2: Woo Hoo!

She’s marrying my brother in September. Excitement abounds.

f/10: 1/50: ISO 400: 50mmAbout the photo: Three years ago, I was in search of a way to capture the excitement of sledding.  I had a lot of photos of kids on their sleds.  The pictures looked like they were just sitting on their sleds (looking excited) instead of flying down the hill.  After all the snow had melted, I saw a sledding photo done using panning like this one.  I started practicing.  My first success is here.

I did a few pans in a recent family portrait session.  I loved how it captured the boy’s energy.  His family loved it too and chose a photo of him jumping for a wall print.  

90: Very Full


Christmas fills my already full days to the very top. It’s fun, yes. And tiring. And messy.

I understand why my mom used to snap at us as the holidays reached their crescendo.

89: Hot Chocolate

My niece, Elsie, enjoying her hot chocolate after playing out in the snow.

Truth Is: I watched her drink her hot chocolate across the room. I loved watching her peek out from behind the lovely blue and white cup. But she was sitting in a dark spot and I was holding her baby sister.  I asked Elsie to bring the (empty) cup over by the window after I passed the baby back to her mom.  

88: What is That?

When Augusta woke up from her nap today, I carried her to the window.  “What is that?” she asked.  She’s been in the snow before but that was many months ago.

All the kids bundled up and went outside for the season’s first snowfall.

87: Grandma’s Gift

I was working on this gift for my grandmother tonight.  It’s an album of photos from her 90th birthday party a year and a half ago.  At Christmas last year, I tried to make a photo book using the photos but didn’t get it done in time.  Then, I thought I would get it done for her 91st birthday this June.  Nope.  I kept putting off the book because I didn’t have everyone’s names for the captions and I wasn’t sure of how to lay out so many photos.  

It was a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good.

I decided to go the old fashioned route.  I ordered all the photos and am putting them in an album.  

It’s more work than I thought it would be and it cost more than a photo book.  I like having the photos to move around in my hands though.  And, it’s getting done.  Grandma will have it on Christmas this year.