Vacation Sight Seeing!

Here are some of the photos I took on the trip. it was Early in the morning and freezing. I would like to go back in the summer sometime because I bet the Gorge would be beautiful with all the desert colors.

My Vacation!

Just this last weekend I took a few extra days off of work to travel to Twin Falls Idaho with my friend Tallie. We went to Twin to see my childhood friend Mya.  Me and Mya have kept in contact for 13 years. This was the first time  I have seen her since the fifth grade. It was also nice to get out of town with Tallie and do some shopping. I did not get to take many scenery pictures as I had hoped for. Here are Just the pictures of us on the trip. I will post the Scenery one's in another post. We had a lot of fun and even got dressed up fancy for dinner one night.

Mya

Mya and her boys.

Mya and I.

Tallie under the bridge.

Me in the car, Selfie!

                                                   
                                                   
                                                   

                                                   

William Roy

Today I got the wonderful pleasure of watching my new nephew William Roy Cochrell. He was fun and adorable. The lighting in my house was poor so I didn't get that many photo's, that and he was kinda cranky today. I will take more soon at ward and Chrissy's house. Here are the one's that I did get. I am excited because the second edition to the book I have been ready arrived and it has tips on taking baby portraits.

Night!

So after getting my new book yesterday " The Digital Photography Book" and reading some of the many tips. I really wanted to go try taking pictures at night.  Granted when we got out the the top of the ridge and it was freezing and we could hear some unwanted creatures, I was second guessing my urges. Here is what I came up with. They are not as clear as I would like, probably from not having a long lens. (Hopefully in the future.) The tips I followed was of course using my tripod, I don't have a remote release so I used the timer on my camera, to eliminate the risk of shaking your camera.  I also sharpened all my images in my edit program. When it warms up outside I will be trying more.

Jadan's Senior Session

Earlier today I did part one of a Senior Session. I have know this young man for a long time, but I feel like I get to know people better when I am taking their photo. Maybe its watching their expressions go from serious to laughter and that twinkle change in their eyes. Even though it was snowy and cold I still ended up with 60 shots that I loved. But of course I'll just put a few of my favorite up for today. I am thankful my little brother Garret, who came with me today. He made a good distraction. We did all of these at Jadan's home, he had a lot of great backgrounds.  When we do the second set, I'll post them. Enjoy!