fun with shutter speed

Apature Test Photos

.Love.

If thats not love, I am not sure what is.

Snow Day

We woke up this morning to about 3 inches of snow on the ground. Still surprises me to see snow on the ground. Kota is a natural snow pup, has since we moved out here, he jumps right in, chases snowballs and rolls around in the snow. Natural snow bunny that boy. Cheyenne on the other hand wants no part of the cold . Case in point, currently she is snuggled up on my lap under a blanket. She goes out does her business and comes trotting right back inside.

Until this morning.

Its pretty hard to throw snow balls to Kota with one hand and take a picture with the other hand. Pups had a good morning and are now totally exhausted.

Happy Halloween

Kota is going as a Pumpkin for Halloween, or is the Pumpkin going as Kota!

Happy Halloween!

Fall

Last weekend we took a drive, Out Old Sage Road to Vincent, Through Cripple Creek, into Divide and back home through Manitou Springs. Our first real fall out here in Colorado, we thought we would take the opportunity to drive through some of the mountains and see some of the great fall colors changing.

Weather was great, in the 50's for most of the trip. Not a cloud in the sky, the colors were primarly yellow and didn't have too much variation. I couldn't tell if we were a week early or late, but judging on the day today a trip through the mountains today wasn't going to happen.

Some photos from the trip.



Las

Pikes Peak Fishing Trip!

Or rather a casting trip! We spent a sunny Saturday at Pikes Peak Crystal Reservoir Fishing. It was a beautiful clear day day and we expected to have a productive fishing day. And it was precisely the opposite. While the group of 6 next to us caught, and caught, and caught fish, we caught nothing but sunburns!

I was able to take some great photos of Pikes Peak and some of the breathtaking nature. For next time we will scout a better place and bring lunch, the hotdogs there are $4.00!!

Photo Challenge: Week 1

I found a photo challenge on More Than Just Dogs' Blog and thought it would be a great challenge for me!

Week 1's assignment

Take 36 different photos of a chair — only 36 exposures. Share all 36 photos, and choose your favorite 3 and share those separately (or at the top of your entry or something).

No retouching, no messing, no funny business — WYSIWYG. (What you see is what you get.) That part is skeery!

Alright, here are my 36 photos. No editing, no retouching. SOOTC (streight out of the camera!)


Sorry they are a little small, my top 3 are:



This was harder than I thought. But I like the outcome!

Day 1

First Day of work. Can I say I've never been in love with a job like I am with this one. It's going to be great. I spent about 4 hours today learning the program I will be using, and understanding how the company does their proposals. So a lot of learning today, as will be for a while. But, I'm In love with the job.

We watched the Discovery Channel's special Yellowstone Battle For Life, made me reminisce of the Trip I got to take last summer to Yellowstone, and I think I need to go back, I haven't seen near enough!! So I dug through some old pictures, reprocessed some from Yellowstone, and some from the Montana Trip.

On the way to the ranch:

In Butte at the Mine

Yellowstone

one of the Geysers

Cheyenne Mountain State Park

We ventured out today and went to the Cheyenne Mountain State Park, the only state park in the county where we are living, but only like 5 miles from the house. They have 20 miles of hiking/biking trails. We're going to take advantage of the parks with a year pass and start hiking more often and visiting places around the state.

Some pictures from the day.

Bird holes in a tree.

There were all these trees that have yet to bloom

Since Colorado Springs is technically a desert, there is cactus, really cool colored cactus

So we are on the path, Zook Look, minding our own business, when we hear something big in the brush, close, real close. Now, we had just seen signs about bears and mountain lions and what to do when we meet on of those creatures. We didn't meet those creatures today. Today we meet some deer, and some, I mean lots, 12 to 20 was our guess.




a moth on the path


two happy hikers

We're hoping there are lots more parks in our future with our annual pass.

David and Maria. Lilly too

I am so excited about these. Last week, while we were in North Carolina, David, Maria and Lilly went out with me to take some pictures, before David leaves for Italy. It's often so hard to get pictures of the family with everyone in the picture, and it not being a self portrait.

we went outside the hotel we were staying in and found a great construction sight with some great photo ops! Love the red what ever coils they were.
ummmm are you kidding me....FAVORITE!!!

up against a garage, with some tall grass

another favorite


and the every lovely, Lilly
I wish you all the best in Italy, and a speedy homecoming!!!

Hello Georgous!

These beauties were all over the South East on our drive back to Colorado. They are Red Buds and are one of the earliest blooming trees in the spring time according to treehelp.com

2 years

It's hard to believe that 2 years ago, we were saying our vows in paradise with our family and friends. Part of me is like, 2 years.... that's it!?!, the other part is still recovering.

(photos Sungold Photography)