Ahmed is FIVE!

A couple of weeks ago my sweetest love Ahmed turned five. It was really exciting and emotional for me; amazingly the years flew fast and my baby is quickly growing into a gentleman - a naughty one! 

I celebrated my five years of motherhood by jamming my instagram feed with the photos following from the past five years, lots of them was too difficult to choose and I expressed my unlimited and unconditional love to him so honestly <3

He celebrated his birthday at school with his friends and a superhero cake that he allowed me to photograph before he went to school - this was my present as he no longer allows me to photograph him.

He keeps surprising me of how intelligent he is yet so caring about me and his loved ones. I always feel so bad to ground him when being naughty and he knows how to make a deal to get what he wants - negotiator!

We wrapped the day of me showing him his photos and all the lovely birthday wishes he got. I also explained to him how photographs record our beautiful memories - I hope that makes an impact!

Fashion Photography

I had an amazing opportunity to shoot for a local fashion designer - Daziaa. I enjoyed doing something different (much easier than kids) and building my portfolio.

Thanks to the great model who new what she should do; that really helped!

I was really exhausted that I spent 5 hours shooting and would have continued to if my 16GB wasn't full. Even though I was tired I couldn't wait to reach home and rush in the editing process to handover the entire shoot in two days.

I hope you love the photos as much as I did :)

Motion Blur

8/12... We are getting to there! This month's CM Blog circles was motion blur... Hmmmm I usually try to freeze the moment so sharp!

For motion blur I decided to play with my lensbaby! it works perfect for motion, I had a few shots but preferred this of my cousin.

Please head over to Claire Saidon's Blog for more motion blur!

Around Here

I've been away for so long, so many things happening and not a single day that I didn't think about A Spoon of Life!

Lots of photos taken, lots of online photography learning and workshops taken, and lots of work accomplished!

I can't believe that there is no peak of our new home over here! there are still some messy areas but its only a few hours work if only there were a few extra hours over the 24 hours in my day. I've been dreaming about those extra few hours those days! working day and night on something that I'm revealing here today!! YAAY!

Yes!! Did you notice the last watermark?! I'm starting my Portrait Photography Business!! After a very long thought and a really deep study and lots of hard work!

Have a look at my first and fully developed by myself business website; www.saraalkiyumi.com!

Whats going to happen here? No, I'm not planning to let go of my personal blog! I will still post here!

A Day Through Lensbaby

Lensbaby! A dream come true! I've been in doubt, on and off for So.Long. Finally decided that its something I should try and got the composer pro with sweet 35 optic and a macro kit that I still haven't touched.

It was a long wait to make a decision and a long wait to receive it as well. What annoyed me is that there where no shipment tracking online.

I'm loving it so much so far and thinking that it should be the lens on my camera for a while!

Orange Sky

I noticed this beautiful orange sky yesterday on our way back home and thought that I really need to pull over and have a few back-lit photos, then I remembered this empty space near our place and decided to take the kids there. Not the best location to capture the beautiful sky but good enough to let them run and be free while I shoot as much photos as I could (turned out to be more than a 100!!)

It was really. so. difficult. for me to pick the photos that I picked - really wanted to put them all on the blog!!

Ahmed is 4

"Come to me my love, stop crying. It's me, Mama. I love you so much" My first words to my handsome baby four years ago!

Couldn't sleep before sharing the photos!!

Portraits

Last week was extremely busy! I had the week off which was great to spend sometime with the boys <3 

It started off with the rainy weather and floods in some regions, I was worried that my husband wouldn't be able to come back from the oilfield, but he did :)

We enjoyed morning coffees out after dropping Ahmed to school - I really love to go out for breakfast and coffee!!!

Then it was my best friend's wedding!!

It was a busy week but my  camera kept snapping beautiful memories of my family, here are portraits of the boys. Black and white mood <3