Halloween 2011!

Eek!  I meant to have this post up Monday night, but we've kind of been in sugar comas around here since then.  Hehe.  So Halloween was a blast this year!  Victoria* dressed as a princess, and boy, does she have the attitude down for that one!  She got more candy than we know what to do with, and had a great time doing it.

 *Tori has informed us (numerous times, because it hasn't sunk in yet) that she would prefer to be called 'Victoria' now, because it's prettier.  Her words, not mine.  Heh.

Photography and the five year old

Tori and I took our old, junky, thrift-store 35mm cameras downtown to the 'Market on Main Street' farmers' market today.  She just loves taking pictures, and I love that she's so interested in something I love.  I'm trying to teach her about composition and framing her shots, and I figured a busy street market would be a great place to practice that.  After we were done, we dropped our film off at CVS, to be picked up later.  We picked them up a little while ago, and I've got to say, I was pretty impressed with some of her shots.  Of course, there were a few blurry shots, and a couple of her finger, but on the whole, I was impressed.  I'll try to get some of them scanned and posted later. 
    In 'me' news, I just started a "365Project", which is pretty cool.  You take and upload a photo every day, for a whole year.  It's a challenge to myself.  If there's nothing interesting to photograph, I'll have to improvise.  It sounded pretty neat, so I thought I'd try it.  Ok.  I'll try to post those pics later.  Peace out!

New Photo Blog

Just a brief update for tonight, and I promise, I'll have a full post tomorrow.  I started a photo blog on Tumblr, just kind of a journal of my adventures in photography and digital photo manipulation.  Come check it out HERE.

Accidental Art (or Yeah, I totally meant to do that)

So yesterday, we were decorating the Christmas tree at my parents' house.  I was playing around with my little point-and-shoot camera, trying to get a clear, no-flash shot of the tree with the lights on.  In the dark.  Eh...it didn't work too well.  Blurry, dark, yucky.  So I started messing around with the ISO and exposure settings, which is about all you can adjust on that camera.  I snapped a pic, and noticed that the lights were blurred in a very interesting way, due to a little movement at the time of shutter release.  So I started purposely moving the camera, just as I released the shutter.  Wow.  The result was this:

 And this:

 And this:

Pretty interesting results, considering I discovered the technique by accident.  Peace out!