Don't Touch that SLR!

The awesome ladies at Two Photogs are having another great photo contest!  This time is it all about shooting without your DSLR camera.   Below are my three entries!!!

The mares and colts in the Steel Tank pasture. Taken with my Nikon Coolpix.

 
A day at the park with Eleck and Bryce.  I only had my Nikon CoolPix with me that day and it took me multiple tries to actually capture him jumping!

Another one from our day at the park!

The girls...

These heifers are some of the most important "girls" on the ranch.  When they hear the feed wagon they start runnin' or as Eleck says "here comes the stampede".

The Chow Line

Lovin' ranch life!

I was playing with the settings on my camera and used a 50mm 1.4 lens and turned the aperture way down.  In PS I used an action called "dim the lights" three times and got this image...a little different but fun!

The boys

Complete angels!

I Love this family - Capitan Family Photographer

I got to spend New Year's Day afternoon with the funniest family!  We had a wonderful time and learned a lot of great jokes!  Thanks to all of you!

I hope you enjoy the sneak peek!

 

Thank you all for spending the afternoon with me, I had a great time!

Lady & a Horse - Capitan Family Photographer

In my hunt for volunteers to build my photography business Miss Staci volunteered, boy did we have fun!  She even brought Money along for the shoot.  Thank you Staci for braving the freezing cold and arriving in the early morning hours!  

Stacie you are an EXCEPTIONAL young woman and I know that you will succeed at whatever you put your mind to.  I look forward to seeing how you will impact the world. 

 

Stones Chelsea

The newest addition to the Stone family.  Though we were planning on waiting a while to get another dog, Chelsea, just was too good to pass up, she is even registered with the AKC...not sure if we are ready to get into raising dogs but we are excited to have her!

Welcome to the family sweet Chelsea!  We already love you!

Happy New Year!

At the last possible minute we decided to attend the New Year's Eve party at the Carrizozo Country Club.  We all had a fantastic time!   There were so many beautiful children and people there that I should have taken more photos.  Below are a few that I did snap!  

Welcome to 2010

My sweet Eleck was scared of the other kids at first and just watched them play...that only lasted a few minutes! 

Bryce loved watching the excitement from the comfort of Poppy's lap.

Samantha is Bryce's new friend, she is five months older and an absolute doll,  I loved taking her picture.

She did eventually smile for the camera! 

The rest of the shots were mostly candids as I don't think people knew what to do with a camera at the New Year's celebration!

Beautiful Mrs. Ferguson

The Cooper gals!  Gorgeous!

Mr. Cooper doesn't like the camera

Poppy and his Grandsons

 
 The boys new friend!