My favorite baby

While I was in West Palm Beach for Thanksgiving, I had the pleasure of photographing my favorite baby, Donnie. He was a lot of fun! He's almost a year old now (His birthday is December 11), and he's really figured out what cameras are for and that he's adorable. These are my favorites:

There's no place like home

I think that Dorothy was maybe on to something- being home is a good thing. I can't complain, because although I was away for two weeks, I was in Paris and West Palm Beach.

Paris was great. It was cold, busy, and a little stressful workwise (transit strikes make everything a little more difficult!!), but I did get the opportunity to do some picture taking while I was there.

Votive lights in Sacre Cours


The Eiffel Tower


Notre Dame




I'll post the rest (there are a ton!) shortly!

On the road again!

I'm leaving Friday afternoon for PARIS! I just got a new tripod in the mail that's lighter and more compact than the tripod I have, so it will be making the trip with me. It will allow me to get those nice night shots a little better, without the shaking!

I'm going for work, so it won't be all play, but I will try and take (and post) as many good pictures as possible!


The Paris Hotel, Las Vegas.... from the fake place to the real one!

Go Gators!

I had the pleasure of watching the Gators kill Vanderbilt for Homecoming last weekend. The weekend started out on Friday night with Gator Growl in the skybox, complete with back stage access to the Lynard Skynard performance.


Orange and Blue



Lynard Skynard

Game Day in the Swamp!


I wish I could take credit for the other pictures, below, but I can just take credit for the first one, who was the photographer for the others.






For all my Homecoming pictures (the good ones and the bad ones!) go to http://www.kaskelweb.com/pics/thumbnails.php?album=23

Shallow depth of field

One of my favorite photo effects is creating shallow depth of field. That basically means that an element in the picture is in focus, while the background (or foreground) is blurry. It makes for a nice effect, causing an element to "pop."

The ones below are the horrible fortune Jon got in his fortune cookie, my better fortune, and a rose.

Viva Las Vegas!

I just got back from Las Vegas for work. I love visiting the city- for about three days. It's easy to get your fill of Las Vegas pretty quickly. I like to gamble a little bit, but I mainly like to go see the hotels, eat the food, and watch the crazy people.

The stage at Zumanity, New York, New York

Paris balloon

Parasols Up, Parasols Down at the Wynn

One of the lions in the lion habitat at the MGM Grand (photo credit to Jon!)


The fountains at the Bellagio

Neon lights at Planet Hollywood.

Chihuly glass in the Bellagio lobby ceiling.

MGM Grand Lion outside our hotel

New York, New York- one of my favorite hotels!


For all my Vegas pictures (the good ones and the bad ones!) go to http://picasaweb.google.com/angelatweedie/VegasOctober

Happy Halloween!

I love Halloween. When I was a kid, it used to mean all the free candy I wanted. Now, as an adult, it means it's almost fall and I can turn my air conditioner off to save on utilities. Oh how our perspectives change.

This Halloween, we took Dia to the pumpkin patch with us. Not because he can help pick out pumpkins, but just because he looks cute sitting next to them. I'm still working on taking pictures at night- but these are some of my favorite from Halloween.


For a full album of my October pictures (the good ones and the bad ones!) go to http://picasaweb.google.com/angelatweedie/October07

Weekend 1

My first camera adventure included all of my favorite things- babies, puppies, friends and Halloween.

I took a few shots of Dia and Noor and my parents house... this is my favorite:

After leaving my parents house, Sarah and I went down to visit Katy, who recently moved to St. Petersburg.

As if visiting Katy wasn't exciting enough, the SPCA was having a big Halloween party for dogs. There were hundreds- not kidding, hundreds of dogs running around, playing games, some wearing costumes. It was my ideal way to spend a day.














After visiting all these great dogs that we didn't know, we left for Katy's house to see her adorable dogs, Pearl and Opal. They actually love dressing up in costumes, and we dressed them up to root for their favorite football team, the Gators.
The next morning, we went to the beach to take a few pictures of Sarah and Katy just for fun.

My new camera

I recently welcomed a new member into my family- my beautiful Canon Xti digital SLR. It's something I've wanted for a very long time, and I finally bought it. It's a fantastic camera, and I hope that I can learn how to use it as well as it's meant to be used. I'm going to be posting pictures, techniques that I learn, and just general fabulous camera updates here.... enjoy!