Day 48: Waltz of the Flowers (from the wings)

Yes, I'm back with more from the Nutcracker. I'm actually in the middle of what I call Yearbook Hell every year. The first half of the yearbook is due tomorrow and when the weekend started I had 5 pages out of 32 completed - yikes! Anyway, I'm working on my last 6 pages now so I should make the deadline. Yeah! Of course then I have to start working on the second half. Anyway, because all of my time has been devoted to the yearbook here's another from the Nutcracker.

Date Taken: December 8, 2007
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon 50mm 1.8
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Day 47: Worn out

Every year the middle schoolers go to Catalina to a camp for a week. This was taken the night they got back. My daughter insisted that she wasn't tired and just wanted to watch TV for awhile and this was the result!

Date Taken: February 15, 2008
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon 50mm 1.4
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Day 46: Nemo

Yes, our cat's name is Nemo. I took a few photos of him the other night on my way out the door because my oldest daughter insisted. High ISO and kind of noisy but at least he's looking at the camera. Like my girls, Nemo tends to run the other way when the camera is out.

Date Taken: February 15, 2008
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon 50mm 1.4
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Day 45: Happy Valentine's Day!

I took a bunch of pictures at school today at the Valentine's parties but can't share the ones with the kids in them so here's a collection of photos showing some of what was happening around the school:

• Some yummy cupcakes at one of the class parties
• A balloon sent by one of the parents to the staff
• What do you do with conversation hearts since according to this class they taste like chalk? Why you use them to build something of course!

Date Taken: February 14, 2008
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon 28-135mm IS
Various exposures

Day 44: Basketball

I do the yearbook for my youngest daughter's school each year so I take a lot of photos at school of all of the events and just every day things. Today I took some portraits for new preschoolers and I took photos at the elementary boys basketball game. I've cropped this one to not show faces of the players so I'd have something to share here. I took this in Aperture Priority mode since the players were going in and out of sun and shade and I just couldn't adjust manually quick enough to get the shot.

Date Taken: February 13, 2008
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon 28-135mm IS
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 135 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 1/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire