Lights

I am not much of a photographer, I know, but I ever since I started looking at life through a camera lens, I have become much more aware of light and how it effects everything it touches. I like the lighting in these next couple of shots - though I had nothing to do with it - I just happened to be there while Mr. Sun did his business.


I like the contrast in this shot - both the shadow and light on the steeple, as well as the deep blue of the sky with the bright white of, um, the steeple. I got lucky to get this shot on such a clear day. The single subject is striking. I like alliteration. I should be an Anglo-Saxon poet.


I recently re-watched Pixar's "A Bug's Life" with my kids and became interested in the translucence of leaves. I waited around for a bug to walk across my subject leaves, but they never did. I guess I won't make the sequel.


My twin nieces came to visit with their brother last week and they wanted me to take pictures of their skateboarding exploits. This one turned out rather well. I don't think the lighting or contrast are super-sweet, but I do like how this picture looks. I managed to catch her right before she "dropped in" - the next picture in the series (using my camera's multiple shot feature) is of the ramp, a shadow, and a big blue sky. Yay! I took an action photo that wasn't blurry!

Replace "busy" with "lazy".

I've been busy. Too busy to take any pictures. As I think back on the last couple of weeks, I can't remember what made me so busy. But I'm sure I was very, very busy, nonetheless. I looked through my picture files and found a couple of gems that I never posted before. Here they are, almost as if they were new!


Kid + flower = cuteness.

Awww. . . my boy and his cousins. My son loves his relatives - good thing too, 'cause most of 'em have moved back into our state, so we'll be seeing a lot more of them.

I just realized that I didn't show any pictures of my children's faces. I was just too busy to look for those kinds of pictures, I guess.