Pennybacker Bridge

So my photography assignment for last week was to take a picture using leading lines & a framing device. The subject is the Pennybacker bridge, the leading lines are 360 & the framing device is the tree. Luckily it was a BEAUTIFUL day so I got some good shots!!




Justin made the hike up to the lookout point with me :)

 

Composition & Light

So I started another photography class last wednesday at UT (informal classes) - it's called composition & light. Our first assignment was to make a well composed portrait of a person with a lot of depth of field. My wonderful husband was my subject & we went out Saturday at sunset to take some pictures. I wasn't happy with how they turned out so we tried again Sunday afternoon before the superbowl. The pictures aren't perfect but I know how to improve next time. Here are a few of my favorites.

Vintage Park

So this weekend I took a trip to Houston to visit LeeAnn, Rachel & Lauren. LeeAnn took me to this super neat place called Vintage Park in Tomball so we could practice with our cameras. It made me so excited thinking about doing this in Europe in FOUR months! Here are some of my favorite shots.


Cool handles on a door

 

Another neat door

 

Perspective one

 

Perspective two



Pretty mosaic



Water in slow-mo



The center of this flower is beautiful!



Love the color



Getting creative!

I look like a ghost - I love it!



LeeAnn checking out her pics



More to come with the rest of the weekend :)

Babies & Presents & Food!

This past weekend my mom and I went to College Station for Rachel's baby shower. We had a Cotton Bowl watching party at Sandie's on Friday night. Luckily we had good food since the Ags didn't do so well. I didn't take any pictures but we had Southwest egg rolls from Chili's, chicken wings from Wings-N-More, Mexican Spaghetti, taco dip, Whoopie Pies & banana pudding! Oh and when Lauren got there we had some delicious homeade kolaches! And of course there was wine!! I would much rather be at a football party with all this wonderful food than be at the cowboys stadium getting ripped off for everything!! It made the (losing) game much more enjoyable!


Saturday morning Lauren and I took Rachel out while the girls were setting up for the party. It was such a wonderful shower and I think Rachel had a really good time. Let me just say that Audrey is already beyond spoiled and is going to be the best dressed baby around!




Yummy fruit tray & dip



Cute & yummy cake!



Wonderful punch



Great sandwiches

 

Adorable decorations!

Precious!



So many presents!



more presents!



Audrey's first pair of baby jeans!



Her diva outfit!



The owl onesie - I just had to!

  Rachel's baby shower was so much fun! I hope she enjoys the rest of her pregnancy because Audrey will be here before we know it!!

Tasty Little Dessert

So for Christmas my mom got me this serving tray with soup spoons to use as a serving piece...what a fun idea!! I wanted to use it to make dessert for our neighbor dinner but wasn't sure what I was going to make to put in it. Mansee brought over some FABULOUS brownies on New Years so I decided to try those...well turns out they aren't as good when you cook them in mini muffin pans...but they were still tasty! I thought the presentation was too cute :)



So cute!





Topped with some cool whip & a swirl chocolate chip!