New Class For Me!

I spent some of my hard-earned allowance on a class "Oh Shoot" to learn how to use my DSLR camera in manual mode!  It's a six week class, focusing on different aspects of photography.  This week's lesson was on shutter speed.  We were supposed to photograph something going "fast".  Since my kids are out of town, I had to get creative.

This week's assignment was on learning what happens when you have a slow versus a fast shutter speed. A slower shutter speed produces "blur" or action. Fun!  Here's my practice pictures:

Fast shutter speed 1/100

Slow shutter speed 1/25

I don't know why my photos appear blurry - the originals weren't! :)

February 13-14

Oops - I got a little off track.  Life happens, right?  I still have to take a picture of my closet...probably tomorrow. :) It's all about the practice in taking pictures, right???

 13. Blue

This is one of the blocks on the quilt that hangs above our dinner table. It is one of the first quilts I actually pieced, got quilted and bound. I love this color of blue!  

14. Heart

Here's the heart shaped candy boxes I gave to my family.  Can you guess who got each one?  :)

February 11, 2012

11. Makes you happy

I love seeing the different textures and colors of my children's hair! It's nice to be able to see just their hair, and not their sweet faces to be able to appreciate the differences.

We don't usually make it a habit to let the children play in a car, but today Brent was spiffing up the Honda getting it ready to sell, and the kids couldn't resist the temptation to get in and play. Silly kids!

February 9, 2012

9. Front Door

I was so excited to see that today's challenge was a front door. Well, not super excited, because my front door is boring...but the 9th was the day we were going out for our Christmas work party (yes, you read that correctly) and I was SURE McGrath's would have some fancy, pretty door.

I was wrong.

Their door was almost as boring as my own. I put my favorite husband in front of it to give it some character.

The employees thought we were super weird (they gave us "those" looks) because we were taking pictures in front of their restaurant...

February 8, 2012

8. Sun

Yeah...Oregon...love it, but this is the closest I'll get to a picture of the sun today.

At least Alexia and I had a fun time taking pictures together!

February 7, 2012

7. button

I have a lot of unusual buttons in my button jar. When I saw the assignment for today, I thought specifically of this one. I like this button - it's quirky. The suggestion of a flower shape, a streaky neutral color, and of course, it only has three holes. That's unusual for a button!

February 6, 2012

6. Dinner

Yum! Green salad, red and yellow pepper slices (my kid's favorite) and a casserole, made of rice, hamburger, homemade cheese sauce and too-hot-to-eat-with-chips salsa. It was made for our after fast Sunday Linger Longer yesterday, so even better for tonight's dinner, all I had to do was heat it up! Always a nice bonus after a busy Monday. And the Lego guy? Well, that was Braden's addition...