December 30, 2010

Week 5 of Project 365

This was a busy week for us. From rushing to one house to the next, Me making Christmas lunch for my mothers side. The kids making a miss day in day out with there new toys. Not that we didn’t help them, who doesn’t like playing with a Duplo train set. Now we are getting ready for New Years and a few days skiing. For new years the children and I will be at my grandmothers. All in all it was a grate week, I don’t know how all the other bloggers did it getting there post up, LOL, right now I am playing catch up blogging and still need to find the pictures for the Memories, Dreams and Reflections @ Ramblings and Photos Guess that will be done tonight and tomorrow, to have it ready to link up on the second.

Week 4 of project 365

So other week has gone by, and I have had my camera for a month. I think I am getting better, LOL, if anything I am getting better at editing. I am just trying to work out what the F-stop dose, don’t quite understand it. I think I need a lens where I can go lower to play more, it seems like I always have it on the lowest number cos it is so dark here. I have so much fun when we go out to play outside with the kids and I take my camera. I really need a camera bag, and a tripod. I think those are the most 2 important things I need.

This week we put up the tree then we went for a walk through the city, I just love the Christmas markets and the lights in the city center. I went to my works x-mass party, though I am on mat leave and haven’t been at work for well ages to work anyways. Love living here payed mat leave till the kids are 2 years old, then you can work part time till your kids are 4 with out being sacked, guess sometimes some countries really have there perks. Back to our week, the Christmas party was fun, but I didn’t take my camera with me, They had a candy floss mashain there, guess how many chefs it takes to make one little thing of candy floss, 5, really there were 5 trying to get this thing working it was soooo funny. I stayed there for the 2 hours got my pressie,  a huge beach towl and some cosmetics. Me and the kids made a tree to hang our cards from, another blogging mum gave me the idea. OK onto the photos.

It seems like I post A LOT of photos of Mr Mar Jr, that is because Ms Mar is at kindy and well who doesn’t like taking photos of there kids when they are around.

December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas all my lovely followers.

Over here we enjoy Christmas on the 24th in the evening, that day we spent with my In-laws, Today I had my mothers side of the family over for lunch. I made some yummy roast beef rolls, followed by a poached fish roll on capsicum sauce with start polanter. Mr. Mar Sr made a typical Austrian dish, Kaiser schmarn, but with some liebkuchen spices. Was a cool, twist to it.

I got a camera bag for my camera, I so needed one, my hand bag isn’t big enough for it, and Mr. Mar Sr didn’t really want to carry it around all the time. I gave him a new cell phone, he actually wanted a MP3 Player but since his phone was playing up I thought, why not a new one, with MP3 player on it, and some beans to fill the bean bag.

My kids were so nackerd by 530pm that we needed up putting them to bed at 630, both were asleep by 7. Tomorrow we are off to my dads parents place for Christmas. Yeh, busy 3 days.

Wish you all happy days, lots of good times.

Mrs. Mar

December 21, 2010

The Paper Mama - Winter

The Paper MamaI was just looking at The Paper Mama blog and saw that this weeks theme is winter. It reminded me of a photo I took last week at my grandparents. Mr Mar Jr looking over the town where they live. Just take a look.

Touch Up Tuesday

Touch Up Tuesday's at the Paper Mama While going through my photos for this weeks 365, I love the way this photo turned out. Both my boys were asleep on the sofa, Mr Mar Sr likes his naps in the mornings. LOL, I still don’t understand how he can sleep so much, but then on average we go to bed around 1am and the kids are waking us up around 8ish, though that can be 7 too, usually not much earlier. Unless of course we go to bed at 2 or 330 like it has been a few times in the last week.

Well while my boys were asleep I thought it was so cute and took some pics of them sleeping, I actually edited out the little bit you could see of Mr Mar Sr jumper. Cleaned up Mr Mar JR skin, he has gotten a rash all around his mouth. At least it doesn’t seem to be bugging him. He also has a huge scratch on his cheek, don’t even know where it came from. But both the kids were playing upstairs when he come down with a scratch, bleeding but no crying.

December 17, 2010

Macro Friday – Dinner

This week we copied something we saw on TV the other week. We often watch cooking shows, me being a chef and my partner is a pastry chef a lot of our life has to do with food. MMMM, guess that is a reason I am not doing too well on one of my 26 before 26 challenge.

