Bloggography Challenge #1: Winter Themed Picture

Beth from Manic Mother and Lolli from Better in Bulk are hosting a series of tutorials to help us learn how to use our DSLRs... thank goodness!! I need all the help I can get. As with all lessons, there is homework... Our first assignment was to use any setting on our camera except for full auto to capture a winter themed photo. Well, I live in Florida, and even though we have been having really cold weather, and even freezing temperatures along with some snow, it was hard for me to find a photo to represent a wintery scene. {Plus I'm still not going out regularly since my surgery.}

So for me, something that Bill and I love to have in the winter and really represents winter to us is nice warm soup and bread and this is what we had for dinner tonight. I love the colors on the Progresso can, so I took this photo to represent my winter theme:

Shutter Speed: 1/125 seconds

Aperture: 15.60

Focal Length: 18.00mm

ISO speed: 200

If you want to join in the Bloggography tutorials, head on over to either Beth or Lolli's blogs by clicking on the banner on top. You can also check out other participants Winter photographs by checking out the linky.

Until next time..... Lorie

Hubby's Birthday Present to Me... :-)

I had asked Santa to bring me a new DSLR for Christmas... however, The Most Wonderful Man in the World, whom I happen to be married to, decided that I shouldn't have to wait for Christmas. He thought I needed and deserved one for my birthday, so he surprised me with this GORGEOUS Nikon D90. I am so excited to have gotten it, and cannot wait to figure out how to use all the buttons on it... It comes with a 50LB instruction manual - I exaggerate only slightly.

Also, beginning in January, Beth at Manic Mother and Lolli at Better in Bulk are starting "Bloggography" - a series on their blogs to teach us newbies how to use our DSLRs!! I am SO excited for this to start. Here are Beth's words: "Beginning in January, Lolli and I will be writing digital photography tutorials. A tutorial will be posted with a photography assignment, the following week you can return and leave the link to the pictures you took! There will even be contests with prizes!" So if you are lucky enough to get a DSLR this year, make sure you check out their blogs.

So, I'd like to say thank you so much to my most adorable and loving husband. He is just the sweetest guy in the world. I LOVE my birthday present and will use it ALL the time. {This picture of him was taken on the first day I used my new camera.}

Until next time..... Lorie