Tuesday, May 12 – Here are some closer shots I took today of that mystery flower I had a few days ago.  I love working with that reflector. I did some rose shots today too. Will be sharing some of those with everyone in the next couple of days.
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Monday, May 11 – Here is wishing Happy Mother’s Day to all! We have the toughest job in the world and the most rewarding too!! Thought this little face would give you a smile today. The sun is coming up and it looks to be gorgeous out.  I am off to spend the entire day with family. Camera will be in tow, so hopefully will get some shots today.
Yesterday was a great Mother’s Day. Had a nice luncheon and then out to a fine dinner too with the family. I saw all but Nick and he called first off in the morning. It is a showery looking day out today. We already had a light sprinkle and they are calling for thunder later. Had a harrowing morning with these last cows that are calving. The vet came out and we had to pull a set of dead twins out of a cow. It was a real task and I will spare all the details. Cow seems fine though. I had another set of twins Saturday and one drowned in the creek. Another cow calved in the creek this morning, but we got that one out in time to save it. This always seems to be how it is with the late calvers. I am off to take a few more flower shots and then to work on my Lightroom class.
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Sunday, May 10 – Mother’s Day !! We are heading to the Heritage Inn with all three daughters and their families for lunch and then out to Mom’s for dinner with my sis, Aimee and her family and my oldest son, Carl. Won’t be seeing Nick this year, as he has a huge day at the restaurant. I spent today with Tiffany and my twin grandsons Bryton and Gage. She sure has her hands full. It brings back so many memories of when Bobbi and Billi were babies. I didn’t get much time for photos, but did shoot a few. The first two are Bryton and the next two are Gage. Poor little Gage was having an off day and didn’t want to pose for me. They were born the last day of January and are growing so fast.
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Saturday, May 9 – I shot this miniature rose last night( both with my 100mm macro). The timing is perfect for Mother’s Day. This plant is going to my mom tomorrow.
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Friday, May 8 – Here is how to eat chocolate pudding Tristan style. This is how Grandpa Walter bribed his little buddy to eat his Hamburger Pie supper.
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Wednesday, May 6 – We watched Tristan and Lily yesterday and Lily just didn’t want Grandpa to hold her. It was time for rice cereal and she let him know it. What a set of lungs that little cutie has.
Wednesday, May 6 – My shoot today was of pansies. They have the cutest little faces. We had Tristan and Lily tonight and I will be sharing photos tomorrow of the little ‘twirps’.
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Tuesday, May 5 – Wish these were actually blooming in my garden, but that is still probably a month off. So had to improvise on the dining room table.  It’s 64 degree out right now. Tristan and Lily should be arriving at anytime to spend the afternoon while Kristie and Nick go out for their anniversary.
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Monday, May 4 – I started my Flowers photography class and here are a few that I shot so far. I am not sure what the first plant is, but the 2nd is a white bleeding heart.  More to come tomorrow – Orange Oriental Poppies.
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Sunday, May 3 – My final food photography assignment was a doozy. We had to chose two photos from books, magazines, calendars, etc. and then try to duplicate them. Wow, that is not as easy as it sounds. You don’t realize how much a photographer considers position and light when they do their setup. We were told to pick simple subjects, which I thought I had. I picked one that showed raspberries and mandarins and they were sprinkled with sugar. Well, you can not sprinkle sugar on fruit and not have it bleed. Even when I did it right as I shot, I had a problem. I would dab up the juice and shoot on. They turned out great and looked exactly like the original photo I picked. I was surprised, as I have no professional lighting system. I just used my refectors and a little diffused back light and a north facing window. Even Walter was impressed how well they matched the “real” photo. I shot a couple of macro shots at the same time and one of those was posted for my Day 122 photo. I had also purchased the ingredients to do two more setups (one for a backup, in case something didn’t work). One was chocolate pudding which turned out to be the biggest challenge of all. I ended up using mirrors to reflect, in addition to my silver reflector. My pudding wasn’t as smooth as the original, but everything else looked really close. I found a metal bowl that matched what they had used as that contrast outside the pudding bowl. I had to use a can to sit the pudding on to elevate it to the right height. My highlights could be better too. I found it wasn’t so easy to put a dollop of Cool Whip on just so. You have to do some prep to the top of the CW before you even scoop it out for it to look right. Holy cow, what a challenge. For the final one I chose a grouping of various colored peppers. The peppers available at the store were not as big and nice as the center one in the original photo. But I made do and am very pleased at how it turned out. I even have that little bit of green stem at the bottom that the pro had used. They are really close to being a match. From the three shoots I did ( pudding, berries and peppers), I had to chose the two I liked best and then recreate in some way to my liking. It was hard deciding between the berries (I already had my recreated macro there) and the peppers. I had purchased an orange pepper (go figure!!) and decided to add it to the mix and to turn it upside down for some added texture. I like how the photo turned out with a little changing around. So now it is on the Capturing the Beauty of Flowers class.
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