Hold Tight

This another one from the park the other day, of my friend Shelly's son first time on the swing! This is the in camera crop, and I am not totally sure if I love it, but I wanted to capture his tight grip and those delious rolls.

HHCC Please!

ISO 250
F 4
1/1000 s
85 mm 1.8

First Swing

This is my friend Shelly and her son Erron, who is 5 months old. This was Erron's first time on the swing. I love his expression! I wish I could see more of Shelly's face, but she is a mop top LOL!

HHCC always appreciated!

ISO 250
1/2500 ss
F 4
85 mm lens

Pooped!

Last Friday was the official start of this year's rodeo season. To kick it off, here is Carson all decked out in his finest cowboy gear.

Ummm, lets see how I can relate this to the theme...here's something about me. I am a Texas girl. Born and raised. And I remain by choice. Hey if it ain't in Texas...then I don't need it! LOL!

ISO 1600
F 3.5
1/50
50 mm lens

HHCC always!

Watch Out

This is a lake near my home. While I have never seen an alligator in the lake or near the lake, it doesn't stop me from looking everytime I pass.

Anyway since we are on signs this week, I thought I'd share this one, since this isn't a sign that "most" people see everyday!

ISO 800 (I forgot to reset it)
SS 1/800
F 11
CC always wanted!

This is a close up crop of sign
Thanks for looking!

As requested...

As requested by my fellow participants here is the last post in color.

And I wanted to say thanks a million to the ladies that drop by and are so generous to leave cc and other comments. It really means a lot. Smooches!

I will even add one that shows my little peanuts face, just cause I think he's so stinkin cute, but hey I am a little biased.

These are pretty much SOOC, just a little sharpened for the web and run through noiseware. Which of course does nothing for the fact that the focus landed everywhere but where I wanted it to...LOL

So Shiny

Last week I had new hardwood floors installed, and if I must say so, they are beautiful!

Yesterday while playing around with the camera and the kid, Christian and I realized that he could see his reflection in the floors because they were so shiny.

ISO 800

f 1.8

1/1600

HHCC always...and TFL

a glass of wine...times FIVE

Okay it's really not wine, it's white grape juice. It was too early in the day to let the good stuff go to waste ;-p.

This challenge was pretty fun and challenging...but I guess that's why it's called a challenge.

All photos were shot in Aperture Priorty Mode at F 2, with ISO set at 800, shutter speeds were all over the place.

Thanks for looking, and of course hit me with your HHCC!

Heart Throb

I'm Baaaaccckkk. I'd been a little bit displaced, due to a home improvement project. Now that the dust is settled, here is my first submission for the week. My Caleb, a future heart throb.


The lighting was terrible, as it was almost dark outside, hence the 1.8, but I decided to play it up with the shallow dof. HHCC please

ISO 800

F 1.8

SS 1/50

Thanks for looking

Going Riding!

ISO 320

1/2500

F 4.5

HHCC always appreciated.

My apologies for not being on theme...unfortunately the smallest little peanut has been sick with fevers of 103. And considering everything around here is a lovely shade of wintery brown, I will have to temporarily postpone botanicals.

Here is one from earlier in the week.

Peek-A-Booo

ISO 1000
f 3.5
SS 1/80
HHCC always welcomed!

Christian loves to play peek a boo! As soon as he catches a glimpes of you looking at him he will cover with anything available, and when you say peek a boo, he just giggles uncontrollably. It's so cute. I swear he may just be the happiest baby I have ever met!


This photo is a little soft, I think that the focus fell on his shirt, but I love his expression anyway. I kept trying to "fix" this one, and it just looked weird and overdone, so I just cropped a little, defogged, sharpened, and ran noiseware. However today I did go all out and did the black border instead of the white one...I know, I am such a rebel!