2011-03-06

ISO 400, f/5.6/ 1/40s, white balance auto, D3100 w/18-55mm lens

This is totally not the photo I had envisioned to post today.  I bought the family the "No Stress Chess" game for Christmas so Doug could teach the kids how to play chess.  He knows how and they don't.  Neither do I, actually.  

Anyway, watching them play yesterday gave me the idea to photograph the pieces today.  While I was doing so, Alex came upstairs to show me the blackberry seed he was able to save after eating a blackberry.  (See it there - right by the knight [horse] piece?  Yeah, I didn't notice it until I was editing.  :))  He wants to plant it.  Anywho ...

So he starts knocking down all the pieces and picked up this black pawn to continue his barrage.  I captured his cute little hand just before he destroyed the rest of the pieces.  Of the two dozen or so photos I took of the chess pieces, this is my absolute favorite.  To see the one I had envisioned, that turned out pretty cool too, go to my Flickr page.



For more macro shots, go here.

Week 9 Summary

Wow!  Nine weeks in and still going strong!  Woo hoo!

We had a fun week ... warmer weather and some much-needed sunshine got us outside a few days.  Plus I'm feeling much better after finishing up my meds for bronchitis.  I actually got out and ran on Wednesday and Friday.  It felt good!  It is chilly and raining today, which makes a great day for staying indoors and reading.  Then this evening Doug and I are going to watch a movie together - something we haven't done in a while.

Anyway, here's the rundown for this week:

27 - While I was photographing Spiderman with the unusually large head, Alex decided to sneak up and "take him out" with Honey's tennis ball.  He didn't know I was getting him in the picture too.  Sometimes I'm sneaky like that.  :)

28 - A squirrel in our back yard that was eating the bird seed that had fallen from our feeder. Looks like he stopped and posed for his photo.  

1 - Bought a bouquet of flowers to brighten things up.  The sun helped and allowed me to play with some sun flare.

2 - Woke up way earlier than I would have liked, but in doing so, I was blessed with this crescent moon hanging in the eastern sky at sunrise.

3 - Alex and I went for a walk on our local community trail to see how muddy it was.  Along the way I took lots of pictures of nature.

4 - Stopped at the reservoir because Alex wanted to see if the geese were there.

5 - Alex was excited to wear his rain boots this morning.

I noticed that I'm one of the few (only?) people who has their photo week run from Sunday to Saturday.  (I'm a little anal like that).  Which means I have to take my last photo early in the day.  Once indoor soccer season is over in a couple weeks, I'll have to be creative in how to capture something because I won't have to be up early.  :)  But hopefully by then we'll have some flowers blooming! 

Hope everyone has a blessed week!

         

      

2011-03-05

ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/100s, white balance auto, D40 w/18-55mm lens (because it was raining and I was too lazy to put my 18-55 lens on my D3100)  :)

Alex was so excited to wear his rain boots today!  And I was excited that he didn't have to wear his snow boots!  His team won their [indoor] soccer game this morning.  So I allowed him a celebratory puddle jump after the game.  :)

2011-03-04

ISO 400, f/8.0, 1/1000s, white balance auto

On the way home from preschool today, Alex asked if we could go see the geese at a local reservoir.  We spent a few minutes there listening to their songs and admiring their beauty.

2011-03-03

ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/250s, white balance auto, D3100 w/18-55mm lens

Alex and I went for a walk on our local community trail to see how wet and muddy it was after our winter thaw.  It is still fairly wet and muddy, so I won't be running on it anytime soon.  But we did find so many interesting things to photograph.  And even though our boots were caked with mud and our fingertips were frozen by the time we got back to the car, we had a good time.

I played around with this photo ... adding texture after texture, but I ended up just using my clean edit.  I feel it really doesn't need any texture added.  What do you think?

2011-03-02

ISO 200, f/5.6, 1.3s, white balance auto

I woke up waaaaay earlier than I would have liked today.  :)  But in doing so, I was blessed to see this crescent moon still hanging in the eastern sky just before sunrise.

2011-03-01

ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/50s, white balance auto

Bought a bouquet of yellow daisies today to brighten things up around here.  The sun also helped and allowed me to play with some sun flare.  :)