Day 352

My last day in Colorado Springs I got to hang out with these cool people :) 

Doesn't the above one look like an ad? I love Caiden with his jacket unzipped and no shirt. I should probably just crop David out of the picture. 

Well folks, from what it looks like I won't be getting much off of my broken computer. The hard drive is ruined :( This is why you all should buy an external hard drive to back up your photos! That's definitely on my to do list as soon (or even before) I return to the U.S.

I'm SOOO bummed about my photos. They told my dad that they were able to get a little bit off of my hard drive, but not much. They are going to keep trying through Monday. Then they will be putting a new hardrive into my computer. Do you want to hear the good news though? It should be free. I still have a warranty on my Macbook that I got a year and a half ago, and they say that I can use the warranty here! I will just have to pay for them to get what they can off of the hard drive. Other than that, I won't have to pay anything for it to be fixed. Sadly, they won't be done with my computer for another 12-14 days. In 14 days I go to the beach, and I wasn't planning on taking my computer to the beach... It makes me wish that I had just left my computer in Colorado... Since I won't be using it here.

I miss lightroom! I'm back to using iphoto on my sister's computer and it's SO hard to use compared to lightroom, 

Day 325

I promised him that I would get some pictures of him, his motorcycle, and his car. I finally did. I've decided that I am DEFINITELY a portrait photographer.... I really have a hard time capturing inanimate objects and making them look unique. 

(f/2.8; 1/800s; ISO 400; 50 mm lens) 

Day 311

This is day 311, right?!!!?? I think I'm finally caught up! I haven't been completely caught up in weeks! Hopefully I can stay this way :)

I love these two :)

(f/5.6; 1/25s; ISO 800; 55 mm) 

Woah, look how insanely slow my shutter speed is.

Day 288- Silhouette

Today (day 11) I was supposed to be something blue on my 30 day challenge, but I think I'll do silhouette instead and do something blue on day 15.

(f/5.6; 1/1600s; ISO 200; 55 mm)

(f/5.6; 1/1600s; ISO 200; 55 mm)

I really love how these turned out. Thanks for being such a great model, Lindsay! :)

263

(f/ 5.0; 1/100s; ISO 3200; 41 mm)

I love these girls... a lot. sadly, they're both not in my life as much as I'd like. Now that I'm moved, I'll be seeing Lindsay (my neighbor) a lot less. And that makes me sad... so Lindsay, we HAVE to try to hang out.

And It's pretty self explanatory that I won't be seeing Julianna very much since she's now in Ecuador.

We had to get one last picture before we went off in somewhat separate directions. Although Lindsay will hopefully come to Ecuador with me this December!

Day 254

Today we went on a little hike. It was SO gorgeous out there.

(f/5.6; 1/640s; ISO 400; 55 mm) 

 These kids: David, Isaac, and Julianna... well, they are too cool for school. That's for sure.

(f/5.0; 1/2000s; ISO 400; 18 mm) 

Isn't God's creation amazing?

(f/ 5.0; 1/2500s; ISO 400; 18mm) 

This is the rock we "climbed". It actually looks a lot easier than it was. David, Lydia, and I made it about half way. If that.

Day 247

David playing around with his BB gun.

(f/4.0; 1/160s; ISO 400; 24mm)

Day 230

Today we went to the zoo.

meet mr. giraffe. 

this kid found out how to get down one step. so he kept crawling up and then down the step. he was so proud of himself. 

 this is our pathetic attempt at trying to get all the kids in one picture. asher is crawling off and grady is nowhere to be found (i think he was behind the bear)

 

another attempt at getting a picture with the kiddos together.

of course we had to take a picture in the BIG chair.

poor caden had school to go to :( 

chicken pettin' time. 

looking at the hippos

sweet sleepin' babe

hippos have HUGE mouths

the boys slept the whole way home :) 

Happy Thursday, ya'll!

Day 210

Today was a busy day indeed. We went up to Denver and spent the day at the lake.

I'm sleepy, goodnight world :)

Day 205

I did a photo shoot with my sister and neighbor yesterday. It was fun :)

Here are a few of my favorites:

(f/2.8; 1/400s; ISO 800; 50mm lens) 

(f/ 2.8; 1/400s; ISO 800; 50mm lens)

(f/2.8; 1/400s; ISO 800; 50mm lens)

(f/ 2.8; 1/400s; ISO 800; 50 mm lens)

(f/2.8; 1/160s; ISO 800; 50mm lens)

(f/ 2.8; 1/160s; ISO 800; 50mm lens) 

(f/ 2.8; 1/400s; ISO 800; 50mm lens)

I love how almost all of the settings stay the same for each picture.

Day 197

(f/2.5; 320; ISO 200; 50mm lens)

Because there are rarely any pictures of me up here, I set the settings, told Lydia to have the red dot on my eye, and this is how the picture came out. Not bad, Lyd, not bad.

(f/1.8; 1/320s; ISO 200; 50mm lens)

 I love the focus in this one :)

(f/1.8; 1/320s; ISO 200; 50mm lens)

The lighting in this one is so grand. Love it. Maddie is SO white. Poor girl.

(f/1.8; 1/400s; ISO 200; 50 mm lens)

Lydia is such a great model... although I don't think she knows I took this picture.

Day 194

I love this girl.

(f/2.5; 1/320s; ISO 800; 50mm lens) 

This is my wonderful neighbor.

* I wish I had lowered my shutter speed and lowered my ISO... I'm not really liking all the noise.

Day 180

mononucleosis makes you go crazy.

I really, really enjoy taking pictures. I love getting out of the house, and attempting to capture beauty.

My new lens has made it even more fun! I feel like I have a whole new camera!

My favorite things about it are:

• The aperture can open nice and wide :) 
• It's smaller, so it's easier to carry around with me. 
• If the settings are right, the pictures are SO sharp, and clear. 

Mmm, yes. I love it! 

My favorite little Micah Moo 

Haircut time! 

Johnny loves Poncho

Poncho is now groomed... and is healed after his rattle snake bite 

Boys come in on a regular basis and show me thier muscles... haha. not really. 

Love it! 

Friendsies

Flowers in the park 

Here's a game:
It's called planking. You choose a place to lay flat as a board, and you take a picture. I love being weird :)

Anyway, that's about the most fun I've had all week. I'm going crazy being at home so much, but there's not much I can do about it... since I'm SO tired all of the time. 

I just want mono to go away. 

I finished my first week of my math class! I took the pretest today and I actually got an 85%... that's impressive since I'm bad at math... and I haven't taken math in a year! And, my calculator broke right in the middle of the test. 

That's about the extent of my productiveness today.