Baby Girl....

In no specific order....

I can't remember if I told you her name, Kali (pronounced Cali) Dawn (Rosie's middle name). She really is so cute.

This one with the ribbon is my favorite one. I think she looks so precious!

Shaila's Week Ten

Week Ten: Landscapes

Seriously I think the busy summer is getting in our way of our blog. There's pretty much only one challenge after this one. We can do it! On our way home from Pullman and on our way up to Grand Coulee, there we tons of times I wanted to capture the landscape, but due to time and kids, we couldn't stop to take them. Dang! So, I took the first three pictures last week, but just never posted them. I took the last one on our way home from Spokane last night. (Winston wouldn't stop crying so we stopped to comfort him...so why not take pictures too.!) I'm glad I got it, because it's ended up being my favorite! So nothing "awesome", but at least I'm finishing the challenge, right!?!

1/30 20 ISO-400

1/40 20 ISO-800

1.6 sec 20 ISO-800

1/250 10 ISO-200

Shaila's Week Nine

Seriously I'm having some blogging issues. Finally here is my week nine.

1/160 7.1 ISO 200Little did I know his mouth was actually on the drinking fountain.
1/80 6.3 ISO 200

1/400 5.6 ISO 400

1/80 5.6 ISO 800

1/80 5.6 ISO 400

Then in black and white.

Week Nine. Mel.

Could this baby boy be any cuter? (don't answer that since you have 3 baby boys yourself, ha!) He was sitting up and couldn't take it anymore and flopped back on the boppy. He thought he was hilarious. I did have to use photoshop to lighten it a little. It said it was balanced but it just turned out too dark for me. I have a couple more but I want to upload and post but I just had to do this one before I left. I hope to take some this week at my mom's house or out and about. Yes, I will be calling you for quick tips on the camera since I won't have time to real the whole manual!

Shaila's Week Eight

Week Eight: Capturing Action

I was more interested in trying out panning, so most of my pictures are of me trying it out.

Malcolm in action at his t-ball game.

1/320 8.0 ISO-800As I was watching my neighbors kids we played some t-ball. I of course got shots of the bat and ball blurred, but this is my favorite. Quinn started swinging, and somehow ended up falling. I love how it captured his fall!
1/100 10.0 ISO-100One of the pictures Matt really liked.
1/100 20.0 ISO-200

1/15 18.0 ISO-200

I think this is my favorite!
1/60 13.0 ISO-200

1/60 13.0 ISO-200

Another that Matt liked.
1/100 10.0 ISO-200

Week Eight. Mel.

After talking to you I wasn't sure if I would have an opportunity to try 'panning' out. These aren't great but it helped me get the idea of it. We stopped at the park last night and Milo ran sprints for me, ha! He was really running in all three. He was also getting annoyed with me cause I kept making him to it over again. And then when we went home he said he wouldn't be able to walk today. Thankfully he wasn't as sore as he thought he would be.

1/400 6.3 ISO 100

1/400 6.3 ISO 100

1/640 5.0 ISO 100

1/1600 4.0 ISO 100

Nathan just throwing the football around at the school today. So not tons of action but I still think his 'form' is cute. Boys are so funny.

1/50 3.2 ISO 400

This is my 'embrace the blur' photo. He was waiting for his next bite of carrots and rice cereal and making the funniest faces. So many of the ones I took are blurry but I still love them cause he was making me laugh with every face (I'm posting more on my blog since today is his 1/2 birthday, can you believe it, 6 months!)

Week Seven. Macro. Mel.

The Macro shots. Actually I had the camera in SuperMacro and without looking that up I'm not sure of the difference in focal distance. I love that it rained this morning and drops were everywhere. It made me want to go out and find more flowers with drips hanging off. I just might....

1/800 2.7 ISO 800 6.0mm

1/800 2.7 ISO 800 6.0mm

1/1000 2.7 ISO 8oo 6.0mm

1/640 2.7 ISO 800 6.0mm

1/1250 2.7 ISO 800 6.0mm

I just had to show you these crazy roses! They have always, always been the color above, peachy/white and this year these red roses came out of nowhere. Is that weird or what? Help us out Matt, why the heck did that happen?) I didn't take this photo early enough, they are already wilting.

Week Seven. Mel.

On Saturday a girl Milo works with wanted to have everyone over for a barbecue. I was not excited about going, I get all uncomfortable around a group of people I don't know. And I only knew one person. Not my idea of fun. I went anyway and even made a really good strawberry cake (they're on by the way, are you making 50 jars of jam again this year, ha ha!) The girl lives out in Mae Valley and has a horse she wanted to lead the kids around the pen. Oh my all three of them were in heaven!!

1/640 4.5 80

1/640 4.5 80

1/640 7.1 ISO 80

1/250 7.1 ISO 80

I'm going to post about in on my blog but am a little behind (not a shocker, I know) but NASA astronauts are in Moses right now out at the sand dunes using robots and gear practicing for the moon landing in 2016. After we left the BBQ, we went out there to see if we could see them in their full gear suits (go to Kortni's blog, off of Korbi's.) The kids were so confused as were drove out there, they could not picture it in their heads what sand dunes are. The loved running up this hill and back down again. I didn't grab the camera fast enough, they were already back in the van wanting to get to the astronauts.

1/500 8.0 100

This is a crane that moves that box to a robot 'truck' with 12 wheels (I have pictures I'll put on my blog) and then back again. Not sure of the importance. It seemed like a lot of smart, nerdy men playing with computers and robots. The one working this crane had an Aussie accent and a crocodile dundee hat and wasn't bad looking either, ha!! I just really like the sky and wish my camera could go higher with the aperture number.

Now that you have reminded me that I was supposed to shoot some in macro, I realize how many opportunities I missed! This week, right?

Shaila's Week Seven

Weekly Challenge: The Close-Up

Since I don't have a macro lens, I could only get really really close to take the picture. But I like the pictures I got anyways. It was cold and gray all week until today, so most of these are inside. I noticed these flowers behind the fence of my apartment and was wanting to take pictures of them all week. I finally got a chance today. I shot all of these pictures at 55 mm length, as far as my lens will extend.

1/250 5.6 ISO100

I cropped this picture to get the zoom that I wanted. There was a bumblebee flying around it. It was hard to get the bumblebee in focus since it was windy, blowing the flower, and it kept flying around.
1/320 5.6 ISO100

1/60 5.6 ISO400 with flash

1/60 5.6 ISO400 with flash

1/10 5.6 ISO400 with flash

1/30 5.6 ISO400 with flash

Week Six. Mel

I guess you could call this challenge, faces of Reed. The morning light hasn't been the best this past week and by the afternoon things get too crazy around here. So these are a bit grainy but I still like them. And like you, I just haven't taken the time to do it this week. Ugh.

1/80 3.2 ISO 400

1/80 3.2 ISO 400

1/80 3.2 ISO 400

As you can tell, he pretty much hates the Bumbo more than about 4 minutes. He arches his back to get out and that's big for him considering how squishy he is.

(Apparently I never changed the settings, they're all the same. Duh.)