Saturday Ramblings

Favorite Photo of the Day

I'm in the process of taking an 8 week photography class at our local art center.  I am LOVING it!  I've taken other photography classes before but they have only been one day 2 hour classes and then it's over.  The one I'm taking now is 8 weeks of 2.5 hours of lecture/questions.  In the three weeks I've been going I'm already noticing results.  I've had so many aha moments.  Like learning how to use the exposure meter in the viewfinder (where has that been all my life!!!!).  

The photo above of Fiona was taken today.  She was laying in the dog bed in the living room under a big window.  She was tolerating me putting the camera in her face so I messed around for about 5 minutes experimenting with exposure.  It is sometimes difficult to get a good photo of Fiona.  Her black face and dark eyes make it a challenge to capture her features in certain lighting conditions.  Score!!!  I couldn't have been happier.... no flash and it's perfect.  It's such a good feeling to look at what is happening in the camera and know that shutter speed, aperture, ISO needs to be changed.  Oh happy day!

Well, we broke into March yesterday.  For me March signifies a light at the end of the tunnel.  Hopefully some warmer days start to show up and best of all April is right around the corner.  Our first trip to Silver Lake is April 5th.  And our first camping trip is the middle of April.  Bring it on..... 

Happy Saturday my friends.......