28 October 2007

Two New Photos

Here are two more photos I took last Sunday, for my digital photography workshop. The instructor liked both photos, but the first was the favorite.




These were the action shots for Week 5 of the class. Initially I was unsure that I'd be able to find an action shot. But, when I mentioned the word action, well, Casey went into action for me. He did all sort of tricks, but this is the one I liked best.

Then a little later, Grandpa was digging a couple of holes to plant some new plants. I noticed the action of the dirt falling from the shovel at the very end of his digging. I quickly snapped a few photos of the dirt falling. That worked out well.

Later that day, we took Casey to meet up with his Dad. After transferring his overnight bag and other goodies, Bill and I went into a grocery store to purchase a few necessities. When we walked out of the store, Bill told me to look. There were two hot air balloons just to our left. They'd lifted off about 10 minutes earlier. I looked both ways to cross the thoroughfare, and told Bill to look behind him. There was a hot air balloon that had just left the ground, and was like a giant hovering over us. I immediately thought that I need to hurry to the car to get my camera, when it hit me. When leaving home, I started to grab my camera, just in case there might be something of interest to take a picture of. Then left home without it. That taught me a lesson . . . NEVER leave home without it! You never know when you will see something, such as these three hot air balloons, that could be a snapshot of a lifetime. Now, my camera goes where I go.

13 October 2007

Casey's here for the weekend

Yea, we finally have Casey out here for the weekend. We've been needing a Casey fix for a few weeks now. We've been missing him, as we haven't seen him since July. He's such a great kid, and so sweet, although he probably wouldn't like to hear me say that. But he's my Grandson, so I can call him sweet and tell him that I love him all I want, and there's not a thing he can do about it. Case is such a good young man, very helpful to his Grandpa and me. He likes visiting us, especially because his Grandpa allows him to drive the Gator. I have a couple of photos of that for you to see...




As you can see, Case is dressed in his "Army gear" today. I think that gives him a sense of pride. My goodness, his feet are a size 10 1/2-11 now!! Can you believe that? He's growing up so fast.

They just came into the house, and they're hungry! So, gotta go.

11 October 2007

It's been a while...

I know, it's been quite a while since I've posted anything. Just haven't had the time and/or haven't felt like it. When I've wanted to post, I didn't have time, yet when I had the time, I didn't want to post. You figure it out!

I've been busy with my photography, but haven't taken any photos in nearly a week. I'm missing it. We're taking a little break, just to catch our breath and try to figure things out. HA!!

Anyway, I have a couple or so photographs that I want to share. Not because they are great, but because I want to. There are a couple of Mister being vacuumed, which he loves. I have one of three of my Fenton Art Glass vases, and one showing three of my Rooster/Chicken collection. These are the "still life" photos for last week/this week lesson. I'm not real happy with them, but they were the best I could do with what I had on hand at the time. I wanted to use some chicken wire with the Roosters, but Bill forgot to get it out for me. I also didn't have a good background. I'm learning from this class, and maybe you'll see a tiny improvement. I'll start with the photos of Mister, my big clown.