Week 28: Grasshopper on Mini Rose

Grasshopper on Mini Rose, originally uploaded by Visions By Vicky.

Once again my photo of the week wasn't taken on Friday but at least I did take one. This was taken in the front of our house on Saturday afternoon. I was trying to get a picture of one of the roses and moved it a bit and this guy surprised me and flew on to this flower. I just had to take a few photos of him at that point.

Photo taken: July 11, 2009
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Tamron 28-75mm f2.8
Exposure: 1/800
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 75 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual

Week 27: Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty, originally uploaded by Visions By Vicky.

Once again my Friday Foto was not taken on Friday. This one was actually taken on Sunday this week but I wanted to include something else from our trip to Las Vegas and this is it!

And, no, we didn't visit New York City but we did go to the New York, New York Hotel when we were in Vegas!

Date Taken: June 28, 2009
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS
Exposure: 1/640
Aperture: f/5.5
Focal Length: 23.2 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Mode: Auto
White Balance: Auto

I didn't have a wide enough lens on my 40D to get a shot from this angle on that camera so I used my point & shoot.

Week 26: Before the Bingo Party

Getting Ready for the Bingo Party, originally uploaded by Visions By Vicky.

Last weekend we were in Las Vegas with my husband's family to celebrate my father-in-law's 80th birthday. The first night there all of the younger generation of cousins had a "Bingo Party" with my husband's sister. This photo of one of our nieces was taken in the hotel room while my niece was playing a game of "guess which hand the penny is in" with my oldest daughter.

Photo Taken: June 27, 2009 (yep, again not a Friday photo)
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 1/60
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 75 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE

Week 25: We Have a WebCam!

We Have a WebCam!, originally uploaded by Visions By Vicky.

Okay so this isn't technically a photo that I took and it's not really a Friday photo either since it was snapped by the webcam at 12:02am on Saturday morning.

It is, however, my photo of the week for this week because I'm finally testing out the webcam that I got for Christmas! It's a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 and so far it seems to work just fine on our home computer. My next step is to test out Skype here and then I'm going to try it at school. My hope is to use this to Skype at school next year. Keep your fingers crossed that it will work on the older equipment that we have there.

Date Taken: June 20, 2009
Camera: Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000

Week 24: 2009 Graduation Breakfast

2009 Graduation Breakfast, originally uploaded by Visions By Vicky.

Well, it's official I missed a week and this week's photo wasn't even taken on Friday. After taking hundreds of pictures on Tuesday and Wednesday for year end events at school, I just wasn't in the mood to take a photo on Friday.

Anyway, this photo is from the Graduation Breakfast. Each year we hold a breakfast for the 8th Grade graduates and their guests and the centerpieces this year were a 2-tiered display with the top holding rosebuds and the bottom holding strawberries. These were the roses on my table at the breakfast.

Date Taken: June 10, 2009
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 1/100
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 75 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire