Fluid: From Heaven

(f5.6, 1/30, iso1600)

We had fun listening to fluid falling from heaven on to our umbrellas today.

Yes, I had more than ONE of these for lunch today! Feeling slightly guilty, but mmm they were good.(Digital filter "toy camera" setting, F5.6, ISO400 1/30)

OK.... I could have done a million and one things with this challenge but did not have the time. I have been busy with company staying with us and now more is coming in to town, it's my hubby's 30th b-day today and I am trying to get our garden ready to plant this Saturday. I am busy, to say the least. So having said that, this is why you get this picture, no time to mess around trying to find the perfect one.

P.S. I was just experimenting with a newly found feature on my camera under digital filters called "Toy Camera". My hubby showed me this and I snapped a few during our lunch and then thought I'd take one of my plate.

What red means to me

I was frustrated with this one but gave it a shot any way. I really wanted to do a picture with out any red in it but that turned out to be more difficult than I thought.
But I was determined and by the end of the day I had nothing great, so this is what I have....
I wanted to capture what the color red really means and I found out it means a lot. Red means warning, stop, danger, yield, sickness, death, embarrassment, anger, hot, sin......but my favorite meaning of this color is LOVE.

And so I settle for this simple picture. My sweet daughter, whom I love more than myself, with her chubby hands shaped as a heart near her heart.

Sugar over load

This year's Easter was not the best we've had, it seemed a little crazy, unplanned, unprepared and I was a tired grump. Long story short...I stayed up way too late trying to get my daughters Easter Dress perfect (I had to fix some things on it) for Church tomorrow. Then, of course the kids woke me up early, thus turning me into a grump. I tried to be happy, it is a time of year to be happy and I was some of the time but my cure for my sleepiness (lots of candy) gave me a sugar over load and I then crashed and burned at the beginning of our Church services, not the best way to enjoy my Easter Sunday. I have no one to blame but myself.

Being a tired grump I had no energy to be creative in my photography skills, I saw this basket and thought of my awful sugar over load and Viola... my Easter picture.

I used my trusty "Auto", no flash. I just opened the blinds for the cool lighting affect of the sun coming through the window. Sharpened and cropped in Picasa.

Simply Black and White

I love black and white for the fact that you can take a simple picture put it in B&W and it gives it depth and even life, some times. When I thought of this challenge I instantly thought of the simplicity of music in it's appearance, just the black and white notes across a page but how complex music really is, kind of like Photography.

I used a Pentax KM/K-2000 SLR camera in auto (not flash) natural lighting, using the macro feature. I used Picasa to make it B&W and sharpen the black a little.

Don't judge too harshly ;)

side note: for those of you who don't have photo shop or don't know how to use it (like me) I use the free Picasa program and I love it (for the fact that it is easy) you can do quite a bit with it, it's no photo shop but it is a nice program to use if you don't have time to learn photo shop or don't have it.

New to the blog

Hello, I'm new here so I'll introduce myself....

In the Blogging world I am known as K Harker, you can all call me K. I am a mother of two cute kiddos and a wife of a hardworking husband. We are enjoying our short time out in the Mid West while my hubby finishes up Dental School. We like it here, but we consider ourselves true Westerners and can't wait to get back there.

We just bought our first SLR for my hubby (he's the artist of the family) but I have found I enjoy taking pictures with a nice camera just as much as he does. I know Rachel from Rexburg ID and I have been stalking this blog since it's beginning but was too afraid to join, until we bought our newest camera, that is. So thought I could learn some things from all of you as I feel like I know nothing about my camera or photography and you all seem to have some amazing pictures on here.

Nice to officially "meet" all of you!

(I will do a seperate post for my B&W challange pic, just give me a couple of hours :)