March 15th – My daughter turned 2 years old! it’s absolutely crazy that she is already 2, she is growing up way too quick. We were joined by her cousins and family for pizza and fattening cupcakes!

Spent our Sunday out at the Ren Fest seeing all the various crazies and the cleavage that should be kept hidden. Close to 80 degrees, Gold Canyon made for a nice little trip down weirdo-lane, but there must be something to the place, it has us coming back year after year.

It’s been a really tough week, with sick kids, sick me and a lot of craziness at work. Today I had a chance to break my streak of half-assed pictures.

I have been really trying to learn how to get water drop isolation, so I read up on some techniques from some other the fellow contributors on http://photography-on-the.net/forum/ –

Camera Settings –

On tripod, set for 2 sec. exposure, 100 ISO, f/8.0. Shot with Canon T2i / 50MM 1.8 mkII

Setup Information

Remote Flash bounced off the back wall; I use these dresser drawer inserts that were to an old IKEA dresser that went defunct, they are a pale blue but clip like a pure white with a direct flash, or with continuous light, they can produce a nice neutral blue…look at me.. re-purposing things :0

here is the outcome:

This came strait off the camera. Hope you have the time to mess around and find your own creativity!

Went skating today with my friends Adam Burghout and James Johnson- also took the opportunity to bring along the camera…James owns and operates a skateshop in Phoenix that you should check out: www.revolutionskate.com

Here are some of James from this morning

Ok, crazy times are ahead. Gianna turns 2 and Dominic turns 4 this month…That means Joint Birthday Party!!!! (gotta take advantage while they’re young)

Rolling strong on the 365 project – bought a ring light for 20 bucks on amazon, that should keep me interested for a bit. My goal is to do a film project as well that I will post when done; nevertheless, follow along and enjoy!

March!

MAR 1 - This tree is right in front of our house and sheds on my car daily...It is a pain to trim and I hate it

Feb 25 – Took the kids to downtown PHX today to get some pics for their birthday card invites. Gotta do joint parties while they are young enough not to care so much!!!

FEB 25 - My little buddies, preview of their birthday party card

So, I am approaching day 56 of 366 in the my365 project I am taking underway. So far things are a bit repetitive but still having fun.

I am starting a blog to make it easier for me to post and ask/beg/plead for attention and getting some hard earned traffic to the ol’ website.

With that being said, I will be posting my daily shots here and also to the monthly pages so you can see the boredom latent moments I have decided to memorialize with my camera!

Here is what we have so far:

January

February