Rock Climbing Kids

For my birthday I wanted to take my niece and nephews rock climbing, they all love it and I like that it gets them away from video games for a while and doing something active. The place we go to is called the Climbnasium and it is basically a barn with rock climbing walls everywhere. The lighting is challenging to say the least. But I managed to get some pretty decent shots.

Conner with a look of pure terror on his face.


Kayla Tackling the curved wall.


Aidan rocking the wall.


Noah made it half way up the slanted wall!


Kayla taking a break half way up the 40ft. wall.


Kayla making it to the top of the 40ft. wall!

Conner and Aidan hanging from the ceiling




Aidan doing what he does best, making a funny face for the camera.


And Noah is done...

Best Buddies

I was just playing around the one day and took a bunch of pictures of the dogs playing. This is what happens when I am bored out of my mind and haven't taken photos in a while. Don't ask me why I made them all B&W, cause I really don't know.









And now nap time...

More Flowers!

I had the pleasure of meeting some fellow photo nerds at Longwood Gardens today to take some pretty pretty pictures of flowers. I wasn't as thrilled with my photos today as I have beenin the past, but I still got some fairly decent shots. So here they are...

A Few Favorites

Since I haven't had time to update the ole' blog a whole lot the past couple months I have decided to just pick a few of my favorites that span what I have been doing lately. so here goes:

In the beginning of December I rented two lenses, a 100mm macro and a 11mm-16mm ultra wide angle lens, to get a feel for what I wanted to buy next. I ended up loving both of them, and buying neither.

I used the UWA lens to take pictures of the famous Star Barn, here is my favorite of those shots:

And I took the Macro lens to Longwood Gardens:

This year something happened that had only happened two other times in history, a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice. So obviously I had to drag Garry out in the middle of the night and take pictures until 3am in the freezing cold. Here are the two composites that I am going to frame and hang b/c I was so happy with them.

Two of my very good friends had a baby in November and I asked them if they would allow me to take some newborn shots of the little guy. They were very nice and agreed. Turns out I am not the greatest at newborn photography. But I did luck into a few goods shots. This is my favorite:


In October a friend of mine from high school asked me to take some photos of her brand new engagement ring. I was more than happy to oblige:




And I took one of her puppy Jinx too. This guy was so excited I am frankly amazed I got this shot.

Christmas Photos

I haven't been posting too much on here because life keeps getting in the way of my hobbies. Don't you hate it when that happens? But I have been doing as much shootng as I possibly can. Over the next couple days I will update with some of the things I have been up to lately. But for now I just want to love on my Christmas photos.

I adore Christmas. Even more than the actual holiday, I love having my family all around and together. So here are some of the photos I have edited from Christmas Eve. I haven't even started on the ones from Christmas day yet, but I can gaurentee they are coming.

I am still obsessed with the warm b&w conversions, and I feel like I have been getting them down pretty well. I decided to do all of the Christmas photos in b&w because my various settings were just all over the place trying to capture the moment. b&w just seemed like the easiest way to get them to look uniform. So here is my Christmas Eve 2010:

Pops and Kolby are not amused with my constant snapping of pictures

Big Sis Jess and her boyfriend Joe discussing something of great importance with someone

Kolby wants desperately to be let into the adult room with all the breakables and the big tree

Who me? I'm not trying to escape

Mom giving Kolby some Nana love

Joe giving Kolby a flying lesson

That is all for now. I promise more posts from now on.

Random Monday

I haven't been posting a whole lot of pictures lately because I have been really busy with my ever exciting health sagas. But that is a story for another blog, we are here for pictures!

I am really happy with how I have been improving both on the picture taking front and on the editing front. I feel like I have come a long way. I have no real aspirations to be a pro photographer, but it is nice to know this hobby isn't going to waste. If nothing else we are going to have very well photographed memories for my whole family. So here are some completely random pictures from the past couple weeks:

My sister's dog Cody relaxing on the sofa


Conner and Kayla checking out one of the horses. I love the sun-flare I got on this one.


Conner finally giving me a decent smile and sitting still for more than five seconds!


Noah on his skateboard


Meg and Conner looking very cute


And one just because I need to get Aidan some more air time.


Some flowers from my local garden center




And a bridge near my parents' house