Project 52: Week 6: Action

I have been meaning to try and get some good "action" shots of my beautiful fur babies for a while now.  Kota is a 1.5 year old purebred Sieberian Husky.  Holly, our baby, is a 6 month old purebred Sieberian Husky.  They both enjoy going outside and frolicking in the snow.  Right now the snow in our yard where I take them out to play (their backyard is super tiny and they do not have much room to run around in it!) is about 3.5 feet deep in some areas, and it is pure powder most days.  It is funny to watch them sink and only see puppy heads bouncing around out there. 

Project 52: Week 5: Technology

Well, this week's photo is sorta lame. I sorta forgot about project 52 this week because we were pretty busy. This ended up being the only photo I took all week (minus the 3 sessions I shot in one day). This is a photo I took of my weather channel app on my Ipad. After living here for 2 winters, it still amazes me it can get this cold here. There has been a few days like this here now that it has been this cold, and even a little colder. And to think, Abby actually went outside and played in this for a little bit today. When it is this cold, I usually put 3 layers on her, including goggles, and I set the kitchen timer so she only stays out about 10 minutes at a time.

Here is what -40* windchill looks like:

Project 52: Week 4: Inside-Out; Outside-In

Since this week's theme from the site I have been following, did not inspire me for some reason (Tired, I know it is strange I was not inspired by this, since I am, always in fact, tired), I decided to just make up my own after taking these photos of Jordy earlier this week.  The first two are from Abby and I outside playing in the snow.  Most of the time, Jordy does not want to be outside with us.  She could take or leave the snow. 

These ones are from one of the times we actually convinced her to go outside.  Our snow-gearing routine is usually this: Abby gets most of her self ready...I help her with what she can not do (usually attaching her gloves, and then putting on her hat because her mittens are too thick). While Abby gets herself ready, I get Jordyn ready.  She really can not do any of it, so it can be quite a process, depending on how cold it is outside, and how many layers we have to put on.  As they are ready, they get sent outside to wait, so I can get my gear on as quickly as possible without sweating to death inside.  This day, Jordyn happened to be the first ready, and was patiently waiting for us to join her.

Project 52: Week 3: Macro

Warning: Very heavy post!  Haha....so at first when I saw this week's theme, I thought it was sorta lame.  But then I remembered how much I have enjoyed trying to capture snowflakes....and I started thinking... What else could I find that has a lot more detail when you see it up close?  I thought about doing random stuff, really random stuff, really close up, and seeing if people could guess what they are...but I decided against that LOL. (I might do this another week, or as a contest on my photography blog!)  I decided to just try to capture some things around my house.  Also, I forgot how much fun a macro lens could be.  I had one quite a few years ago, and I never really used it to its full potential...well since getting more into newborn photography, I decided I had to have a new one.  I have been having a lot of fun with it since then....

Tried again at the snowflakes..this time with a gorilla pod.  I was hoping it would give me a little bit more stability that close up.  It did help a little more, but still not perfect...challenge!

Abby's beautiful eyelashes....

This is INSIDE our door.  Completely frozen.

Some sand we brought back from Bellow's beach from our trip to Hawaii.  (I swear, it is not brown sugar!)

Back door, iced over...making a neat pattern on the window.

Beautiful Holly...Our little Christmas snow puppy

In last week's post I mentioned how it gets so cold, your eyes can freeze shut, and icicles can form on your eye lashes.  Well yesterday, the windchill was -40*.  Yes you are reading that correct...40 below zero.  I wanted to try and get a photo of this...but Abby was not really digging the cold eyeballs....but you can see it starting to form.

Smores Pizza....Yum.

Our little bug-eyed Roxy.

My Mother ring Geoff had made for me a few years ago. 

Jordyn and Abby's birthstones on either side..and no, not my birthstone in the middle...Geoff's.  He decided it had to be in there.

All of this week's photos were taken with my 90mm Macro lens.

Project 52: Week 2: Cold

Since we are stationed at the North Pole, this weeks "challenge" was not much of a challenge for me. It was sort of obvious that I would probably do photos of...snow. We have had some very cold windchills the last few days...I think we had a -40* morning even. Most people can not even imagine how cold that really does feel. If you have never been this far north, you have probably never experienced any of the things that come with this degree of coldness: Feeling the cold down under your skin, and into your bones, having your eyelids stick shut from the moisture on your eyeballs freezing, growing icicles on the ends of your eye lashes, your nostrils freezing shut when you breathe through your nose, or it physically hurting your lungs to breathe...it literally takes your breath away for a brief moment....yeah, it can get pretty intense! But still, we love it, freezing cold and all! I decided to do a few photos this week from various days of us outside playing.

These were my 2nd attempt at getting some up close snowflake photos with my macro. These ones came out a little bit better, but next time I want to try with a tripod so they can be a little more crisp.

If you look really close, a couple of the snowflakes have some slight color in the outline...I have no idea why, but in some of them I saw purple and green. Just thought it was kinda neat.

What is the best way to warm up from the cold? Hot Cocoa! Isn't this an awesome mug? We got these from our Polar Express Train ride at Christmas

Snowblower....best investment we have made in Minot!

Ice Wreath craft. It didn't come out like I had visioned...I think I need to use smaller, more shallow bowls to give it more of a wreath shape, but it was still fun for winter. And only up North, would this last all winter!

Tree in backyard. By the time I got bundled up and actually got outside, most of the snow had blown off already, so I will be attempting this one again...I want to get a photo of a tree just packed with snow.