During a day of spring cleaning, the kids manage to find time for a game of Jenga.
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Archive for August, 2008
Shoot, now the adults have to get out of bed early again! I took off work a little early so I could go with Leah to see them off on yet another year. No tears this time…honest (ok, . But it did remind us of how they are growing up so quick.
Taken a few days ago. Pretty alert for a 2 month old.
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2.5 months
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We headed to school today for Katie and Cameron to meet their new teachers. They had a picnic afterwards to socialize a bit. Cameron was happy to see his kindergarten teacher, Ms Fox, from last year. Katie nearly knows every single faculty member there, so she got lots of waves and hugs.
Starting at this same school back in 2004, Katie will have gone her complete elementary school tenure here. It will be a big day when she moves on to middle school.
As a side note, I somehow managed to take only one descent shot. And that was of Cameron giving his new teacher a big handshake. We were in and out of Katie’s class pretty quick and I didn’t even stop to think about taking pictures out side at the picnic. *sigh*
No cavaties, and new teethare looking perfect! Good job katie!
Got up around 2am this morning to go and watch for meteors. Really, we were already up since we were watching the Olympics live. We got a tip from some friends that early this morning (right after the moon set) is when the Perseids meteor shower would be at its peak. All the kids were remarkably easy to load up in the car and they were all (except Isaac) able to see their first meteors go flying by! Not bad for our first attempt at actually going out to see them.
I even managed to get a picture of one of the meteors. Its not the best shot, but if you look in the upper right hand corner of the picture, you can see the streak going across the sky. In the middle of the picture is the Little Dipper, and at the bottom is light from a major thunderstorm occurring over the Kansas plains. You’ll most likely have to open the full size version of the picture to see it. Click HERE for that full size image.
Even though we headed out away from the lights and were over 20+ miles from the city, there was still a lot of light pollution. Another hour east would have made things spectacular, but considering the kids and the lack of planning, we were all very happy with the results.
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Took this just a few minutes ago. Having quite a bit of a storm at the minute. This is called an HDR (High Dynamic Range) image. You create this type of image by taking multiple shots of the same scene, with different exposures, and then combining them and applying tone mapping scenarios. Read here if you want to learn more. Photoshop can take care of this processing for you, but there are many others out there that do a better job. If your on a mac, I highly recommend QTPFSGUI. It’s open source (free) software that does a great job.
And now….for the image!
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