Photojournalistaextrordinaire

I haven't blogged in forever, yet again (my last 3 posts all say the same thing... "I swear I'll post more often!"), this time due to things out of my control going on in the real life around me. In order to give myself an artistic outlet and distraction from life's worries right now, I've taken up photography with a sparkling new camera that my family so endearingly supported me in purchasing. Here's a sample of day 1 and 2's products (keep in mind this is a looooong learning process, even for someone who took a whole year of photography back in high school when we actually had to *develop* *real* *film*). Out of 133 shots, these were the luckiest :) (and btw, if you click the photos, they're much higher-res on their own for some reason... clearly I'm still understanding the blog world, as well as the photo world)

Day 1: Automatic everything (camera still set to auto mode)


King Wren and Jalapeños growing on the porch



Mama's beautiful inauguration weathergram (wish the whole thing was in focus!) Oh and that's the grape vine we thought was *so* dead that miraculously sprouted and is growing like wildfire now in the back.


Day 2: Experimenting with Aperture/Fstop/Depthoffield


Pretty purpleyblue flowers hidden in the pine needles


This is a shot I took for a "Weekly Assignment" at digital-photography-school.com... The task was to photograph a "Chair" in any sense of the word. I liked these tennis bleachers outside the Apt, and figured that was a semi-creative chair.



This was my experimentation with foreground and background. Notice in the first one, the dandilion is actually in focus (I love this shot!), and in the second, everything behind it is. Those of you who know how to do this stuff better than I are saying "Psshh... amateur", but I thought it was nifty!


As much as the worms drive me crazy when they can't get back underground after it rains, this little guy was so interesting!


And finally, my favorite shot was these buggos on the lily. If I were not such an expert photographer already, I might tell you that I took the first photo of this flower before I even saw the buggos, but I'm much to professional for that.

Stay tuned for more loveliness as I start hunting down sweet shots and gushing over my new hobby... Annie Leibovitz - watch your back!