a neat cheat sheet

that's some impressive rhyming huh?
For anyone just starting out and trying to learn their camera...i thought this was a neat little cheat sheet to look and learn from...

4th of July!

This Independence Day i finally got to use the 'bulb' mode on my camera.  This is the most manual you can really get the camera...i control everything...which was a lot of fun to play with.  I read up on how to really photograph fireworks and got lucky enough to have 2 nights of them to perfect it!

i love this one!

a little out of focus multi burst fun...

My fave...

1 thing....well ok maybe 4...

First...this was snapped on the way out of the woods after Mr. A;s photo shoot.  He kept asking what i saw...we said, nothing that a five year old would appreciate my boy :)

Secondly...while still in the woods we saw this baby bluebird.  His mom squaked at us the whole time but i couldn't resist snapping this pic...

thirdly...my baby boy is quite possibly the cutest thing in this world...



and fourth(ly?) my baby girl who is also the cutest thing in this world says HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

another new technique...

usually the point of good photography is to try to put things into focus....but sometimes it's fun to capture things out of focus too!  It usually drives me nuts but this time i was able to capture the photo just right...enough in focus to know what it is, but out of focus enough to make it interesting...