Day 225

I haven't done a cloud picture for a while and today seemed like a good day because there's a storm coming in. We were at home and it started raining this afternoon right before we were going to leave for t-ball. We figured we'd go out and see if they were still going to play, and by the time we got about 10 minutes from home, the rain was gone.

You could tell from the field that the rain wasn't going to hold off forever, but fortunately, we were only slightly sprinkled on while the kids were playing.

Day 147

For Christmas a couple of years ago, I asked for and was so excited to receive a specialized lens for my DSLR. The reading I did on it explained that it was a macro lens and was good for portrait photography. I put it on the camera for about a month, and for the life of me, I could not get it to do what I wanted. It has sat in my camera bag for over two years, and it's been bugging me.

Recently, I read a blog post about how to get blurry backgrounds. I was so excited to read about this because it's one of those things that's really nice to be able to do when you photograph children. They have this uncanny ability to be running in front of your unfolded laundry, their toys, and all sorts of other distracting things in their pictures.

As I read the post, I realized that I had this lens sitting around that would be perfect for this particular desire of blurry backgrounds. To practice my technique, I took the DSLR out to Paul's t-ball practice this afternoon and just played around with taking pictures. I'm really, really happy with the results.

Day 133

In spite of the fact that it was pouring down rain, t-ball went on as scheduled this afternoon. Since it was canceled last week due to rain, they didn't want to cancel it a second week in a row. The kids didn't seem to mind being soaking wet. We enjoyed the practice from the comfort (dryness) of grandma's car.

Paul is in the center wearing his green jacket and crouched down to practice fielding a ball.