It's a Girl!!!

We brought our little girl home yesterday. It was a great weekend! We went down to PA for a long weekend and I met up with a great group of girls for a photography get-together. Julie (justjulie) here from 2peas was there and I can now say I finally met a pea! :)

We drove down to Delaware to pick up Piper. I was able to keep the secret for a whole month and when we got there Schyler was so confused as to what was going on. LOL! It still hadn't registered with her even with Piper jumping all over her.

Piper settled in and slept for about 4 hours until we hit a rest stop. We let her run around on the hill. We still had 3 more hours before we arrived home but she basically was like having a baby in the car as soon as the car started moving she fell back to sleep.

Piper is a very cheerful little girl, she is so excited to see people and greets everyone that came to see her with a big wag and a huge kiss!Here she's settling in for a long road trip.


Didn't take long and she was out!
Today was her vet appointment. She got her second set of shots. Unfortunately she had an allergic reaction and we had to run her back. Her eyes swelled shut and her nose and mouth really swelled too. The vet said sometimes that happens. They gave her benadryl and a steroid shot. It's been a few hours now and she's starting to look normal again.

4/4/08 - POTD - Spring

Here's a sure sign of Spring. . . muddy running sneakers! Finally was able to get out on the roads and get a few miles in. DD went with me too. The plan is for her to run in a few 5K races with me. She can handle a mile, no problem, but today we ran 2 and she had a little bit of trouble getting back. I think she did great though considering she's only 9 and it's her first year. She just needs to learn to pace herself instead of worrying about beating mom!

Had to try out one of Leah's textures - I can't wait to get out and shoot more so I can play with these.
I like the color version of this one with the field in the background for some reason.
Nikon D70s - 50mm - ISO 200 1/1250 f2.8

POTD - 4/2/08 - Spring

Spring, huh. . .yeah, that's funny. No Spring here! The only signs of spring here are man made. My DH has quite the green thumb. He can produce massive beef steak tomatoes, x-large green, yellow and red peppers. Last year he successfully grew brussell sprouts. Due to the fact that he has been out of work with a back injury since October and it has been a very long winter, he decided to start growing early this year. Within 2 weeks, this is what he's got so far. These litterly grew overnight. . . one day nothing, the next day bam!



I just have to say that Broadband is a wonderful thing! This post took 2 minutes to load - amazing! Dial-up is history!

POTD - 3/29/08

I was beginning to feel some excitement about getting outdoors and shooting again, until I woke up this morning! I can't even believe we got all this snow. Schools were even closed!

I know these are far from technically correct but let's just say a few were taken while driving and it wasn't very easy!

Holy blue here! I couldn't figure out why all the blue, DD suggested maybe it was because I was shooting through my windshield LOL! Like I said before who's the photographer here?

POTD - 3/27/08

I first want to thank everyone for the warm welcome back to the POTD! I so remember now what I've been missing - such inspiration here!


As for my post from yesterday, I didn't get a chance to answer Jess - I didn't get permission because I was assuming it being a public place that it would be ok? I dunno, if I'm wrong there. There were only 2 older people in there. They didn't bother us and we didn't bother them. It's actually a quiet little place.


Today's post was from the same day but outside when the snow storm hit! Another case of Schyler getting a little jealous about not getting her photos taken. I'm shooting "K" and she say's "hey mom, what about a shot like this?" I look and said, "Yeah, stay just like that!" Ok so who is the creative one here anyway?! LOL! She's been coming to sessions with me much too long :) Oh and for the record I wasn't on a paid session, just some fun practice when I took this.



I added one of Renee's borders to it, not sure if it works or not. I love the swirlies & flowers. I'm never sure of textures or borders.

POTD - 3/26/08

I know I'm not on theme. I haven't been participating with POTD since I sent my camera out to be cleaned. I just haven't had anything to really photograph during the long winter months.

Since the weather has started to SLIGHTLY break here, I had a practice session with my girlfriend's DD. Of course my DD needs to have a session as well (it's like jealousy, but it's fine with me!!) . Here is the laundromat series:



I can't decide if I just like the vintage look here. . .

or the vintage look with some texture?
Thanks for looking and it was nice to actually participate again!

POTD - Cropping - 3/3/08

I've been MIA lately due to the fact that I haven't been very inspired lately to take photos. Everywhere I look there is nothing but SNOW!!! I'm so sick of it. We just got another 6" this weekend.

I finally got around to working on some photos that I had taken back when I was in Wendy's class. I was going for the "dramatic lighting" look.

Here is the original in camera crop:

I think I was focusing more on the light and didn't pay much attention to the unattractive pose.

Here is my crop:
What do you think of this look. . . love it or hate it? Feel free to cc anything you'd like!