Day 226: April 18, 2012

Dexter hanging out on the couch with us watching late night television.  Used my iPhone for fill light!

Day 201: March 24, 2012

Dexter all curled up and enjoying the bed pillows and the afternoon sun.  Sometimes I wish I could trade places with my cats.

Day 156: February 8, 2012

Dexter enjoying a bath and catnap on our bed, his favorite late afternoon hang out spot.

Day 146: January 29, 2012

Boo sitting on her favorite perch: the dining room chair closest to the sliding glass door.

Day 142: January 25, 2012

I've been spending a lot of time working on the master bedroom this week.  Here's a sneak peek of the work in progress...Dexter is bathing himself on our new duvet, you can see a glimpse of the new accent wall color behind him, and a smidgen of the elliptical to the right that needs to be moved out of my way.

Day 133: January 16, 2012

Dexter loves to hang out on the ottoman late at night.

Day 103: December 17, 2011

It's a good thing we hire a company to keep our grass so green and tasty for the deer.

Day 75: November 19, 2011

Dexter was not impressed by my flash when I was practicing again.  I've been working hard at improving with my flash indoors in poor lighting situations but it's hard to find cooperative subjects!

Day 71: November 15, 2011

Dexter loves to hang out in the office window sill while we're working...

Day 47: October 22, 2011

This photo is processed differently then I usually edit.  I used a cross color action for fun, mostly because it's a fast fix for terrible color balance!  I took this from our back patio looking in to our kitchen at night.  Apparently I need to do some glass cleaning.

Day 34: October 9, 2011

I was pretty tired after our church campout weekend so the best I could summon up is this photo of Dexter hanging out in the Costco box again.  The box has since made it to the recycling bin :)

Day 30: October 5, 2011

I've been taking a lot of low light photos lately since that is the theme for my Momtographers challenge this week.  The weather has been cooperating which I guess is a plus.  This one was taken in our bedroom with no lights on, just window light on a dark overcast afternoon.  I did use a reflector though!

Day 20: September 25, 2011

Taking a break from photos of people and caught this moment of our cat Dexter enjoying the box I brought home from Costco this afternoon.  He is obsessed with getting inside of boxes, bags, lunchboxes, and the like.  I only got three shots of him before he noticed me and got up to give me some kitty love, but I love this shot mid-yawn!

June 16: Week 24

I took this lovely chicken's photo yesterday at our Momtographers Meeting practicing photographing moving subjects.  Mostly we practiced on the kids but the chickens got a turn too!

Week 10: March 12

A photo of my first baby, our kitty Boo.  Otherwise known as Saint Boo for putting up with all kinds of child love/torture.

January 4: Day 362

The cat we love to hate, Dexter. He was loving up on me while I was laying in bed trying to get his photo on the window ledge. I need more then three inches between me and my subject!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/2.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 3200
Flash: Off

January 1, Day 359

9I got a new roll of seamless paper for Christmas and I wanted to show my inlaws my nifty new traveling studio setup so I did some photos of them and some of Lucy, their new puppy. This one is my favorite, love the lick!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/160 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO: 160
Flash: Off Camera, Softbox

November 21: Day 318

I took this laying on my stomach in the hall. Dexter was peeking around the corner at me, probably hoping I'd get up and feed him since the cat food is located right next to me!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 3200
Flash: Off

November 14: Day 311

Dexter is officially a Disturber of the Peace. This sweet looking cat has turned our household upside down with his antics but at the end of the day he's super sweet. I think that's his way of apologizing for wreaking so much havoc!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 3200
Flash: Off

October 29: Day 295

I was so excited to see some more autumn sunshine today! I spent a few minutes basking in the late afternoon sunshine with Dexter and practiced spot metering with back lighting. He was a willing subject and was very interested in the shiny white thing I was holding up towards him. For those MOPS moms who were at the meeting on photography this is a photo where I used my super high tech laminated calendar as a reflector. The thing works.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/800 sec
Aperture: f/2.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 200
Flash: Off