Sunshine, Warmth, and Remote Flash Triggers

That springy feeling of warm sun... ahh. 

That's what started this. The the forgotten touch of the sun set me on a craving for photography. I wasn't able to fulfill the crave 'till dark, but that just gave me an opportunity use my remote flash trigger. 

In celebration of eventual coming of spring, I decided to take photos of me looking celebratively excited. =D

About this video: Doing self portraits is approximately 5-8 times harder  than doing portraits of another person. 5 times harder being those photos you are just standing with a straight face, and 8 times being those photos you try to time a "cool" looking jump with the flip of the shutter...

Here are some photos I wanted to highlight:

This is the first photo I took, didn't really work. But did give me an idea of where I wanted to go with this.

Though, I did doubt that direction of style...

...And thought about it.

And then decided to stick with the jumping. =D

I can fly.

I really like this next one, just one problem (which was a problem in most of the photos: I did this weird tongue thing. Yep.

The Adventure Continues

Snow has had ts say, and last night our area received 8''-10'' of snow! I spent much of the day sledding and walking/running up big hills to go down again. :) As night came to its fullest, we, my sisters and cousin, went on a a little photo expedition. I used the dark reflective conditions to try some photos with my new remote flash capabilities, as well as the orange light the city casts upon the clouds (which then drop it onto the snow) to get some photos in some different "natural" lighting.

Click here to see the start of this snow adventure.

January 15th - A Day of Adventure

As any local, and many afar already know, the greater Seattle area has received its first coat of snow for this winter. Yay!! :) With the snow, my day was indeed a bit exciting.

It went a little like this: -Wake up -Check email -Find email about SWITCH  youth group meeting being optional today due to snow -Think to myself, "Is there really snow outside?" -And, of course, I immediately check and find the neighborhood behind my bedroom curtains covered in white! -It was true! Snow still can stick around the Puget Sound! --Anyways, I go to church (SWITCH) and find that optional this time meant PUZZLES. =)

End of story. Not really, but sort of.

See? I didn't lie about the puzzles!

I think you should know, the happy person in this next photo is an Australian who has never seen snow before this day (aside from two times skiing where half of the snow was man made).

And this is all of us, happily together in the snow. :D

And here, is more the the story of my so called adventurous day:
After coming back home and seeing that the lovely trees Dash Point State Park were holding on to much of the ornamental , I made a plan to go on an excursion through the wonderful woods with some friends. And this, we did.

I got us all to run a potion of the snowy/muddy trail. Which we quite exciting due mostly to the slickness of the trail.

"Aslan is coming."

After wandering around the forest for quite a wile, we made our way to the beach.

The End.
...for now, it is still snowy and is snowing a lot right now.

The Wilkins

This is the Wilkins family.
With the permission of the owners, we got to go within the gate of the Browns Point cottage.

In this park John and Tara married, and returned seventeen years later with seven kids (plus one exchange student from Spain).