Okay, so it has been a while...

...since I've posted, but our life has been a bit turned upside down lately. Here are some pics taken the week of Thanksgiving and on the day of. Thanksgiving day here in Missouri was gorgeous and sixty degrees!! The first two are of my family and the last two are some photos of a friend's family shoot done on a not so warm day! The wind was blowing and it was around 38 degrees with wind chill, but it was a last minute kinda shoot so you go with what you have in the weather department.

Juicy Red

Found these beautiful little red berries along a walking path today.

Silly Dachshund

Pretty & Pink

A beautiful little pink mum bloom on a very windy fall day in Missouri.
1/320 sec at f/2.0, ISO 400 on a 50mm lens.

Lonely Leaf

I like the soft colors of this one! It was laying on one of our patio chairs which still need to be put away for the year. Taken on my fifty lens...one of my favorite lenses.
Taken in manual RAW 1/320 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100 50 mm (EF50MM f/1.8II)

Another fall day in Missouri

Where Children Sleep

Came across this site on BC Photo's blog today. It shows children all over the world and where they sleep...interesting book.

Great article on memory cards!

I found this article on ImprovePhotography.com today. It had some great info I think all photographers should know if they don't already. I found that I had not been correctly taking my photos off of my CF card till I read tip #4. I found this info helpful..I hope you will too. =)

 Memory Card Tip #4: While we’re discussing how to erase all images, never erase any of the images by using the computer.  This will taint your database and can cause even more errors than “Erase all images.”  If you persist in erasing images by using the computer, you Canon shooters will face the famed ERR-99 (side note: that is a general error that is not specific to memory card problems, but memory card problems are one of the things that can draw the error).

Blustery Fall Day

It is just windy, cold, and wet in north central Missouri today. I hope this pic conveys a bit of that to you.

 

This is a pic of our neighbor's tree...so bright and beautiful! All this color will be gone soon.

Little Wild Flower

Day two at Graham Cave State Park~

Loutre River

A little reflection in a creek bed.

Visiting a state park today....Graham Cave State Park

My family and I visited Graham Cave State Park today and here is the entrance up to the cave.

My son setting up his tent for the night. Taken on my iPad.

And a few more...

Monday, October 31st...Shadows on the Wall

I really like shadow pics and I happened to catch this one yesterday as the sun was setting.

Random Photos

I played with a few different lenses today and just took pics of things that caught my eye...which is usually based on their color properties or a particular angle that I like.

No Signs of Life

 Processed with Lightroom 3 and used a Holga preset for different look.

Bennett State Park, Lebanon, Missouri

Theses pics were taken today at Bennett Spring State Park which is beautiful park for those who trout fish.
Enjoy!

I took this on our way to the campground...I think it is cool anyway. ;)

Muted Marigold

This photo was taken over a week ago and I got to editing it this morning. Love the muted colors here!

My Family...

Only one missing is my son-in-law as he was out of town on this day. These were taken at McCormick's Creek State Park in Spencer, Indiana, last week.

One little pepper

Found this little straggler left on the pepper vine today.

Where you print does matter....

Annie, from Paint the Moon, had some great info on her blog this last week. She did a comparison of some common print processing people use here in the United States. I thought the results were interesting and they do show that it does matter where you have your prints done.

Click here for the article.

1982 Hi-Lo Camper

Getting the Hi-Lo road ready today as I see a state park in the near future. Not bad for a 29 year old camper. I believe we have had it for eleven years...not used it in five though. The decals have seen better days...wish we could get new decals to brighten it up a bit, but it works and that is all that matters. Just need to replace a few minor things inside and out. We are just regular folks who love to spend time in the woods enjoying nature...and no people! lol! A fifth wheel would be fabulous to own someday. We'll see.