Life

Life has been a bit busy this week...My sister from Michigan came to Washington and we spent three days together. She had a hotel about 45 minutes away so everyday I would go and we would go do something fun and had lots of fun together.....we went to Leavenworth and to the beach and to a lake and various places to eat which each time never worked out like we were thinking they were supposed to. Tonight I took her to the train station and we said our goodbyes. She is hoping to return next year and maybe we can hit the restaurants that we didn't get to this time as each time we tried the restaurant of choice was closed :) But we laughed a lot together about it.
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My sister Chris

And of course there was camera practice time. I met my friend in Leavenworth and she had lunch with us. She was saying something about joining facebook and her daughter hating the picture that she put on it...so I told her I would take a picture of her....so I used some of my new found skills and got this lovely picture of Melinda. It was bright bright sun...but this came out great........


My friend Melinda

Hattie

I was getting pictures of the puppies and Hattie got up where I was putting them and laid down...of course I snapped a picture of her......this is so cute.... :) But then I am prejudiced about my dogs.

Don'tcha just wish.......

Don't ya just wish that you could sometimes live the life of a puppy? You could lay around
and sun yourself with all your buddies laying around you waiting for the next meal? And you don't even have to do anything to get it except let out a little cry and someone comes in and lays beside you and lunch is served? Hum...maybe in my next life :) I will come back as a puppy and live the life of leisure...at least for a few weeks...until I have to spend more time playing and learning to go potty in appropriate places.

Can you say Remote??

Ok...what happens when two friends and one stranger meet to play with their cameras one day? Lots of pictures taken and lots of laughs shared. As promised here are the pictures I promised a few days ago of Jamie, Wendi and I meeting at a park near us to take pictures. Jamie thot it would be a good idea to have a picture taken of all three of us and even picked out the tree we would be under. So after we shot a bunch of other pictures we took our newly practiced skills and set up the tripod to take a group shot. Jamie thot we could use the self-timer but aha....I had my remote with me....so Jamie set up her camera to take the picture....and the remote wouldn't work unless it was too much in the picture.....or if we used her camera...so we switched to Wendi's camera....


So we tried again....but the remote didn't like being that far from the sensor...so the giggles started as we tried to get a picture of the three of us......


Well as you can see that meant more giggles and out right guffaws as we tried to snap one picture that looked semi-normal of all of us......



Finally we got one picture of all of us that wasn't bad...geez...now that I think about it we only got one halfway decent one. period....no extra in case shots....good thing we all turned out somewhat ok.......



oh a ps....I did crop the picture so that my arm that was up in the air isn't noticeable in this picture...
Thanks girls for a fun Sunday afternoon.

Photo Shoot Times

I started a photography class about a month ago and in the introductions I saw that there was someone from Stanwood...I was quite amazed as Stanwood is not exactly the heart of anywhere but a small town in Western Washington. We used to call it a two blink town as if you blinked twice you would miss it...however in the last 16 years that we have been in Washington Stanwood has grown...well to get to Camano Island you have to go through Stanwood so I was quite surprised that there were people in the same on-line class that I was in that lived very close to me. We decided to get together and practice our new found skills and to help each other out :) We met at Church Creek Park and had a ball shooting different apertures, shutter speeds, manual, different ISO's and any other camera talk that I am forgetting. So here are a couple of the hundreds of pictures that I shot yesterday.


Jamie and Wendi on the tetter tatter. I am standing on a picnic table :)


Here is Wendi taking a picture of Jamie


Jamie playing with her camera settings


We were tossing rocks into the stream and seeing if would could catch the splash....here is just one of the dozens I got :)

Thanks Jamie and Wendi for a great time........

ps..there should be a picture coming of the three of us......and there is a whole story that goes with that picture

Naughty Lucy and others

We have these really cool plants with yellow flowers that bloom awesomely in the summer...they are getting gangley right now and the dogs are loving getting into them. This picture of Lucy in the plant doesn't show how high off the ground it is but it is a very large bush and she is sitting on the top of the plant. The three "red" puppies I have, Lucy, Abby and Riley are getting in the plant and chewing on the stalks of it. They are totally trashing the plant but it is fun to watch them...and to get my camera out while they are still in the plant.


This picture actually shows how big that bush is...and yep...there are three dogs in that bush.

Pink Frog???

I have heard of seeing Pink Elephants altho I have never seen on myself..but Pink Frogs??? I was outside and looked in my dying Daisy bush to see if there was a frog on the flowers like there has been recently...I think I have a family of them living under my deck......well........this time the "female" of the batch must have been sunning herself as she had pink legs and an iridescent pink stripe down her back.....ah ha...where is the camera when you need it.....but I got my trusty little Nikon out and snapped a few pictures of this pink frog.....just so people wouldn't think me crazy...well at least not for seeing Pink Frogs............the picture looks more salmon colored but it really was a Hot pink color on those legs...maybe she had leg warmers in anticipation of the drop in temperatures to come :)