UT, A wedding & Baby Audrey!

What a wonderful weekend! Started out Saturday morning with our photography field trip on the UT campus. Kristin and I got caught in the pouring rain on our way to the meeting place...only to have the teacher not show up! Frustrating! On our way back to the car we stopped to photograph these interesting trees outside the Blanton Museum of Art...they're tree stockings! Has something to do with that lady that does knit graffiti. I thought it looked very Dr. Seuss-ish! There are 99 trees with these socks on them!



Beautiful crepe myrtle outside of the library

 Saturday night we went to one of Justin's really good friends from high schools wedding. It was out near Blanco in the hill country and it was beautiful! I don't have those picutres with me but I can add them later:)


Sunday we got up and made the drive to College Station to see baby Audrey. Justin and I realized we hadn't been to College Station together basically since we graduated - crazy! So we spent the day enjoying time with Sandie, Neil, Rachel, Cliff, Grandma, and of course baby Audrey. Audrey was born on Wednesday March 2nd! We also got to go see the progress on Rachel and Cliff's new house - can't wait to see it when it's done - it's going to be beautiful! Here are some of the baby pictures I took - a lot of them came out blurry becaues I didn't want the flash going off in her face.



Adorable Stork in the front yard





Audrey Sophia :)



Her precious little hands & long fingers!



Isn't she beautiful!?






So precious!



Her tiny feet & long toes!

 


A little sun-bather already!

  The next couple of pictures are a little blury but I had to add them. Sandie has 2 dogs and her big dog Cassie was quite interested in Audrey. Pretty much all day she walked around and tried to either stick her nose into the bassonet or sit by whoever was holding Audrey. She even gave Audrey a few kisses on her head - so sweet!





Cassie & Baxter are concerned with the crying!

 


Puppy kisses from Cassie



Just keeping tabs on Audrey!



Understanding Exposure...The Beginning

So I'm taking this Light & Composition class with Kristin, a friend from work. She loaned me this awesome book - "Understanding Exposures" and I've been trying to read it and try out the exercises when I have time. Tonight when I got home the sky looked kind of cool so I decided to try out some different settings in manual mode. They aren't great pictures but I thought they came out pretty good considering I didn't use a tripod. Can't wait to keep reading this book & learning new techniques! I just ordered this book for myself - as well as the updated edition!!

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 :)