Downtown Pictures

Headed over to Orlando for the weekend with Grandma & Grandpa. While waiting for the grandparents arrival, we waited in Downtown Disney - LEGO store to be exact. Henry really like this new resturant that is slated to open in the middle of October - T-Rex a dining experience. I got him to pose under the big t-rex display, you can barely make out a leg-bone on the left side.


Nicky digging the strawberry ice cream grandma bought him, he was eating it like a pie-eating contest.

Henry & I went out Saturday evening to ride the monorail around the parks & a boat to the Polynesian. I tried to get him to stick his hand up the statues nose but he would not get close enough to even touch the statue.

Joe picked up the camera, this is the only picture of me for the weekend.

The koi pond at the shades of green resort, the boys love to hand feed the fish. The fish come right up to you like puppies with their mouths hanging open.

Back to work

Some pictures from the last few days - Henry making a goofy face.

H pouting at the playground, he wanted to go home after 3 minutes.

Some new chicks at the pond and lots of p0op

One of the neighborhood peacocks, he's in the process of growing in new tail feathers. I thought the sign hanging on the fence was funny. He strolled right behind us while we were watching the ducks dig around in the muck.

Nico was leaning against the concrete wall that carries pedestrians over the highway, perfect shot or so I thought. He decided to roll across the wall onto the horizontal line, it cuts right through his neck. Oh well, at least it let me played with exposure.




Since he played with me, we went over to the mall and played in the playarea. He loves to sit in the coin machines and pretend that he is an ice cream truck.


Nico found his dream costume at Joann's and it was on sale too. It has a Vader heavy breathing noise maker, that's what's in his hands.

This little guy was watching me while I cleaned the pool, he sat there for 45mins until I decided to take a few pictures.


Spriglets of porterweed are popping up all over the yard, Joe mows it down every week. I need to get out there and dig some up for the butterfly garden.


Nico showing off his drawings, he loves the dry-erase board.


Henry has gotten addicted to the ps2, major trouble.

Nico is the most uncooperative "model" I have worked with, he will not look at the camera if he even thinks I'm trying to take a shot.

From Off the wagon...

Look what nico's eyes did this morning. I cropped in about 50%, removed part of the yellow handlebars & landscaping on the right side. The yellows are blown out (he was facing the sun) but dang the rest of the pic is cool.


Here's the shot right before with his back to the light.

The pictures I took on the first day of school came out orange/red due to the lighting & floor. It was so early and we were running a little behind, I just started taking shots w/o really paying attention to the environment & the camera settings.

Presets

I really like Kelcey Smith's Presets. Lots of fun even with run of the mill playing at the park pictures - nico was not being cooperative at all.

boy in the swing

Nico would get mad at me when I would walk around to the front and take a shot. He wanted me to stay behind him and push push push.


Playing around with the old tyme preset.


It is very windy today and the sun was playing hide & seeking throwing the exposure way off in a matter of seconds.

I caught this crow up in a tree about 150 feet away, he was holding on to a thin limb for all he's worth. The wind was just whipping him around. I'm going to use this on a Halloween transparency -card or page.

place for my daily photos

I have all these pictures that I take everyday and rarely do I show them off. Instead of using my scrapbooking blog for photos I'll use this blog. Nothing special other than pictures for family and stuff that I learned over the 20 years of playing with canon elan IIe SLR & now a Rebel dSLR.