Snow Fun

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Snowiest Penguin


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First Sledding Excursion

I took the May Queen out sledding for the first time ever. She spent 1 1/2 hours sledding, and loved it. I even went down the hill a few times myself.

Twist and Shout

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Right paw on blue

The May Queen and I were in hysterics... Marlowe kept biting and batting at the spinner.


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put your hands up and... Shout!

a fresh start

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Welcome 2011

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Mass Transit


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Public bathroom drain


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"What was that?"


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Baked with Love


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Wintry Epiphany

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Snow on boot


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"I wrinkle my nose in your general direction"

Christmas

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Twas the night before Christmas...



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Opa and his girl

This picture of my father kissing my daughter just makes my eyes tear up, every time.


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Marlowe, the Merry Maker of Mischief

(I gave Marlowe this very appropriate nickname a while back. We just learned that he's at least part Maine Coon, so now the May Queen refers to him as Marlowe the Maine Coon the Merry Maker of Mischief)

Advent

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Advent routine:
candles and book

SNOW!

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Clearing off the car


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through the window

I loved these shots I took of the May Queen throwing snowballs at the window. I picked this one as my favorite, because it's so clear of her face, but these were too fun not to show you as well:




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Snowman



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Snow capped

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Christmas Chandelier, Detroit Opera House


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Just Dance


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Turning her world Upside Down

many weeks ago

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First flakes


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a candle in the wind(ow)


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A bard in the pinetree


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NOT Christmas lights
(a speeding ticket. merry christmas to me)


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bathing beauty
(she was singing to herself in the tub, and I took some pictures with my phone, if I had gotten out the camera she would have known what I was doing! i pictures don't at all capture how much she was just enjoying the bath. alas)

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an angel gets her wings

I'm trying to catch up with editing and posting. Hopefully I'll get up a months worth of pictures in the upcoming days. whew.

not last week, but the week before

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Dusting

(ha... I'm posting this so much later, after we've had a much larger dropping of snow, that I can only laugh at this old photo. that's what I get for being slow at the editing and posting)

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Waiting for Santa?

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Country Church

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Puzzling

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Things are looking up

Carousel

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Rotating Joy

I took a lot of pictures of this carousel (and my favorite rider) both in motion and still. I played around with shutter speed (that makes twice! hey, I'm learning) and got some interesting shots, but nothing great. If I had had more time I would have played more... I got great blur, but what I wanted was something clearer - like some animal faces - in the blur. But still, glad I played.

One thing that these photos also reminded me is that often I get into editing my pictures, and see all the great shots I missed because I never tried to get them, like a shot of all the horse's legs. I got a bunch of legs in a shot, and tried cropping, but the focus and angle was wrong. But I learn from those mistakes (hopefully) and I will try that the next time.

In this shot I wish the light on her face was better, but no matter where I stood the open pavilion created a backlit effect for any shot but straight into the carousel. Still, I smile just looking at it, so it wins best picture.

Winner

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First first place

(it was for a relay, not an individual event, but still... we're all pretty proud)

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Tag

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Midnight showing


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I see you
Self Portrait #5
(more fun at the library)


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Bird Bath


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After dinner

Bookish

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An eye for books

We stopped by the library after swim practice, and while The May Queen browsed I decided to pull out my handy point and shoot camera (almost always in the purse) and play. I didn't want to use a flash so the low light made the pictures grainy, but I got some fun shots. I'll definitely be trying more. I chose the pic of the day based on the eyes on the books in the background and MQ's eyes creating a great theme, but I liked this one a lot as well:

memory layers

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Angel girl

No, this is not some photo editing trick. Ladies and gentlemen (crickets??), this represents the first time I used a tripod, referred to my manual, AND played with the shutter speed and aperture. Basically, I set up my camera in front of my computer and took long exposure shots of multiple photos (a little trick I read about on Photojojo a while back. This week's memory prompt finally prompted me to DO it.)

I found that while my manual sort of told me HOW to adjust the shutter and aperture, it was pretty useless in terms of telling me how to read it, what the numbers meant, etc. Once I finally figured out how to get the shutter speed to the bulb setting, then I had to adjust for how much light the computer gave off. I knew that was aperture, but did I want a higher or a lower number? Thank God for google. I still have lots to learn, but I was finally able to get pretty close to my desired result. I think it would be fun to really pull together some great photos... like a baby photo and a current photo of my daughter (I actually went about trying to do this, and realized how precious few good pictures I have shot of her recently. Even with all my photo taking. So now I am on another mission.)

I did just peek through my facebook photos, and decided to try it with the four pictures I had in an album from when I did Proof: