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Friday, April 11, 2008

Resolution

On Sunday I worked on one of my New Year's resolutions. I know it's April and I'm just getting around to it. I wanted to work on improving my photography skills. Since we were tending Addy and Aidan I decided to go take pictures of them. First we tried to go to this cool field full of daffodils but there were about 15 homeless guys in it so I had to go to my backup plan. So here are the photos.

My goal was to do a photo shoot each month. I guess I have 3 months to make up for but it shouldn't be hard to do that in the summer. Oh how I wish I could take photos like Audrey Woulard.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Old Post and Understanding Exposure

Last Saturday (nope not last Saturday but March 8th) Logan and I ran up to PCMR to watch the Superpipe Competition. Well like most things lately we missed the whole thing by 2 minutes. Oh well, I got to go shopping afterwards and I got these cute photos. I also found that Logan wasn't the biggest fan of the blowing snow in his face. I did get to see the Flying Tomato riding on the back of a snowmobile.

If you actually wanted to see more on the actual World Superpipe Championships you can check out PCMR's blog here.

Okay so I know I am so far behind on doing the exercises from Understanding Exposure. So here is the thing. I've glanced at the book again but haven't had a second to do the exercise. So do the first exercise, I know it's a two page spread and probably 10 pages in (I'll try to have the exact pages tomorrow). Then next Thursday I'll post my pictures to that exercise and hopefully others will link to their pictures in the comments so we can all talk and discuss.

I did do some shooting on Sunday but my lens (50mm1.8) was messing up my light meter. For some reason (probably user error) in manual mode I couldn't get the light meter to work half the time so I ended up shooting in Aperture Priority. I didn't like the results as much and I'm sure that is backwards for a lot of people. They probably get comfortable in AV then switch to manual. This was probably one of the first time I've really shot in AV, I'm usually 90% of the time in manual.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Late Night

Yeah so I've been gone for awhile. It's been super busy at work and then it's been super busy at home so no time to post. I'll try to be better.

So last Friday night for YW we had a late night. We had a 6 foot sandwich and tons and tons of junk food. We played games and the highlight was watching the girls do karaoke. I'm shocked I didn't have a stomach ache from all the laughing. It wasn't their voices that were funny it was that they didn't know the tune to any of the songs. These weren't weird songs either they were songs like Love Shack and Mony Mony.

I have to share one more funny thing that happened while playing Apples to Apples. One of the girls showed me her card and asked if it said "homos." I looked at the card and then blinked again and then just started laughing my head off. She was so innocent and honestly didn't know what her card was and that it really said HMOs. Never a dull moment with the YW.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A-Z Tag

A- ATTACHED OR SINGLE: Attached- Married for almost 8
B- BEST FRIEND: The Tad
C- CAKE OR PIE: Cake
D- DAY OF CHOICE: Saturday, I get to spend all day with Logan
E- ESSENTIAL ITEM: pacifier for Logan
F- FAVORITE COLOR: Pink
G- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Finishing school and getting paralegal certificate all while being pregnant. It was a crazy 2007!
H- HOMETOWN: Bountiful, UT
I- INDULGENCES: French fries - I love them!
J- JANUARY OR JULY: July!
K- KIDS: 1
L- LIFE IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT: shaving my legs
M- MARRIAGE DATE: June 10, 2000
N- NUMBER OF SIBLINGS: 1 brother
O- ORANGES OR APPLES: Apples because there isn't pulp!
P- PHOBIAS OR FEARS: Bagpipes, lake monsters, things under my bed, childbirth
Q- QUOTES: ? Don't have one
R- REASON TO SMILE: I'm going skiing Saturday
S- SEASON: I love winter and summer. Winter for skiing and Summer for gardening
T- TAG THREE FRIENDS: Bevany, Katie and Collette
U- UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME: I love doing family history.
V- VERY FAVORITE STORE: Target
W- WORST HABIT: Procrastination
X- X-RAY OR ULTRASOUND: Ultrasound-less radiation
Y- YOUR FAVORITE FOOD: Greek salad or french fries
Z- ZODIAC:Aquarius

Friday, March 21, 2008

City Creek

I had a presentation today on all the construction surrounding our building. I work in the Beneficial Life Tower fka Gateway Tower West so the City Creek Center (CCC) is being built all around us. They went over some of the procedures they are using to build due to complicated circumstances. They also talked a lot about the cranes because there has been some concern over how close they are to our building. I should have taken a picture because at some times they are only 20-30 feet away. They're putting in some software that will shut down the cranes if they get 2 meters from the building but it still makes you uneasy when you watch them.

The coolest thing they did was take us on a virtual tour of CCC. They also said it is posted on their site but the image is a lot smaller and it's very grainy. I'd still check it out if I were you. You start out at the entrance across from Temple Square, then go to the center of that block, then work your way towards Main Street and across the street at ground level. Then you go upstairs and go to the sky bridge and then work your way towards State Street then back to 100 South and then to Nordstrom's that will be on West Temple. Not the best description but it might help you as you watch it.

Here are some other random things we learned in the meeting.

- There will be trout in the creek but no fishing allowed.

- There are 11 places to eat in the food court but the food court is clear over by State Street (boo!).

- The glass ceiling will be retractable so in bad weather they can close it or if it gets too hot in the summer they can turn on the AC.

- There will be dogs allowed in the open areas and dog amenities available.

- 20% of the food at Harmon's will be ready to consume food with not prep.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

9th Annual St. Patrick's Party

I'm actually not sure it's the 9th annual but I know it's at least that many and maybe more. Well there was plenty of green food last night at Erin's (the girls) party. While we couldn't get Celtic Thunder to make an appearance we still had a fun time. It seems like the clogger parties are getting more and more different now that there are so many babies. We used to play games the whole time but now it's a lot more baby wrangling. We made sure we called Joey Bear to wish him a Happy Birthday because he didn't come home from Florida for the party, so we only had one birthday boy there this year.

We did get some Rock Band in for the night.

I just realized I only took pictures when pretty much the same group was playing. The girls did play also. Brandi was a lot better at the drums than I thought she would be. Erin and I did a duet to Blitzkrieg Bop (or as Kirsten likes to call it, Let's Creep Up).

Now let's check out all the babies. This is Logan's betrothed, Acelin. We had to get this picture so we can later put it in their wedding video. They are the same height right now and Acelin is only a pound heavier but she does more tricks than Logan like eat solids and crawl.

Here are all the other babies. All girls and then there is Logan. Well you can see Kaden's feet on the right of the picture but he just wanted to get in his pajamas and go to bed so we didn't make him pose.

I had to put this picture in of Lucas' little girl, Halle since he won't ever update his website.

I almost forgot. While I was at Erin's house I decided that I need to work through more of the exercises in Bryan Peterson's book, Understanding Exposure. So every other Thursday I'll post which exercise I'm doing so you can do it too and we'll get through the book and become better photographers. So you have a week and 2 days to get the book if you don't have it all ready.

Monday, March 17, 2008

happy {green} day

I put together this mosaic of some of my favs that had green and then had to fill in the rest. We have a party tonight that I'm looking forward to eating lots of green food. Enjoy!