Sisters

It's fun to capture my girls on camera. I notice their distinct personalities now and when they get together its even clearer how they stand out from each other. I see Zika as the quirky one and Zena as the subtle and mellow one. They do differ in so many ways and that's what make them so special to me. I LOVE YOU MY GIRLS!!

NIKON D200 - 18.0-70.0 mm f/3.5-4.5

1/60 sec at f / 5.0

Pile of snow in the backyard

It is a day after Barrie's worst snow squall yet this month. The snow piling up in our backyard is about 20 inches and oh my does it look like a marshmallow haven! I took Zika out to play with Lucky and she had a blast. She's now 2 1/2 yrs. old and this may be the first real experience she probably have playing with snow. Lucky, our golden retriever loves the snow and together they both had a blast in the snow piled backyard. I didn't have a snowsuit on so I took pictures from inside the house by the sliding doors.
These pictures were taken at about 2:30 pm when the sun was just right and most of the glare was coming out really from the snowy foreground. Here are the settings on my camera for this shoot.

This is shot with my Nikon D200 - speed of 1/320 sec at aperture of f/4.5, ISO 500, 27 mm my camera lens is 18.0-70.0 mm f/3.5-4.5.