This is a great month for me! I’ve had so much going on and so much coming up!

I will be shooting products for a company that currently sells their products in home improvement stores (Lowe’s, Home Depot, Ace Hardware) and they are changing and updating their advertising and planning on using my photos in their advertising brochures, marketing materials, website, and their in-store displays! So I might be taking a few trips to Lowe’s if that’s the case 😀

In the next couple of weeks I should have some of my work published in an online industry magazine which I just shot today . . .

and we have a new addition for the house which is a Surprise that Gary doesn’t know about yet!

So I can’t tell you what it is. And no commenting about it if I have already told you about it!

I’ll be taking a trip to the mountains soon, and we have plans to visit the Biltmore Estate while we are there, and I have never been yet, so really looking forward to that . . .

SO check back soon for more updates and photos!

I haven’t seen the movie Transformers yet, but when Gary and I were at Walmart, he found me a transformers camera and it’s so much fun to convert him back and forth. He’s cute 🙂 and we are going to see the movie with some of my friends soon.  I hear it’s really good!

For some reason I had a craving for haystacks, which I had in second grade, so I found a recipe online and made it last night. They are so yummy, I was afraid it was going to be one of those “I liked it when I was a kid” kind of things. Here is the recipe I tried (the recipe from cooks.com)

Last Sunday, Gary made chili in the crock pot and it was just so pretty I had to take a picture (it was really yummy too!)

My friend Adrienne and I went shooting for a bit this evening before going to Sushi-Tai and followed by Dairy Queen 🙂

I like to try different things when I shoot, and I liked the way this turned out:

Just got back from picking my car up from Just Tires.  Now my car doesn’t rumble when I drive (the rear tire had a broken belt).  Got a new alternator last Sunday, and a new battery on the 4th.  Oh, and just filled it up with gas and got a car wash.  Super! 😀

What are your plans?
Here is what Wikipedia has to say on Independence Day in the US.

I don’t think we will be doing anything or going anywhere. It’s usually too hot to go see fireworks, but if you are going to see the fireworks and taking some pictures, here are a few tips:

• Shoot at a low ISO (50 or 100)
• Use a tripod
• Try f 5.6 or 8 aperture
• A slower shutter speed (between 1 and 4 seconds) but not too slow or your fireworks might get washed out

I had some pictures of fireworks I took several years ago with my point and shoot at the time but I might not have saved them since I didn’t have a tripod and had only my knee to rest the camera on, so they were good photos, just a little blurry.

Show me your pictures if you take some!
You can leave a link in a comment to this post, or if I know you personally, you can show me later 🙂

Be Safe!

This was interesting. An SUV completely flipped over . . .