This has been the snowiest year we have had in the five winters we've lived down the shore in Barnegat. This morning we woke to a light snow that flocked the garden and the trees to make it look like a fairy tale.
Just playing around with converting some of my favorite shots of the Ocean Grove Pier to black and white. Used channel mixer and lots of contrast.
Rachel began swimming competitively for the first time this year for Barnegat High School. She swims Individual Medley, Butterfly, Breast Stroke, and Back Stroke as well as freestyle. She is carrying on a family tradition as her dad swam all through High School and her Pop Pop Snell did too.
My friend Michael Paulison is a Photoshop wizard who added some glamorous treatment to a photo of my friends and I. You can see more of his wonderful photography at http://www.paulison.com
You can run, but you can't hide Denise!
If looks could kill, I would definitely be dead now!!!
We had a small neighborhood party for New Year's Eve and I brought my camera to get some fun portraits with my new diffuser for my flash.
Kim and Dave
We call this the Christmas room. It is our family room, but we hardly use it except at Christmastime. It is a great place for my Santa collection. My mom made all of the ceramic Santas; she poured the molds, painted, and fired them in her own kiln. They are definitely one of my treasures from her. There are many homemade ornaments on the tree including many that the kids made with their photos included.
This glass ornament of a bunch of grapes was on my grandma Snell's first Christmas tree. She married my grandfather on Christmas Day 1929 so the ornament is 80 years old. It has the note from grandma attached - she labeled everything important for us before she passed.
