Today's my birthday . . .

Piper is one already! I dare say she is the most spoiled dog on this planet. We call her the "queen" because everything is about Piper and what she wants.

Because this blog is over run by pics of Piper, I'm only going to bore you with a couple of that was then, this is now shots.

This is the day we got her. We drove all the way to Delaware to get her and it was well worth the trip.
Here she is now! Although I think she has a problem. She LOVES to lick inside the Mike's Hard Lemonade bottles. She thinks she was being sneaky. . .
. . .busted!

Ready, set, go?

Actually the command is leave it, leave it. . .then we wait, and wait, and wait. . .then get it! It's tough for a dog to sit there and stare at the very food their master put under their nose and then be told not eat it. She does it though. She's actually good at this and learned it right away when we first got her. I can't believe Piper will be a year old next month already.

It was one of the first shots I took with my new camera. I forgot to set WB so I ended up with a lot of yellow. I'm not so good at fixing color casts and I think that's why it looks noisier than it really should. In color it doesn't seem to be as noisy, if that makes sense. I also had to shoot at ISO 3200. My D70s noise would have been much, much worse.

I love this shot though!

Start. . .Ready, set, go

My first post for 2009 POTD, yah!

I'm sorry I'm going to have to bore everyone with more photos of Piper but she seems to be the only subject around lately. Not that she's a willing subject because outside she is a wild woman in the snow! She was trying out her new bomber jacket and I was trying out the new D300. It's really super heavy compared to my D70s but I'm looking forward to learning all about it.

It's Here, It's Here! (yes, I'm jumping up & down)

I am so excited about this bad boy! I saved all Summer to get this plus a couple lenses. Unfortunately, I had to use all my savings towards a down payment on my new Mercury Mariner. I really needed to unload my car, it just wasn't a good vehicle choice. If you ever plan on getting a Pontiac G6, let me tell you. . .DON'T! I hated mine. Anyhoo, I was rather depressed even though I got a new vehicle, I was really longing for the D300.

Well, my DH decided that I should still have it. I worked hard all Summer with Seniors and he really wanted me to have it. He also explained that I would have all Winter to practice and become familiar with it before another busy season of Seniors. Well with that kind of advice, how could you not take him up on it right ;)

So I jumped online the next day and ordered it. He almost fell over. You see it takes me months to make a decision to spend a large sum of money. . . not this time honey, not this time!

The screen is much larger than on my D70s!

Where am I????

I'm home . . . patiently waiting (well that's a lie) but I am waiting for the UPS Man! He has my D300 on his truck. Tracking says it's on the truck and will be delivered today! UPS message center called me this morning to say it will be delivered between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. WTH!?

So here I am, at home, if you need me. Call me, text me, IM me . . . yah . . . I'll be here.

It's me!

I was bored and surfing the web. Another photographer mentioned this site, Polyvore so I went and checked it out. Very cool! You can add all kinds of things and make great little collages. The possibilities are endless. Go check it out!

Find me on Polyvore

Snowboarding

Schyler got a snowboard this year. Luckily, Hunter brought his for the weekend. They both couldn't wait to get up on the hill and try them out. Of course, they liked each others boards better so they switched. I did not do well with my focus this morning. I can't decide if I'm out of practice shooting moving targets or if I was shivering too much because it was soooooo cold up on the hill. Nonetheless, I still wanted to document Schyler's first snowboarding experience. She loved it! She actually will start skiing through the School's Ski Club the day after New Year. There were a few crash and burns but for the most part they did well. My sister, her fiancee' and I laughed more than anything.


Even after crashing, she has time to give me the peace sign LOL!
Yah, Hunter hit hard here but he was a trooper and got right back up and back on the board.
Isn't he cute? He will officially be my nephew September 19, 2009.

Check out the air here! :)This is my soon to be brother-in-law giving the kids a show. They loved watching him.