and baby makes three (kids)

One of the best things we did on this years vacation was spend some time with my littlest niece.  =D

I would be lying if I said I didn’t miss having a baby in the house.  Totally. Lying.  Now that my youngest is almost twelve, I really do have days where I look at my kids and think “*&%$, Im old”  followed immediately by “I miss cuddlewuddles” *insert sadface pout here*.  LOL

Anyway, so this year I pestered my SIL into loaning me a baby for a few days.  Ok, more like I asked and she tossed the baby at me whilst running in the other direction as fast as her little feet would carry her – but that’s another story. haha! 

Oh stop, she didnt REALLY throw the baby at me.  I may have been using a little creative license in meh story tellin’, y’all.  Otherwise, this would just be some blog post with a bunch of gratuitous cute baby pictures in it, like these:

(taken with my cellphone…)

the rest of these were me testing out/playing with my new camera and lenses…

insert sunburnt child here…

and more baby…

what do you mean you’re sick of the camera already young lady?!  One more shot, please!

haha…

those *above* were all with flash, these below – were natural lighting…

*camera info:
All shots were taken with a SONY a350 with the TAMRON lens. {with the exception of the CELLPHONE pic} I had ISO set to priority auto, and focus was manual.  I am still learning how to use my camera, so am pretty pleased with how the shots turned out.  Can’t wait to get her again, so I can play some more.   To see a post showing all of my camera gear, click HERE.  

If you have any info on photography tips/classes etc, please comment below.  This is my first non-point and shoot camera and I really have NO IDEA what I am doing.