April 30: Day 113

For the outtakes behind this photo check out my family blog here. Let's just say taking photos of my daughter is difficult but taking a photo of both my children together is a nightmare!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/160 sec
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 45mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off

April 29: Day 112

I was chasing the sunset and the clouds beat me to my destination so I had to settle for this fence instead. At least it's not a plant of some variety!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 68mm
ISO: 400
Flash: Off

April 28: Day 111

I took this photo tonight after we got home from the AWANAS Hot Dog Feed & Award Night. The sun hadn't quite disappeared so I hurried outside with my fully charged battery (died on me this afternoon after the first photo I took!) and saw this yellow flowering bush in the scrubby stuff behind our house. Got tackled by some blackberries (but hopefully no poison oak!) in pursuit of this photo and I have to say I'm happy with it. I love the colors and no I didn't do any weird Photoshop post-processing to get this result. All I did was crop and sharpen. The purple/blue tones are too gorgeous to mess with!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 38mm
ISO: 200
Flash: Off

April 27: Day 110

I found this pretty nuclear green bush in the church parking lot this morning. I had just finished cleaning up after this morning's MOPS meeting and had buckled both kids in the car when this bush caught my eye. I had my camera in the car so I took a few minutes to snap a few photos. I'm glad I did!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 51mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off

April 26: Day 109

I almost used the rather boring photo of the greeting card aisle in Rite Aid but thankfully I was inspired by the pretty candles at my bible study last night and had my camera in my bag. My husband asked me to take the greeting card photo for his PowerPoint presentation for work. I'm sure that's what most people do when they want a particular photo for their presentation. Or maybe they just use Google Image Search. Hmmmm.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 42mm
ISO: 800
Flash: Off

April 25: Day 108

I took this photo of our seashell haul the evening we got back home from the beach. I didn't have a lot of sunlight outside but I made it work. Grace is very proud of the shells we found while tidepooling!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO: 200
Flash: Off

April 24: Day 107

The last night we were at the beach there was a beautiful sunset that I naturally took advantage of! I don't have a lot of practice with sunset shots since I don't have a great view of the sunset from our yard. It was hard to deal with the rather bright sun. I was hoping for some pretty colors but all we got was gold. The ocean was pretty angry with bigger waves then usual. The big waves created the piles of frothy fluffy stuff that covered the beach. I have more photos of the fluff I may post later.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/500 sec
Aperture: f/18.0
Focal Length: 35mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off