Your favorite memory of 2005

This year my Mom is trying something new. We are going to have a family New Years day lunch. The fun part is that it's going to be like a show and tell. Everyone is supposed to bring something to show or tell that is their favorite or biggest accomplishment of 2005. My kids are stumpped as to what to bring or do.
I came up with a couple of picture ideas. Something the kids can take and explain.
My attempt at the picture within a picture.
Here's my son. The frame he is holding is blank with a green cloth screen. I put this P&S picture of the big catch he made at his first Mighty Mites game.
He practiced all spring and was not having any luck at catching. What a surprise when he finally caught the ball and it was during a game.
This picture is the picture that actually prompted me to get the Rebel. I was sick of the quality of the P&S and I really wished I had a better camera to capture this moment.
I never really could do much with this picture because of the quality, but maybe this will work for it.


My Daughter has been teaching herself guitar and earned herself an electric guitar by bringing and F in English up to a A+ in one marking period. That was a big accomplishment !




Happy New Years !

Christmas favorites

Havn't really had alot of time to play with pictures.
Just trying to get over this flu like thing I caught a week ago !

So, far this one came to be the favorite of the season.
My littest niece.

The overlooked and forgotten

My Mom wanted some pictures of the kids.
As I searched through my hard drives, I'm finding all kinds of stuff. Who downloaded those?? Well, I guess I did.
How come I didn't notice them before.I wonder if pictures just look better some days because of the mood I'm in or I was being to critical and judgemental of everything about that days pictures. I passed it over and never gave it a second thought.
Very strange.
Some of them actually look just as good in color as BW. I liked this one as I can see the texture of Ramsay's shirt. I might lose that in the downsize conversion.

The waiting

and waiting and waiting is the hardest part when your seven. Days and nights just drag by, but you wait and wait......and dream and dream of what will be.

For all those in the warmer areas....

or in case you forgot what's like to wake up to 22 BELOW zero.....
and some more snow on the way, thought I'd share a small little view from my bedroom window. If this just makes you jump out of bed with excitement, then something is deeply wrong with you. :)
My car barely started on this morning-forgot to put enough gas in the car to compensate for this frigid weather. Kids missed the bus....my work day was just getting stupid by the minute.
In times like these the only way to make it through is the vision of flying off to Florida in March. I'm already counting down the days.

Playing in PS with a picture

of Shrewsbury Mountain. I like this action. Very long to run, but fun.
How do I get rid of the white edges and make it transparent?

The sound of money

As some in the office call it.

The other day the guys were loading up the machines to head north. Yesterday the one hour tour opened. It's so cold outside, I will be surprised if we did alot of tours.
I don't know if I am going to be able to take pictures of people on their tours. I was shaking like a leaf when I was out the other day......These cold temps are too much. My hands freeze almost instantly.

Chilly nights in the Park

Brrrrrr.
Taking pictures outside at night. A very quick walk around town to see the xmas lights.
No one had any good lights on. Stopped at the park to see what was on.
Waiting for the slower shutter on the tree picture turned out pretty neat as a car was pulling into the parking lot, the lights shined on the tree right before the shutter closed.

Some willing participants

and a little photo shoot that finally went well from beginging to end.(very little I had to do in PS- Which is a great feeling)
A bit much on posting the pictures, but I have to admit am excited about these coming out the way I wanted them to.