Day 95 - 7/14/07

Today I decided to photograph a little visitor we had on the front of our house this afternoon.

Day 94 - 7/13/07

Back to frustration with DOF for me!! I just don't know what I'm doing wrong, and I can't find my camera manual to look for ways to adjust anything else.

above: -1.7EV, F8.0, ISO 200

above: -2.0EV, F5.0, ISO 200

Day 93 - 7/12/07

I think I might have figured out part of my DOF problem. The auto-focus on the camera was set on "metering" - whatever that means. I switched it to "spot" and was able to get these two shots.

Settings for above photo: 0EV, F3.7, ISO 200

Settings for above photo: 0EV, F8.0, ISO 200

Day 92 - 7/11/07

All of these were taken within 15 minutes of each other. I am posting them in the order the pictures were taken, and they are all SOOC.

There was a storm front moving through last night and these clouds were just amazing - to me at least.

I love clouds, so I am always glad when there are neat cloud formations to photograph.

Day 91 - 7/10/07

Giving up on DOF for today. Just way too frustrated with it at the moment.

I decided to post a silly picture of DH & I today. This was taken on Saturday at my cousin's wedding. I had asked my sister to take a picture of us, and it's always hard to get DH to settle down and take a nice picture. We were actually about to kiss - if she'd have snapped a second or two later she'd have gotten us kissing.

We had tried to find someplace with less going on in the background (I didn't want to be in front of the window) but it was a very small room and there really was no other option.

Day 90 - 7/9/07

We went to a baseball game yesterday as part of my sister's birthday. One of the first things that Haleigh wanted to do was get her face painted. So her dad took her to have it done. The artist did a great job, but I am always amazed when I see face paint so close to a child's eyes.

Plus it was quite hot and humid and the paint never fully dried, so every time she touched her face it smeared a little. Top that off with her getting upset enough to cry a few times, and by the time we left this butterfly wasn't nearly so fancy.

Day 89 - 7/8/07

Birthday candles - yum!

It was my sister's 26th birthday today. We had a very full, busy day. After all of that, we went back to the house for cake and ice cream. After the candles are blown out, they have to be licked clean of frosting!

Haleigh was only too happy to help.

Day 88 - 7/7/07

One of my cousins got married today. There are always a ton of photos to take at a wedding, and unless the conditions are perfect, it's hard to get a great photo.

This one is a little blurry, but the lighting made it very difficult to get one that WASN'T blurry during the ceremony.

Day 87 - 7/6/07

I made this baseball dress for Haleigh to wear to games. It's very cute, if I do say so myself. The bloomers are made out of two bandanas, and actually only the ruffles are visible when she wears the outfit. I just wanted them to show for the picture, so I pinned them to the dress kinda low.


Below: closer view of the fabric used for the dress.

Day 83 - 7/2/07

Here's what I did today: I cut my hair!

I had been wanting to cut my hair for a while and today I did it. I waited longer than I usually would have after making such a decision, because my SIL had requested that I have long hair for her wedding. She wanted all of us girls to be able to have updos for the wedding.

I'm donating the braid to Locks of Love.

Day 81 - 6/30/07

A dress I made to sell.

It's a navy blue dress, and since I am a Detroit Tigers fan, I firmly believe that navy and orange go very well together. So, I added orange rick rack to the collar and hem of the dress.

Sorry about the busy background - I didn't even think about that until just now.

Day 80 - 6/29/07

Another Sunset. They're just too good to skip taking pictures of them!

This one was a little later, and is therefore slightly darker, than yesterday's.

Day 79 - 6/28/07

We have had some AMAZING sunsets lately.

Day 76 - 6/25/07

Aunt Kittie.

She had surgery today to remove her stomach and spleen because she has stomach cancer. To say that I am worried is an understatement.

Day 75 - 6/24/07

My mum's aunt & uncle celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year. Their anniversary was June 15. The celebration was today.

Not only is Black & White one of the themes for this week, I wanted a few in B&W for the vintage feel of it - all of their wedding photos are in B&W.

This is Uncle Gary & Aunt Kittie, right before they began cutting the cake.

Day 74 - 6/23/07

To quote DH: "Budweiser in the making."

This is a field of barley. It is very close to being ready to harvest. Since barley hops are used to brew beer, he's not all that far off in his statement.

We pass this field nearly every day on our way to and from town. This year it is going to be ready much earlier than it usually would be, because we have had a hot, dry spring.

Day 71 - 6/20/07

For this one I used an automatic setting on my camera for beach scenes. It is set up so that the water still looks blue and the sky and water do not moosh into each other. I think it came out really pretty. The water looks better on the screen than it did in real life!

Here's what this automatic setting amounts to:
-0.7 EV, ISO 64, F4.0, and something I'm not sure of at 500 (shutter speed, maybe?).

I really need to pull out my camera manual and find out what that setting is.

Day 70 - 6/19/07

The water was splashing in really interesting patterns when I decided to take the photo, but by the time I actually took it, the water had settled down and was just sort of rolling around the rocks.

I did get one little bitty splash though. Yay for my little bitty splash.

I don't remember if I used an automatic camera setting for this one or not, but here are the stats:
-0.7 EV, ISO 64, F4.0, unknown setting 250.
Chances are good I was in my beach setting, since the EV, ISO, and F are all the same as my other beach photos.

Day 69 - 6/18/07

My future SIL walking her dog, Goliath.

I think she has said that Goliath is a Siberian Husky, but he looks more like an Alaskan Malamute to me. For one thing, he's got 2 brown eyes, and most Huskies have 2 blue eyes - it's rare for a Husky to have 2 brown eyes, although one brown and one blue are fairly common. For another, he's bigger than your average Husky, and Mals are often mistaken for large Huskies.

But, since Goliath is Laura's dog, I'll take her word for it that he's a Husky.

Day 68 - 6/17/07

I just love this photo.

My niece Haleigh playing with the door in our hotel room. It actually connected two rooms, but it also fit perfectly to create a door for the little closet that she is standing in. It didn't latch as a closet door, simply covered the opening.