Happy B'day To Me & BPOH


Well today marks 26 years of me on this planet. For my b'day, my darling hubby got me the lovely green cruiser bike that I'd been pining after. I'm sure some other celebrating will be going on in the near future, but I know what very very little of it is.

And by the way, if you stopped by on the Blogger Parade of Homes, that is a photo of my lovely house. Lucky for us, most of the landscaping was done before we moved in. But we did plant the daisies and the now over grown mint plant (bush??). Our house resides in the Wild West (near Denver, CO).

New Camera at Play


We took a little trip to Georgetown on Sunday to play around with the new camera. It's a cute little old-fashioned town with naturey things nearby, so it offered a pretty good selection of things to photograph. Above are a few of the best … here's the rest. We're getting better, honest.

Snaps

Ever since we got out of college (over 4 years ago), Matt and I have been wanting to get a digital SLR… but it was never quite the right time, money wise. In high school, and some into college, Matt used his film SLR, but by the time you pay for film and processing, film photography is a pricey hobby, so his film SLR has been sitting on our shelves, collecting dust. Digital with its instant and free development is such a nice way to go. We've been doing fine with our smaller, cheaper digitals. But sometimes, there's a shot that requires a really fast camera (think Loki), or a macro lens and you just can't get the shot you want. That's kinda disappointing. So after saving for a good while, we bit the bullet and purchased the Nikon D200. Matt's camera was a Nikon and so his flash and lenses all fit the new camera, so it's not as expensive a proposition as it could be. We were going to wait a bit longer and save s'more dough, but we're going on our Yellowstone trip next month and we want some time to play around with the camera and get used to it before we leave. I can hardly think of a better place to take a ton of photos than Yellowstone … woohoo!

Broken Camera

Well I thought mom might save me on the photo front … she took almost 60 photos this weekend, but alas, after viewing them I have come to the conclusion that her digital camera is broken. Everyone is blurry (even ones taken in full light that have no business being blurry!) … This one, displayed here was one of the only ones that looked decent, unfortunately. It also makes it look like we were on the set of A Perfect Storm all weekend, which really isn't the case. Oh well. It's a cool photo anyhow! : )

Wedding Pics this Time

Another day, another installment of vacation photos. These are all pre-wedding and wedding photos. They actually start on Thursday at the nail salon and end at the reception … they're incredibly scattered, but I think pretty self-explanatory.

The wedding was a very nice catholic service (merged into a mass) and the reception was in a 20s style ballroom at Embassy suites (built ca. 2002 ). It was a lovely wedding … the bride and groom both seem very happy.

Beach Vacation


Well, I've started the process of uploading photos. I'm doing them in 2 sets (maybe 3) since it was a long trip. I put up the beach photos last night. I didn't get as many as I'd hoped, but there are a few nice ones. You can see them here.

Glad to be Back


The beach was wonderful. The sister's married. The wedding was beautiful. We had a really really great time. We're both totally exhausted. I will post some more pictures soon … so so so glad to be back.

Picasa Upgrades

I am a huge fan of Google's photo management software, Picasa. But sadly, it was always lacking a little web cool. It just sat there on your computer, not interacting with the rest of the world … and as we all know, there's such great potential for that, especially with photos. Well in their latest upgrade, Google has added the capacity to upload your photo albums to the web … but the upgrade is sort of lacking. Continue reading “Picasa Upgrades”

Bunny Sitting & Photoshop Tips

My parents and sis are off to Mexico for spring break, so Matt & I are bunny sitting while Kell's gone. Her rabbits, Hoover (black) and Bun-Bun (white) will be staying in our posh guest room, eating loads of hay, fresh veggies, and generally avoiding Loki. Loki has not shown a real interest in the bunnies, but his predator scent, accompanied by the lack of intent to feed them might scare them enough to give them heart attacks.

It occurred to me while touching up this nice bunny shot (get it, bunny shot, not money shot …hehe), that I should share a little photoshop trick to dealing with the photos of black pets. Continue reading “Bunny Sitting & Photoshop Tips”