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Today’s Scenic Saturday photos are party scenery! We celebrated Rose and Virginia’s birthday here at our house today (their house isn’t big enough for our party!). Everyone had a great time! Felice took a bunch of photos of the kids, so I took photos of the “stuff.”

Felice did a great job planning this party. The girls wanted an Indiana Jones theme, so they had Indiana Jones decorations, costumes, all the party favors (mostly handmade by Felice – sorry I don’t have photos of those – I didn’t get a chance!) were IJ themed…they even got to watch part of the original movie! They all loved it!

Even though I did almost nothing to prepare for this party, I’m exhausted!

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Sunday Snapshot! Felice had the kids over to play on the Slip-n-Slide. I have pictures of all the kids, too, but this was my favorite.

I'm gonna do a bunch of nothing for the rest of the day. Have a great week!

I’ve actually skipped some days!

Well, I’ve skipped days of blogging, but I haven’t actually skipped days of photographing. I think I have photos from every day since I finished my 365. I did a family photo session last night, but I forgot to get releases so I could share the photos, so those will have to wait. I took this shot while setting up for that session…

And I took this one at church yesterday…

This must be 367

See? It’s true. I can’t go even a day without taking a photo. Here is one I took this morning of Felice in her lovely new hat. She’s thrilled with it! (It was a gift.) I think it just looks so “Felice!”

(Gonna have to do it again – my focus was off.)

Day 309

I almost didn’t have a photo today! I was chatting with Sandra, trying to figure something out for today’s shot when I realized I had taken a photo! And it’s well worth sharing.

Remember my friend Felice? She has been working at weight loss for the last several months, so today I took a shot of her so she could really see how far she’s come. She is in the middle of the journey right now, but her progress is awesome!

This was taken in April of this year…

This one was taken today – 4 months later…

Okay…not the best photo, but it was just meant to show her the difference. She’s such a beautiful woman.

Day 234

I think I mentioned the challenge at Digital Photography School yesterday. Here are my shots (retaken today at the correct ISO) for the challenge. I was really happy with a few of them, considering that I could not shoot, chimp, shoot again, adjust, shoot again, etc. (For those who are wondering, “chimping” is looking at the camera’s lcd screen.)

We will be off camping Thurs-Sat, but I will probably post photos from my phone, just because I can. “See” ya on Sunday!

Oh! One more note – I won the bi-weekly challenge at OPS! It’s exciting! Here’s the photo that won it for me…

If you’re an OPS member, make sure to enter a photo in Challenge #21 – the theme is Summer Fun!

Day 223

We celebrated Austin’s 10th birthday today. You will be able to see a bunch of photos (if you choose to) from the party on my family blog. For today’s 365 I’ll just post my favorite image from the day…

Day 216

Felice hosted a Slip-n-Slide afternoon! Whoohoo! My big boys were off working with Dad, but Kristi, Nathan, and Caleb got to go romping in the water with Felice and her girls. What fun!

(Nathan)

(Caleb)

(Rose)

(Felice!)

Day 168

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.

Day 127

I worked on getting my lighting a little less flat (flat light offers little contrast and few shadows - gives less definition to the subject). I attempted to decrease the power of my secondary flash for this shot by bouncing the flash into the white umbrella and moving it further away from my subject.

I had to take some Nyquil to combat this sinus thing, and I'm completely wiped out.

(Thanks for Felice for being my spur-of-the-moment model again.)