Day 125

I tried some stuff in my studio again this evening. I put another light in my studio to light the backdrop. It's just a clamp light with a CFL in it (I'm using compact fluorescent because the other light in the room is fluorescent), but it really helped eliminate the shadows I had on the background previously. Fancy was quite willing to pose for me. Notice the cool burl stool she's leaning on - that was one of a pair I bought at the auction the other night. Got an awesome deal on very cool props!!

Day 124

I didn't take many pictures today. It was too busy. But I did get a couple shots of this grumpy raven. I tried to get some shots of him with the treasure he'd found on the ground, but he took off when I put my window down. Then he got on the light pole and told me off for quite some time!

Day 123

Lest we enjoy the warm, sunny days too much...

We obviously needed a reminder that it is still winter...

Day 122

I decided to try using my flash off camera outdoors again. This time it was at dusk with my flash mounted on a lightstand, and shot through and umbrella. Three of my boys were quite willing to sit for me! Yay!

By the time I got to this shot it was getting really dark.

Day 121

It's a rainy, rainy, rainy day here today. I tried to get some photos of a robin that stayed out in the rain, but the photos just didn't come out because it was raining so much - they just looked blurry because of the rain between me and the robin.

Caleb and I made peanut butter cookies for an after school snack, so instead of a spring-y robin, you get photos of our cookie-making...

In case you can't tell, that's Tigger's face imprinted on our cookies. You can't really tell that once they're baked, but Caleb doesn't care. They're yummy! If you need a very easy cookie recipe, these were made with 1 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of sugar, and 1 egg, then baked at 350 for about 13-15 minutes. Doesn't get any easier than that!

Here are a couple bonus shots I took later this afternoon. Caleb really wanted his picture taken with Molly...

Molly wasn't quite as "into it"...

(she was looking at Ken - I think her expression says, "Daddy, save me.")

Day 120

I have an icky cold. Blech. So I spent most of the day on the couch doing nothing. While I was on the couch though, I played with light a bit. This was shot with just the direct (very, very bright) sunlight coming in the window. My aperture was at f/10 to cut out light except for the stream shining right on Dale.

Day 119

Jenny and family left today. Waaaaaahhh!!! I miss them already!

I did finally get a couple shots of Kate's face though! I'm headed off for Praise Team practice, so I'll just post these photos and quit jabbering...

(I know composition isn't correct on this one, but I wanted to make sure I got her adorable tennies with her beautiful dress, and I didn't want any more crowd clutter than I absolutely had to have. I should have entered this in the "broken rules" contest!)