Hey! I passed the halfway point without noticing! I’ve over halfway done with my photo year! Wow!
I got to take a few snaps of Miss Serenity again today. She is just too, too, too cute!
By the way, these were shot with natural light with the black side of my reflector as a backdrop. These were in-camera crop because I just snapped quickly while Serenity was in the pretty light and being compliant. I had my 50mm on so I didn’t have room to move for a better crop. Oh well…I like these anyway.
I have a little collection of family photos today. I haven’t gotten around to doing any serious photos lately, but I am reasonably happy with these shots of my sweet peoples. (Well, a few sweet peoples.)
Yep. April in Montana. Hmph.
Somebody’s sleepin’ on the job here.
This cat (Crunch) doesn’t look too motivated today, does he?
Since Crunch was just weeks old everyone has known that he is Kristi’s cat.
I loved how Molly was “cradling” her own face…she’s such a funny girl. At this particular moment, most of the kids were outside playing and I think she was pouting that she wasn’t out there too. (I don’t know why she wasn’t.)
I never picked up the camera today. It was a nice Sunday, but not a photo one. I did spend some time playing with Picnik.com again though, and I thought this was a neat feature – before and after:
I just totally spaced posting my 365 yesterday! I took a bunch of pictures – nothing spectacular – so I had photos to post. I just didn’t! So here it is for Saturday…
I like the clarity of this one, and the fact that Virginia (neighbor’s daughter) isn’t posing for the camera. When she sees the camera come out she strikes a pose, so it’s very hard to get a natural expression from her.
We took our kids and the two neighbor girls to the park to test out Ken’s (and Andrew’s) catapult. They were catapulting Easter eggs…
Their best distance was 14’6”. Ken wants to get better bungees on there to improve the distance. Fun stuff!
Some of the kids and I took a little walk this evening, and they picked a bouquet of “Sunshine flowers” for me. 
I snapped this shot of Caleb in passing, but I love it!
I almost didn’t post today. I had to take Fancy to the ER to have her head checked out after she got knocked down and hit it on a rock. She was having a terrible headache and dizziness…we decided to err on the side of caution and have it looked at by someone who knows more than “yep, that’s a bump.” After 5 hours of various waiting areas, we came home with the knowledge that she does, in fact, have a brain, and it is unharmed.
But, I didn’t get a chance to get a good photo today, so all you get is a goofy attempt at a shot for a challenge on OPS. I’m not happy with it, but it’s almost all I shot today (the others are Caleb’s eyes. lol.).
I didn’t take many photos today, and I was disappointed in everything I took. This is my neighbor’s “flower tree”, as Caleb calls it, and I edited it with picnik.com.
Sorry Eric, but this is truly the only photo I took today. (Poor Eric always wants us to share when we post food.)
For those of you who are part of our Health Challenge on Facebook, I did NOT eat a single bit! Not a taste of cookie dough, not a crumb, nothing!
I was happy with the clarity and DOF on this though. So I get to enjoy these cookies with no calories!
We had a playdate at the park today! It was great! The weather was beautiful, the kids had fun, I took pictures…
I took a couple dozen shots, but most of them are just overly bright snaps of the kids playing. This one shot of my friend’s 2-year-old is my favorite though. She has the most amazing eyelashes!!
(I edited this on Picnik – it has a cross-processed effect on it.)
We were all outside enjoying spring weather…enjoying it the way it was meant to be enjoyed – watching someone work! Ken was seeding what IS GOING TO BE A LAWN! We have tried for 3 years to have a lawn in the front yard, and this year it IS going to happen!
While Ken worked, the kids were all watching, and I got an opportunity for a rare snapshot – all 7 kids in one frame!
Andrew and Nathan were trying to jump at the same time so I could get a shot of them in the air…
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I never did succeed in catching one frame with both of them jumping. Oh well.
Caleb didn’t want to miss out on the photo fun, and begged me to take a picture of his pose… 
He sure knows how to work it!
