One Snowy Evening

While a good portion of the country has much more snow then they would like, we rarely see snow.

We got a snow flurry that lasted all of 4 hours!  That was it for our entire winter.

Here are a couple photos from the evening.  These were all taken on my Canon T3i.

I played around with different shutter speeds

I setup my LED video light under the tree and set my shutter to a 30 second photo

A little to cold and dark for her to go out, but looking was just as fun!

My "Lady" (my Celebrate Motherhood) bumper sticker's first snow.

A Very Rare Photo Indeed

Spontaneous Morning Photo Shoot

Have you ever tried to take a photo of five small children all smiling at the same?  

I try all the time...  

I am not sure what made today's attempt a success.  

Maybe it was the combination of me doing back flips while dad did the clicking, 

or maybe the children were just so happy they couldn't help themselves. 

I don't really care - I'm just overjoyed to have a photo of the five of them. 

 

I used my Canon T3I with the following settings...

Lens: EF 18mm-55mm

Exposure: 1/60 at f /5.6 

ISO: 400

Flash : On camera

Welcome to my blog

Here you will find a variety of topics based on my attempt to take excellent photos.  I recently bought a Canon T3i.   I don't get it out half as much as I would like.  When I do take a photo with it I wonder how I could ever be content with cell phone photos.

I have 5 children - so you can guess what most of my photos are about ;-).

I have an on going contest with my husband.  He has generously offered to buy me a new accessory for my camera when I take 100 "Golden Moment" shots or amazing photographs.   I believe I have four at this point (I'm hoping to fudge or dwindle the number down from 100).  The picture above is my first golden moment. 

I also want to use this blog as a way to connect with other mothers.  So please feel free to comment.