captured and beautiful, in spite of me | austin lifestyle photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-09T17:51:13-06:00January 9th, 2010|My Family, Uncategorized|

I knew I wanted to make a collage of my iphone pics at the end of the year. thank you Michelle Nicoloff for this post, it totally inspired me 🙂

these moments would have been missed. gone before i grabbed my camera. too lazy to get up and go get it. little blurbs. little glimpses. of my people, my loves. these are the moments in my mind, even more so than the properly exposed and processed ones. imperfect, real. i got my iphone in july. i love it. i love that it forces me to accept the imperfections. i not only accept them, i embrace them. and i forgive myself for it. maybe that is why so many people are […]

explore | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-04T22:11:53-06:00January 4th, 2010|My Family|

While my mom was here we had a free day with not much planned so we decided to take the kids out exploring. Teagan and I have been to this particular sculpture garden several times before, we like to go out exploring new places while the older two are in school. He loves this place. It is peaceful, never overrun with people and he just has the space, time and energy to be a boy. I knew the older kids would love it too so we gathered up our fancy smanshy magnifying glasses and headed out.

Exploring involves leaves, rocks and sticks. Touching them, throwing them, dropping them into the water and […]

tonight | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-03T23:14:26-06:00January 3rd, 2010|My Family|

I’ve been grasping to Teagan’s baby days. And yet they are escaping me. He will be 2 in 37 days. But there are so many things I love about having a toddler boy in the house again. Rough. Tumble. Sweet. Dirty. Funny. The way he makes car noises with instinct. The way he clutches onto things with his chubby little hands and drags them with him everywhere he goes. His fascination over anything with wheels and dinosaurs and anything big or loud. He’s turning in to a boy. And I love it.

Tonight, as I laid down with him in his bed to read him a story, he clutched on to his favorite buzz lightyear glow in the dark flashlight. We […]