Friday, July 30, 2010

Far too many photos…

Day 2 of my new camera. We went to 2 parks, and I took about 500 photos!

I have culled them, down to 82… but to be honest, I can’t be borthered to cull them further… So here’s my 82 favourites! (sorry about that…. I promise to only show the very best next time)

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The second park..

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Then a little break from all that playing for some lunch…

See the park behind Ben. It was flooded (which is why they spent to much time playing on the grass and in the tree)tn_IMG_0747

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We had a great morning at the park, and I had heaps of fun playing with my new camera :)

I look forward to experimenting with the manual controls of the camera. About 80-90% of the above photos were taken in auto mode.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

NEW Camera!

We have been thinking about buying a new camera for some time now. Today, we bought one!!

We got a Canon EOS 550D – It’s a digital SLR…. and I LOVE IT!!

Below are a few random photos we took this afternoon with the new camera. Unfortunately it was a rainy day, so we couldn’t get as many outdoor photos as we would have liked…. Anyway, here they are! tn_IMG_0021 tn_IMG_0026 tn_IMG_0038  tn_IMG_0057 tn_IMG_0056tn_IMG_0061 tn_IMG_0062 tn_IMG_0069 tn_IMG_0072 tn_IMG_0109 tn_IMG_0119 tn_IMG_0139 tn_IMG_0153 tn_IMG_0159 tn_IMG_0167 tn_IMG_0173 tn_IMG_0174 tn_IMG_0202 tn_IMG_0209 tn_IMG_0212 tn_IMG_0214 tn_IMG_0237 tn_IMG_0247 tn_IMG_0266 tn_IMG_0311 tn_IMG_0314 tn_IMG_0319 tn_IMG_0322 tn_IMG_0323 tn_IMG_0352 tn_IMG_0372 tn_IMG_0373 tn_IMG_0378 tn_IMG_0403 tn_IMG_0406 tn_IMG_0419 tn_IMG_0428

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

iPhone videos

Here’s a few videos uploaded from my iPhone.

 

The video below is taken at our local shopping centre. We sat down to have a coffee, and the boys had fun playing as we relaxed. In the video, Both boys say a few things, but it may not be too clear when Ben says “fall down” to Ethan. He is asking Ethan to fall down the back of the seat. When the phone/camera points to them, they both say “cheese” – as they think I’m taking a photo.

In the video below, we are playing a game to help the boys learn colours. We say a colour, and they are supposed to run to the correct coloured tile. In this video Ethan gets distracted by the fact that he hears a garbage truck coming up the street. Late in the video, Ben also says some colours

In the next video I am trying to get Ethan to show off his counting skills. On a good day Ethan can count to 9. In this video he counts to 6, then starts organising the chalk and talking about the colours!

In the next video a joint effort of Ethan, Ben and Mummy gets us to 10! Ethan is doing most of the counting.

In the next video the boys are standing at the front door watching the garbage truck. Conversation is as follows…

Ethan: Oh beeping outside, beep outside, beep, beeping outside

Mummy: What are you two doing?

Ethan: See garbage truck

Mummy: See garbage truck?

Ben: Smoke come out, smoke come out

Mummy: There’s smoke coming out of the garbage truck?

Ben: Yes

Mummy: Oh good

Ethan: Coming out here (then i’m not sure what the other mumble is)

Ethan: Cheeeeeeeeeeeese

Mummy: It’s not, It’s not a picture it’s a video

Ethan: video

Mummy: yeah

Ben: I wanna see

Ethan: Video

Ben: I want see

Ben: Video, video

Mummy: Yeah, video….. you have to go in it though

And finally, my little musician. Ben is singing and playing his guitar. In the background Ethan is saying “Ben sing, Ben sing”. Ben picked up his guitar and sung like this without any prompting from us….. he just did it him self! Too cute!

That’s all for now. Hope the quality is ok, it looks ok on my screen. I love my new iPhone!!!!