Shooting Blanks! - Part One

I have elected to write this in two parts. First the nice kind and G rated part for all the people that were at the event that were so sweet and nice.

So about a month ago I participated in The Shoot Shop. It was to learn how to use my fancy digital camera.

Anyway this was conducted by some REALLY NICE ladies. Trust me people I was keeping my mouth shut these were good people I didn't want to spontaneously combust and damage her lovely home. I won the chance to go to this event FOR FREE! though Arkansas Women Bloggers. I was shocked and amazed that I won, since I usually win nothing as evidenced by the $540 million power ball that I didn't win either.

Okay so the teachers were Ruthanne from eclectic what not and Melissa from Melissa Stover Photography and A Familiar Path. There were a total of seven people there, and they were all church going, home schooling ladies, well except for one who was a high school junior being home schooled.

Lovely well decorated home! 

Nice people! There are some not in this shot because my group
shot was BAD, and they were too nice to post a bad photo.

I know one of the other attendees is a blogger, so I have linked to all their posts about their experiences at the event.

See pretty flowers at the farm! 

See them all here!

Ruthanne
Melissa
Emily

I can now say that I can take a picture that is actually worth looking at, and I tried to take some since I don't want to forget what I learned. 1,2,3: ISO, APERTURE, SHUTTER SPEED!

Even growing on the wagon wheel

I used to take tons of pictures in the automatic mode of my camera and I threw away about 75% of them and was vaguely satisfied with the rest.

NOW... I take just as many photos and I only throw away about 50% usually because of slow shutter speed and the picture is all fuzzy. However the rest of them are usable and I actually LIKE them!

My wish of a winter was lost therefore all this still exists!

I just want to say thank you to all the ladies that were there for lowering themselves to association with the like of me. I also would like to thank Arkansas Women Bloggers for sending me I learned TONS but I can't promise I will use my new powers for good. Lastly THANK YOU to Ruthanne and Melissa, you were so nice and easy to understand.

YEAH!

Now for the rest of this post I will go back to my normal ways. Hope you enjoyed these pictures since this was likely to be the last of using my new powers for good.

Loved this flower and Roadie's mom does too!