Thanksgiving was good and got some photo work done around the 'Little North Santiam River' while we spent a few days at a lodge that my spouse's employer owns. Went with another family so we had two sets of parents and three crazy girls all together! That pretty much wound up the end of November and since have been just doing the regular day gig (govt. work) and making it through the day.
December and we have been pretty busy it seems? Most weekends something is going on and getting Christmas shopping done and things mailed to family that lives in other states, etc. Where does the time go? We have currently turned into a regular winter location in Salem, Oregon and have daytime temps in the upper 20's and some SNOW! Which is melting a little bit and turning to ICE! I actually got out on my snowboard (Sunday Evening) and made a few turns on our street with minimal scrapping on the pavement below. Pretty exciting!
I added in a shot as I was toying around with a camera and a candle holder we have. Our daughter had gathered the leaves and they fit between to cylinders of glass and then use a tea candle on the inside. I was playing with different shutter speeds and also using "bulb" mode so I could manually control the shutter with a shutter release cable. I actually shot this photo using "Raw" and then did some work and converted to the easy to use 'x.jpg' format. With Cropping, etc I have made the file pretty small overall, saves space. I thought it was kind of cool and hope you enjoy it!
Thanks for reading - Tim
