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These sweet little baby birds were part of our engagement shoot. When you pull them apart they say "Mwah! I love you!" I gave the love birds to M a couple of years ago for Valentine's day. We keep them on the shelf, in front of a hand drawn photo of a San Francisco cable car. Every time I look at them, I can't help but smile and reminisce.
Once again, I am feeling tired and overwhelmed. It seems like the older I get, the harder it is to go days without much sleep. Sadly, I've been having coffee EVERYDAY! I hope I don't become addicted to caffeine!
Tonight will be another late night. It's M's grandfather's birthday. While I don't like giving up sleep (especially when it means that I will be driving late at night), at least I will get to see M and spend some time with him.
I came across this photo of M and I from Santa Barbara. I love M; he's so cute!
Here are some photos from our lovely Santa Barbara visit that we took about a week ago:
The courthous there was gorgeous, and so were the views from the top! [M and I have put it on our list of possible places to get married.]
Dear M,
I hope you enjoy your birthday as much as I have enjoyed you. Wishing you many more years as great as the last! I'm looking forward to celebrating each and every birthday together and growing old with you.
Love,
Your Greeky
I have vanilla and chocolate cupcakes baking in the oven as I type this. M's apartment has been decorated with colorful paper for his birthday. Although technically his birthday is not until Friday, we're celebrating it together ahead of time. We will spend Friday through Sunday with his family in Santa Barbara celebrating with them. [I always like to do something special with just the two of us, so that's what this is all about!]
I woke up this morning with my alarm waking me up during a great dream. I was dreaming about the photoshoot that a friend did for us. I have to admit, I had a "I'm in Cancun with Cindy" moment. [If you don't know what I'm referring to, you must click on the link and listen to the Dane Cook joke!] I just wanted to go back into that dream where M and I were having fun and joking around with Christy and her husband while taking photos.
Here's to another beautiful (and busy) day! 1 more day until Friday!!
M asked if I could accompany him today to take some photos that he needs for work. I see it as getting to dress up, play with my cameras and spend time with my love. Of course I said yes!
This week has come to a quick end. I start teaching third grade on Monday. While I have definitely caught up on sleep, I am sad that my time with M has once again come to an end. I can't wait until we live close together again. These long distances are rough.
I went out on a photo shoot yesterday with the same people who did a shoot for M and I. (See photo above.) I have yet to upload my pictures, but I had such a fantastic time with them. I learned so much more about photography that I knew before!
I have to be in the first grade classroom in about 15 minutes, so I better head out. Here's to finishing the quarter off strong! 4 days (including today) and counting!!
Ready, set, GO!
M spent the past weekend with me even though I was gone for more than half of it. I had to get up at 6:30am the last three days to babysit. I also tutored on Saturday afternoon and Monday afternoon.
M and I did find some time on Sunday to walk around Newport Beach for an hour or so. [We took some pictures in a photo booth and I lost two games of ski ball to M!] M and I also walked around and took some photos together outside. I had my little point-and-shoot camera, as usual, but also brought along my old Sony DSC-F828.
I've had the Sony F828 since 2003. It's only 8 mega-pixels and somehow manages to take better photos than my 12 MP Nikon S630 (bought in 2009) point-and-shoot.
Here is a good example of what I'm talking about. The first two photos were taken with the Nikon S630 with two different settings to try and get the background to show up.
Notice how the background is overexposed in both of those first two photos? Below is the Sony F828 photo. The colors are better and you can see the background. Clearly a big difference!
I didn't actually plan to compare the cameras, it just ended up happening when the first photos with the point-and-shoot didn't come out well. Otherwise, I would have brought my other Nikon to compare. I just so happened to have those two on my because I use them to take photos and video in the first grade classroom.
It's crazy that a camera that is 6 years OLDER with fewer mega-pixels would take better photos than one with newer technology! What I love about the Sony F828 is that I can always rely on it to take good photos. Because of it's age, it is the camera that I can take everywhere (including on vacations) and don't have to worry about. It's never failed me; night time, day time, low light, bright light ... this camera does an awesome job.
