Poker Night

We do poker nights every so often, and last night we got a game of 8 people! I was first one out, which was fine since Troy won! ($100)

Apple MacBook

After talking with my mom as she travels now using my computer with built in microphone and camera, being able to sit at the pool side while surfing the internet thanks to my AirPort, and using my computer as a movie/tv show player and hooking it up to the tv so we can watch stuff on the bigger screen, the photo editing stuff is great!....I just wanted to say how much I love my MacBook....(oh and it looks cool, see how the little Apple lights up!)

Halloween with Sandy and Belle!!!

These pictures were not taken by me, they were taken by John who is watching our babies. So here is my babies for Halloween this year....I miss them soooooo much :(

Belle as a cowgirl....Sandy as a builder...(that is Zack in the back--they live with him)

Lesson two-White Balance

Well lesson two was a harder one to master and I'm still not sure if I have it completely down, but I feel like I at least I have a good understanding of it. I just need more real life practice to nail it! So I decided to move to lesson three: White Balance. Here is what I learned---it really is important to set it correctly to your lighting. I also learned how to do a custom white balance for anything.

Auto White Balance (looks like the tungsten white balance is what the camera went to-which is the best pre-programed option):Daylight:
Shade:Cloudy:White Fluorescent Light:
Tungsten Light: (close to correct but my custom is closest to the color seen by my eyes in real life, it is a subtle difference that probably woudn't make much a difference with just regular pictures, but with nicer photos you would want to create your own)Custom Light (one I made using a piece of white paper! LOL):

The Golden Ticket

Here it is.... My absentee ballot with the next president of the USA named marked!! hehehe I mailed it today (got it on friday-TALK ABOUT LAST MINUTE!). Troy didn't get his on time :(

Ko Lan

Chad, Sara and I all headed out to Ko Lan for the day. Since I have shown you all several beach photos in this blog, I thought I would try to make them more fancy this time....


The beach in Sara's sunglasses...
The beach normal...
A couple of the local girls on the beach...

Flower

While out walking around I found this pretty pink flower. I think my photography skills are starting to get better also!