Photo Lighting Test

Today, I tested out some of the photography stuff I received for Christmas.  This is a lighting test I did using my mom as the model.

More Handmade Christmas Gifts

Here are more gifts that I created for people for Christmas.

A card for Lee and Diane Vulcan.

Pottery and a stuffed Rudolph I made for mom.

A Raku flower pot with cookies for Brenda Scales.

Christmas Pottery!

I can finally post the pictures of some of the pottery gifts I made…since they’ve been received and opened already!

Last Full Lunar Eclipse of 2010

I caught these before and during photos of the moon for the full lunar eclipse that happened at @1:17am MT on 21 Dec 10…the winter solstice and the first day of winter.  This was the last eclipse of 2010 and the first eclipse on the solstice since 1554!!

These were both shot at 600mm, however by the full eclipse, the moon was high up above.

12 Tags of Christmas–Day 9

OK…I skipped Day 8 for now.  I don’t have the sleigh and reindeer mask that Tim uses and I haven’t quite figured out how I’m going to replicate that element of the tag since it’s so prominent.  So…I did Tag 9.  I also didn’t have the rosette die that Tim used, so I made mine by cutting out a strip of paper with decorative scissors and marking the folds on my Martha Stewart scoring board.  Time consuming, but excellent results.

12 Tags of Christmas–Day 6 & 7

I was away on business, so I’ve fallen behind on Tim’s 12 Tags of Christmas, but I’m determined to catch up!  Here are my versions of tags 6 and 7.

Tag 6:

Tag 7:

12 Tags of Christmas–Day 5

Here is my version of Day 5’s tag in Tim Holtz’ 12 Tags of Christmas:

12 Tags of Christmas–Day 4

Here is my version of today’s tag in Tim’s 12 Tags of Christmas.  I didn’t have many of the items Tim used, so I had to improvise a bit.

12 Tags of Christmas–Day 3 and Pottery

Here is my tag for Day 3 of Tim’s 12 Tags of Christmas:

This was our last night of pottery class…

All our stuff waiting to be glazed.

All our Raku pieces…and a couple of Chris’ finished works.

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12 Tags of Christmas–Day 2

Here is today’s attempt at following Tim Holtz with his 12 Tags of Christmas:

12 Tags of Christmas–Day 1

It’s that time of year again for Tim Holtz’ 12 Tags of Christmas!!  Here is my tag for Day 1: