Snapchat snapshot

Hilarious! Snapchat amuses me more than it should. Woof. You'll see more of Phil because Snapchat and/or my camera doesn't like black cats.

Portait Session

My friend V and I go out when we can and practice our photography. We usually shoot flowers, landscapes and whatnot but people portaits is what we've been avoiding. So last week, we headed over to the marsh to see what we could do...

It's a weird feeling to be in front of the camera instead of behind it but we had fun and these are the 2 photos I liked the best. I adjusted them in LR3 but I like the mood and look.




We are beginner level portait taking so it's a start.



I used Erik Kim's Lomo preset on LR3 to get this effect but I like how it's backlit and has that kind of dreamy quality to it.

Kindle Fire

Hector bought this as an anniversary gift  and it arrived this morning. :) Josh spotted it on the porch as we were leaving for school. I think he thought it might be his LEGO package but I could see the Amazon Kindle labelled on it. Joshua said he expected dad to give me yarn which was really cute.



Simple packaging that is the Kindle and the charging cord. That's it.



Fits comfortably in my hand too. Kind of hard to take a photo of it while holding it though.



Turned on right away and everything was simple after that. It was already loaded with our Amazon info, asked for wifi connection and registered itself right away. A few more minutes and all my books are on here.

Web browsing is easy and I already practiced downloading a knitting pattern on here so I can access it easily. Cool.



Even videos are nice looking and easy to access. So far my impression is that this will be a great tool/plaything for me. I wanted to store my knitting patterns on something so I don't need to keep printing them out which I tend to misplace eventually. Patterns don't take up much room so I can try uploading them to the Cloud and see how that works.

I haven't read any books yet but I might stick to my original Kindle as it will be easier on my eyes but the potential for travel worthiness is wonderful. I know it's geared to Amazon content but that works for me. I'll have to re-evaluate again in a month...

Self Portrait: lighting

Second challenge of self protraits...lighting. I used one on MANY  of our LED flashlights laying around the house and converted the photo to BW. Voila.

Not the best but the best of what I got! :)

Challenge

While doing laundry, I found a self protrait challenge on the Digital Photography School site. I don't have too many photos of myself so this seems like a fun thing to do. I can practice my poses and learn more settings on my camera. :)

This week's challenge is Props. I'm supposed to choose something that has meaning to me and I originally chose a pair of knitted socks. That makes sense but it was very difficult to compose a photo with myself and my prop. Add the complexities of me using a remote shutter release that is only 12 inches long (my wireless remote needs batteries and syncing) and figuring everything else out.

This is the best of the bunch. I will try again tomorrow and maybe I'll try doing a 365 self protrait theme.

and now for something completely different...

A photo tour during our dating leading up to our wedding.

Hector with his first dinosaur snowboard which weighed a ton sometime in 1995 (?). I think he went to Big Bear with some other residents and someone took his picture. He looks very handsome! :)

Grade school photo before glasses so we can see his purdy eyes. It looks like his scar at his left brow is already there but Hector says he got that when he was 14 years old. Looks like something happened before.

At our wedding November 9, 1996 looking very dapper.

Steamboat Springs, CO. Gorgeous weather and snow. We drove from LA to Colorado in 2 days with stops at Park City, UT and Vernal, CO.

Here at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas when the rooms were decorated with this bright floral pattern. After Steamboat (where we got engaged) we headed here for about 4 or 5 days to relax. This picture was set on a timer and I think I was watching TV and Hector did this pose the very last second. He does look happy though....


A shot from one of those disposable cameras at the wedding.