Arwen's Photography

Mr. Sam Gamgee, born on July 4, 2016!

Three cheers for summer, complete with shooting water guns at big sisters (Eowyn and Legolas), scattered camping trips (for Galadriel), baseball games (for Aragorn, Gimli, and Galadriel), visits to Chicago (me), and overdue mothers (Mom)! 

Pretty chaotic, but they are hard to make out in real life. Taken with an iPhone :)

Today we took our annual end-of-the-school year trip to the zoo and I got this pic of the penguins.

Alfie and Zorro. They are not too popular, and I don't really blame anyone. When I tried to take pictures of Zorro... Zorro bites. (She was trying to bite the camera). And kicks. And is generally shy and unfriendly. She's pretty, with her glossy black coat and beautiful brown eyes, but she's mean. Plus she's jet black, which makes her hard to photograph (especially with an iPhone which - I know, I know - I need to stop using).  But I tried...  Alfie is friendlier, but he was never too sweet from the start. He's my bunny, so I love him, but if I randomly picked a bunny out of the cage to hold, it would probably be Pip or Coconut. He doesn't bite as much, but he does kick, which is usually painful. What Alfie really likes to do is eat and I could not get a good picture of him eating. If bunnies aren't friendly they are hard to get pictures of, for some reason! Because I got some really cute ones of Coconut: I think since they

My brothers share a bedroom, and for years there was a birds nest on their windowsill. It was so fun and amazing to see the shiny blue eggs up close...and over time watch them acquire cracks...and then to have wet scrawny baby robins only a few inches away! Unfortunately when we replaced all of our windows, we had to remove the nest. But the window-replacer built a little platform and put it next to the windowsill. Alas, it had human scent on it and the birds never built a new nest on it. But this spring they decided to build a nest on the other side of the windowsill! So now we have two little robins-eggs again!  Taken with an iPhone. I will get better pictures up I promise! I like the angle and the detail in this picture. I also think it is cute how the two eggs are side by side...two siblings together like peas in a pod:) I think it would look nice in black and white, but then you wouldn't be able to get the perfect robin's-egg blue. I took one anyway, and I like how

Coconut (a girl) and Pip (a boy) are probably the two most popular, and sweet, bunnies in the neighborhood! They're both albino. Pip is the smallest of our four bunnies and belongs to Legolas. When Rosie got Coconut for her fifth birthday, the whole family was excited. But none loved the bunnies as much as Legolas! Rosie soon became annoyed because she hardly got to play with her bunny alone, because Legolas was constantly begging to hold her. So my parents decided to get him one. They also picked up Aragorn's bunny, Zorro. When they brought Pip home, Legolas wouldn't spend a minute without him. He even tried taking Pip to bed with him! Princesses! This is my sister Rosie holding Coconut last August. We made a little clover crown for her. These photos are all taken with an iPhone and not edited.  My sister Eowyn with Pip. This is Pip - so cute! Pip. This would have been a better picture if I had edited out the mailboxes. If I get a good editing sof

Reina is a very sweet dog who loves to cuddle with us on the couch. She has never bit and has hardly ever growled. Last June, we bought her from a family who lives close by. They bred their black labradoodle with a ginger-colored poodle. Their website is  here . You can see more pictures of Reina and all of the other puppies at their website. Reina's name used to be Bonnie. (P.S. They thought that we were going to name her Maisie, but we were only considering that name). There were only three black dogs and one girl. Since us kids wanted a black dog and my parents wanted a girl, Reina was the one for us:) There were many debates over her name, but we finally decided on Reina from a character in a favorite book - The Winged Watchmen. She is extremely smart and yes, often naughty - she loves to steal food off of the tables and from the little kids (she ate all of my Easter candy) and she tries hard to escape from the house. She adores playing with her brother, Casey (previously Mick