Carrie Prewitt Photography

My son has a task at school called “Living and Non-Living”, where they are supposed to draw pictures of living and non-living things (he draws things like dinosaurs and rocketships.  No matter that dinosaurs were living but aren’t anymore… that’s just too complex.  What category would they go in anyway?  Ex-Living? But I digress…)

I am in love with a Non-Living thing… my brand new lens.  I have drooled over this lens for a year and I finally own it!  Top-of-the-line Canon EF mm f/1.2 L USM for those photogs amongst you.  Yes, be jealous.  This great lens is SO fast and quiet, and allows me fine depth-of-field control and superb low light shooting.  So my next clients are in for a treat. 

Here are the first shots from my new baby – William was too busy being Batman for lots of shots of him, but Caroline let me take some pictures of her.  And no, it isn’t some black-and-white lens, I was just in a black-and-white mood tonight when I developed them.

I even let my husband take a picture.  He did pretty well!

Here are a few images from our fabulous annual Halloween party.  What a perfect night – crisp and cool, but not so cool that the kids had to wear coats over their costumes like we always had to do as kids.  I still remember having to wear my boring old coat over my spectacular Isis costume when I was seven. Thanks, global warming!  All the kids ate pizza and cupcakes before trick-or-treating en masse (I’m sure the neighbors loved it when we swarmed their houses), and everyone had a great time.  I apologize to all the neighbors for my daughter announcing “I’m a bee!” and then walking straight into all their houses like she owned them – looking for more candy, I guess.  I didn’t get pictures of all the kids at the party, because my little bee was keeping me too busy to carry the camera around.  I could have carried the camera and my bee at the same time, but that pesky glass of wine kept getting in the way.  I don’t think I even saw my son, Jack Sparrow, the whole night, except as a blur running past.

And many thanks to all the guests who didn’t make too much fun of my last-minute Kmart witch costume that William picked out.  I don’t really think witches wore red and black velvet dresses with corset-style tops, but everyone was kind enough not to point that out. 

See you all next year!