Working on A Little Something!

Practicing with the zoom lens.

I wanted to wait for the condensation to start really beading up but I did not have the patience for it!

Bokeh!

So I bought this at work, it's one of those scented thingys because I LOVE the smell of the candle and this was significantly cheaper and I thought it would be nice for my room to smell like that.... Turns out it smells awful. I was playing with it a little bit and it looked really cool with a light under it! So it stinks but was a nice little prop. Hah! 

Last week was... Pretty horrible, to say the least, so I decided to do something to make myself feel better and start another video.

I wasn't sure what to actually make a video for, so I broke out the zoom lens for some practice. No rhyme or reason.

So anyway, there's a little project coming soon!

XOXO, Ness

Alex is 3! And Has Been for a While Now...

Alex Turns 3 from Vanessa Rutters on Vimeo.

So yeah, Alex turned three a few weeks ago. It's late. But I promise I have been working on it.

I have been trying for a WEEK to get the video done, but I SWEAR WITH THIS NEW IMOVIE!

I had to update operating systems a while back to El Capitan, and I have had nothing but issues ever since! If it's not one thing, it's another!

But anyways, before I went on vacation, I wound up buying the newest version of iMovie, which actually isn't too bad. There are a lot of things I like about it, a few I'm not so fond of, but with all the new functions available, I can learn to deal with it... For the most part.

I was unable to create a new iMovie. That's kind of a big problem. I have yet to call the iMovie people again, but I really need to. I wound up taking one of my old (basically deleted) projects and deleted the rest of it and started my new one.

Hopefully the geniuses that helped me the last time can help because this is infuriating.

But anyways...

Alex, you are one of my favorite people on the planet. You are beautiful, energetic, sweet, happy, polite, and adventurous and I am so happy that I could spend your third birthday with you! I love my Silly Goose and I can't wait to see him again! I hope he doesn't forget me!

XOXO Ness

SGI 2016 Video

I want to go back...

St. George Island 2016 from Vanessa Rutters on Vimeo.

XOXO, Ness

Missing the Beach Already

Rockin' Ella's shades. I believe the quote after he put them on was, "It's dark out here!"

Swim practice ;)

The happiest baby I've ever met!

Captain Adorable is right!

That little scrunched up nose!

Her flying hair creating a blurring effect... Kinda cool!

The girls!

And the guys!

This was the best I got of all the littles together...

Birthday Boy!

Mom was upset that there weren't any pictures on my camera of me...

My mom brought out my camera to take pictures of me, and I thought it was still on auto from the night before, but it wasn't... So all the pictures turned out kinda blue and way too white. I tried but I couldn't couldn't edit them to make them look normal so... black and white!!

Mr. Happy!

Every year I expect (mostly hope and pray) that family pictures will get better, easier, but every year they get even crazier.

This year, my main issue was the lighting! I knew, I told myself earlier in the week when I was out on the beach and saw the lighting: "Come out for pictures at 8."

I knew this, but when I saw the beach from the deck, there were still lots of sunny areas and shade covering, I thought, nooooo, 8:30 for sure! Also we had a minor wardrobe crisis and Eddie was in the middle of a nap, so I thought it would be perfect to wait until 8:30. Wrong!

Our group picture was in pretty good lighting, but the rest were kind of a disaster, in my eyes anyways.

For the first time in over a year, I had to switch to auto mode on my camera! It pained me to do it, but the lighting was just so bad, and getting worse by the minute, I didn't have time to fiddle with it!

So eh. They are what they are.

Missing the beach on my first day back to work! I'm already counting down to our trip next year!

XOXO, Ness