I’m still new to the whole photography thing – especially using my Canon.
But the fog was especially thick one morning late last week and after I fed the baby, washed a hundred loads of clothes, cooked breakfast, changed 150 diapers and started lunch I noticed just how foggy it was.
The colors in these photos are just so …. different. Richer, deeper. Just…. MORE.
All of these shots are straight-out-of-camera. I didn’t do any contrast enhancement or boosting the saturation or anything.
I wanted to go pull the girls out of school and make them pose but I thought the school might frown upon that. So I took a picture of their teepee instead.
(That’s my GOOD slipcover on those poles, by the way. Can you guess whose idea that was? Betcha can.)
The fog also made the mistletoe really stand out.
I love mistletoe.
I plan on asking the Cotton Husband to shoot some down for me after Thanksgiving.
Speaking of which… I am hosting this year. For the first time ever. Tips? Hints? Offers of refuge if I simply decide to run away?
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wow, mistletoe – I don’t think I’ve ever seen that growing before. And you shoot it down? this is all news to me.
I don’t think I ever did hear where YOUR peanuts end up going? Jiffy Peanut Butter? Texas Roadhouse to munch on?
Carin,
It’s up so high in the trees that there is no other way to get it – and my aim isn’t that great!
Our peanuts go to a peanut buyer (actually the same guy we buy seed peanuts from). There the peanuts are graded. Depending upon the grade, they can be used for anything from Roasted-In-The-Shell peanuts, to peanut butter, to seed peanuts. Hopefully, ours all went to be roasted!
- Jennifer
Shooting mistletoe….that’s a first. TeeHeeHee.
Does this mean that if you just stand under the tree . . . ?
Mistletoe? Oh how I would love to see that!!! Hint. Hint.
Good luck on Turkey Day. I’ve never hosted before, so I am not helpful.
Gorgeous photos, love the fog. Sorry about the slipcover though. lol
I love that you can have cotton husband shoot the mistletoe down. hehe
So that’s how where you get mistletoe? I just learned something new, very cool!
On Thanksgiving hosting…its been a few years since I hosted Thanksgiving-somehow it worked out but the planning I did is no longer in my brain. But I did learn from the last holiday I hosted (Easter) that lists and schedules are fabulous. I figured out which dishes I could prepare in advance, wrote down exactly when/what day to do those. Then made a schedule of Easter morning-when to put each item in the oven, on the stove, etc., which bowl and spoon I was using for each thing and so on. Even I was amazed at how smoothly it went! Of course I didn’t have 3 kids to wrangle either…that might throw a hitch in your planning.
Mistletoe in the tree! I didn’t know that. Interesting.
Can’t help you with the Thanksgiving part, sorry!
I think I am about 4-5 hours away…but get your butt up here…we can go out to eat! ( And leave all my family sitting around the table, looking at each other and asking each other if any one of them knows how to turn on the oven so they can make a frozen pizza!) ha he he That would be a hoot! Or I could just suck it up and cook like I do EVERY Thanksgiving, because evidently, none of my cousins, aunts and etc. relatives know how to cook either! Breathe, Judi, breathe, this is a non issue and you working through it! Oops, sorry for that little vent…I’m calm now. Please come up and we will go out to eat, my treat!
Sounds like a plan, Judi!
- Jennifer
Mistletoe is real?!?! And you have it growing in your trees?! Good thing that doesn’t happen here. We would never get any work done with all the kissing that would be going on.