Lazy

I have been seriously lazy lately and have not posted ANYTHING!

So, I am going to tell you about my new camera bag. I ordered the Canon 200 EG backpack and I love it so far! It is not as easy to get in and out of, but it fits all my stuff and still leaves me room for more stuff. It is incredibly comfortable and, as I have found out the hard way, fairly water resistant (NOT waterproof). Just a couple days after I got it, my daughter dumped a full glass of pop right down the front of it. It took so long for the pop to soak through that I was able to get everything out before any of it got wet or sticky. It rinsed out really well and dried out pretty well too.

It is definitely a bag I would suggest to others.

Swans, Ice, and Spinning Cars

So, my daughter decides to go on a walk to the park today with her friend. I said that was fine and off she went. She calls me about 30 minutes later to tell me there were some swans at the park and they were really pretty. I thought I would take Russ's advice and go shoot in the snow....what the heck! So I grab my bag and my new tripod and head to my car. To get to where my daughter saw the swans, I could either park on the street and make the long trek up some icy steps and down the bike trail or go through the cemetery and up a somewhat steep road going to the back of the cemetery. Guess which one I chose....that's right, the steep road. Idiot! My car got stuck halfway up, then started to slide backwards while I was in drive! And of course, no matter which way I turned the wheel, the car was going to slide in whatever direction it chose, which happened to be backward and right toward the guardrail. So I set there a minute trying to figure out what to do, all the while trying to go forward (not happening) backward (also not happening) and praying I didn't slide anymore. So I finally decide to try to turn the car and I put it in drive, turned the wheel really hard to the right and went spinning and sliding down the road SIDEWAYS! Let me just say, I almost peed myself and I was shaking pretty hard. Finally, I get back down the hill, park on the road, and go the way I should have gone, but I did get some really pretty pictures of the swans.....after my hands stopped shaking so bad. Live and learn!

New Year

Yay! New Year, New Year! Will this be a good one? I sure hope so. I got a new lens for Christmas and I am so excited! I cannot wait to get time to use it! I got a Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8. So pretty! I also bought myself some filters that I cannot wait to try. It is just too darn cold out to do much....sigh... However, I did take the sunset picture on here with the new lens. This is right off of my Aunt's deck at Christmas time looking out across her monstrous backyard. She always gets beautifil sunsets out there.

Hope you all have a wonderful New Year!

First Post!

Since this is my first post, I will introduce myself. I am Kate. I am a wife of nearly nine years to a wonderful husband, mother to a beautiful daughter, and stepmother to 2 beautiful girls. I am also a pet lover and a Chihuahua Mama. I love to take pictures and I feel it is an art as much as it is a pasttime....so don't tell me it is JUST a picture...that is one phrase that irritates the hell out of me! Photography is my escape sometimes and my favorite subjects are the people and things that I love the most. I am slowly moving out of my comfort zone of photographing just my family and friends and pointing the lens toward other things. I am currently rocking the Weight Watchers plan and hope to post thinner and thinner pictures of me as the months go on. I just bought a new pair of running shoes today and I am getting a treadmill from my mother-in-law this week, so I am going to start running. I love my Wii and play the more active games at least 5 days a week. I have a dry sense of humor and laugh at the dumbest things. Feel free to leave me comments.

This is my daughter, Sarah.

This is my stepdaughter, Britt.

And this is my other stepdaughter, Codi.