New Lens :)

 Happy Holidays to everyone! 

I hope you all had a great year, and are making your news years resolutions for 2010.

I had a great Christmas with my hubby for our real first Christmas together as husband and wife.  Our Christmas last was spent in separate locations while he finished up his Navy Diver training in IL.  Not having the family around this time made the days go a lot slower, but I am so thankful to have had my husband by my side this year, but next year we plan on spending Christmas in Florida with the family.

My husband Ralph has always told me to use a tripod and I always argued that I didn't like them because I felt confined to the ways of the tripod.  That was until I saw this amazing 360 degree squeeze handle ball head for the tripod on an photography video.  So guess what.. my lovely husband decided to get me a tripod, ball head, and new fixed wide angle lens for me this year!!  So away we went at 6am Sunday morning to practice my first sunrise shots with my new toys.  Slow shutter speed and f22 is where it is at for scenery.  There is a picture of me with my new toys below, and a couple of the shots that I like from this morning.  The wide angle 2.8f is amazing just to put it lightly! 

The first 3 images are at Pali lookout.. you can see almost all of the east coast of Oahu, Hawaii from here.  We also tried a hand at self portraits.. haha.  The picture under that is of Hanuman Bay, which is a place to go snorkeling, we have not been there yet, but we plan on it when friends and family come to visit us in the coming year.

 

Re-Image Photo: "its beginning to look alot like Christmas"

Re-Image Photo: "its beginning to look alot like Christmas"

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"its beginning to look alot like Christmas"

   It has been a busy these last two weeks in Hawaii.  I was in Chicago for a business trip for a week, and we went to a Christmas dinner with the company this past Saturday.  Chicago was a blast, and I got to met some awesome people, and I finally got to see a snow fall.  When I first got to the airport it was cold, and it was snowing.  My body didn't know what to think because less then 24 hours ago I was in the tropics.  Its nice to finally see what people were talking about all theses years when they would say "its beginning to look a lot like Christmas".  Haha.  Seeing fresh white snow on top of the trees really put together the picture of a "white Christmas" for me.  Chicago has the most amazing light too.  Every morning when I first woke up, I would peak my head outside of the sliding glass door into the 9 degree chill, to take pictures of the snow.  I couldn't help to noticed that the lighting in Illinois is so vastly differnt then the light in Florida or Hawaii.  The city buildings created some really cool shadows and highlights details which were just amazing to stare at and photograph.
   After arriving back into Hawaii and my hubby greeting me at the airport I get home and find tons of boxes all over the house from the downstairs to the garage to the upstairs.  Our house hold goods finally came in, which we were only missing everything we owned since October 20th, except what fit into our suitcases.  It is so nice to finally be able to use our weddings presents from last year.  Thank you to everyone for our gifts for our wedding, we are defiantly starting to put everything to good use.
   The Christmas party at the boss's house was nice, and it was great meeting the rest of the new company that is almost all pulled together now.  Once the company is established then the boys can do their thing.  There was a chewing gum competition with whip cream and my hubby won!  So what it was was a plate full of whip cream and on the bottom of the plate was a frozen piece of chewing gum, and whom ever could get the first real bubble out of the gum would win, and you can find the pictures below. Enjoy..

Natural light..

This week we decided to take the puppies out for a hike.  My husband and I went with our friends and we brought our dogs with us to a beautiful early morning hike which is shown in the first two images below.  We started up hill and got tired pretty early into our hike so I decided to take a break and photograph what was all around us.  We were surrounded with nature, and it was breathtaking.

The other pictures below are from a portrait session that my husband and I got to photograph which was special to capture because of the addition to their family of their new baby girl.  We were the ones that got to capture her newborn portraits of her, and got a really awesome one of her brother watching over her..just like a big brother would do.  The sunset image was shot just after this session a little ways down the road.  As Ralph and I were leaving our session we were driving down the road and caught a glimpse of the setting sun and just had to stop and photograph it.

The last 2 images were shot yesterday at Pali lookout in Oahu, Hawaii.  Both photographs are a caliberation of my husband and my eyes, and heart.  The last image was seen by me and shot by my husband.  He was carring my camera and I saw for a split second the beautiful contrast of the dark blue sky again the shadows of the path that we were on, and I was like take it.. take it!!!