Dinner Time!

Looking back through my Florida pics and when I came across this one I realized something...I'm hungry too.  It's dinner time!

Mmm...Chicken Tenders

My first fairly successful attempt at 'Food Photography'.  4 out of 4 people said it made them want chicken tenders for dinner tonight! 

Spring Fever!

Looking forward to spring so I can get out and take more pictures like this!

My First Day Blogging!

 I've always enjoyed taking pictures. So much so that sometimes people would refer to me as the "papparazzi". My little Canon Elf was a great camera, but it just didn't take pics fast enough and I always wished I could blur the background (even though I didn't have a clue that I needed to be able to open up the aperture. What the heck did aperture even mean!)

Then one day a friend let me take a few pictures with his Nikon D300 and I fell in love! (Well, it was actually a few hundred, but that's a few, right?!!) I figured I'd eventually get an D-SLR one day when I could afford it.

Then for Christmas (2008) Ben completely surprised me with a Nikon D90. I was so excited!!! Wow does it take amazing pictures! Immediately I had to test out the ability to adjust the shutter speed so I had Ben run up and down the sidewalk for me!

I spent hours reading the manual, but there's just so much to learn! Four months had passed and I finally felt like I knew what all the buttons are supposed to do, and then Ben surprised me with a SB-600 Speedlight for my birthday. I felt so overwhelmed.

Now almost a year later I think I can take some pretty decent pictures. I still have a lonnnnggg ways to go, so I keep reading books, watching online seminars and taking pics of everything around.


Thanks for checking out my blog!