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

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:

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An Actor's Toolbox

I'm not using this much lately, but dug it out to get makeup for my daughter's Halloween get-up. Then realized I hadn't taken any pictures that day. I would have preferred not to use a flash, but, alas. I was too lazy, apparently, to work that hard on the lighting. I can look inside that Caboodle and see a history of the shows I've done... the blue eyeshadow for Any Wednesday, the glitter and green lipstick for The Tempest, the eyelashes for Beauty and the Beast, the Top Stick (used to keep a costume in place) for Anything Goes...

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Before School

I realized, when uploading new pictures, that I had incorrectly numbered the previous two photos, so those have been fixed.