• Jun. 25, 2009
photography zone: enter at your own risk!!!
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Thanks!
I haven't entered anything under the "photography" category for a while, have I?
Well, looks like I need to remedy that.
I am learning more and more about how to control how I take my pictures and depending less and less on the Program mode. I hardly ever use the "evil green box", formally known as Intelligent Auto anymore ;-). A photographer friend of mine called it the evil green box. And it is. It is so bossy and is always popping up the on-camera flash :-D. I don't like that either.
My favorite mode is currently the Aperture Priority Mode. I love shallow depth of field in most of my pictures, and am always pushing it to the shallowest depth I can get in whatever lighting I happen to be in.
I absolutely hate bad lighting with a vengeance. It is so annoying. I hate the bad-blur photos and needing to use the flash. I much prefer morning/afternoon sunlight :-). Unfortunately, I usually have little control over the lighting. Unless I shoot "studio" style with some fabric or foam board for a backdrop and an old goose-neck lamp for side lighting :-).
Isn't he/she just darling?!?!?! Grandma accidentally found it and it's siblings while weeding around a tree. She said '"If I had thrust my trowel down there and killed them, I would have just died!"'
I got probably twenty pictures of the cute little fellow :-)
Thanks again, grandma!
She found this nest in another one of her trees :-). Recently she has been calling me whenever she finds something interesting that I would like to photograph. She lives directly in front of us, so it's really convenient :-)
Her front steps ;-D, lol.
What can I say? I love the texture :-)
*Sheepish grin*. Grandma's birdbath. :-D
Again, love the colors, pattern, and texture :-)
At the Park
Yesterday (despite the heat), we met both my grandma's, my aunt, and her three little kids at a local park for lunch. Arby's had free sandwiches with purchase of a drink, so we just swung through the drive-thru and brought some chips and Oreos :-)
The kids all had a blast ;-)
They had this giant swing that looked like an over-sized Frisbee. I swung on that for a while and could have taken a nap on it :-D, it was so comfortably relaxing.
(Hang on, had to turn up the radio- a Michael W. Smith song I've never heard before ;-) Who on earth is he singing with?)
*Ahem*, back on topic. There was also this cool thing-a-ma-jig that was like a conical rope ladder, it was over 10' tall and at the base it was probably 5' wide. If you stood on the ground outside of it and grabbed on, you could run it around and spin it. I alternately held my youngest cousin on my lap and let her ride, and helped my brother spin it for my younger brothers, cousins, and other little kids there.
The rock wall was also popular :-)
My cousin braving the rock wall.
"Hannah, count and tell me how many seconds it takes me to climb to the top!"
[me counting]
[before he gets halfway up, he jumps down and tries again. This time he makes it]
"How long did it take?"
"Umm...I didn't count the second time. Around 10 seconds?"
[he sighs and grins]
"Hannah...I wanted to know..."
[I grin back, thinking either he should have made it up the first time, or asked me to count both times :-D]
Well...I gotta sign off.
4Him,
~Hannah
Notes Already Written
• Jun. 26, 2009
Hey
Posted by KneelingAtHisFeet
Wonderful post Hannah! It looks like you had an awesome time at the park :) Do you mind if I add you to my friends list? I really like your blog and you seem so sweet!
Lovin' Him,
Kneeling At His Feet
Maiden Princess
• Jun. 27, 2009
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Posted by LanaMarie
(found your blog on Maiden Princess')
I was browsing through your old posts just to look at your photography yesterday - the pictures are so beautiful and artistic!
My favorite one was the picture of the parasols in one of the posts about Disney world :D
If I have a girl (wait sorry, you probably don't know who I am - I'm Lana, been married 13 months and am expecting a baby in October), would you sell me a copy (if you wanted you could leave the copyright notice still on there, but much smaller) so I could print it out and frame it and put it in the baby room?
If it's a boy I probably would need something more masculine than parasols, lol :)
I'm not sure what it is but there's something so charming about that picture :)
I love the one with the robin's egg nest, too :^) that might be my second favorite of all the ones on this page (I didn't look at the archives).
my blog is musingofaservantprincess.blogspot.com, if you want to know who this weird new commenter is :)
• Jun. 30, 2009
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Posted by nachoaveragegirl
Oh, those are cool pictures, Hannah! You are really good at taking pictures.
In reply to your comment, no we are not sure how Noah got MRSA. *rubs her face and sighs* Th' kid is so bally confusing. Half th' time are aren't sure why he's acting a certain way or why he's sick or... you get what I mean.
God bless!
In Christ alone,
Hannah Grace
