Wow. How is it already Thursday again? It's been a whirlwind of a week. But I still made sure to take some pictures for You Capture, because it's just so fun. And this week we had to themes, Silence and Halloween, so that made thing even more interesting. If you'd...
Orange is all around us
The theme for You Capture this week was a bit more abstract than most of the others I've participated in. The assignment simply read: "ORANGE." Now these topics are free for interpretation and I did consider grabbing a bunch of oranges and tangerines and shooting...
Capturing animals among us
This week's assignment for You Capture was animals. Since I share photos of Ayla and our cats all the time, I didn't want to share the same old stuff...and with very little effort, we managed to be in the right place at the right time to get some great animal...
Happy about the start of fall
This week I'm joining in on a new photo project. It's hosted by Leigh at Leigh vs Laundry and you can learn more about it by clicking on the image and visiting her blog. The rules are actually quite simple...you just need to post a photo of something that makes you...
Capturing Faces
This week, Beth from I Should Be Folding Laundry has sent us on a mission to capture Faces. Last week I missed out on the assignment because I just didn't manage to get any shots of togetherness...so this week I'm going to try to make up for it! To see more...
Crumpler: My photo bag of choice
I have been looking for a camera bag for a few years now...basically ever since I got my camera and lenses from Stefan. First I was using his old camera bag, but it was a bit too big and just not very practical since it always seemed to be falling off my shoulder and...
Capturing the last flowers of the year
So our assignment this week for You Capture was flowers. When Stefan asked about the topic, and I said flowers...he sorta scoffed at me. Great time of year for flowers, right? But even though fall is clearly all around us and some of the trees have incredible washes...

Places we were in Hamburg
Ok, you might be getting tired of hearing about our Hamburg trip, especially if you won't be able to visit anytime in the near future. But I just wanted to post the last few photos I took and a few links for the hotel and restaurants we visited. We spent the night in...

Random captures around Hamburg
We were lucky enough to be in Hamburg this past weekend so I had plenty of opportunities to make use of the wild card Beth gave us for You Capture topic this week. This gate is on the Rathaus in Hamburg and I just think it's incredibly beautiful and ornate. This was...
Our first few hours in Hamburg
As I mentioned on Monday, our trip to Hamburg this weekend was really fun. And although we missed the munchkin, she was having a great time at home with Oma and Opa. Apparently Ayla was the only one that did some pouting. When we got to the airport in the morning, the...


