If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo
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!
April – I start to realize I can take photos of things other than my girls!
April – We took a trip to Salt Lake City. This is still one of my favorite photos.
May – I discover that I love photographing flowers!
May – More flowers!
June – We had an awesome thunderstorm and the clouds were insane!
June – My raspberries start to ripen. These are the first three of the season.
June – I take Autumn out for my first “photo shoot.”
June – Our first camping trip of the summer. I’m experimenting with sunflare.
July – I start experimenting with food photography with my new 50mm 1.4 lens.
July – I try out extension tubes for the first time. I fall in love with macro photography!
August – We go to the races and I find a gorgeous sunset.
September – I go on a photography walk in search of silhouettes.
October – We love Autumn-time! I capture some of the best action photos in my photography experience.
October – I really work on my post-processing. I try new things. I love the results!
October – I capture the most gorgeous photo of my daughter. It is absolutely my favorite of her.
November – My husband catches a steelhead and I get to photograph it!
December – My sister gets married and I’m her wedding photographer.
December – Thanks to my sister and her wedding, I get to photograph flowers in the winter!
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!
This week at I Heart Faces, we are posting our vacation stories! I thought I’d bring this post back up because it is my latest favorite vacation! It was very short, but it was so fun! So here is my story:
Aaron is a huge Lakers fan and when he found out they were going to play the Jazz in Round One of the Playoffs he said to me “Should we see if we can get tickets?” I thought he was joking! But, he was semi-serious and we found $19 tickets for the first game in Salt Lake last Thursday.
So we quickly made arrangements to leave the girls at his parents’ for two days in exchange for us going to Wallsburg to get their things out of their camper that is stored there. I really wanted to go see Temple Square so we checked into our hotel, that was only half a block from the arena, and we walked down to the temple grounds. I thought it would be an awesome spot to practice with my new camera some more and I was lucky! The weather was gorgeous and the flowers were so beautiful!
We found these interesting trees to the side of the temple, they looked so old and something out of a fairy tale! They were perfect though, with the pink flowering trees behind them, it made for an awesome picture!
The flowers at the temple gardens were in full bloom and were just gorgeous!
We got to go to the top of the church office building and saw the amazing view. It is gorgeous up there! The sweet elderly lady that was our guide told us that this is the highest point in the valley. It was a fun experience!
We also went to the roof of the Conference Center and they have this stone tile wall with images of people of different races and time periods. The wall is very reflective so you can see yourself among the people.
I have heard people just raving about IKEA so I really wanted to stop by and see what all the fuss was about! I thought they had some pretty cool stuff at great prices. I finally found some nice, inexpensive frames for my living room wall. I’ve wanted to re-do it for a little while now.
We ate dinner at the cafe inside, that was the best thing about the store I think! We had chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes for $5 each! And that was the best chicken fried steak I have ever had! So next time we’re down here, we will have to stop and get dinner again!
The game!! We were so excited! The Lakers had already one the first two games in the series, we just knew the game would be a blow-out. Well, it didn’t start good and it didn’t end good! They lost by two points. Aaron feels he is bad luck for the Lakers because the only two games we have gone to, they have lost! It was a fun game though, and oh my heck those Jazz fans are loud!! We left with a couple headaches and ringing ears!
Friday morning we left to go up to Wallsburg to get the things out of the camper. We stopped by Aaron’s uncle’s house and we saw these sweet little lambs in the yard! They are only a few weeks old. A perfect picture of Spring!
We lucked out the weather for our trip! It was sunny and warm on Thursday and it was supposed to be 50, rainy and cold on Friday, but it turned out to be warm and sunny! It was so nice to have a little break from normal life!
