The faces of family

This weekend my grandpa threw himself an 80th birthday party.  pretty much all but 3 people came to it, and it was an awesome weekend. I wish I could show you pictures of the capture the flag game, but i was too busy helping the cousins beat the old people. 3 games in a row.  Life is good.

However, I have become known as the person who takes pictures, it is what I do at these things, so I did get lots of faces to share. I love these people…

I could post about 20 more, but until I figure out how to build storyboards (that is what they are called, yes?) I will leave you with these.  Not spectacular pictures, but they make me happy, because spending time with these people makes me happy.  Grandpa did a good job with his family.

  I think he enjoyed his party.

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The end of the driveway.

I am a Kansas girl. Who lives on a farm.  Want to know what Kansas girls who live on farms see lots of this time of year?

There is a reason we are called the Sunflower state.  There is huge pile of these growing at the end of our cattle road, and I drove down there after work on Tuesday to take some pictures.  The morning light was awesome.  My  photography class officially moved me into the realms of Manual, off of program where I have been quite comfortable for the last year, so there weren’t quite as many expecting good ones as I was expecting.  I blew out a lot of color, (so I guess I needed a faster shutter speed for less light? that is what I did with the picture above, but then turned it right back down…) but I love them just the same.

I love the contrast of the bright pretty flowers with the rusty barbed wire.

I haven’t played around with textures for a while, so I added some here.  I like it…

What I really want to do is go to the field a couple miles up from our place and sneak around in their pasture, it has all sorts of fall colors going, but I am leery of doing that.  Kansas girls who live on farms also see lots of steers, and I am not overly fond of being chased, so these will have to do.

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My Choice…

Favorite pictures of the week:

She loved the dress, the giant diamond ring, and all the attention every single one of her 31 older family members present gave her.(it was the first time we had all been together since before her time) She rocked the flower-girl job :)

My favorite picture from the photography class I started yesterday:

I have no clue what this is.  My teacher said it reminded him of a brain, and it does.  It was fuzzy, as well.  Weird.  Pretty, but weird.