They’re all just family snapshots today, but that’s just the way it goes.
E & S, I don’t quite know what to do with Bootcamp Assignment #3…I guess I’ll need to use one of my “same old” models and try to get it done this week.
My sweetie had a surprise birthday party for me today! Yay! We had friends and family over for cake, presents, and fun! Thank you, Kenny, for doing such a wonderful thing for me! The group we had over was just perfect! (Although I wish I had cleaned my house a bit.)
Here are a few photos from the party…
Isn’t this great idea for a birthday cake? Me at 4 and me at 40. I love it!
My darling with his black bow – we wore black armbands to mourn the passing of my youth. (Ken just wore his strangely.)
My mom and my friend’s son enjoying their cake and ice cream.
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 A photography book! |
 Hand-blown glass ornaments |
 A lovely photo frame |  This beautiful ring is from my darling husband. |
I’m posting my 365 before bed time! Whooohoooo!
I tried (not very successfully) to take portraits of my mom’s dogs. They were not particularly cooperative. The blind one was the most cooperative, but it’s hard to get him to “look” toward the camera when he doesn’t have eyes. (He lost his eyes to glaucoma.) He’s such a sweetheart though. At least he sat for me. The other two are female, and tend to do their own thing. Today their own thing was NOT having their photos taken. Hmph.
This is Tater.
Stella – the little beast was NOT cooperative!
Old Tammy Dog – she uses her deafness as an excuse to ignore me.
We spent the evening with my Dad, two uncles, and my brother. Here are just a few shots I took this evening…
My brother and my dad… 
My brother and my mom…
My beloved in-laws (who also joined us for dinner)… 
I am soooo ready for bed. ‘Night!
GAK! I got to bedtime and realized I hadn’t even taken a photo today! Sorry – it won’t be a photo I took today. Instead, I’m going to share one from Monday…
My sweet honey playing Princesses with his little lady… 
What a great daddy!
I took some photos today, but they were indoors when it was too dark…no flash…really bad…
So instead of a shot taken today, you get photo(s) from yesterday, but edited today…
The cloud cover was soooo heavy, and by this time my flash trigger had stopped working again…so it’s darker than I was hoping for. Oh well. I’ve wanted one of these images of Andrew for a long time. Next time I’ll try it in a better location – better background.
I’m finally posting my Assignment #2 for the Strobist Bootcamp project I’m doing with a couple friends.
We took the kids to the park today. We live on a fairly busy street, so there’s no good place for the kids to ride bikes and scooters. The park has a blacktop parking lot that’s great for scooting! There’s also a playground and some great space for kite flying…
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Our friends Tracy and Felice (and their 2 girls) joined us for our Easter celebration today. I liked this snap of them…
That’s all you get because I have a migraine. I might put Easter photos on my family blog tomorrow.
We had quite a busy day today! Today is actually Nathan’s birthday, but since we celebrated yesterday, it was a kinda low key birthday. Nathan has his own way of celebrating being six…he came out of his bedroom this morning dressed in a pair of shorts and a pair of gloves. But it’s spring in Montana, so one doesn’t need gloves on one’s hands… (see photo 3 in the collage).
We decorated eggs today…fun, colorful stuff! Some of our eggs came out beautifully speckled. I love those!
Ken wanted some pictures of the kids playing at their favorite playground – his truck. They love to be in the back of his truck, even if nothing is going on in there! And the shot of Ken and Caleb is called “Playground Injury”. I don’t know what happened, but somehow Caleb got hurt. I can’t imagine how a 3 year old could possibly get hurt while playing in the bed of a truck with 7 other kids. Huh.
(credit for this collage template goes to the fabulous Catie Stephens)
We celebrated my Naterbean’s birthday today. We had fun at Qwivals! There are a bunch of entertaining options there, and the kids (of all ages) enjoy it every time. (lotsa photos today!)
If I had to pick just one, this would be it. But I didn’t have to pick because this is my blog! 
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