A very common food here is filled capsicum, Mr Mar Sr doesn’t really like them, but this what we saw on TV uses all the same ingredients. But instead of mixing the mince meat (ground meat) and rice then stuffing it into a capsicum and cooking it in a tomato sauce. You make your tomato sauce, put that one the plate, make mince paddies put that on  a plate then layer a roasted capsicum on it, then a layer of rice then capsicum again. It taste nearly the same looks sooooo much nicer, and is nice and fluffy. Here is the original recipe cooked from Johann Lafer, CLICK, (its in German though) and looks A LOT better then mine. I really want some of those rings you can use to portion food better.

December 16, 2010

3rd week of Project 365

This week we just finished baking, started out gingerbread house and otherwise it was just a very normal week. It has been snowing LOTS, and it has been REALY REALY cold. We have been finishing doing our Christmas shopping, really I have been calling the post and one other company to try and track down where my calendars and Christmas cards are, guess there is still one week time to get them, otherwise nothing this year, and I will feel so bad, just cos I kind of missed I didn’t type the E at the end of a word, Instead of Rechte (right) I route Recht OK, not gonna vent about my stupid mistake. And I usually cheek the addresses I put 2-3 times cos of my dyslexia.

December 14, 2010

Touch Up Tuesday – My kiddies

Touch Up Tuesday's at the Paper Mama So I desided to add this add this photo to the Paper HeartCamara touch up Tuesday. I am adding 3 edits, the color, b&w and sepia. I think I like The Sepia best. 

First I opened the photo in Photoshop  and cropped the photo. Afterwards I opened my second picture to to change the eyes, since Ms Mar is looking down and I couldn’t get a photo of both kids looking into the camera. I cut out the eyes, copied them into the Main photo, and adjusted the size and angle to get it to fit onto the main photo. Then I flattened it.

After that I adjusted the Levels, curves, Color Balance, Brightness/Contrast, duplicated the layer and added a soft light layer. I also ran the Coffee Shop Baby Powder Room action then put them all into a set and lowered the occupancy on the whole set.  What I was happy with the way it looked I flattened it.

After that I added a b&w gradient map, changed the curves to adjust the b&w how I liked it. Then to get the Sepia tone I played around with the color balance over the b&w.

December 11, 2010

The Paper Mama - Holiday Colors

The Paper MamaThis weeks theme over at the paper mama is Holiday Colors. So I took our Advent Wreath what is red, green, sliver and gold, and Mr Mar Jr who just LOVES blowing out the candles. It is so funny. For those who don’t know what this is, basically 4 weeks before Christmas each Sunday you light a candle. So the last candle get light on the last Sunday before Christmas. We also put our tree up that day. Each Sunday we do a deferent thing.

Advent Sunday 1 – Make the Wreath
Advent Sunday 2 – Go to my grandparents place to the Nickolas grampus festival.
Advent Sunday 3 – Make a gingerbread house (though we will be doing this on Monday)
Advent Sunday 4 – Put up our tree and go into town, to the Christmas markets and drink some punch.

This is also my way of getting the kids into the Christmas sprit. The weeks just fly by. So here is Mr Mar Jr with the Christmas wreath.

December 10, 2010

Holiday Bokeh Party

 

So I saw quite a few bloggers linking up to this yesterday. Today I got my camera out and took some Bokeh photos. I think they turned out OK. I really need to work out how to set my white balance and where to put my ISO, but that will come with time and finishing reading the manual. What I really like is the effect of where the cercals cross over to make a lighter part. I also like the star photos, we have some start lights outside so I played around with them too.

Color Splash Sunday

Mr Mar JR has finally discovered how to use the block thing, there are only 3 shapes on this one, round, square and a triangle. About a week ago when I gave it to him to try he didn’t get it. Now, its all new and he gets it, I think he did it about 20 times this day. The first time he did it I helped him and he always choose the same color till it was gone then went on to the next one. Now he just picks up what ever one and inserts it. It is so fun to watch. I love watching the kids learned new things.

