March 15

 

My daughter and my husband. Love how this turned out.. even though it's just a snapshot.

March 12

Prom Pictures taken Saturday March 10. These are friends of my daughter. Her best friend is in the blue dress.. she looked gorgeous!

March 3rd-

I'm a little behind. It's been crazy here!

This photo was taken on Saturday during the ROTC State competition. This is the Unarmed Exhibition Team that my daughter is on. She's on the bottom row, far right.

They did so well! They placed 5th overall out of 27 schools in the state. Not bad for a 4th year program!

I'll be back..

It's been a rough week. Sorry I haven't posted. Life should slow down this weekend and I'll have some photos to post.

Don't give up on me!

Feb 24

These are some photos were taken at the ROTC competition today.

The first photos is my daughter during personal inspection. The inspector actually brought out a ruler to make sure her ranks and pins were properly placed and aligned.

The 2nd photo is my daughter carrying the guide for the basic drill team.

The 3rd picture is my daughter during the unarmed exhibition routine.

Our school placed 1st overall out of 20 high school ROTC units from all over the state of Florida. I am sooooooo proud of them. Kristina( DD) has been in ROTC for 3 years and we are hoping she will be the commander of the entire battalion next year. She's worked very hard and is very dedicated to ROTC.

Feb 23

Just a snapshot from last night. My daughter is in ROTC and we had a competition today. Every time we compete, we spend the night in the high school gym. Took this picture of my daughter.

Feb 21

Feb 20

Feb 19

This is the Gasparilla Pirate Boat. Our city has a local celebration each February with a parade and pirate invasion. It's a lot of fun! This is the pirate ship that docks in downtown Tampa and lets all the pirates off to take over the city for a day.

you can read more information at http://www.gasparillapiratefest.com/

Feb 18

Our Marine...

Came home for the weekend. It was so nice to get to spend time with him. I miss him so much.

Feb 17

Feb 16

Catching up.. I missed this weekend. First time since we started :(

Oh well.. I'm catching back up... Took these over the weekend. I did such a stupid thing. FORGOT TO CHECK MY ISO! It was a totally beautiful day and I forgot to change my ISO back to 200.. so all the photos I took on Saturday were at 1600! UGH UGH UGH!!
I had to run noiseware on all of them to fix them to atleast look half way decent.

No other processing done to these other than running noiseware.

Feb 15

This week has been a rough one... I haven't had a chance yet to do the theme photo of the week. I just started a new full time job and I'm trying to acclimate myself to a new schedule and get used to working outside of the home for the first time in 3 years.

This photo is from a photo shoot I did last sunday. SOOC.. haven't had time to proof them all yet. I loved this little girls dress and the flowers.. all she wanted to do was pick and eat them!

Thanks for looking!

Feb 14

Feb 13

Feb 12

This isn't following with the theme.. but hopefully I'll get to the theme tomorrow or Wednesday.

I took this at the downtown Marriot Hotel yesterday. I loved the huge palm trees that were in the lobby and the light coming in from the second level windows..

Feb 11

Today I went to the University of South Florida's Botanical Gardens. They had this awesome Orchid Room. These are three different types of Orchids that I took pictures of while visiting.

Manual| ISO 200 | Ap 2.8 and 4.0 | SS 1/60 and 1/90

Feb 10

This huge tree is in my parent's yard. I have no idea what kind it is..but it's got to be in the pine tree family. Does this count as a botanical??? LOL

Feb 9

Today I set out to take some more photos of botanicals in my yard. The second photo is another azalea... I have so many different types of azaleas I can't keep track!

The first photo.. I have no idea what it's called.. I call it a holly berry tree. Reminds me of Christmas Holly. I'm sure that's not the actual name of this plant. Anyone know?

Feb 8

I really liked the shadows in the pictures I took here.