AC Hall Photography Blog

Neighborhood Festivities | Purcellville, VA

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:48:26 +0000

There are so many reasons to love where I live. The best one is the people who are around me. On Monday night, many of us sat out in the driveway and shared sparklers and any other firework purchases we’d made. It turned into a second celebration! I love these moments because they are creating the kind of childhood memories of community that I’ve always wanted for my family. Thank you friends!

Happy Father’s Day

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:32:47 +0000

This is for my own Romeo. I love you.

Date Night | Round Hill, Virginia

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:34:46 +0000

We have a babysitter and it’s date night. Let’s see if I can get his attention with these….

Yep, that’ll work. And then maybe he’ll rub my feet for me when we get home. {wink}

Play Time | Purcellville, Virginia | Child Photographer

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:24:06 +0000

Spent some time photographing some of the neighborhood children at play yesterday with my 100mm lens. Today it was my turn to play in Lightroom to see what I could do. Here are some of my favorites.

What is family?

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:19:39 +0000

What is family to you? Now is the time to savor yours.

Thank you to Sandy Puc for allowing the world to see what you do and inspiring me to try to do it too.

Cheers!

Fresh. Summer. Goodness | Bluemont, Virginia | AC Hall Photography

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:04:44 +0000

Fresh Summer Strawberries

Yummy goodness. The only way these could be better is if they were dipped in chocolate. A personal favorite!

If you are local and want to pick strawberries this season, head to Great Country Farms before the weekend. Or get there first thing Saturday morning before the crowds pick it all over. But they sure are sweet on the vine! Every single one I popped in my mouth today was divine.

Cheers!

Summer is coming! Get prepared…

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:11:58 +0000

One of my girlfriends was showing me her BrainQuest cards the other night and another gal pal mentioned they have them at Costco. I thought they’d make a fun summer companion around my house and in the car so I took a trip to my local Costco yesterday. They were out of the BrainQuest stuff but they had these fun workbooks.

They come in a set of two books for about $14. One book is for the kids to use during the school year next year and one is for them to use this summer to keep the information they’ve already learned from leaking out of their little heads over the summer. What’s cool is that you can start the books NOW. My kids will be in kindergarten, first and third grades next year so I purchased those sets. Included is the pre-kindergarten, the pre-first grade and the pre-third grade.

You would have thought I bought them ice cream with how excited they were about these workbooks! Each child asked if we could start in the books that day! Naturally, I said yes.

The workbook series pictured above ran from kindergarten through fifth grade – at least from what my local store had on display that day. In addition to those, they had some other supplemental workbooks.

I picked up the set on animals and crafts because that is something my kids all love. These were $11 for two. They also had some on geography, math, and a few other titles I can’t recall.

I flipped through them when I got them home and I’m pretty pleased with the purchase. If you’re interested in finding things to do during the summer – either at home in the AC while it’s too hot out to play or while your family is traveling – I think these are a good deal and worth the money.

Cheers!

Mommy Rhapsody

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:45:41 +0000

Just caught wind of this fun little video. For all the Mommies out there – this one is for you.

Jealous.

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:40:46 +0000

Will you think less of me if I admit to you that I’m jealous of a two year old? Look at this hair and tell me you’re not the least bit green with envy…

Test Shots

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:49:03 +0000

Today I went to the preschool to get set up for the photo shoot tomorrow. I’ll be taking class pictures again this year for them and I wanted to make sure I was ready to go first thing tomorrow morning. While I was setting up the camera, my two test models had a sweet moment in front of my lens….

Sometimes you just get lucky. And today was apparently my lucky day!

Cheers!