Sunday Snapshot {Fall in Northern Michigan}

I'm still really struggling with getting the pictures I want when I take pictures. I rarely end up with what I imagined.

Anyhoo... Fall in Northern Michigan is such a great time of year... the leaves are changing, the air is crisper and there's a certain feeling of excitement. This fall has been very exciting because it's my daughters first "real" fall. Last year she was only a few weeks old but this year she's been able to walk around and explore everything that is so wonderful about fall.

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This first picture I obviously played with in Photoshop in order to get the blurred background. It's the right idea for the pictures I want to take but I want to get that effect without using Photoshop (I don't have an SLR camera though).

For the next two pictures I used a Nikon CoolPix L18 camera in auto mode.

Pictures from today... playing with the camera Scene settings.

The majority of these pictures were taken with my Fuji FinePix 2550HD camera. I used the SR setting and then chose different scene settings so I don't have the "numbers" per-se for you but I hope you still enjoyed my pictures.

Sunday Snapshot {Rommey's First Birthday}

On Saturday we celebrated Rommey's first birthday. I can't believe that our little girl is already 1 year old! Time sure does fly by. We celebrated with a small gathering of family (and one friend).

Here's our sweet baby girl the day she was born.

Her beaver cake, made especially by daddy.

Cake face (taken by our friend with her phone).

In her birthday outfit.

Our little walker.

All smiles

Checking out the rocking Yak that was given to me on my first birthday and is now hers.

Trying out her balance bike (with some help from grandma), before daddy adjusted it to the right size (now she can ALMOST touch the ground).

Most of these pictures were taken with my Fuji FinePix S2550HD camera (not an SLR). I also just kept it at the auto setting or the scene selection setting. I could really use an SLR camera but Zac says that I have to figure out how to use this camera (and all it's settings) before I can have an SLR camera. :-) I want to figure out how to take pictures with a blurry background (it's a hit or miss when I try it with flowers) because I love how that looks in shots. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my pictures.