The Hawk

Well now, toady's post will not have a photo attached. I have been busy working on getting stuff done and I haven't had much time with my camera in hand. :( Yesterday was a nice day -no rain- Vic was out cleaning up debris from the rain. Mostly dirt, mud, and stuff like that. A hawk flew in the tree and sat there for the longest time. It was so cool. I went in and by the time I got my camera, it was gone. Later i saw it again sitting in the tree. I went in again to retrieve the camera, and it was gone again. I was so bummed, it was a beautiful bird. It stood out in the tree because there aren't any leaves in them right now. Maybe today i might see this beautiful bird. :)

Birthday Cake

This was a photo that I took over the weekend at my Mom's birthday party. There is a new cake store in Los Gatos that make absolutly beautiful cakes! It was YUMMY too. I took some pics of it before we cut into it. I like the softness of it and the blurred background. I dont recal what i had the camera set on, but I know it was low and I had the ISO up to 1600. with no flash.

Well today I was playing while Vic was mowing the 'weeds' in the front. I caught the sun right before it hid behind the hill. I like the sun in this pic. I did use the cross filter on my 18-55mm lens. I had it zoomed in to 55mm.

Worm on the hook

This pic I took a while back when we were fishing at a friends house. I was scrolling through looking for something and it found me again. I love how you see the worm squirming on the hook and how dirty the hands are.

A beautiful sight

This is a scrapbook page I did as a challenge over on Scrapmatters.com. It was the 'roadmap to scrap challenge". I like how this page turned out, it makes my baby seem so much older. sigh.....
Credits:simply sweet designs-all in white kit.

Puppy Time

Well here is a shot I took the other day of one of my dogs. Actually she is my hubby's dog. He was outside and she was standing guard of everything. I will say that she is easy to photograph. The other one is very different, he sees my camera and he runs.

This year, I am going to try and do better at listing my camera settings when I post a picture. That way, it will help me when I go back and look at a photo. I also am going to try and shoot a series of photos on a daily basis if not every other day. It may be something as trival as the dog, or an object. Who knows. :)

Settings on my camera: f:5.6, 1/60s, ISO 100 @ 135mm

Working on White Balance

Well today I was outside watching Vic dig another hole in the backyard. He is building a fence and I had the camera with me to take some photos of his hard work. So I was lying in the back of his truck bed and was goofing off with the camera. I was playing around with this tree that is on the property line and seperates our house and the neighbors. There are 2 different pictures of the same tree, but with different settings. I like how the golden colors came out in the leafs. Believe it or not, the oak tree hasn't lost all of its leafs yet.

This one is set at the standard mode(my camera, i can tell it standard, landscape, neutral, or portrait-these are not 'auto' modes you turn on top of the camera.) I changed the kelvin white balance to 9100, dropped the ISO to 125 and set the camera at F.9, 1/25s, at zoommed in to 44 mm.



This one, i changed it to a neutral setting, changed the kelvin white balance to 8600, kept the ISO at 125, f.8 and 1/30s zoomed in at 28mm.

It is fun to play with the white balance. I did absolutely no editing on the computer. I simply downloaded. I think I am understanding it more and more I play around with it. I did some in the snow the other day, that was hard because it was too bright white.

A new day and a new year!

Well we celebrated our new year by spending the day in the snow with friends. We found a great snow park about an hour and half from our house. I was sitting on the snow (because my foot was killing me.) and was snapping away pictures of the kids and adults have a snow fight. I thought the sled was an interesting object to photograph. I like how bright orange it is against the white snow.

I hope everyone had a wonderful new year and that 2009 will bring all wonderful blessings.