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Sometimes beauty is right out the back door....

Photography Assignment:: Aperture

I have always enjoyed playing with aperture in my photographs. It's very interesting to create an artsy shot including a blurred background, and it just adds a lot more to the photo. I really love shooting with my macro lens which makes having a small depth of field very easy to achieve. I had a harder time finding a shot with a large depth of field but I think I am happy with my outcome.

Breakfast

I'm in a motivational rut and I've been there for quite some time now. I'm trying to figure out where the uber motivated 20 year old has gone in these past 3 years..... If you see her send her my way please! Maybe it's the fact that I have a much busier schedule with hardly any free time, or I just don't want it as much. I just know that waking up at 4am to go to a spin class is not an option anymore... I need to find the balance between working out like a maniac and not working out at all. But unfortunately I've never lived in the middle, I'm an extreme-ist. I go big or I don't go at all, and that's how I do everything. But for now the working out and getting back on track with my diet is all I can handle.

So I figure if I am going to write a blog about this, and people might be reading it, that might give me some of my long lost motivation back. I mean, it's not like I've completely let myself go and I weigh 350 pounds or anything, but I'm not happy with where I am at so I need to change some things. Ideally if I could lose 15 pounds I'd be completely stoked. Summer is coming, CA trip is coming, and I REALLY want to buy a pair or two of Buckle jeans, which I told myself I can only buy when I'm a smaller size since they are not cheap!

So here it goes.... we'll see how long I last this time haha :0)

Here is what I ate for breakfast this morning: A 4 egg white omlette with reduced fat feta cheese on a 100 calorie English muffin, and a cup of fresh grapes with splenda = 288 calories. A great way to track nurtition, fitness and everything else check out www.sparkpeople.com and it's FREE!

Light Photography Assignment

This weeks assignment was on lighting, aperture, ISO and figuring out how to manipulate these settings while shooting in the manual mode. We've had a lot of snow recently and sometimes snow makes it hard to get good photos that aren't over exposed. I took a lot of photos that were absolutely ridiculous :0) but then started to get the hang off it more. My favorite thing after the snow is when the sun finally comes out and the sky is blue, it makes taking pictures so fun!
PS- I'm a dork and I totally forgot to record the settings I had my camera on for these shots.... oops :0)

I tried to use the snowy background to pop the green of the leaf. But I was also pleased with how the light hits the ice on the leaf.

I was also really happy with how this shot turned out too. I love how the sunlight reflects off of the icicles.

The only joy from snow

I love how detailed my tongue looks thanks to El Macro... but it's kinda gross!

This is one of my favorite shots

Drip drop

Ice crystals

A kiss for Frosty

Good Morning Mr. Sun

Macro

A spiral of twigs

I seriously cannot get over how great this turned out

Snow melts on the trees

Rule of Thirds

http://flexibledreams.blogspot.com/2010/01/photography-assignment-rule-of-thirds.html

Snow Day

A few weeks ago MD got a TON of snow. It's been a really long time since I have seen that much snow fall in one day. I think Deb and I measured 24 inches at her house! It was insane. So after a weekend of being lazy with the BFF Monday rolled around and I was back to work! I decided to brave the cold and deep snow to take the kids out to play! It was a blast. See....

Jack loved his shovel

The snow was so crazy deep!

Isabelle loved to eat the snow

Pretty Girl

Peek-a-boo

My big boy