Photography Challenge

I saw this on Pinterest from this website and wanted to try it to get me practicing photography. The challenge on the blog was for the 30 days of June, but since it is a little late for that, I am going to start today in honor of turning 30. Then I think it would be cool to do again next year and hopefully see my improvement.

Photography workshop

Today I had the pleasure of taking a photography workshop to finally learn how to use my camera better. I can now use it off the Auto setting! Hooray! Hopefully with more practice I will be able to do beautiful portraits of my kids (and my friends and families and their kids)! I am excited to get more practice if anyone wants to invite me over :) Trevor Dayley is the photographer who taught the class. Check out his site to see his beautiful work. After learning a few things we were able to shoot a lovely model and I got a couple decent shots. I am just happy I finally understand shutter speed and apeture!

The model is Nicole . Apparently, she is amazing in front of, and behind the camera! Now I just need a 50mm lens and some decent editing software!

Artsy Fartsy

So, I used to love art and drawing. I haven't really kept up with it, but would like to do much more with it and take a painting class. I would love to make art for nursery decor and possibly custom simplified portraits. Here is a rough one I did of my cousins son Sam. I would like to do colored ones in the future. Like I said this was just a quick, rough one, trying out my drawing after a long, long break. What do you think.
Here's the photo.

Here's the "portrait".