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Posts tagged “photography”

DIY Magnets (aka Distracting a Toddler While You Cook)

Even the most rambunctious toddlers have been known to contentedly watch trucks and construction sites for as long as you'll let them so why not capitalize on this to focus their attention while you...

Motherhood Journals by Tracey Clark
Waiting for Baby & Baby of Mine

Perhaps at no other point in your life will you feel as reflective as when you are pregnant or have just become a mother. Although not every moment is magical and special, it is certainly worth try...

The Walk To 40 Weeks Pregnancy Progression

We loved Ryan Marshall and his fabulous pregnancy photos in past as Ryan photographed his pregnant wife Cole each week as she wrote a letter to their baby Tessa to go coincide. Well he's back with ...

Wildlife Prints by Jeff Friesen

Our favorite imagery for children offers a glimpse into a special world and allows children, through their imaginations, to enter and explore. Photographer Jeff Friesen's photographs have this effe...

Someone's Hiding In Here

Monika Schürle resides in Berlin, Germany and has recently released a photography series based on children's home decor. First glance has you admiring the beauty but look again. Can you see wh...

Laundry Room Collections

This idea is so simple, but so beautifully executed. Flickr member tsillie hill dreams collected all the random little things she found in her children's pockets, then laid them out and photographed t...

Flickr Find: Photo Wall

There's so much to love in this serene room, but we're especially enamored of the photo wall. It's a look that can be achieved easily with a handful of inexpensive frames. You could fill each frame wi...

Five Tips for Taking Great Halloween Pictures

It's October! Which means we can finally start talking openly about Halloween (one of our favorite holidays) without people looking at us like we're crazy. Having taken our share of blah Halloween pho...

Kevin Van Aelst Photography

Do you remember all the stages of mitosis? Can you think back to high school biology and name them? Perhaps Kevin Van Aelst's uber charming photos can jog your memory. ...

The 40 Week Smitty Baby Pregnancy
In Just 15 Seconds

Meredith and Jason Smith gave birth to their son, Wyler, just over a year ago (ok so Meredith probably did most the work, but we hate to leave out the dads!). During the 40 week pregnancy, they went...

Look! Keep Things Neutral Yet Personal

One of the easiest ways we know to bring a group of mis-matched photos that don't seem to be blending color wise, it to take them black and white! It makes, what could look like a circus of colors, ...

Challenge: Photography With Your Kids

We've talked before about how to take great pictures of kids and reviewed a few cameras even, but with this month's travel theme coming to a close, we'd like to throw in one more outing and challenge...

Update: Porchlight Pictures Maternity Series

When we left off with the Maternity Series from Porchlight Pictures and Pacing The Panic Room, our now internet famous Mother-to-be was moving along steadily at week 26. This past Sunday began wee...

Backwards Photo Portrait

We'd know the back of our kid's head anywhere (the huge ears are a dead giveaway). Even if your child's head isn't as recognizable as Michael Jordan's, we like this fun spin on a photo portrait we ...

Super-Secret Photo Projects Just for Kids

If your child is anything like mine, then they are probably completely enamored with your digital camera. Taking photos is such fun stuff, why not make it more entertaining for them and give them spe...

Photography From Porch-Light Pictures

click thumbnails for larger pics We stumbled upon Pacing the Panic Room and Porch-Light Pictures this weekend, where Cole Marshall has given her husband Ryan permission to write candidly and vividly ...

Inspiration: Old Masters-Inspired Portraits

We're inspired by family photography that's a bit off-beat (remember these?). Reader Stephany was inspired by the photo portraits Hendrik Kerstens makes of his daughter in the style of Dutch Master...

Me Art

The problem with most nursery art is that once your child starts having his or her own opinions about art (read: starts to object to the "baby pictures" in their room), you're stuck with a piece of ar...

DIY Photo Block Kit

This is a DIY kit that even the less crafty among us can wrap our heads (and our ten thumbs) around. The kit comes with everything you need to turn two 4x6 photos into instant art. All you have to pro...

Inspiration: Gavin's First Year

This is the kind of idea we always have... too late. Fortunately, Gavin's parents -- two self-professed geeks -- are a fair bit faster off the block than we are. Their goal was to take a picture of Ga...

Family Photography by Akihiro Furuta
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We've been thinking about making a family portrait for the holidays and while there's nothing wrong with the traditional studio portraits at places like JC Penney and Target, we'd like to do somethi...

Small World Prints by Matthew Carden

Homemade Marshmallows 2 by Matthew Carden We're celebrating mealtime this month on Ohdeedoh, and photography doesn't get a lot more celebratory than this set of prints by photographer Matt Carden. Fe...

Sharon Montrose Photography

If you're a fan of the animal photography of Catherine Ledner and Elizabeth Soule, make room for Sharon Montrose. Montrose has photographed numerous books about animals and is now branching out int...

City Art Photography

We've used cool online tools to generate words using photos of found objects, but we always wished we could create prints -- say, of our kids' names -- to take away and hang on our walls. Now, thanks ...

Family Tree by Famille Summerbelle

If you live far from your extended family -- or even if you don't -- here's a lovely way to help your child feel close to their loved ones. Designed by French-born and UK-based artist Julie Marabelle,...