Professional Portraits Photos and new web album

Here are three of the professional portrait photos we had taken a few weeks ago. We got a lot of pictures taken (all in the course of 15 minutes) and ordered several prints, but these are the three pictures where we purchased the digital files allowing us to print our photos, post them here on the blog, etc. We know two of the pictures are very similar, but we just couldn't pick one over the other. The third picture is now our "official" family portrait.

We were very happy with the whole experience and the pictures taken and would definitely recommend the photographer, Tricia Koning, to anyone in Chicago looking for professional photos. It wasn't exactly cheap, but it's not like we are going to do this all the time (though it seemed some of the people there were doing EXACTLY that). Her email is tkoning@sbcglobal.net.

I use Google's Picasa for all my photo organizing and highly recommend it. They just added a new feature called "Web Albums" which allows you to post a large number of photos on a special webpage. I know it's nothing special or unique, but it's so convenient they way they have it tied into the program--much like this blogging feature (I probably would have never started this blog if it wasn't integrated into Picasa). Anyway if you'd like to see a bunch of photos of Ian without my notes, comments and musings...Ian ala carte if you will, goto the appropriately named...(wait for it)...Ian's Pictures at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/GrooveDirk/IanSPictures

And enjoy!