Sunrise

Sorry for the slow posting lately. Things have just been a little busy.

Flowers

We have a few flowers coming up in the yard, so I tried to get a couple of shots of them. The last one is from flowers in our house.

Playing outside

Before the weather turned cold again.

State Swim Championships

Here's a shot of Kenzie during her 200-yard freestyle swim in the state championships this past weekend. She finished third overall in that event. She did great, but I was a little disappointed in myself for not getting any really good photos during the event. This one's not half bad. I'm bouncing a single flash off the really high ceiling at the pool, and shooting a really wide aperture (f2.8).

Photos for a Cousin

Two From Today

I really need to shoot more and post more stuff. Seems like it's been really hectic lately, though.

Baby Photos

Some shots I took of a friend's one-month-old baby girl today.

Basketball Photos

I did some middle school basketball photos this evening. Here are a few of my pics from the bunch. For lighting, I used a Nikon SB-900 camera left fired through a shoot-thru umbrella. A Nikon SB-800 was behind the subject camera right to give me some highlights, and an SB-24 with a blue gel was fired at the wall behind the basket.

Kenzie and Shadow

This is the other kitten we found outside. She lives in the garage most of the time, but Kenzie brings her in to play, and decided to name her Shadow.

Icy Trees

Kenzie's Photography Project

My daughter is doing the photography project for 4-H, so we got out Saturday afternoon and took some snow shots. I let her use the D100, and she got some pretty good photos. I'll post some of her shots over on her photo blog, but I'm posting one here she snapped of Reece and myself. Here is also one of her in action.

Scenes from the Ice Storm

The big snowstorm we had here (well, big for here anyhow) turned into an ice storm that left a layer of ice all over trees, branches and pretty much everything else. We were some of the lucky people at our house that didn't lose power. One report said that 65% of the people in our county were without power after the storm. Here are a few detail shots of the ice.

Icy Window

The window of our van with a thin layer of ice over it. I messed with the white balance a little in Lightroom to give it the blue-green tint.

Snow Day

We had a pretty substantial snow last night and this morning, which has since simply turned to freezing rain. However, we all took the day off and let the kids out to play for a while. Kenzie liked rolling around and throwing the snow, while Reece, on the other hand, just ate a little of it, then wanted to go in because it was cold.

Morning on I-64

Ivy's Portrait

Hard to believe that this is that tiny kitten we found just five months ago in an ivy patch outside our house.

Kenzie in Red

Lately, I've been leaving one of my flashes and a GI remote on a light stand and just tucking it away in the corner. That way, if sometime pops up, I drag out the stand, throw on an umbrella and have a quick good light source. That came in handy this morning, as my daughter got dressed up in her red hat and scarf just before going to church, so I quickly grabbed the camera, moved the umbrella in close and snapped this portrait with very little setup. The desaturation effects were done in Lightroom.

Mmmmm, Dessert

Lisa made this really good cream cheese filled dessert for dinner last night.

My Daughter, the Animal Lover

We have yet another kitten that showed up at our back door the other day, and of course our daughter can't resist helping it (after all, it is really cold outside right now). I told her this one wasn't going to stay in the house, but she did talk me in to letting her live in the garage until it warms up out. Guess I'm just a pushover.

Reece the Gamer

Reece's preschool had an accident where the water sprinklers went off on Friday, so he had to come to work to hang out with me for a while. With his DS to play, I hardly knew he was there.