Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts

Friday, November 22, 2013

Photo Shoot Sneak Peek

Last weekend, we borrowed my mother-in-laws camera (since our camera is now officially in the shop getting repaired) and went to a local nature center to take some family Christmas card photos.

We brought the pup with us, but because there were so many people, kids and distractions such as squirrels she refused to pay attention. Which lets be honest, when your working with a 10 second timer she never would have made it to actually look in the general lens direction anyways.

So we just posed in some nice area's and got some good shots, considering we had to use a timer. We went during "the golden hour" and had some wonderful fall trees in the background.

I thought I would just share a sneak peak of one of the photos, and when we decide which photo's to use I will of course share them here!

Happy Friday and have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The Power of Photography - Tuesday Topics

So, I am a little excited for this weeks Tuesday Topics! Not only is it featuring one of my favorite things, photography, I am going to shamelessly show off a couple of my favorite nature shots that the hubby and I have taken! You can see more of our favorite photos on our updated Photography tab at the top!

1. This was a pure luck shot. We hadn't had our DSLR camera for very long and I was walking along my parents property in Florida. The sun was going down and coming in through the trees just looked pretty. A little color correction and bam! One of my favorite shots.


2. We were at my parents house in Tehachapi, again pre us really knowing what we were doing and the hubbs went outside to play with his new lens. I love the contrast of the bare tree against the sunset. This photo has not had any color correction to it! Straight out of the camera! It's such a great shot that we blew it up and have it hanging in our home, and we gifted the shot and a couple of others to my parents of this same tree.


3. On our trip to Catalina this year, we went walking around the island on a particularly gloomy day. Gloom, still made for a moody and, in my opinion, fantastic shot of the harbor and the boats.


4. This one was also from the same trip to Catalina, we awoke super early to catch the sunrise on the island.
 

5. D got this on his family trip to Lake Tahoe last year. This is the island in Emerald Bay. It's a favorite locale when we go, to just float on the lake and soak up the sun.


6. I took this in St. Pete Beach, FL this year. I haven't blogged about that trip yet.....sorry, its coming! It was a fun and wonderful evening just hanging out and eating seafood!


7. We went to the Aquarium of the Pacific with our dear friends and their daughter for my birthday last year. I got this super cool shot of the jellyfish! It was really hard to get a non-blurry shot, so I was pleasantly surprised when I opened this large on my computer!


8. Last July, we had a particularly large full moon. We pulled out the camera and the tripod and got some pretty awesome shots of the moon.


Do you have any cool hobbies that you like to show off? I guess that's why I blog, a place to showcase the things I do! Happy Tuesday.

Life.Love.Lauren