Macro Friday – Fruit Stand

We have a fruit stand at home, that we got from Ikea, It actually isn’t made for fruit but it is grate, on the top I keep dried fruits for the kids. Figs apples plums… What ever we have a few nuts too. Makes for a grate snack.

Week 2 Of project 365

So this week has gone by, the weeks are flying, I am hardly having time to do challenges, I just don’t know when. Since getting back from our holiday in NZ I haven’t gotten into a pattern again. Or am I just trying to do too many challenges.  Anways, the weather has been winter wonderful, cold but lots of snow, that melted in the last 2 days. It did snow this afternoon again though. I love the snow hate the cold though. This weekend we went to my Grandparents the kids grate grandparents. St Nickolas is HUGE here, so we went down into town to take part. Otherwise, we have been baking and hanging out at home. So here go my pics for this week. 

December 9, 2010

A Very Merry Christmas link up – Christmas lights.

Sereina Charise Photography: Very Merry Christmas Link UpSo I just found this blog though Amy’s blog, and they are having A Very Merry Christmas link up party. I love Christmas, its one of my favorite times of the years, I just love the happiness around it the shearing, everyone getting together. And of course all the lights. We put our lights up at the start of the month. And this weeks theme is Christmas Lights.

So the picture I am shearing is of the kids home made advent calendar, Where I have to say, Mr Mar Jr broke the lights, probably pulled one out a bit and I can’t figure out what ones.


A weekend in Gloggnitz

PhotoStory Friday
So we spent the Grampus weekend out in Gloggnitz with Oma and Opa. We took the train out, and couldn’t the the pram as there was so much snow. So I had 2 bags, with all the winter clothes. Opa come down with the sledge to help us go back up, though he would of come down even if it was nice weather.

December 6, 2010

365 Days

So this is where I will be linking all my photos for my 365 day project. Basically Getting to know how to use a DSLR camera.  All photos that will be posted in here will be taken with my Canon 60D, well apart from the first picture, since that is of my camera.

1 Photo a day for 365 days Click on the picture to open and enlarge in a new window

WEEK 01 ~ Day 01 – Day 07
November 25 – December 01 2010

CANON EOS 60D Day 2 out of 365 Day 3 out of 365 Day 4 out of 365 Day 5 out of 365 Day 6  out of 365 Day 7 of 365

WEEK 02 ~ Day 08 – Day 14
November 02 – December 08 2010

Day 8  out of 365 Day 9  out of 365 Day 10  out of 365 Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14

