Love this theme mostly because I am lazy and it is hot which means we never go far from home. Most of our childhood fun, these days, happens in our backyard these days and most of THOSE are pool pictures. I’m making progress with my blue filtering but it is still a challenge to figure out how to not blow out the picture, cast it too heavily in blue, reduce the noise without blurring the picture. Our backyard has either extremely harsh light or no light. Fun conditions, right? I think the solution is a new lens. Because it couldn’t possibly be my skill right?! ha.

{This picture cracks me up because it is so Addison. Floaties, sunglasses and all, cruising through the pool.}

{rare capture of Teegan ABOVE water}

{new to swimming, jumping and all things fun-in-the-water}

{Dalton used to hold a grudge against our dog, I guess he got over it}

{Lilo has fun too!}

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Filed under Addison, Dalton, Noah, Teegan on June 19 | 7 comments

8 years.

That’s how long I’ve had a digital camera. Back in the day, my camera recorded to discs, not a memory stick. And it filled up pretty quick, was pretty grainy and pretty useless. I only had two little boys back then who were the stars of all the pictures.

Now they are always on the go, rarely in the same picture together. They are huge, practically grown. Where does the time go?!?!

Even though I’m a digital camera old-timer, I didn’t have ANY interest in photography until summer 2006 when I moved to this beautiful house on a lake with amazing sunsets and hot air balloons that frequently flew past our gorgeous view. It was then that I first asked my friend, Nicole, to explain to me how to make pictures blurry in the background. I couldn’t really do it with my camera at the time but a few months later we replaced it and a few months after that we upgraded to the Canon IS S3 which I still adore. To say I’ve been learning at a snails pace since then would be probably an exaggeration. But I HAVE been learning.

My husband bought me my first DSLR, my Nikon D40x, last year in November on my half-birthday and we got Photoshop shortly afterward. He got me a new lens and a flash for Christmas. It took me a few months to get up the nerve to switch to the new lens and I’m still not sure I love it. I haven’t even tried the flash yet. So my learning curve is, well, slow. But I’ll get there, eventually!

And just because I’ve always wanted a reason to post this photo:

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Filed under Dalton, Teegan on June 5 | 10 comments

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