Week 52 - Jordan

Happy New Year and happy 52 weeks! Despite hiccups here and there, we made it a full year, which to me, is actually pretty impressive! I'm sure we'll do a summary post at some point, but for now, here's my hat from New Year's Eve at Jeremy and Shelby's house:

Canon XSi with EF 50mm f/1.8 @ 50mm 1/50s f/1.8 ISO 800. On camera flash.

Week 52 – Nate

#52 - Wooo! I’ll have a year-end summary post in the next few days. For now, a picture of my mom’s awesome wrapping job on the Christmas presents.

Canon 7D w/ 50mm f/1.8
Taken at 50mm, f/1.8, 1/100s, ISO 800

Week 51 - Jordan

Mom will probably kill me, but that's too bad! Also, it'll be awhile before I go back to Nebraska, so maybe she'll forget by then.

She wanted a new picture for her profile picture on Twitter and various other things, so I took a few while we were snowed in on Christmas. This was my favorite of the bunch. Unfortunately, I realized later that the different light temperatures were, well, different, so I couldn't completely correct for it.

Other pictures from Christmas are here.

Canon XSi with EF 50mm f/1.8 @ 50mm 1/50s f/1.8 ISO 400. On camera flash.

Week 51 – Nate

We spent Christmas Eve at the Holmquist house. Anna was full of excitement and anticipation for the presents and coming of Santa. The rest of our pictures from both Christmases are up here.

Canon 7D w/ 50mm f/1.8
Taken at 50mm, f/1.8, 1/50s, ISO 1600

Week 50 – Nate

Mmmm. Two food posts in a row. Tis’ the season for delicious treats. We made the long trek over to the Holmquist’s for Christmas cookie decorating this weekend. This is one of 4 trays of cookies that resulted from their hard work.

Canon 7D w/ 50mm f/1.8
Taken at 50mm, f/1.8, 1/250s, ISO 2000

Week 50 – Jordan

Holy cow, only two more weeks! (Well, more like 1.5)

I finally got around to taking a picture of our Christmas tree (as inspired by Stolee) and posting it online. Gifts under the tree were expertly wrapped by Molly, in case you were wondering. I’m pretty sure none of them are for either of us, but the tree makes a decent storage spot until we drive to Nebraska for Christmas.

Canon XSi with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 34mm 1.3s f/8 ISO 200. Three shots merged in Photomatix.

Week 49 - Jordan

This week was the annual company holiday parts or “Holiday Wine and Cheese”. Similar to last year when Nate and I took photos, Ryan and I took photos throughout the event to put together a slideshow at the end. Dissimilar to last year, the slideshow wasn’t shown as the event ended early and Lightroom exports very slowly on a 2.1Ghz Pentium M.

So, here’s Santa and some elves on an escalator.

Canon XSi with EF 35mm f/1.4 L @ 35mm 1/500s f/1.4 ISO 800

Week 49 – Nate

Color! We had a delicious dinner this week of Chicken Carbonara. Our simple table and decorations seemed just right for a picture.

Canon 7D w/ 50mm f/1.8
Taken at 50mm, f/1.8, 1/200s, ISO 1000

Week 48 - Jordan

Yeah, two pet posts in a row. Sorry.

Roxy and Kirby seem to be getting along better these days. They were just laying like this on the couch, so of course a bunch of pictures had to be taken. This is probably my favorite of the bunch, but your opinion may differ. I just like her expression.

Canon XSi with EF 35mm f/1.4 L @ 35mm 1/25s f/1.4 ISO 800

Week 48 – Nate

We went Christmas tree hunting this week. Try as we might to support 2 different local tree farms, we ultimately found Home Depot had a better selection. The trip to the tree farms wasn’t a total bust, though, because we got to see some good friends and came away with a few good pictures.

Canon 7D w/ 18-55 f/3.5-5.6
Taken at 55mm, f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 400

I’ve kind of been on a B&W kick lately. Maybe next week I’ll post something with color.