Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Snow at Our House

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.
































Zach decided to make a few snow angels after shoveling for awhile.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Ocean Grove Pier in Black and White

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.





















Sunday, January 24, 2010

Rachel the Swimmer

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.











You can see more photos from the rest of the team HERE.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Glamour Girls

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

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Denise loves to have her picture taken...

You can run, but you can't hide Denise!

If looks could kill, I would definitely be dead now!!!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year 2010!

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.


































Rachel and Tara got dressed up for their party and they looked beautiful.







David smiled for me but his sister hid so I couldn't get any of Jess.
















Ingie and Kim were all smiles.



And so was Ben. This was before we played Apples to Apples and he wasn't
too happy with my judgment on one of his answers...



















We finally got Denise in some photos, even though she started off the evening hiding from me behind her phone, her hands, and a dish towel!














Zach took this photo of all of the girls in front of the tree.

Kim and Dave

















Ben and Ingie


And here is Buddy who thinks he is a lap dog. He is a cutie but still very rambunctious as he just had his first birthday.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Our Christmas Treasures

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 Santa ball was my first ornament when I was a month old in 1962.


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.

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