I’m not a morning person. Don’t even bother talking to me about anything, unless it’s work related and I’m at work, before I have at least a cup of coffee. That’s what makes this a little more amazing to me. In a lull in the Christmas morning festivities, I happened to look over at my cup of coffee I had just poured and captured a few great pictures of steam. I like this one the most because in some ways it resembles a Greek column or an explosion.

I shot several different pictures with different framing, but the 4 in the gallery I uploaded, IMO, are the best. I guess this had to have been my second cup. I shot this with my brand new shiny Nikon D40. With my old point and shoot, this would have been impossible to capture. In fact, I had a lot of fun with my camera over the week. I ended up with roughly 1.6 gigs of photos in ~3meg jpg format.

Most if not all was family stuff, a lot of candids. In that is a lot of fat that can be trimmed. Learning to photograph two nieces as they run around and play in poor lighting without flash ends up in a lot of blurred images. I also experimented more with some astrophotography, which I’ll post soon. It’s amazing what the naked eye can’t see until you throw in a 30 second exposure.

Until next time, I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday.