The last one. . . For now

This is officially the last post that I will be making on this blog for a while.  I have decided to move all of my blogging onto my Wordpress blog.  This is mostly because I do not feel that I can manage two blogs (I have done an abysmal job so far) and will be starting college in a short while.  As a parting gift I present you with this picture of the LDS Temple in Rexburg, Idaho...

Feel free to copy it if you want, I have no copyrights in existence and was totally messing around when I took it so I could experiment with my soft ware!  Thanks to those who bother to read this, my other blog is HERE!

Observations. . .

I have noticed something, I tend to like taking pictures of flowers and other nature related things.  I seem to have a hard time taking pictures of people, I think that this is because I don't really understand how to pose them and make it so that they don't look and feel akward. . . 

 

 This one was taken at Tess and Eldon Hess' house.  Eldon's old Ford is in the background, I have another version that is focused on the Ford instead of the flowers.

 Randomly taking pictures of anything that catches my eye is a very interesting skill of mine!

This is another random thing that caught my eye, little purple and yellow flowers growing in the cat tails. . . 

This is the same flower, just a closer and shadier look at them. . .



P.S.  My family and I took Cody to the MTC (Missionary Training Center) last Wednesday!!!  He was so excited to go. . .

Such a cute grown up goat!

Okay. . . so most people wouldn't agree with the cute part when they get in the pen with him.  I can't believe that he is almost two now!

Last Night's Fanily Home Evening. . .

Last night we went and helped Eldon Hess worm his sheep for Family Home Evening!  Mother was brilliant and brought the camera and handed it to me for documentation.  These pictures are the result:

 This is my younger brother, Liam, Eldon had him hold the shears and Mother told him not to impale himself.

 Cody did most of the catching and holding of the ewes.

 Hugh had fun wandering around Eldon's house and playing with his dog.

 Apparently the lamb didn't want to move. . .

 Mr. Hess. . . This is the only good picture of him that I got!

 Still waiting for Eldon to find a ear tagger that works...

 Wondering why it is punching through the tag. . .

 The lamb is wondering how many more piercings we are going to give it.

 Liam being all studly.

 Eldon's hat, it has seen some better days!

 Such a cute dog!!!

 The last lamb.







After we went to Eldon's house, we went to Aunt Becki's house to retrieve our tiller and see how their garden was getting along.  The garden looked wonderful. . .  Eliza thought it tasted wonderful too!

 This picture is definitely going in the fair!!!

  What a cutie!! She was having so much fun eating that plant and then we just had to take it away from her!

Grasshoppers. . .

I absolutely love this picture!  I took the original in my garden, there were grasshoppers all over my giant (and they really were giant!) sunflowers.  This one was the only one that held still long enough to take a picture of.  I love the fact that you can see through his back leg, it really accentuated the stripes.  The other thing about this picture that I am absolutely in LOVE with is the lighting, I fixed the lighting in light room (sorry for every other time I called it light box instead. . .) and made it look like a sunrise in a somewhat shady forest.

The final reason that I love this picture is the fact that it looks like Spring!!!  The weather here in Utah has been really great lately, I wore shorts today and it felt great which is an abnormality in March in Northern Utah!

Lightroom. . .

Well. . . I am still in love with Light-room!  These are just a few of the pictures that I have retouched using Light-room. 

The randomness that results from combining me, my camera, and a flowerbed. . .

 The picture below is of my older brother and I at Uncle Jake's wedding.  Originally in full color, I reduced it to a black and white state and "painted" the red back in. . .

 These were my Christmas present that came in mid January. . . It was a Christmas that simply kept on giving!

Yep, still definitely in love with the software. . . I could seriously spend hours just playing with one picture. . . Not that I have that kind of time!!

Spot the Fox

We are going to play a game called "Spot the Fox."  See if you can find the fox in  the following pictures, I wish that I could say you get a prize if you find it, but you don't. 

I know that the pictures look almost exactly the same, but the fox is positioned differently in the second one.  Trust me, he is!!!

On a side note, these pictures were taken after I saw the fox wander across the road in broad daylight. Another abnormality is that when I walked up to the fence to take the picture (without having to zoom over a large space that is) it didn't move and I was only a few yards away. . . quite weird!