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Baby A started eating his first veggie this week, butternut squash.  He likes to hold the spoon himself and grabs it out of my hand.  It makes for a messy meal, but cute photos.

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12/365 Self Portrait

First self portrait.  I think I might wait until I have a remote for next time.

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11/365 Enjoying Fall

Today D and I went outside to play in the leaves while Baby A was napping.  We're supposed to have snow flurries tomorrow!

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10/365 Playing with light

Today I was working on a photo book and discovered my photos have been uploading at 72 dpi, not 300.  After some googling, I ended up really confused but convinced that I need to convert my photos to 300 dpi.  I have been using Windows Live Photo Gallery for my editing, and converting to 300dpi does not appear to be possible with this program.  I also have Corel Paint Shop Pro, which came on our computer, and figured out how to do it in that program but then lost my shooting settings (f stop etc).  At least I hadn't deleted this image after importing it like usual so I got it off my card in camera.

I have been back and forth about the Corel software.  I realize it will probably do everything Photoshop does, but I am intimidated to learn it since no one uses it and it seems so much easier to get Lightroom or Elements or something that has a ton of tutorials on Clickitupanotch.com and Pinterest.   Anyhow, I just got myself all confused and frustrated over the DPI thing and worried about how my photos may print.  So if anyone has some insight and would like to have a discussion on this, I'm game!  Also, I would welcome any opinions on editing software.

So, after all that I still didn't havea photo for today, and I snapped this quick photo in the backyard just before the sun went down.  My focus and composition are lacking big time, but I was mainly concentrating on the lighting (and getting a photo in for today ;-)

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9/365 Pumpkin Farm

Today made up for yesterday's photo. We went to the pumpkin farm and had a few shots I really like so I couldn't decide.  Since I got my camera in October, I've mostly used it inside since it's getting cooler and today was a great chance for me to shoot in more sun than I'm used to.  We got there right at about 12:30 and I had a really hard time at first and got a lot of flat, overexposed, harsh images, but by the time we left about 1:45ish the sun was just low enough to get some better shots, especially with the sun peeking out from behind the barn.

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I've been thinking since starting this blog that I need a picture of myself and today I started to attempt a self portrait.  It did not go very well and I did not have enought time to really devote to it today, but I will keep trying.  So, I didn't get a picture until tonight.  I took some photos of D in the bathtub playing and baby A eating dinner, but I had a bit of a hard time choosing because none were that great. In fact, most were downright boring snapshots.  I tried to think of a unique angle, etc, but I mostly just had sort of an uninspired day.  And, since all the photos were inside at night I had to set a custom white balance using a white piece of paper (An expodisc is on my Christmas list, but I don't have a gray card or a camera with a Kelvin option) and sometimes came out pretty wonky so I had to edit each one.

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