From my newborn session with my great-niece Layla Rose.
Matt is such a loving father.
He exudes care and concern with every movement.
This exemplifies how I see Matt as Father.
Holding his crying child with loving warm arms. Consoling, just letting her feel the warmth of his touch.
One of my favorites from that time we had together.
Oops, I almost forgot my photo of the day!
I spent a delightful afternoon with my niece Monica, her husband Matt (nice
name!) their daughter Cora and nine-day-old Layla Rose.
I was taking newborn photos of my great niece Layla. A learning experience
for me. Stretching my photohraphy skills.
This photo I took after all my “film” was filled up, with my Treo phone.
Handy to always have a camera with me in whatever form.
I’m laying in bed, about to start my nightly reading (ebooks on my Treo -
sure is a handy multi-purpose tool), and I remembered my POTD was not up.
I grabbed this picture off my phone’s memory and am emailing it to both
Flickr and my blog, from the Treo!
Did I mention that I’m a tech geek? 
Layla Rose was being admired by her sister Cora’s neighborhood friends.
Always a photo op!
* Sent from my Palm Treo 650
Well, I made it. This is for 3/29/2007 and it’s just after Midnight of the 30th. Still at work, swapping workstations and configuring the new ones for folks to work on tomorrow at 7AM.
This is Charlie - One of my great-nephews. I have several.
One of the advantages of being the last of 8 siblings is having a big extended family!
The guitar that Charlie is playing is my old 6-string Applause (made by same folks, and looks like an Ovation).
The neck on this beast is made of cast aluminum. including the frets as I found out. I wore grooves into the frets. Wore them down so far, that the strings started buzzing against the fingerboard. I tried to fix it myself with epoxy and that didn’t work. I guess I could have ordered a new neck from somewhere, but the prices I was seeing were more than the original cost of the guitar.
So.. I bought a new one, and had this one sitting around.
Charlie’s dad and mom, Chris and Katherine, are musicians first in their hearts.
I saw that Charlie would love to come over and play this guitar, even when it buzzed. He didn’t know the difference.
I decided to give it to him as a play toy.
Not wanting his fingers to be accidentally cut, I took the strings off.
Uncles are good for some things.
Old guitars being one of them.
Chris, my son, needed a portrait taken for his new job.
After a wonderful taste-testing party at the kitchen of their caterer for the upcoming wedding, we went to Washington Park for a short shoot.
This is the best portrait I have of Chris.
I love the look of his eyes, and the slight smile.
On my Flickr pages there are more photos from the shoot.
From the past again.
Been busy. =)
From my first paid gig as a photographer.
I can’t take credit for the composition. It was Mom’s idea!
One thing I’ve learned, is to listen to Mom. 
I think it turned out quite nice.
Taken last August in the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Nice location.
Beautiful Niece.
What more can I say?
We had fun. I learned a bunch. Family hugs were shared.
And, this photo is one that was picked.
Combined birthday party for Karen’s brother Tom, and his sons Tyler and Conor.
The boys and Jennie played HORSE - a basketball game - you gain a letter in the word horse for each time you miss a shot from the same place the last successful shooter made.
Fun family time.
I like this shot, because the only view of the basketball is in the shadow behind Conor.
Sometimes they just appear before your eyes.
Sweet!