Christmas Village

I put my Christmas Village up this evening. Emily had a fit over it! "It like Walmart!"

This gave me a chance to work with low light shots and non-moving objects. I really do need a tri-pod. I used a book to raise my camera up and keep it steady. If I tried to hold it on my own, the pics were blurring, the lights streaming along.

Photo Challenge - WEATHER

How's the weather in your neck of the woods? Today, it is rainy, dreary, blah! The sky was just gray and blah... not good for a photo if you ask me. Nothing interesting about that. So, I thought I would add a little color to my blah weather pic. Here are some nandena berries from my front yard with raindrops on them. I'm not sure if nandena is spelled right, but you get the idea.



Thanks for lookin'!

I WON!!! I WON!!!

Back in September I wrote a grant for my classroom. The Blount County Education Foundation gives them out yearly to our county teachers. Up to $750 can be requested. My project was titled "Alphabet Adventure" and was for $746. (I try my best to make the most of my money.) They announced the winners this morning and I won my grant!! Not only did I win my grant, I won a "signature" grant worth $1000!!!!! So, I have extra money to spend on my project! YIPPEEEEEE!!! Wooooooohooooo!!!!

My items are coming from Lakeshore Learning. They have some of the neatest education items in there. My grant items from last year came from Lakeshore.

Anyway!! I thought I would post something other than photo challenge pics!

Photo Challenge - LOW LIGHT

I had to go back into the archives again. Christmas time seems to be the best time for low light pics but right now, I don't have any of my Christmas stuff out.

Here are some pics from last year at Noccolula Falls on the train ride around the grounds. The first one is my entry into the challenge. We are going through a covered bridge on the train.



Here is what the bridge looks like when we were standing near it.


Here is one of the light displays taken while on the moving train.


Maybe next week I will have new stuff for the challenge. :)

Photo Challenge - MACRO

I went back into the archives and found these. I couldn't really find anything around here to take good macro shots this time.

Photo Challenge - Make Over

This week's challenge is a photo make over. Take a pic and make it better. Here is mine!

BEFORE


AFTER - brightened, cropped, red blemish on left arm fixed, noiseware ran to get rid of graininess, and a slight vignette.

Witchie Poo!

Emily LOVED trick-or-treating. We did more trunk-or-treating at churches than hitting house to house. She picked up on the concept quick, too. We got done with one place and she'd yell, "go to 'nother church, get more candy!"

Emily decided she was going to be a witch this year. After seeing a local high school band's halftime show - The Wizard of Oz - she became fascinated with the witch. She even managed to get three witch dolls from McDonalds! She'd going around posing like the wicked witch and tell you "I'm a witch" with her little growling voice. She even had the laugh down pat.

Here is my little Halloween Witch!