B-Boy sings Mele Kalikimaka

Crazy-L sings Six White Boomers

B-Boy and Crazy-L can now make popcorn on their own. The can get out the machine, measure the seeds, and pop it into a bowl without making to much of a mess or burning themselves. Mom still melts the butter. (Thank heaven’s they haven’t completely outgrown me yet, ha ha.)

I bribed B-boy with some candy and had a chance to play around with my reverse lens adapter. It has turned my 50mm 1.4 into a macro lens. Manual focus and aperture selection and a depth of field about the width of my finger, but for $15 I’m not complaining. There is a link to using a reverse lens adapter here.

B-boy finally learns to ride his bike. Crazy-L isn’t too far behind.

Having fun with some new gear.
These were lit with a Nikon SB600 bare from camera right. The trick is gelling the flash to make it look more like sunset. I think I had either a 3/4 or Full CTO (color temperature orange) gel on it. You balance your flash output and your aperture to get the correct exposure for your subject. Once you have done that, you can pretty much move your shutter speed up or down until the ambient looks how you want it. In this case I had a higher shutter speed to make the background and sky darker.

B-Boy is having a blast playing soccer. I enjoy sitting in the sun with the smell of cut grass.

B-Boy’s tooth is Loose. He will be the last kid in his class to loose a tooth.

This year the grade one class did Christmas ABC’s. B-Boy put the ‘C’ in Christmas.

B-Boy and Crazy-L at swimming Lessons. They are definitely not water children.