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doing her best to pose for me
She can't exactly sit perfectly still, but bless her heart, she tried! We managed to capture a few genuine smiles, thanks to my assistant, Caroline.
Showing me how she "puts a bubble in her mouth" at school. :)
Pumpkin Patch (on film)
(Sept. 27) We go every year to the Celina "Big Orange Pumpkin Farm" with our life group friends. I decided just to blow through a roll of film rather than overshoot and have more pictures in my editing queue! I decided just to take a chance and get them developed at Walgreens. Walgreens didn't do so hot (they have some bad lines running through them), but since these were just snapshots, I didn't really mind.
Nikon D80 + Sigma 35mm f/1.4 lens
Portra 400, rated box speed, overexposed 1-2 stops
Scanned by Walgreens
Highly imperfect, but sharing anyway. :)
I know her eyes are closed, but it was too cute not to share...
So proud of Kate for working up the nerve to feed the animals this year. Caroline didn't want to have any part of that!
Just a fraction of our crew:
a summer morning (on film)
I have no clue when this was... just some cloudy morning mid-summer! Nothing special, but I haven't posted in forever, so I wanted to add something. Nikon D80 + Sigma 35mm f/1.4 lens
Portra 400, box speed, overexposed by 1-2 stops
Scanned by Richard Photo Lab
a new year of dance
Kate had her first dance (ballet/tap) class for the new school year last week. This year she's taking with her friend, Hayley, and Kate felt very comfortable going in knowing her friend would be with her! Scroll down for some video clips.
Ballet (short clip)-
Tap (long clip)-
a lens test, watercolor
My Sigma 35 f/1.4 arrived yesterday from Adorama! I spent all of nap/rest time getting it calibrated (quite a process), and I practiced on Kate while she was relatively still this afternoon. These are all at f/1.4 (since I wanted to test the focus wide open). I'm so excited to get a wide angle prime back in my bag! I ended up calibrating at +3, and it's pretty darn sharp.
july 31: toy testers
We met Nick for lunch at Patina Green today, but the real treat was the Calico Critters dollhouse next door at Goodies toy store.
So glad to be done with my July photo-a-day project!