Ticked Off

My previous post was a bit of a downer. So this one should lighten things up. Actually, it should down right crack you up.

Around here, we listen to a lot of different music. But I'd have to say that Jackson Browne makes it into the rotation the most. We love him.

So when we discovered a contest he was throwing, we were so in! The only rules were that it had to be an original photo that you had the rights to, and it had to involve polyester. So after hunting around for some vintage attire (which was not easy, since my man is apparently a giant and people were small in the 70's), a parking ticket, a fun photo shoot, and some photo editing, here are our submissions:

This is my submission. I took the photo of the beau and doctored it up.

Here is the bf's submission of a photo he took of me and spiffed up himself.

We thought we had a real shot at winning free tickets to his concert in NYC. We even cleared our calendar for that night. And made sure to submit our photos at the last minute since the submissions were chronologically listed. But we were so disappointed to find out that we did not win. We were not even mentioned.

Well, we had fun creating these submissions and the end results definitely had us in stitches, did you see them? How can you take that stuff seriously?

But we are still bitter nevertheless. So we are boycotting Jackson Browne's music, it's dead to us. As far as we are concerned, JB stands for Justin Bieber in this house. Justin Bieber Down Loads. I guess we now have Bieber fever...

Heading in the Clouds

Remember how I mentioned there was an upcoming tournament? Well if you don't already know, I am not a morning person. And flyball tournaments and practice seem to happen precisely at this time. But I honestly can't complain about waking up early for a drive like this:

We moved out here thinking we'd hate it because it's so not us. And we moved here thinking that we'd try it for 5 years and then go back to New England. But now we're not so sure... can you blame us?

Sticky Legs

Some great shots of a big spider web on our spruce tree outside:

Anyone know what kind of spider this is?

ISO confused

...so therefore I am experimenting. With the new cam. First up: ISO settings.

I understand the concept of the different ISO settings (if you can remember back to non-digital camera days, it's the 'speed' of your film. Basically it is how sensitive the film is, higher the number = higher sensitivity. And if I remember correctly most common was 400, lower numbers for outdoor shots, higher for low lighting).

But knowing which setting to use and when is another story. Since I am a visual person, I'll share my results because I know you must really care, right?

ISO 100

ISO auto

ISO 1600

This stuff is probably obvious to everyone else but the last time I used manual settings on a camera was ages ago. And the last time I used an SLR was eons ago. By ages and eons, I mean since high school (which is the same thing). And even then, I didn't pay attention. Because I don't do numbers very well. I mean even the lowest ISO setting is 10 times higher than the amount of fingers I have (at least that's what my calculator says).

Will I master the prosumer dSLR? Or am I only suited for point-and-shoot/auto mode forever?