WEEK 03 ~ Day 15 – Day 21
November 09 – December 15 2010

Day 15 Day 16 Day 17 Day 18 Day 19 Day 20 Day 21

WEEK 04 ~ Day 12 – Day 28
December 16 – December 22 2010

Day 22 Day 23 Day 24 Day 25 Day 26 Day 27 Day 28

WEEK 05 ~ Day 29 – Day 35 
December 23 – December 29 2010

Day 29 Day 30 Day 31 Day 32 Day 33 Day 34 Day 35

WEEK 06 ~ Day 36 – Day 42 
December 30 2010 – January 05 2011

Day 36 Day 37 Day 38 Day 39 Day 40 Day 41 Day 42

WEEK 07 ~ Day 43 – Day 49 
January 06 – January 12 2011

Day 43 Day 44 Day 45
MISSED THIS DAY
Day 47 Day 48 Day 49

WEEK 08 ~ Day 50 – Day 56 
January 13 – January 19 2011

Day 50 Day 51 Day 52 Day 53 Day 54 Day 55 Day 56

WEEK 09 ~ Day 57 – Day 63 
January 20 – January 26 2011

Day 57 Day 58 Sleeping Boy Day 60 Day 61 Day 62 Day 63

WEEK 10 ~ Day 64 – Day 70 
January 27 – February 02 2011

Day 64

Day 65 Day 66 Day 67 Day 68
MISSED THIS DAY
MISSED THIS DAY

WEEK 11 ~ Day 71 – Day 77 
February 03 – February 09 2011

Day 71 Day 72 Day 73 Day 74 Day 75 Day 76 Day 77

WEEK 12 ~ Day 78 – Day 84 
February 10 – February 16 2011

Day 78 Day 79 Day 80 Day 81 Day 82 Day 83 Day 84

WEEK 13 ~ Day 85 – Day 91 
February 17 – February 23 2011

Day 85 Day 86 Day 87 Day 88 Day 89 Day 90

WEEK 14 ~ Day 92 – Day 98
February 24 – March 02 2011

Day 92 Day 93 Day 94 Day 95 Day 96 Day 97 Day 98

WEEK 15 ~ Day 99 – Day 105
March 03 – March 09 2011

Day 99 Day 100 Day 101 Day 102 Day 103 Day 104 Day 105

WEEK 16 ~ Day 106 – Day 112
March 10 – March 16 2011

Day 106 Day 107 Day 108 Day 109 Day 110 Day 111 Day 112

WEEK 17 ~ Day 113 – Day 119
March 17 – March 23 2011

Day 113 Day 115 Day 116 Day 116

Missed This Day

Day 118 Day 119

WEEK 18 ~ Day 120 – Day 126
March 24 – March 30 2011

Day 120 Day 121 Day 122 Day 123 Day 124 Day 125 Day 126

WEEK 19 ~ Day 127 – Day 133
March 31 – April 06 2011

Day 127 Day 128 Day 129 Day 130 Day 131 Day 132 Day 133

WEEK 20 ~ Day 134 – Day 140
April 07 – April 13 2011

Day 134 Day 135 Day 136 Day 137 Day 138 Day 139 Day 140

WEEK 21 ~ Day 141 – Day 147
April 14 – April 20 2011

Day 141 Day 142 Day 143 Day 144 Day 145 Day 146 Day 147

WEEK 22 ~ Day 148 – Day 154
April 21 – April 27 2011

Day 148 Day 150 Day 150 Day 151 Day 152 Day 153 Day 154

WEEK 23 ~ Day 155 – Day 161
April 28 – May 04 2011

Day 155 Day 157 Day 157 Day 158 Day 159 Day 160 Day 161 by Mars Pics

WEEK 24 ~ Day 162 – Day 168
May 05 – May 11 2011

Day 162 Day 163 Day 164 Day 165 Day 166 Day 167 Day 168

WEEK 25 ~ Day 169 – Day 175
May 12 – May 18 2011

Day 169 Day 170 Day 171 Day 172 Day 173 by Mars pics Day 174 Day 175

WEEK 26 ~ Day 176 – Day 182
May 19 – May 25 2011

Day 176 Day 177 - Mars Pics - Fresh Day 178 Day 179 Day 180 Day 181 Day 182

WEEK 27 ~ Day 183 – Day 189
May 26 – June 01 2011

Day 183 Day 184 Day 185 Day 186 Day 187 Day 188 Day 189

WEEK 28 ~ Day 190 – Day 196
June 02 – June 08 2011

Day 190 Day 191 Day 193 Day 192 Day 194 Day 195 Day 196

WEEK 29 ~ Day 197 – Day 203
June 09 – June 15 2011

Day 197 Day 198 Day 199 Day 200 Day 201 Day 202 Day 203

WEEK 30 ~ Day 204 - Day 210
June 16 – June 22 2011

Day 204 Day 205 Day 206 Day 207 Day 208 Day 209 Day 210

WEEK 31 ~ Day 211 - Day 217
June 23 – June 29 2011

Day 211 Day 212 Day 213

Missed This Day

Day 215 Day 216 Day 217

WEEK 32 ~ Day 218 - Day 224
June 30 – July 06 2011

Day 218 Day 219

Missed This Day

Day 221 Day 222 Day 223 Day 224

WEEK 33 ~ Day 225 - Day 231
July 07 – July 13 2011

Day 225 Day 226 Day 227 Day 228 Day 229 Day 230 Day 231

WEEK 34 ~ Day 232 - Day 238
July 14 – July 20 2011

