who needs rubber boots?

March 22, 2011

I appreciated your comments yesterday. Thanks to all of you who stepped out and made your first comment ever on this blog. Yeah for first time commentors! Sometimes I write a post and wonder if anyone will ‘get’ what I am trying to say. I’m never too sure how I come across on this blog, so it is nice to know yesterday’s post made sense. Thanks for the encouragment 🙂

The kids helped me plant some flowers. When we finished I asked them to water the new plants. Watering flowers quickly turned into watering siblings…which turned into watering dirt so it created a mud puddle. Their clothes were already dirty from working in the garden so I didn’t change them into swimsuits. I stopped buying the boys anything white a long time ago…FireCracker’s clothes were already stained too. No more white clothes for her either I guess.

My camera settings changed a lot on these pictures, so I’ll share those too. I used my 24-70mm f/2.8 lens for all of these.

1/400, f/3.5, ISO 100, 70mm

1/400, f/3.5, ISO 100, 60mm ……………1/400, f/3.5, ISO 100, 54mm

1/800, f/3.5, ISO 100, 24mm

This photo will make a lot of photographers cringe. The circle glares are a little bit from the sun and a lot from my dirty lens. Technically speaking all those dirt glares make this a terrible photo. Mom speaking…I kind of like the feel all that dirt on my lens gives this photo. Messy kids. Messy camera. Messy is my normal.

1/1250, f/3.5, ISO 100, 70mm