Is It Spring Yet?

I see a little bud!!!

The Thoughts They Think

"I love beads, Twizzlers and Sesame Street! This is the best day of my life!!!"

"Seriously, when can we stop hamming it up, and chow down!?!?"

"My Momma said I'm sitting on Kimmy. I thought she was in Phoenix, and human...My Momma has issues."

"Round and round goes the train, everyday it's just the same."

"Oh boy, time for train ride number two!! Let's run, but catch me if I wipe out please, but hurry up about it."

"THE PUBLIC IS TERRIFYING!"

"I love you Mimi, now give me your earrings, and sneak me some chocolate, and let me rule the universe. Is that too much to ask for at Christmas?"

"Won't you be so glad when we are no longer the "it" couple in this family? Yeah, me too!"

"I'm sick of posing for cheesy pictures, it is so 1987."

"I'm going to marry this person someday."

I guess now is a good time to tell you John and Amber got engaged over the weekend!

"It" couple number 2!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go charge the battery on my camera.

Confessions of a Lazy Photographer

Miss VeeVee likes her stuffed toys.

That really doesn't pertain to my revelation to you, but I thought in case this picture didn't get that message across, you should know that.

I have been trying to teach myself depth of field with my camera.

I could read many thousands of books, online articles, and the like, but I chose to speed read a post from a website that is written by a cattle ranchers wife. Who was also on GMA last week.

Anyhow....

The greater majority of my research was to simply look at other people's work, then go for it trial and error style. Mostly error.

The first thing I had to do was get test subject #1, also called daughter, to hold kinda still.

If you know my daughter, you are undoubtedly in hysterical laughter at the idea, so I'll give you a minute to compose yourself.......

Time's up. Moving on.

She loves to color after lunch and the light is good so I pounced.

I thought I did pretty good, that is until I went back to look at the work I studied only to find, I'm still draggin' fanny behind the pack. But I have a theory.

Most all aspiring photographers own some sort of high end camera, usually a digital SLR, and Photoshop. They read the manual to their camera, joined an online forum, and learned how to use Photoshop. I stopped at step one. I don't have time to read, unless it's a colorful book about shapes, numbers or colors. And God Bless Photoshop and all it's wonderful things. I have only opened the program twice, and it was so much I just bailed.


SOOOO....nearly every single picture on this entire blog is a straight out of camera shot. And that goes double for all of these. Every so often when I'm hanging out with Stella, my tough as nails alter ego, I will do tiny bits of editing in Picasa. But Photoshop, she remains a nearly untouched icon on my desktop. I wonder if she gets lonely. All those gifts, and no photos to lavish them on.
Now you all know I'm a lazy photographer, and feel better for telling you.
Now if you want to see some real, super cute photography go here
I really like her stuff, and not just cuz it's babies and cuteness. It has a flavor.
And, yeah, most of you know her. But I do love to promote others.
If you need me, I'll be sorting through and deleting the remaining 7,573 pictures that didn't turn out. Because I'm sure that takes less time than a Photoshop tutorial.