Laughter! Tonight Morgan and Ethan were playing with some bubbles and it was great to see them really having a good time with it.

Day at the tobaganning hill. The Hughes' and the Morrison's joined us for a great time at the hill today. We had a few wipe outs but that was mostly from the adults and there were a lot of laughs from all of us.

Here's the Morrison's cat looking like royalty. I got to take a number of photos because pets seem to be quite fine with getting their picture taken.

Morgan went ice-fishing near Caroline, AB and managed to catch 7 fish. While the majority of her haul were released this one was brought home for Ethan to see. Ethan is shown holding him after numerous attempts to revive him in the kitchen sink.

Photo Hunt #5

I have finally competed the December photo hunt! It was a bit of a challenge in the end but I really enjoyed it. Some of you might have seen a few of these photos already but please review that whole challenge update, I'm really happy with a lot of the shots. Happy New Year!

1. Holiday Lights

2. Holiday Spirit

3. A Holiday Treat

4. An ornament

5. A Gift Wrapped Package




6. A Window Display

7. A Holiday Icon


8. A Tree

9. A Tradition

10. Something that says Noel

11. Something Precious


12. Something Peaceful

13. Something Hot

14. Something Cold

15. Something Red

16. Something Green

17. Motion Blur

18. Black and White with Selective Coloring

19. Infrared

20. A Macro Shot

8. Tree (although this one is really trees so I'm cheating a bit!)

14. Something Cold

6. Window Display

17. Motion blur

2. Holiday Spirit

11. Something precious

Lobster! This was our Christmas Eve dinner and it was so much fun and very yummy.
Merry Christmas!

12. Something Hot

20. A macro shot

Morgan and I and two of our friends attended the Alberta Ballet, the Nutcracker last night. Morgan and I have been at Christmas before so this really is a tradition for us since moving to Calgary. The Nutcracker was beautiful. At the entrance to the first balcony were two ballerinas and Morgan and Sarah got their pictures taken with both of the ballerinas. So for today's photo I chose a candid picture of one of them.

9. A Tradition

Wonder Woman is my favorite ornament on our tree! She definitely makes the grade for photo hunt item #4, holiday ornament.

1. Holiday Lights

2. Holiday Spirit

3. A Holiday Treat

4. An Ornament

5. A Gift-Wrapped Package

6. A Window Display

7. A Winter/Holiday Icon

8. A Tree

9. A Tradition

10.Something that says Noel

11. Something Precious

12. Something Peaceful

13. Something Hot

14. Something Cold

15. Something Red

16. Something Green

17. Motion blur

18. Black & White Photo (with selective coloring)

19. Any photo using an Infrared Photography Technique (in-camera OR post-process)

20. A Macro Shot

Medusa was my first thought with this photo!

Christmas lights are on the photo hunt list. i have been taking pictures of the Christmas tree for awhile and they never turn out; the light just don't look great. So I looked up how to take pictures of the lights and ch aged the shutter priority and the ISO. It worked! Morgan ended up wrapping Ethan up in lights and then decided to throw a few over her head. This picture has a Morgan holding a green Christmas light in front of her. I really should have used a tripod but overall i was happy with the outcome.

12. Peaceful

Stephanie and I volunteering this morning. We were wrapping gifts for Cystic Fibrosis and wow! it was a busy place today.

As a tribute to our dashing red aprons this photo helps knock off #15 of the December photo challenge.

18. Selective black and white

December Photo Challenge list (list of help really!)
1. Holiday Lights
2. Holiday Spirit
3. A Holiday Treat
4. An Ornament
5. A Gift-Wrapped Package
6. A Window Display
7. A Winter/Holiday Icon
8. A Tree
9. A Tradition
10.Something that says Noel
11. Something Precious
12. Something Peaceful
13. Something Hot
14. Something Cold
15. Something Red
16. Something Green
17. Motion blur
18. Black & White Photo (with selective coloring)
19. Any photo using an Infrared Photography Technique (in-camera OR post-process)
20. A Macro Shot

Okay, so since I was having a little trouble getting motivated for a picture of the day I've decided to complete this December photo challenge. I'm not going to do it in any order, I'll just keep the list around and see what I can complete. Hope this helps!

Tonight I started out taking pictures of presents under the tree. The lighting at night is difficult to work with though. So I begged Ethan to hold a present for me. He finally agreed and we made a little game out of him hiding his face behind the present and me trying to catch a photo of his face when he moved the present. This shot ended up working really well. The focus is the present (checking off #5 on the December list) and Ethan is in the background. I'm back!

Alright, so another inside picture. I've really been slacking on my "photo a day" but it's tough to get out there when it's soooo cold. And it really is a challenge to take a good photo everyday when you have a job that isn't as a photographer.

These are some yummy brandy maple pecans and walnuts. i know...another close up but I'm struggling!

3. A Holiday Treat

Morgan: excited to open her early Christmas present. The only editing I did to this photo was a little cropping.

19. Any photo using an Infrared Photography Technique

Part of my neighborhood after the snowstorm.

"local weather". I actually took this photo while I was sitting in traffic on my way home. It's taken through the front windshield of the car so not a bad photo considering.

Little behind on my "photo a day". I took this tonight at Ethan's Christmas night at his school. he wasn't too impressed I was taking him photo!

7. A Winter/Holiday Icon