Fun With Friends...and My New Camera!

We had another playdate with our good friends down in Redondo Beach last week and we had a great time.  Not only do the kids have fun playing and eating together, the mamas have fun too!  I truly wish we lived closer and could just drop in and visit instead of having to plan and drive.  But it is great to see them so much more than we did when they were in NY!  Adelaide was Sophia's first friend and was born just 7 weeks after Sophia, and Lucas is almost exactly a month younger than Ellie.  It's been so fun to watch them grow, compare notes and see them discover each other as playmates!

  

I brought my camera this trip and actually took some photos, which was exciting!  I got an amazing SLR camera for Christmas and have been having so much fun taking photos of the kids.  It takes great photos and is so much better than my old digital, which has a delay, so by the time the camera takes the picture, the kids are no longer doing that adorable thing they were just doing, and forget about asking them to do it again!!  So needless to say I have taken nearly over 2,000 pics since I got my camera in December!!  I am now starting to play with different setting and have discovered a fun website where you can edit photos and create collages for printing or for blogging!  So I have had some fun with the pictures I took of the kids last week.  I used the sports setting on my camera, which is designed to take actions shots - perfect for kiddos running around playing!  

In these photos, the sports setting was amazing, it caught the ball in mid air as Sophia threw it to Addie.  I had it on rapid fire, so I got a great series of them playing catch!

I had fun playing with the focus, and adding different effects and colors to the pictures.  On most of these I softened the focus and enhanced the colors.  I LOVE this one of Addie in action!  

It was a beautiful day, one of those days that make you forget that it is still WINTER because it is so sunny, warm and pleasant out.  It's great watching kids play, all they need is a ball and some room to play!