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The Auction: Part 2

September 23, 2009

My grandma is your stereotypical grandmother. She cooked, sewed, and quilted. She LOVED to sew and was always sewing something. Usually she had several different projects going at once. One Christmas she made all thirteen grandchildren quillows. I have no idea how long she spent sewing those things but I love mine.

Isn’t it amazing how books can instantly help you relive how you felt when you read them? I loved, loved, LOVED reading The New Junior Classics set when I was on the farm. My grandparents had a huge library of books. When you were in the middle of nowhere Kansas there wasn’t much to do as a child except read, read, read and although there were a ton of books there weren’t a lot that appealed to a child except for these. I remember pouring over every page and soaking in these stories. I won this set in the auction and I was so glad to get them. I can’t wait to start reading these to my daughter soon.

I loved the Little Golden Books, they were some of my favorite stories growing up.

Turtle!

May 30, 2009

OK so it’s not a real turtle but still who doesn’t love them???

Froggies!!

November 4, 2008

Concrete Block

October 26, 2008

Clock

October 21, 2008

Street Light

October 18, 2008

Out the Window

October 17, 2008

Tag

October 14, 2008

My girlfriend Carrie tagged me

5 Joys
1. Taking pictures (duh!)
2. Playing with my dog
3. Watching a thunderstorm
4. Traveling
5. Diving

5 Fears
1. Spiders
2. Car break downs
3. Tornadoes
4. Financial worries
5. Loss of a loved one

5 Obsessions
1. Lost – don’t interrupt me in the middle of an episode if you value your head
2. I love getting a great deal
3. I LOATHE vacuuming and matching up socks
4. Reading
5. Wine and cheese

5 Surprising Facts
1. I am a huge pyro, like I could light a whole book of matches just to watch them burnhuge pyro. Not sure what I’m going to do when I have kids…
2. I am the world’s biggest klutz.
3. I try to pretend I’m not a tech geek.
4. I hate cleaning
5. My husband ‘fake proposed’ to me the first day he met me because he was impressed I played Halo and Golden Eye.

Hmmm….who should I tag?

Beth at Charlie and Beth
Michelle at Who is Like G0d
Kala at Option 2 Plan B

Didn’t think I’d post without a picture did you?

What do You Call This?

October 6, 2008

One Year Anniversary

October 2, 2008

The Nascar race was nostalgic for me as it marked one year since I first purchased my Canon Rebel XTi. I didn’t have this blog back then but I decided to take a trip down memory lane and list the top 5 things I think have helped in improving my photography skills:

5. I’m constantly trying to learn new things. The web is your friend, there are hundreds of tutorials that can help you learn whether you don’t know – all for FREE. Right now – I’m trying to learn photoshop lightroom, we’ll see how quickly I master it.

4. Following other photographer’s work. I counted up and I have 29 different photographer blogs that I follow in my RSS feeder. Granted I don’t look at everyone’s everyday but they give me ideas and more importantly inspire me.

3. I started shooting in RAW immediately. I was very surprised today see the pictures from my first weekend with my camera in RAW. For those that want to get better at photography and if your camera is capable then DO IT. No it won’t make you a rock star photographer instantly but it’s easier to fix mistakes after the fact. Granted I’d rather have my pictures perfect right from the camera but at least I can make it look like they were.

2. From the get go I’ve only shot in manual mode. Granted it shows with my first several month’s worth of pictures because it would take a lot of trying bad shots before I got the shot right. I think it’s paid off though now because I can quickly switch between settings on my camera and although it may not be the perfect settings with the first shot it’s usually pretty close to what I want.

1. Starting this blog – at first it was REALLY difficult to find new things to take pictures of or focus on new things even though I loved my new toy. Having the blog keeps me accountable to take more pictures – especially when I know others are looking at it.

OK that’s it for now, thanks for the quick trip down memory lane. We’ll see how my work looks in another year. Sorry for the long book, I know no one comes to this site expecting to read :D Here are some shots I took at last year’s Nascar race.

Goodyear Tires

Busch Car