Dairy Days....which turned into the Idaho Aquarium

This week was Dairy Days, and Carter has been talking about that parade for weeks now! That kid LOVES parades. So we told him earlier in the week that we would head to the parade and then do the carnival rides afterwards.  Little did we know, the carnival would be shut down for failing to pass an electrical inspection. So we were in a bind........we didn't know the carnival would be shut down all weekend, so we told Carter we would come back Saturday when the rides were fixed. Fail. The carnival was, in fact, shut down all weekend. So I had to find something else fun for the kids. We opted for the Idaho Aquarium simply because we hadn't been there before, and it was inside with air conditioning.  Here are the pictures from the parade and the aquarium.

 Naturally, with any sort of fair/carnival, corn dogs are a must!

 This girl LOVES corn dogs.

 Vroom, vroom! My favorite part of the parade is the Corvette Club!

The Idaho Aquarium is actually pretty cool, though admission is overpriced. But it was really fun to explore with Carter!

 I ended up buying some fish so that Carter and Eric could feed the sting rays and baby sharks.

One of the sting rays was incredibly friendly - even trying to "climb" the wall so it could be pet by people. What a ham!

Project 52: Week Twenty-Three {season}

End of spring, beginning of summer. Season. Flowers blooming. The bugs have come out. This isn't the best picture I have ever taken, but it's SOOC (straight out of camera). Nothing done to it, no editing, period. Pretty sweet......especially given the fact that it was taken at 9:30 at night at my ISO was only set to 800. I'm loving that.

Winner, Winner!

Yesterday, I was contacted by the person I have been working with at the Idaho State Bar for my scenic Idaho photo covers. He informed me that my cover for last year's February issue, Redfish Lake, had won an award for cover of the year for 2011. How exciting! I'm not sure, yet, what all comes with this award, but I will be sure to let you know!

As a reminder, here's the cover from last February:

In case you are interested, here is a link to The Advocate online, where you can browse past covers. http://isb.idaho.gov/member_services/advocate/advocate_online.html

The {T} Family Shoot

I had a short and sweet shoot with a family last weekend. The parents decided to stay out of the photos, so I only got group and individual shots of the kids. Here are three of my faves from the shoot:

My Second Published Cover

The Advocate contacted me again a while back, wanting to use another one of my scenic photos for the cover of their June/July edition. They made some very minor changes to my original - meaning, they cropped and boosted the contrast. The cropping is something they have to do for the image to fit within the cover of the magazine - though I'm not entirely thrilled with what they did. They cropped in too much, in my opinion, because it turned the otherwise sharp dragonfly a little fuzzy. But other than that minor issue, I'm really pleased with the cover!

Project 52: Week Twenty-Two {yellow}

Last week's theme was "yellow", and these yellow items have been making a regular appearance at our dinner table lately.