The Smokies

November 30, 2015 Deby Ciui (Chewy)Leave a comment

Happy Belated Thanksgiving to everyone! I just got back home from the mountains. The good ol’ Smokies. I have been to these mountains in Tennessee but never had a chance to go through and take pictures of the scenic route. It’s been a long day today. A lot of driving.

7… the number of hours I was in a car.

340… number of miles from my apartment to Knoxville,

and…

43… the total number of SEMI trucks I had to pass before getting home. I don’t like semi-trucks. They are road hogs that take up the entire high-way. But I am home now. All’s well. And I’m exhausted.

Enjoy the pictures.

Mini Models

August 24, 2015 Deby Ciui (Chewy)Leave a comment

Life is always an adventure.

One of the biggest adventures in life that I have seen is family. All families are different all people see things different. Even identical twins (although they may look the same) usually have very different personalities. My family is always growing either by us ‘adopting’ someone as part of our family and just bringing them in and welcoming them with open arms or by the many nieces and nephews I always have. Some of these are getting older some are being born now, either way they are all different even when they look the same. And lets face it kids are hilarious.

I held a mini photo shoot with some of my nieces and nephews so here are my mini models. Gotta love them.

Oldest niece is going to be a heart breaker.

New baby nephew, just a few weeks old.

silliness

I could take hundreds of pictures of these big blue eyes and still never have enough.

They’re not twins I promise.

The oldest of my nieces and nephews.

Photography

Family

February 20, 2015 Deby Ciui (Chewy)2 Comments

It’s not often that I take photos of people. I’m more of a nature, outdoors, strange objects photographer. It’s not that I don’t like taking pictures of people, I just prefer taking candid shots rather than poses and most people are Camera-phobic so they don’t really like me doing that. But I recently went to our family ‘reunion’ (it’s so large we’ll never get the whole family) and as the photographer in the family I am expected of course to take pictures. So I did what I usually do, took some candid shots. Quick, “Hey Look!” shots without giving them time to stop and pose. Obviously there are some that are posed but sometimes you just have to and I have some nieces and nephews who pose as soon as they see the camera. I did do some photo-editing with these as well, again something I rarely do, but I felt like experimenting. I’m not putting as many pictures as usual. I find that less is often more. Majority of these pictures are of my nieces/nephews.