# 28: DC babies

Posted: April 8, 2009 
Filed under: Children, People
Tagged: Children, washington
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If I’m asked which subject I would like to be in my photos the most? Well, the answer is definitely “Children”, “baby”, or…whatever is cute or lovely like a puppy or kitten. Yeah, thoughts run through your mind: “Yeah yeah, I know, that is how female photographers are, they like things like soft, gentle..blah blah”, haha. You may be right, but I think, a woman always takes photos of children better than a man does! So, that means, each gender has its own advantage of approaching a subject or…different subjects. And sure means they have different styles, none of which can be compared. Each has its own value!

Everywhere I go, I always pay attention to the children around me.  Everywhere, from the rural areas, to the mountains, in the city, in the fields, or in…Washington DC. It was a wonderful day with load of sunshine, romantic cherry, happy people are all around, and happy children in wonderful dress are running, playing, smiling. I have always wished I could take beautiful children photos with great color tones and impressive light like those I saw on the webs. And that was the big chance! Since I came to New York, the weather has been horrible; the freezing wind, the naked trees, the gray sky…hell I just stayed inside rather than going out and dreaming of great color tones photos.

So, here we go, those are almost the first children photos I have ever taken in the “western world”. And hey there, I got it, I got some photos with the great “color tones and impressive light” I had ever dreamt about, haha. Happy me, hehe!

Dream In Color  – Bianca Ryan

Along the Potomac river...

A friend of mine said she loves this photo so much, cause it reminds of her childhood, with a soccer ball at her feet...

Posing for her little sister to take a photo

Or just going around the cherry tree for...me to take photo

Haha, as I was looking around to see if there was anything to shoot, I heard my mother screamed out: "Hey honey, come here, there's a baby on the cherry tree", and I rushed to her immediately. There, a baby was lifted up by his mother, he was trying to pick up as much flowers as he could. And pretty quick, I shot him, quite many, hehe!

He was curious with the flowers he had picked

And then, just....ate them!

Do you notice the little cherry flower in her hand? I would rather leave this one in colors, but since her parents had been distractive background, so I turned it into BW!

Playing kite at the Washington Monument, the kite was flying real low, hehe

The cropped BW version of the Potomac river girl

Those little girls are from the Vietnam Mission whom I went to DC with. They are sisters, quite playful, never stay in one place!

Haha, this is one of my favorite. I just like the view that this little baby was crawling alone among such so many "adults", with a great red carpet as "background". This photo was taken when I was at the Vietnam Embassy to celebrate our national Holiday, the Hung King's Anniversary, (our first King).

Oh, how cute...

And I LOVE this one, with the great tones and light I was talking about, hehe. I love her blond hair blowing in the sunshine!

Ooh hooh, and this one, too!!!!