Prom!

My son and his girlfriend are at prom tonight. She's a senior this year so there's an exciting buzz around my house and it was fun watching her get all prettied up and ready for the big night. My son just shaved his face, threw some gel in his hair and slipped on his tux 30 minutes before they had to leave and he looked gorgeous(must be nice!) It pretty much took her all day to get ready. And she started early this morning by going to have her hair styled and her makeup done. And she started everything before I even got out of bed this morning! Actually she started preparing weeks ago with the picking out the dress, shoes, hair accessoried, jewelry, wrist corsage and all the other little details.
I was surprised a few weeks ago when she asked me if I would take her senior pics (not cap and gown) at the Botanical Gardens. I've never taken pics for a special occasion. Certainly not pics that will need preperation with posing, light and all that stuff. I told her that I would, but not to expect much out of me because I am NOT a photographer by any means. I was a little worried that she was expecting these perfect pics to magically appear in her camera. But she assured me she was going to love whatever I did. So off we went. Thankfully my son (her boyfriend) went a long to help her pose and to help me figure out good angles. I really don't think my pics would have turned out very good if it wasn't for him. Who knew he had photography in his blood?!?! The Botanical Gardens were gorgeous that day, we walked around posing and taking pics of her and my son. Maybe a half hour after we arrived other people started showing up in droves wearing prom dresses and tuxes and photographers with there fancy big cameras to the garden. We had a hard time keeping them out of our pics and us keeping out of theirs. But we managed. One thing I thought was smart was she took a bag of clothes and accessories with her so she could change in between shots so as not to have all the pics with her in the same clothes. She changed in my car.
Well I think the pics turned out amazingly well after her and I got home that evening we edited them with a special program she new about. And I do believe I've fallen in love with her little digital camera. I had no idea a little camera like that could work so well.
Well here you go, I'm adding some of the pics to this blogg. We haven't edited all of them yet. I'll add more to my blogg as they're available.