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

Kinzi's and her friend Arica spent the day together. I got this picture of them and practiced my post-processing in Lightroom.

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It's been a while. Blogging took a back seat for a while but now I have things to share so maybe it will pick up. These are photographs I took last weekend with my new camera lens. I'm trying to learn how to do everything manual. I took over 100 pictures.....made 1000 mistakes and these are the only one that turned out remotely ok. The little girl in one of the pictures is Kinzi's friend from school.

This one really shows what the lens can do. I focused tight on his nose and then you'll see the blur all the way out. No funny jokes about him looking like a sheep dog right now!

This was the best shot of the day technically. I had to do very little post processing.

Nathan tolerating mom.....again.

Boy does Kinzi like to pose. She's now giving me suggestions.

Up close and shocking....her hair is in her face!

Loved this tree.

Since she is my tree hugger, she thought she would hug the tree.

This pose was her idea on the next two pictures. I thought it was great. My skill however wasn't so good and you can see that sun spot in the first one.....darn it! Technically, the second one is better. I still like the pictures.

They were getting goofy at his point!

Yep, still goofy!

I hope you liked them.

Hi All!

Here's Nathan version (not complete yet) of the mosaic picture. I'm not happy with the words yet so I still have some work to do on thoses.

Same credits as last time...everything is by Taylor Made Designs at Oscraps.

Happy New Year and Scrapbook Pages

Happy New Years in about 2 1/2 hours for us! We are now 4 for 4 on everyone getting sick. Nathan and Kinzi were sick all last week with colds and coughs...then I came down with it on Sunday....and now Chuck has come down with the same thing today. Boo Hoo!

I started working with my new copy of Photoshop CS4 today and did a couple of tutorials to get use to the new product. I upgraded from Photoshop Elements to Photoshop CS4.

The first one is just awesome. I'll be doing the same thing for Nathan before long. What's so cool about this layout is that I used one picture only.

I used Taylor Made designs tutorial to make this layout. The products I used Taylor Made Touch Grey Papers - Ivory and flax. Vicki Stegall and Taylor Made Wordart. Feistuff butterfly and brush strokes. Paper Blocks by Emily Merrit at We are Storytellers.

Everything I used for this layout came from Taylor Made Fallen Sun Kit.

Ignoring my blog

Hi everyone! Boy, it's been a long time since I updated the blog. I'll try to get some pictures up later this week. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Nathan and Kinzi were sick last week and I've caught their germs this week. I have a terrible cold and cough. We had a wonderful Christmas and the kids received some nice things from Santa. My mom visited from Clovis. We've been doggy sitting our friend's dog,,,,she is Scruffy's litter mate....her name is Lizzy. We've had a cold week but we are back up to 80 degrees today. I still have to write The Blank Chronicles for 2008. Just wanted to let you know we were still around!