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Well, I posted two pictures last night, but I thought they were pretty lame so I tried again...not really happy with these either. I did enjoy the challenge though of trying to look at this plant at all possible angles....oh, except I didn't climb on top of something and look down at it. I will have to try that later. My orginal plan was to take a picture of just a single water droplet like I have seen in other photos, but my lense won't get close enough...even with a mulitplier. I will have to do some more research on that.

Here are a few pictures that I have taken over the past week. I am tying to get close-up shots of the kid's hands, feet, ears, and things like that. I'm going to try some more as soon as Nathan comes home with my camera. He went to AZ and took the camera with him. I am having serious withdrawal issues! :) The next best thing is to edit pictures I guess.

Lights

I was messing around the other night with lights. I just thought this one was odd.

Anyways, I was reading something about macro lenses (I want to take more water pictures), and I ran across something that made me laugh. I went out with Rebecca to take those pictures of Seattle at night. My pictures didn't turn out because I didn't have a shutter release cord or what ever those things are called. All of the pictures had different degrees of blurriness. Then I read that you can always set your camera's timer to take macro stills to avoid the blur. I felt like an idiot! I would have never thought of the timer! So anyone who would like to take pictures that require a tripod and should have little to no shake...use the timer! ;) Just thought I would share that.

I also wanted to take another picture of the moon. I would like to get a picture with the sky blue. Has anyone taken pictures like this? The sky looks blue when I take the picture, but then in the picture itself it is black. If I decrease the shutter speed, it overexposes the moon. The only thing I can think of is to find a full moon out right as the sun is setting. Any ideas?

Chair...Couch?

I don't have chairs...well, besides the ugly fold up kind so I used the couch. Hopefully that counts. We have benches to eat on instead of chairs...anyways! The kids had a few moments before their first day of school so I took some pictures of them on the couch. They are by the window which was not producing very much light. The majority of pictures were very dark and blurry, but a few turned out.