Goats!

As I mentioned before, I have a friend who makes and sells homemade goats-milk soap.
Their goats had kids a few weeks ago, and just a few days after the first couple were born, they invited us out to come see and take pictures of them!

 Goats are indeed well known for eating clothes, but this baby goat wasn't eyeing the skirt as potential food-

They were more interested in snuggling!  = )

As I've never been around baby goats before, I wasn't sure quite what to expect, so I was rather surpriseed when one of them rammed his little head gently into my knee like a puppy!

In fact, they were a lot like puppies, except that they didn't lick you, though they would kinda nibble on your fingers if you held them out...

This is Rachel.  =)

Caught this one trying to be 'grown up' and eat sticks or leaves from the mulch pile!

We spent most of the time running up and down the mulch pile, with them leaping, jumping and falling after us.  ;)

Somehow, it seems like this picture needs a caption; cause the one on the right looks like he's plotting something for his sister... 

Hope you all enjoyed those as much as we did!
Next I'll have another post or two of the spring foliage, then a post on the wedding I shot. =)


Through His Grace,

                               ~Jenny

Meadowland Designs and Mamba Bars // Open house

 Product photography.

I haven't really done much in this area of photography, but now that I've had the chance to play around with it at the open house my sister hosted to sell her jewelry. I look forward to doing more of it! My 1.8-50mm lens is ideal for this kind of photography, when you need mostly close ups, and the ability to shoot with a large aperture is greatly appreciated in the low light setting.

When photographing the jewelry from Meadowland Designs, I got to play with color, shapes, and light in the display of the jewelry. Not to mention the bokeh-licous sparkle of the crystals in many of her designs! Fun, fun, fun. 

We also invited our friend Rachel, who lives on a hobby farm, to come and sell the goatsmilk soap that she makes.

When photographing the soaps from Mamba Bars, I really enjoyed playing with the repeating elements of the labels, pumps, and, the bars themselves. It's really too bad pictures can't convey scent as well, but I can tell you that they smelled amazing!

Both of these entrepreneurs have worked hard at developing their businesses and have done a great job with their products, so you might mosey along to their sites and find out more about them. =)

God Bless!

                                   ~Jenny  =)