photography assignment 1b

For the "outing" we ended up last minute hiking up to the brown rocks.

 

I was trying to get the empty space in front of the, so they have somewhere to run to,

but by golly Aiden is fast, even when he's towing Capri! I couldn't catch up fast enough.

None of the lines are straight, but I don't think there is a straight line in Moab as far as horizon goes.

 

This one I used the rule of thirds, got the horizon line as straight as a could, and left some

empty space up in the top majority of the picture, because that's the direction she is climbing.



 

This is my best one (I think) Capri is pretty far over in the corner, but I kind of like that. The horizon line and the "leading" line of the trail both lead right to Capri.

 

I didn't get them as far over to the right as I was thinking I should. They are looking off to the left, so I tried to leave some empty space that direction.



photography assignment lesson 1a

I did my assignment today, the last day of our extension week.

 

I struggled with how to find a kid that would be still for me and not feel the need

to pose or make stupid faces while I was taking some pictures.

 

I realized today that Aiden would definitely be a better option than Capri,

because she does not have to ability to hold still.

 

I just made Aiden get a blanket and lay on it while he ate his after school snack and did his

20 minutes of reading for the day.

 

Getting down on his level worked best for these pictures,

because of where the sun was and where everything else in the yard was.

 

(Yes mom, we used your yard. And please ignore the fact that

once again, I over exposed these. I'll work on it...)

 

 I wanted to avoid some of the stuff in the yard, but I liked having

the corner of the house, and the front picture windows in the picture. I tried to keep lines straight, which worked best taking the picture straight on. His eyes are in the top left third of the picture, and his book in the bottom left.

 

 I used the horizon as a line, which was tricky because the horizon isn't really a

straight line. I kind of accidently merged the tree with his head, and I didn't quite make the rule of thirds here. I wish I could go back and put him over to the left and down more. I left some open space in the direction he's reading.

 



 

This one is, again, overexposed, but anyway.

His head is in the top right "third" and his knees are in the bottom (kind of ) left third. I kind of like that the lines of the blanket are diagonal, because so is he kind of, but the top line of the blanket is obviously not straight, which wouldn't be noticeable really except you can see grass in the top left.

 

There's that one...

New York City (day 1)

I was invited to join my mom and sister for a girls trip (plus my dad) to New York,

and how could I resist that? I could not. We flew overnight and got to New York City

at 6am, checked into the hotel and slept for a couple of hours and then headed out to see stuff.

 

It was like nothing I have ever seen before, and nothing I could ever imagine.

I thought I've seen big cities before, but I was wrong. It was overwhelming and

amazing and kind of scary. If Kimbrey hadn't been there to navigate the subway

system, we would have gotten lost on the first day.

 

First thing we went to 5th Avenue to walk around, we walked to the Empire State building and

back to Rockefeller plaza, where we went to the Top of the Rock to see the city from up high.

 

 

On one side we could see Central Park

 



 

And from the other side we got a view of the Empire State building and in the

very far off distance we could see the Statue of Liberty.

 

After that we had booked a boat tour which took us out to the Statue of Liberty and

around to see the sights from the water.

 

 

The city skyline was amazing from every direction it seemed like.

 

My beautiful sister :)

 

 

My favorite part of New York city was seeing Lady Liberty.

I've always wished I could see it just once in person, and now I have.

So beautiful.

 

Lots and lots of cool bridges, it's been too long and I can't remember which is which.

 



 

I loved seeing the big Pepsi Cola sign!

 

 

Then we headed to Times Square which was cooler than I thought it would be.

 

We were so tired by the end of the first day!

zip line

 

The Saturday after Thanksgiving my parents treated all those who were big enough

and wanted to, to a day on the Moab zip line.

 

 

Aiden's been wanting to do it for a while now, and was super excited

about it when the time finally came.

 

They got us all outfitted in our gear, and then loaded us all up in two razors

and took us way up onto the slickrock trail.

And turned us loose on the zip line! (well, kind of)

We had so much fun!

 

 

Aiden had so much fun. It was really windy which made it a little colder than

we had originally thought it would be, so he whined some about that, and about the fact

that one the last couple of lines he had to ride tandem because it was too windy

for him to ride alone. But mostly he had fun and spent a lot of time grinning.

 

 

When we got to the very first zip line (there are six total) they asked who wanted to

be first, and without hesitation, Aiden jumped and yelled "I do!" and

He ran and jumped without looking back. He is so so brave.

 

Thanks mom and dad for the fun day, we had a blast!

Cozzens Camp (day 2)

Flag ceremony

Day 2 was super hero day, and the first activity of the day involved

throwing water balloons at pictures of villians that had been placed around the "woods"

on various trees.

Next, each kid picked a super hero, and we painted their faces (the best we could)

to look like their super hero.

Capri wasn't thrilled with getting her face painted, but I was sure as soon as

she saw her face painted like Hello Kitty, she would change her mind.

I was wrong. She hated every minute her face was painted.

We bribed her with a cookie long enough to take pictures, then washed it off.

And she was happy again.

 

Chase didn't want his face painted. He was cool enough without it.

Then we went fishing again!