Today's Photo Shoot

The kids and I went on a mini photo shoot today. The ones I previously posted didn't have any post processing but I've worked on these a tad bit. Let me know what you think!

Photography Heaven

I've been in photography heaven lately. I've joined a couple of groups where you post a picture a day and people give you feedback. Here are the links if you want to see them.

http://clnkblank.smugmug.com/?preview=1

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clnkblank/

We attended a meeting this week about high school and signed Nathan up at the same school. Everything is going great but it gets tougher from here on out but he seems more than ready.

Chuck is going to have surgery on this foot again at the end of April. The tendon is leaking fluid, he has a cyst and stitches are still in there from the previous surgery. Yikes! Chuck is just hoping that this time it will be better.

Kinzi went to a birthday party for twins at her school last night and we went to my best friends son's birthday party as well.

The weather has been beautiful in Tucson.

We scalped Scruffy today....poor baby!

BTW...if you only get this via a newsletter in your email...your missing my new banner on the blog and you should check it out....it's very cool!

Photographs

Hi All!

As most of you know I've been really getting into my camera and trying to learn to take pictures better in manual mode. Yesterday, after I dropped the kids off at school, I went to a park and took pictures of sculptures and plants. I'm pretty pleased with this set....my focusing is getting a lot better. What do you think?


This isn't necessarily the best pictures but it shows our snow on the mountains that lasted less than 24 hours. I like the palm trees in front of the snow.

This picture may not be exciting to you but I'm thrilled because I can read the numbers on the faucet....that's a big improvement for me.

Yep...just rust....but rust that is in focus!

Yep...just a FOCUSED handle.

I thought the purple was so pretty in this cactus.

Just a broader view of the cactus.

This is my absolute favorite picture of the day.....it is a mom holding a child's hand. It's a bronze sculpture at the park.

Just another view but this time holding the dad's hand.

Agave needles......yep........in focus! Do you see where I'm going with this?

Yet another in focus sculpture.

Hope you enjoyed them!

I'm finally getting around to working on my Christmas Scrapbook pages. Here are most of them. I have two or three more that I'm still working on...I'll post as soon as I have them completed. I still haven't even started the Blank Chronicles Newsletter. Yikes! I'm getting very slow!

I'm suppose to post credits when I use other people's templates and kits and I will when I get a chance but I wanted to get these posted right away!

Credits: O Christmas Tree Template by K. Pertiet and Paper and Elements by Mindy Terasawa - Christmas Dreams both from Designer Digitals

Credits: Paper and Elements by Ellie Last; blog Xmas give away, Word Art - North Pole Smack by Kellie Mize, We Are Storykeepers, Word Strips - K. Pertiet, Designer Digitals and Stiches by Anna Aspnes at Desginer Digitals

Credits: Teamplate by Ali Edwards, December Daily Layered Templates, Designer Digitals and Paper and Elements by Taylor Made Design, Shine On Kit, Oscraps

Credits: Paper and Frame by Taylor Made Design, Shine On kit at Oscraps, Word Art by TMD and Sue Cummings, True Magic Christmas II at Oscraps, Elements by Tracy Ann Digitals, Frippery Wisps 4

Credits: Template by K. Pertiet, Posted Memories at Designer Digitals and Messy Stamped Alpha