Before I announce the winner, I just want to say that I wish I had copies of the book for everyone. As I was listing everyone’s name and finding a random number generator (I’m a geek. I like tools!) to help me choose the number, I was agonizing over this. I didn’t realize how it would make me feel. I want everyone to have a copy. I wish I had more copies to give away!!!
The random number generator chose number 5. The name on my spreadsheet that corresponded with that number is Shelle of BlokThoughts. Shelle, Scott Kelby’s The Digital Photography Book 1 is on its way. Congratulations!
Everyone else, thanks for entering. It was really exciting for me to see all of your comments. What can I say? I’m a simple girl. Comments make me happy. :)
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Another thing I wanted to tell you about was a cool website I found last week. It is called Photodoto. This is the site where I saw the idea to put kids in a container. When I wrote the post, I couldn’t remember where I had seen that idea. This is the place. My toddler addled brain… I tell ‘ya! Anyway, it’s a great site. Lots of good information and fun articles. Check it out. I’m sure you’ll love it too!
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So… I had such a fun weekend. I want to tell you all about it. That might take a L.O.N.G. time so I’ll just share some of the highlights.
We had a family reunion on Saturday in Moab, Utah. The highlight for me was that my Uncle Eric was there. He is an awesome photographer. You may remember me mentioning that or remember some of his comments. He’s great. He let me play with some of his lenses. Can you imagine how much fun I was having? A lot!
To give a little back story, I should explain and say that I have only ever used my 60mm lens. In fact, I didn’t even know how to take my lens off!!! How silly is that?!? So when Eric put a 70-210mm zoom lens on my camera I was like a kid in a candy camera store. I was running all over the place snapping photos of people right and left. I think I was kind of annoying my grandma. She’s so beautiful and I wanted to get a good photo of her. I kept coming back and snapping more. It was so much fun.
After the reunion, we went to the cemetery to see my granddad’s grave and to see the graves of other ancestors. This is kind of a tradition in my family.
We went to Arches National Park on Thursday and saw some incredible scenery. Mind blowingly (I know, it’s not a word…) beautiful. We walked around until the kids were exhausted and then we drove around for a while. Awesome. If you are ever in the area, I whole heartedly recommend a visit to the Arches National Park.
On Friday we went to a rock shop and got slightly mislead but that is always an adventure in itself. We were trying to find some dinosaur bones and petrified wood but ended up taking a wrong turn and then ran out of time so we didn’t get to retrace our steps and try again. Next time we’re in Moab, I’m going to try this outing again. It was still very beautiful and fun.
We spent a lot of time playing in our campground’s over chlorinated swimming pool and soaking up the sun. My boys had a blast practising their swimming moves, playing with their cousins and charming all the other travelers. It was a blast!
Now we are back home. I am almost unpacked and we are starting to think more seriously about Halloween costumes and decorations. Those will be some fun Momshots! What kind of Halloween or Autumn plans do you have? Any good photo-ops coming up?
Tomorrow I will put up the new Tip of the Week. Tye wrote us up a great one. I’m excited for you to read it!
