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My Best of 2009!

by Michelle on December 31, 2009

in Uncategorized,photography

Well, this is my last post of this year! It’s a little hard to believe that tomorrow is 2010! I am very excited for the new year though. I’ll be starting my Project 365 tomorrow and working on my 2010 Goals

I’ve been inspired by many blogging friends to post my best photos of 2009. It was fun looking back through the year and seeing how my photogrpahy has changed, the stages my post-processing has gone through! I’m pretty confident I can say that my post-processing skills have improved! I had to laugh at some of the things I did then. I’m sure in a year I’ll be giggling at what I’m doing now! It’s all part of the learning process and I hope I never stop learning!

Here are my Best Photos of 2009, and some blog posts in case you missed them, starting at the beginning of the year. I have to warn you, there’s a lot! It was hard narrowing it down!

February – I catch my girls playing my makeup!

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April – I start to realize I can take photos of things other than my girls!

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April – We took a trip to Salt Lake City. This is still one of my favorite photos.

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May – I discover that I love photographing flowers!

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May – More flowers!

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June – We had an awesome thunderstorm and the clouds were insane!

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June – My raspberries start to ripen. These are the first three of the season.

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June – I take Autumn out for my first “photo shoot.”

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June – Our first camping trip of the summer. I’m experimenting with sunflare.

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July – I start experimenting with food photography with my new 50mm 1.4 lens.

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July – I try out extension tubes for the first time. I fall in love with macro photography!

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August – We go to the races and I find a gorgeous sunset.

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September – I go on a photography walk in search of silhouettes.

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October – We love Autumn-time! I capture some of the best action photos in my photography experience.

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October – I really work on my post-processing. I try new things. I love the results!

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October – I capture the most gorgeous photo of my daughter. It is absolutely my favorite of her.

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November – My husband catches a steelhead and I get to photograph it!

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December – My sister gets married and I’m her wedding photographer.

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December – Thanks to my sister and her wedding, I get to photograph flowers in the winter!

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And that completes 2009! I am so excited to see what 2010 brings! What are some of your favorite photos of 2009? Leave me a link to your blog or Flickr, I’d love to come over and check them out!

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Friday night we decided to take a little drive into the foothills. We were going to go for a little hike and let the girls pick some wildflowers. This is what the sky looked like when we got up there! The showers were on their way, so we had a short, hurried hike.

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This is the ski resort that’s up in the mountains. My first time skiing was here and Aaron took me all the way to the top by those towers! At the grouping of trees just near the top to the left of the big open space, I sat down and cried! I was so stinking scared!! It was at night too, almost closing time and I thought I wouldn’t be able to make it down the mountain and we’d be stuck up there! Finally Aaron talked me into trying to go down, I think it took me about 45 minutes to get to the bottom! And the top layer was pure ice… no powder that night! When we got down, we found out that the trail was a black diamond! Crap! I went down that thing! Needless to say, I stick to the bunny hill now!

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The girls had so much fun picking wildflowers!

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On our way down, we came across these cows that were leisurely walking across the road. They didn’t really give a hoot that we were there!

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The was the prettiest little part of the forest! It was raining and the sun was peeking through the clouds. Ah! Just so pretty!!

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The Face of the Storm

by Michelle on June 4, 2009

in Uncategorized,photography

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We had some fun thunderstorms this afternoon with some dark, dark clouds. I thought this one was really cool! The sky was sure angry today!!!

In reply to some comments, this is the true color! I didn’t convert into black and white, this is exactly what I saw! Scary!!

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I have recently found a great site called Skywatch Friday. I love looking at all the sky pictures, they are beautiful! Check it out if you like sky photography!

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