Camerashy Week 34: Tricky

A Tricky Game

Jordan started to learn about the game of chess as a achievement bead in cub scouts last year. They had to learn the names of the pieces and the rules about their movement.

I've always loved chess, but hadn't played it in forever. Jordan was really interested in it, so we bought a board and started to play. He's actually pretty good (or I'm just really rusty!!) 

Camerashy Week 32: High

Rylie loves to be thrown up high. 

I can't really figure out if she likes the going up or the coming down part more, but I know she likes it. Her daddy throws her up all the time in the pool, and more carefully when we're out in the backyard or in the house. I love to hear her little laugh as she gets tossed up in the air.

Photochallenge Week 32: Landscape - “Tilt Shift” Quasi-Landscape

I loved looking at all the pictures that were posted this week. This type of shot is really interesting to me. I love the way everything looks like a little model! I've always loved model train set out on tables. Not for the trains though, but for the elaborate sets of trees and buildings that get set up around them. 

Unfortunately I struggled to find time to get somewhere to get a really nice "base" picture that would give me a "WOW" factor once I applied the technique. I ended up using a picture of the view out of my window at work. There are some cars in the foreground so I think it a least works somewhat to give the overall effect. 

I'll definitely be trying this on future shots I'm able to take.