New Camera!

We finally did buy a fancy new camera. One of Chris's current coworkers let us borrow his Nikon D40 to try it out before buying. I had so much fun trying to take pictures of the kids. I also spent too much time taking pictures of random objects like the mini Christmas tree we have out. I would take a picture, change some setting, take another picture, compare pictures, change settings, take a picture, etc. Since the coworker was going to sell the camera on eBay, we went ahead and bought it.

The lens was lent to us along with the camera but had to be returned. I spend a lot of time trying to research which lens to buy and ended up getting the same one we used. I thought I wanted zoom but ended up getting a 35 mm, which should work well for the pictures of the kids. I already posted a bunch with taken with the sprinkler ball.

Here are a few of my favorites so far.

I really need to work on getting the camera level instead of slightly tilted.

I also need to be careful of focusing on Josie's face and not the hair that is a few inches closer.

That's right, lots of curly hair pictures.

Practicing bowling.

I forget what was happening but this was definitely an action shot.

This is the look he has when asking for a Nintendo DS but before I tell him no.