.  Check out her new Valentine’s Day designs and her newest painting collection, ‘I Found Wings’ that she had a show for in December.  I have a couple of her prints and her book.  Incredibly talented lady with both her paint brush and words.

2.  For those of you that are on Facebook come join my page!  Click on this link or search on Facebook, alison bickel Photography.

3.  And finally, because I know if you are living in Nebraska you’ve had just about enough of this gray, dreary, snowy, foggy…well you get the idea.  So to combat this how about a little California sunshine?  :)  Check out one of my FAVORITE photographers, Tara Whitney, of southern California and her ‘just be blogged’ blog.    Wonderful, sunny images that will make you feel better just looking at them.  She truly has a talent for capturing families.

Well, that’s it for this weeks 3 things Thursday.  Hope you enjoy the sites!  As always I cannot post without a picture so here we go…

This boy of mine got braces yesterday.  He was so excited, it was really pretty cute.  Looking at him yesterday I thought, wow, I am officially a mom of a BIG boy <sigh>.  I am not so patiently awaiting the arrival of a new lens and am looking forward to taking some shots of his new smile, braces and all.

til next time…

alison

It’s been gloomy around here…to say the least.  With almost 2 feet of snow on the ground and a change in temperature it has created a cover of fog that has been hanging around for days.  At first, I’ll admit, it was pretty with all the ice crystals on the trees.  Now those are gone and everything is just gray…and foggy.

So I thought for today I’d post a little bit of sunshine.  A picture of one of the sunflowers that Samuel and I grew from seeds this summer.  We’ve already started talking about our garden for this year and he is excited to plant them again.

Heading out for a grocery trip after the gym this morning.  Thinking maybe I need to pick up some flowers while I’m there.  A little color around here might be just what is needed…

On another note, I know I said that I wasn’t much into resolutions.  However, when I came across this quote from Elizabeth Leighton on Deb Schweldhem’s facebook page it changed my mind a little.

This year, I will be my own photographer….my own person. My own artist. I will not be a follower and will not follow the trends that will go out of season in a year. I don’t have to purchase the latest ‘gizmo’ to be succesful. I will believe in myself and my own talent. This is one of my resolutions.”

Pretty good huh?

Well, off to start the day.  Here’s hoping you can find a little sunshine somewhere in yours!

alison