Boise Temple at night

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I did something tonight I'd been wanting to do for a long time now! After I got done with my session at the Temple, I stayed and took some photos of this beautiful and Holy building. No flash was used - I had to set the exposure for anywhere between 5 and 30 seconds to allow enough light into the sensors! I loved it!! Enjoy some of my favorites from tonight...

now you might have noticed that these first few ones had a sort of "reddish" hue to the sky. That is because the Boise Temple sits right next to our big movie theater complex (and lots of restaurants and hotels, etc) that all the bright neon lights that were on from there, caused the clouds to be tinted. This next one is of the same (above) spire but I was turned a different angle and got just the solid black night.

ok, now I LOVE this next one! It's just different and fun and unexpected! Loving the starbursts on this one and all the colors (this is exactly how this picture looked out of the camera - no fancy coloring or cool lighting effects done in photoshop - just a slight curves adjustment to add some contrast)

and then another one from this perspective. I was actually on my way back to the van when I turned back and saw all of the street lamps lit and drawing my eye directly towards the Temple!

The hardest part of the evening.... having people coming in and out of the Temple! LOL.. with my exposure set for so long (especially when I would have the shutter speed set to 30 seconds - meaning the camera was actively taking the photo for 30 seconds) that was enough time for people to walk through the photo and I'd have to try again - LOL.. but I'm glad there were that many patrons there tonight!

BUBBLES everywhere!

Day 19 - our Bubbles catastrophe!

When John and I were first married we had run out of dishwashing detergent. John assured me that liquid dishsoap was the same thing and could easily be substituted. He was wrong. So we learned early on, that if you are out of dishwashing detergent either borrow some or run to the store. Fast forward about 15 years to February 6, 2010. I see our sweet little twin girls playing in the dishwasher. Upon closer inspection, I see that they have DUMPED 80% of a brand new bottle of liquid Dawn all over it! I hurry and wisk them into the other room, take some dry towels and wipe off everything I could see. About 2 hours later, the dishwasher was filled and needed to start. Even though I knew I had gotten a lot of it up (all of it that I could see) I figured it'd be safe to lay some towels down just in case. They were needed. It gushed and gushed and gushed just spewing the bubbles like no other! Of course they thought this was fascinating and kept wanting to get into it! I had to have Seth take big bowl fulls of the suds every couple of minutes and dump into the sink or else we would have been engulfted in them! So for those that may have the same thoughts as my sweet husband all those years ago - please put them aside and always use dishwashing detergent!

Day 18

today for dinner I was craving some chicken out on the BBQ! I knew that the girls would want to follow me outside so I went ahead and got their shoes and coats on (and sadly the gas was all gone! or at least I thought it was... turns out my brother in law turned it off from the valve on Sunday when they were over) oh well.
but since we were already outside, I thought I'd take my picture for today - and this one makes me smile. I don't know why - it just does. I'm so blessed to be a twin mom! I love every minute of it!

Day 17 - Challenge

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with the loft/playroom being transformed into Seth's new bedroom, we had to move all of the toys and the TV/Wii into Ben and Nathan's room. This morning, Nathan really wanted me to come up and watch him as he played so the we all headed up. While up there, I decided to challenge myself to something: to close the doors, grab my camera and try to look at this room with the kids in it with a different perspective via the camera. It really was a lot hader than I expected! I was trying all different angles and "framing" and it really got me thinking and best of all I love what I walked away with....
If any of you want to help push your bounds of creativity - I challenge you to do the same thing! I'd love to see it if you do - so link me up if you do!