Day 232 Day 233 Day 234 Day 235 Day 236

Missed This Day

Day 238

WEEK 35 ~ Day 239 - Day 245
July 21 – July 27 2011

Day 239 Day 240 Day 241 Day 242 Day 243 Day 244 Day 245

WEEK 36 ~ Day 246 - Day 252
July 28 – August 03 2011

Day 246

Missed This Day

Day 248 Day 249 Day 250 Day 251 Day 252

WEEK 37 ~ Day 253 - Day 259
August 04 – August 10 2011

Day 253 Day 254 Day 255 Day 256 Day 257 Day 258 Day 259

WEEK 38 ~ Day 260 - Day 256
August 11 – August 17 2011

Day 260 Day 261 Day 262 Day 263 Day 264 Day 265 Day 266

WEEK 39 ~ Day 267 - Day 273
August 18 – August 24 2011

Day 267 Day 268 Day 269 Day 270 Day 271 Day 272 Day 273

WEEK 40 ~ Day 274 - Day 280
August 25 – August 31 2011

Missed This Day

Day 275 Day 276 Day 277 Day 278 Day 279 Day 280

WEEK 41 ~ Day 281 - Day 287
September 31 – September 07 2011

Day 281 Day 282 Day 283 Day 284 Day 285 Day 286 Day 287

WEEK 42 ~ Day 288 - Day 294
September 08 – September 14 2011

Day 288 Day 289 Day 290 Day 291

Missed This Day

Day 293 Day 294

WEEK 43 ~ Day 295 - Day 301
September 15 – September 21 2011

Day 295 Day 296 Day 297 Day 298 Day 299 Day 300 Day 301

WEEK 44 ~ Day 302 - Day 308
September 22 – September 28 2011

Day 302 Day 303 Day 304 Day 305 Day 306 Day 307 Day 308

WEEK 45 ~ Day 309 - Day 315
September 29 – October 05 211

Day 310 Day 311 Day 312 Day 313 Day 314 Day 315

Missed This Day

WEEK 46 ~ Day 316 - Day 322
October 06 – October 12 2011

Missed This Day

Day 318

 

Day 319 Day 319 Day 321 Day 321 Day 322

WEEK 47 ~ Day 323 - Day 329
October 13 – October 19 2011

Day 323 Day 324 Day 325 Day 326 Day 327 Day 328 Day 329

WEEK 48 ~ Day 330 - Day 336
October 20 – October 26 2011

Missed This Day

Day 331 Day 332 Day 333 Day 334 Missed This Day Day 336

WEEK 49 ~ Day 337 - Day 343
October 27 – November 02 2011

Day 337 Day 338 Day 339 Day 340 Day 341 Day 342 Day 343

WEEK 50 ~ Day 344 - Day 350
November 03 – November 09 2011

Day 344 Day 345 Day 346 Day 347 Day 348 Day 349 Day 350

WEEK 51 ~ Day 351 - Day 357
November 10 – November 16 2011

Day 351 Day 352 Day 353 Day 354 Day 355 Day 356 Day 357

WEEK 52 ~ Day 358 - Day 364
November 17 – November 23 2011

Missed This Day

Day 359 Day 360 Day 361 Day 362 Day 363 Day 364

WEEK 53 ~ Day 365 LAST DAY

Because I dropped my hard drive and hadn't put this one online I lost it Trauriges Smiley If you would like a 365 calendar please contact me under Mrs.Mar.and.Co @ Gmail.com I would be happy to pass it along, its easy to make just takes allot of time. Mrs Mar

 

OK, I also want to make a List of 356 photo techniques to have for my list next year, when I finish this year. If you have an idea for something please let me know. So I can add it. (I’ll add links in to examples when I have the time)

  1. Abstract
  2. BACK-LIGHT
  3. Black and White
  4. Bokeh
  5. Car Photography
  6. Depth Of Feld
  7. Dramatic Lighting
  8. Fire Works
  9. Flash
  10. Flash Second Curtin
  11. Framing a photo
  12. freeze-frame photography
  13. Free Lensing
  14. High Dynamic Range
  15. High Speed Photography
  16. Infrared Photography
  17. Landscape
  18. Leading lines
  19. Light Art
  20. Lightning
  21. Macro
  22. Motion blur
  23. Night time Photography
  24. OVEREXPOSE
  25. Panning
  26. Panorama
  27. Photo with in a photo
  28. POSING
  29. Portrait
  30. REFLECTIONS
  31. SHADOWS
  32. Smoke Art Photography
  33. Star Trail
  34. Street Photography
  35. Sun Flair
  36. Sunset/rise
  37. Tilt shift
  38. UNDEREXPOSE
  39. Zoom burst
  40. One-point perspective