Focus Feature II

Cool :-) Playing with my new camera.

Focus Feature

Yay! My new camera lets me change the depth of field! That is my hand and very long, skinny fingers framing my brother, who lets me use him as a model.

Oh Christmas Tree...

I got a new camera for Christmas! It's a Nikon Coolpix L22, it's red and I like it a LOT! There are a couple of features that this camera does not have that I miss, but it makes up for it with 12 megapixels, a screen that's almost 3" and being about half as thick!
This is our Christmas tree, under which my camera waited for me. :-)

Quilt of Color

Fall is my favorite time of year. Look at those colors!

Local Vegetation

Not sure what the correct name for these plants are, but they are pretty! This was taken in October during a walk around the block.

Myself

On the way back from a day in NYC

Calm Waters

Taken on the ferry on the way over to NYC

Bear in the Front Yard

Over the summer, my mom noticed a car hovering around the front of the house. They drove slowly by then a few minutes later they drove back in the opposite direction. They stopped a few times and by then my mom was curious enough to need to know what in the world they were looking at. She went through the garage and just past the bumper of her car stood a massive bear. She promptly did an about-face and was in the house in about 2 seconds flat.
Then we got out the cameras.Oh, that doesn't look that big, you say. Well look at THIS:
This was my very first in-the-wild bear sighting and I didn't turn the flash of my camera off, which is why it's so washed out. Who cares, look at that huge animal!

Creative Christmas Wrapping, part 3

This box is a smaller size which means the star in the center is a lot bigger. Instead of trying to make it blend in or add huge letters to match the scale, I decided to just go with it. It's now a shooting star!

And, as ever, there's the holly:

Creative Christmas Wrapping, part 2

For the next present, I decided to try something similar but new! So, you can see I snaked "Merry Christmas" around the box, drew some more holly and added some dashes and dots for fun.

I thought it was a little odd to end the box with "CHRI-" so I continued the rest of it down the side.

Christmas Presents!

I got a jump start on Christmas presents this year and thus I also got a jump on wrapping my presents as well. My brothers both got their gifts wrapped in plain white boxes from Macy's, but instead of wrapping them in paper, I decided to decorate them with marker.

For the first box, I had this vision of No Doubt's Rock Steady album in my mind so I printed "Merry Christmas" a million times across the box. I wrote the recipient's name in green for contrast and had intended to keep printing more "merry Christmas's" for the rest of the box, then decided the holly would be a little simpler.
I know everything is a little bit cock-eyed, but I think it's fine. I KNOW Adam won't mind (or probably even notice!)