Sumiton Church of God Photography

Sumiton Church of God Photography Class Information

Hey!  Sorry I haven’t posted in a while but I’ve been a busy girl! 

I am teaching a class at my church on Photography!  You know how my passion is for photography!  Last night was the first class!  And here is some information for those of you who might want to come to the class!  It is open to anyone, not just Sumiton Church of God Ladies!  Oh and there is a Scrapbooking class, parenting class and interior design class too!  If you are interested in one of those instead, email me and I’ll get you in contact with Debra Quinn!

So, onto the Photography Class Information:

Instead of moving on to the next thing I was going to teach in the photography class, I have decided to repeat it again (in a bit of a different way) because there were a few ladies that signed up that weren't able to come for some reason. In addition, there were some of you that still want to come but were afraid that you would be lost if you missed the first session.  So, you will not be lost, I’m starting over!  But, I NEED to know if you are coming so please email me ASAP if you want to come to the next class, on March 6th. 

Ok, I am passionate about photography, as many of you can tell!  I truly want you to get the best photos of your children so that one day when you look back at your photos, you aren't saying "gosh, I wish I had better pictures of my kids".............

Also, you do not need a fancy SLR camera for my class!!!!!!!  Many of you have said "But, I don't have a good camera".......  The camera is only as good as the user!!!!  So, let me help your camera get a better user!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I will however mention that it is required to have more than a point and shoot that has only creative modes.  Your camera will need to have a M, S, A, and a P - OR -  M, AV, TV, P on your camera in order to really be able to do the things I am going to teach you.  I will teach you specific to your camera via email so you are prepared for the first class!  Let me know if you have any questions!  Just email me or call me at 205-862-3296.  And if you want new camera suggestions, I have a list of some of the best cameras available in ALL price ranges! 

March 6th class information:

After you email me that you are going to attend, I need you to email me the type of camera that you have so that I can find your manual online.  I learned from my class last night that there are a few things that I need to teach you each individually about YOUR camera so that when you get to the class and I begin teaching, you aren't lost.  I'll explain more in detail once you email me that you are coming to my class and the type of your camera you have. 

April 3rd Class Information:

I will get more deep in this class by explaining metering, exposure compensation, flash compensation and when and where to take photos.  I am hoping to show you photos that I have taken, and why I chose the settings I did.

May 1st Class Information:

We should have light at 7 pm for this class so we may meet somewhere in the town and actually put what you've learned to the test!!!!!!!!!!! 

Did you know that you can post?

I know that many of you read my post because you tell me that you do or you email me comments.... But, did you know that you can post comments right here on each post? YEP! You just have to click COMMENTS and sign up for an account. Oh come on! Sign up, you will eventually anyway! It's a GOOGLE account and GOOGLE is taking over the world like AOL did years ago and then lost it when they didn't forsee everyone seeing past their facade of hey, i don't have to pay for AOL to get the internet!!!!!!! WOW! Ok, back to my discussion! SIGN UP ALREADY!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the disappearance!

Wow! This motherhood and career woman is exhausting me! I have no idea how single mothers do this job. I am exhausted and I have tons of help from Chris and our families. We went to the beach last week and had a blast! We stayed in the Crumps condo in Orange Beach and WOW! I thought my house was nice but this place had some unique things. I post photos later (hey i'm a working mom-photos are my last thing this week).
Chris and I leave for Colorado with the Spirit Singers on Thursday. On our free day, we will spend it with each other only. I'm looking forward to that. The boys aer always with us so we never really get to speak with each other at all. It will be awesome.

It is 1 am and i'm finally sleepy so i'll post sooner this time. Promise!!!!!!!

Trying out Adobe Contribute!

I purchased the entire Adobe CS3 Web Premium Edition today and i'm so excited that i can edit and post my blog or websites via Contribute very easily!  I'm addicted Photoshop and now that i have my hands on all these other goodies, oh my gosh i'm about to burst with joy!  I know, some of you are thinking "What? Is something wrong with her?"  And you may be correct.  Something is very wrong with my love and addiction for Photoshop and now everything that Adobe creates!  It is a sick thing, a sick thing i have for this program and all of it's little buddies now!  Oh i cannot wait to learn them all!  I'm using Contribute right now and i'm posting this entirely from it.  I have this problem where i cannot leave well enought alone.  I can make something very beautiful like a photo or a webpage, something someone else thinks is gorgeous, and i have to P-E-R-F-E-C-T it to my tastes!  I am a perfectionist.   So, i've never been completely happy with my blog and how it looks.  I want it to look like no other blog out there!  I have to put MY look on it so it says Audrea!  And i may have to use Dreamweaver for that part.  See, someone thought enough of a program to name it DREAMweaver!  They have this sickness too!  LOL!  Ok, i'm leaving now to feed my addiction to all these new adobe products!  I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!  Here is the link to what i bought if you are interested!  It has Macromedia Flash 8 too!  Ooh, Oooh, i gotta go play!  Bye!

Comedy in our everyday lives..........

Every Tuesday and Thursday my mother keeps Skyler and Tyler. Sandra has them on Monday and Wednesdays. But, on Tuesday, my mother took them into the room to lay them down for their daily nap. They sleep on a bed together but she lays down between them (so she can rest some herself) until they go to sleep. This also cuts down on the fighting. Skyler loves to say words that he thinks sounds funny. This particular day "Pookey" was his choice of repetition. Tyler was almost asleep and Skyler would not let up on saying the "word" over and over. She had told him to stop but since he continued, she decided she would just keep her eyes closed and ignore him. A few minutes later, she heard Tyler say "Granna's not hearing you" and as if he was saying - "Skyler - HUSH". But, Skyler did not care and he continued.... so Mom quickly reached over, popped him on the mouth. He just stopped, very stunned and then said very calmly - "She heard me then!" He rolled over and went to sleep. My mother almost couldn't control herself. She did all she could do to keep her laughter inside.

Praise God for the comedy he blesses us with in our everyday lives...........

Isn't she beautiful??????????

and hard to take a photo of! Miss Priss wouldn't go to sleep at all. Lacy fed her like 5 times just so she would sleep and so the photo you see here is the only one we really got of her asleep. We didn't even get to remove the blanket because we were afraid she'd wake up. So, i just took photos of her on the blanket but it turnd out great for the way i ended up doing the card. She is a very happy little girl! And she loves her Aunt Ree! (That's what my name is going to be i think since Aunt Audrea is a tongue twister!!!!!!!!!!)

I know, i know, it's all weird

I know the blog has been weird and has changed like 100 times in the last few days. I've actually been using it as a guinea pig for our work site. I've been posting things in the html code to play as to not mess up our work website. So, sorry it's been changing constantly.

While playing, i decided I'm also going to change the blog up a bit. I'm one of those people that is never satisfied with something - it has to be PERFECT and even then i want to see if i can achieve even better than PERFECT. I know, it's got a name - Obsessive Compulsive or something like that - and i have it. My sister is now yelling at her computer saying it's called something exact that i cannot pronounce i'm sure. WELL, I HAVE THAT! So, if you are reading the blog, bear with me.............................i'm changing it! AGAIN!!!!