Baskets

Baskets in our living room used to collect the kids' errant toys.

Manual setting: f/4, 1/4 second, ISO 100

All the pretty horses...

My daughter's carousel...

Manual setting: f/5.6, 1.3 seconds, ISO 100

Frozen creek

It was a pretty nice day today so I went to a local park to see what there was to see. And this is what I saw...

Manual setting: f/14, 1/60 sec, ISO 100

Snow

Snow mounded on the back deck...

Manual setting: f/9, 1/100 sec, ISO 100

It finally snowed here!

We had some snow last night - not a LOT, but enough that school was cancelled. The kids spent some time outside, and these poor Army guys were the unfortunate victims of, well, Luis...

Manual setting: f/9, 1 second, ISO 100

Black bean & quinoa chili

Luis came upstairs while I was making dinner and asked what he smelled. I told him it was the delicious aroma of his mother's love. I don't think he believed me... It was actually the black bean & quinoa chili I was making for dinner - yummy!

Manual setting: f/9, 2 seconds, ISO 100

Crazy lights

I've been wanting to do something with my daughter's Lite Brite since she received it for Christmas. For my first foray into LB-land since childhood, I simply (and purposely) randomly stuck the pegs in the panel without any plan for or thought of color arrangement. I used a zoom radial blur filter in Photoshop to create the headache-inducing effect. And this is it...

Manual setting: f/9, 1/13 second, ISO 100

I actually ventured outside today!

But it was still really cold so I didn't stay out for long... This photo was shot at a local park, and the stones are part of a pillar at a shelter there. I changed the photo to black-and-white, added a lot of contrast, and sharpened it like mad. My purpose in doing that was to create visual interest with the contrast and a "craginess" with the heightened sharpness to add even more interest to the photo.

Manual setting: f/8, 1/60, ISO 100

Espresso cups

One of these days I'm going to run out of coffee-related subjects and then I don't know what I'll do - use my imagination?

Manual setting: f/11, 8 seconds, ISO 100

Lamp and shadows

This is a lamp in our living room with the sun shining on it through a south-facing window. I love the shadows created by the sun coming through the plantation shutters.

Manual setting: f/3.5, 1/30 second, ISO 100