Addison's first photo shoot

I know everyone says that their nieces are the cutest, but I have photographic evidence to support my claim! I had the good fortune of going home for three weeks at Christmas to meet my one month old niece, and she was even sweet enough to pose for some photos for me. Here she is in all her tiny glory, the next time I see her she better have some more fat rolls because nothing is cuter than a chubby baby. I can't wait to see her again, but at least I have these photos to refer back to whenever I miss her little face. Stay tuned for photos from Thailand...I need to get caught up because 2014 is going to be a fantastic year for travel. We're heading to Penang, Malaysia in February, Hawaii in March, and Hong Kong in April. Hopefully, I'll be able to make the time to get those posts up sooner than the 3+ months it's taken to get to the Thailand photos.

Where have I been lately? On Instagram!

Hello beloved blog and followers, and happy 2014. It has been on the back of my brain for several weeks to bring you all the photos that I have been shooting and posting on Instagram, (gasp!) I know, I know, it's not my blog and it seems like I've been cheating on my blog, but now the best of both worlds have been brought together. If you're a fan of the 'gram follow me @taylorhhayden, my friend Lucie, fellow planet Shanghai resident, and I have been trying to post a photo a day to Instagram using #lntphotoaday (stands for Lucie and Taylor photo a day, and for the less social media literate readers, the unique hashtag allows us to keep track of our photos and for our HUGE fan base to keep track too, but mostly just us). Check out Lucie's work here, we haven't managed to post every single day, but we have come darn close. By my estimation, today is the 278th day, leaving us less than 100 days in our quest, and bringing me closer to posting 1,000 photos on Instagram. Either way, it has gotten me thinking about taking pictures regularly and I will have a cool and impressive (if I do say so myself) collection of photos from the past year when we finish! All this Instagram talk is boring you by now, but don't worry I haven't abandoned my DSLR for my iPhone entirely. I have photos from the USA this summer, Thailand in October, and my beautiful brand new niece this winter (!), sitting on hard drives and flash disks just waiting to be processed in photoshop! This Saturday I will be toning, and catching up on American Horror Story, and toning some more, and then bringing those photos to you beautiful people on the web. I'm also going to share more of the photos hiding away on my iPhone as we gallup toward the year of the horse (see what I did there?). I hope you and yours are staying warm whether you're in Shanghai or a victim of the polar vortex, and if you're in a warmer climate than the aforementioned, I'm jealous. See you out here in the blogosphere again very soon.