Week 7: February 14

This week's photo was taken on a very rainy Valentines day.  I gave the kids permission to go outside with coats and rubber boots to splash in the puddles and Grace had a blast splashing around in all the water.  Ethan was super excited to follow his sister, but only lasted about two minutes before he was very ready to come back in.  Grace was a trooper and stayed outside until her coat was soaked through.

March 2: Day 54

Splash! There's nothing like the magnetic draw between a little boy and a puddle of water. My son just can't resist a good splash. And the walk from the van to the elementary school gym where my daughter takes gymnastics is loaded with puddles on wet days like today. I actually gave him the go ahead to splash away for two minutes while I snapped photos. I tossed my camera in the car at the last minute but since I only had my 50mm I couldn't get decent photos of Grace from across the gym. So this impromptu splash session (which would have happened even if I didn't give him the go ahead) was my best idea for a photo for today. Be grateful I got this photo because otherwise you would have got a photo of my son clutching to his new package of underwear for dear life. He's pretty attached to them and is actually holding them in his unseen hand in this photo. Let's just hope the enthusiasm for new underwear kick starts an enthusiasm for potty training.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/400 sec
Aperture: f/2.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off

February 1: Day 25

Today is a very typical wet, gray, icky kind of Northwest sort of day. The perfect kind of day to find big water drops hanging on for dear life to tree branches and anything else outside. This is one of the poor trees in our backyard that has been used as a snack by the deer. I'm surprised it's still alive. I used a fast shutter speed because I didn't want to lose the water droplet. I tried to get some photos of rain drops but I think I may have to pose that shot because the cement patio isn't a solid enough color to really make the splash pop. Maybe I'll try that again sometime. I'm sure I'll have plenty of rainy days this spring to practice!

Oh, I used one of the Pioneer Woman's actions for this one. It's called Seventies and for some reason I like it on this photo. Maybe it's because I can pretend it's an old photo of a rainy day and that it's really sunny and nice outside today. That could be it.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/1600 sec
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO: 200
Flash: Off