Dance all night

Yesterday we had a big day. Evidently at the first hint of improvement I am out there wearing myself out again. What am I thinking?

Anyway, we had fun. First there was a visit to Oma and Opa’s house and look what we found!It’s been years since I lived as a country girl so some of my farm animal knowledge has been replaced by how to survive among urban sprawl. Anyway, there are horses, mules and donkeys. Although to be honest I had trouble discerning which was horse and which was mule. Despite my confusion I loved this shot.

I shot the day entirely in manual—quite a leap of faith for me, but I really enjoyed it! I was really able to play with lights and darks in a way that I am not able to do with some of the other more automatic camera settings.Yes, that is my itsy bitsy niece next to the mule. Did I mention I was a country girl? Duc has no fear of horses/mules and neither do any of the other littles in the family. Not sure what this is? Oma couldn’t figure out if it was a weed or a flower. Kind of pretty either way. Straight out of camera image. I love the light (and lack of it) in this image. Yeah, I know it looks like my son is getting french kissed by Opa’s dog, but let me assure you he started it.