Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all and your families. May you all be spending time with loved ones during this holiday season.
I know I wasn't able to send my Christmas card out to everyone, so i placed it below. Enjoy :) (You may click on the pictures to make them bigger)

Holiday Extravaganza

Below is the booth that i had up at the Ethan Holiday Extravaganza. For their first year of putting on the event, i beleive it when over well. Expecailly considering that Mitchell had a lot of events going on the same weekend. I didn't sell a whole lot, but i did get to show my work. Which might be the best thing about



Photo off of the Ethan Quill Web site.

Finally, wrestling :)

All i can say is ... FINALLY! I was able to shoot wrestling. When i was younger, our school didn't have wrestling. After i graduated and was hired at the local Daily paper, i was able to attend my first wrestling match. And from there, i was hooked. Sure I still don't get all of the rules. Of course i know what a pin, tech fall, major dec. and a take down are ... but after that, i am kind of lost. But love the sport. It has been stated in our home that if we ever have boys they will be wrestlers (of course i played basketball, so who knows which one they will like).
But anyways, i headed to Sturgis last night for it's match against Rapid City Stevens. Below are a couple of photos that stuck out while working one them. Also, it may take a while for me to get the page up. I think i may have around 200 photos going up. (Just taking a break now).

Off Camera Shooting ... basketball

Ok, I think I have talked about this for volleyball. But now that basketball season is here, I would like to try my off camera shooting again.
On Friday I headed to the Newell vs. Hill City game. Though I was a little late for the girls' game, and then almost fell in front of the student section (real embarrassing! I do carry a lot of weight in the back pack). I didn't off camera shoot with the girls' game. In fact, I shot the girls' game like I always have. Flash on the camera. If you take a look below, you can see that I am still getting Red Eye in the photos. Which really just drives me up the wall.

So to fix this problem, I shot the boys game by using the off camera flash. Yes, it takes my more time to set everything up, and it runs through my $16 batteries like no other. But I love that there is NO red eye (take a look at the boys photos). A long with the time it takes to set up and the battery problem, I have thought of on other problem. I can't move the flash with me. SO, sometimes not everyone is in the flash. Or, sometimes the opponent will have his/her arms up and a big shadow will fall across someone else's face.
But overall, I like the off camera flashing better. And I will be trying it more in the next couple of months.

Found my HEART

That's right, i found my heart ... rock :)
When Adam and I climbed the mountain in Montana he found it. He told me to sit down, close my eyes and hold out my hand. Of course i was thinking he was giving me something else (which i got that week). But there it was, a prefect heart rock.
Now since the move a year and a half ago. I wasn't sure where i put it. And within that time, i had looked all over the apartment for it. Last week i found it while i was cleaning out a drawer. So what do you do with a heart rock? ... Take photos of it :)
Enjoy a couple of photos ...

Me, well sorta

Ok, so i have had a long morning. Which is a good thing. So in this moment of nothing going on. I started looking at a couple of different Blogs. And in one, i found a link to create, well, ME :)



Click HERE to do the same.

Cody, Melissa & Brecken

I was able to take Cody, Melissa and Brecken's family photos after Thanksgiving. And even though i had to wait a week to work on them, it was worth the wait. Cody and Melissa's daughter was born in October and she has the biggest dark eyes. *SO CUTE*
So here is your sneak peak at your photos ...

Callie

Here is a couple photos of Callie. While i was home i seen this, and well, it just reminded me of the Anne Geddes photos ... only with a cat. (Callie does have an extra toe, in case you keep looking at her paws)

Also, this is my 100th post on the blog :) I still need to catch up on some things around here, but i will be posting photos of a family session that i took after Thanksgiving.

Charlie

As my sister and her family came back for Thanksgiving, she had to bring someone new along. Well, she picked Charlie up as a giveaway puppy in Parkston the night before Thanksgiving.
She is 3/4 collie and 1/4 German Shepard and 100% a cutie :)