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Broken Cameras, Rentals, and Lakes

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My main camera (Nikon’s D600) broke on me over a month ago.

I have been using my old camera (D300s) but we rented a D850 for a week and I am in love!

I just got it yesterday and could not resist going out to the lake to play. My girls put up with my insane picture taking a bit more than my boys. ha Mostly, they were happy I was distracted with playing with the camera so they could launch walnut boats. They actually ask for me to take their picture 😉

Well at least if I take one of their pictures they will.

She hides a lot of sass behind that smile 😉 I have decided maybe renting camera equipment should be my present for every birthday.

So much fun!

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Happy early birthday to me!

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My husband got my birthday present in the mail! My birthday is not until November 11th(eleven, eleven it’s easy to remember), so this made me a little worried he would decide to not let me know what it was or have at until then!

Patience is not one of my strengths.

I was at the computer in the dining room and he decided to open the package in our living room(just a few feet away). “Don’t look” he said.

Is he kidding?

I am good so I did not look.

Then I start hearing this, “WOW, it is a lot heavier then I thought.” and “I wonder how this works” I started yelling that I was going to look if he did not cut it out!

Then he said, “I guess I could give it to you now but then you would not have anything to open for your birthday.”

“That is okay, we are going hiking for my birthday.” I was trying to sound all calm but I really wanted to have my gift NOW!

Did I mention I am horrible at waiting(pregnancy was not fun for me, 9months of waiting!)?

So finally he brings over a card reader and sets it in front of me. “Here you go.”

Then then a little bit later he asks for my camera, still not letting me see what else he got.

Then he said, “smile”! While taking a picture of me with my new lens!!!

I was jumping up and down and squealing!

What can I say? I like camera equipment!

The only problem was that it was nap time and all my subjects were asleep.

It was the first time I was happy when one of them woke up early!

It had nothing to do with the fact I kept going in their room.

I got to have some fun while hiking this morning! hikingwithnewlensFor all the camera buff’s out there. It is a 50mm 1.4!

I am in love.

The end.

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Never too young?

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My oldest boy is going to be four on Saturday!

He is getting to that lovely age where nap time is no longer an everyday occurrence. As a stay at home mom I have counted on nap time to have time to reflect on the sweetness of my children and recover from whatever they did pre-nap.  So to make sure I still have some alone time(they call them breaks in the workforce), I started the quiet time rule. I read about it in a homeschooling book(which I plan to do this year). I read about a mom that had all her children go to their rooms and play quietly every afternoon for a little bit and then I realized I could do THAT!!!

His little brother(2yrs old) still takes naps so I have him lay down in the library for half an hour or so…that is at least how it is supposed to go. I think he knows I am a pushover, he will call my name until I go in there. When I ask him what he wants he says, ” I have something really important to ask you. Can I get up?”

When I finally do let him come out ,his brother is still usually sleeping. Have you ever tried to keep a almost four year old quiet before? If anything they get louder.

Yesterday, I decided to take some pictures on my nice beautiful enclosed porch that my awesome, wonderful, greatest man in the whole world made for me!

I had a crazy idea that was probably born out of “no more nap time” desperation…

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I let him use one of my Nikon’s NikonboyfingersI love those little fingers on the buttons!

NikonboylookingLook how happy he is!

NikonboytoysI was a little nervous about the HARD tile floor

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But I was happy that he let me take lots of pictures of him! That NEVER happens. Nikonboybw

The lens I let him use is an old manual one that was Nick’s Grandfather’s, he gave it to me last Christmas to use and I love it!

The focus is manual also though so Justin had his work cut out for him(what does that saying even mean?)

Here is one(he took over a hundred) of his shots, I kept tweaking the focus hoping one of them would not be a blur.

He keeps saying that he wants to be a diver when he grows up so I asked him if he wanted to be an underwater photographer instead.

You have to start brainwashing…I mean guiding them young.

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