You Tube!!

Today I was checking some emails from my mom she forwarded a pretty funny video of Dennis Swanberg - Bengy and the Zipper. Its a little drawn out but worth the wait to the end.

I started searching and watching other videos while on You Tube. I love videos of cute and funny kids and I found this super cute video of a little asian 2 year old girl singing.. you have to watch how cute.

7.0 Earthquake 9/11- 9:21am

There was a rather large earthquake in northern Japan this morning. Didn't quite make it all the way down to Yokohama. However Steve is up north on business trip and got a piece of it. He said it wasn't too bad. Just made him a little dizzy. He said it didn't feel that strong just seemed to last longer then normal. There was a couple of Tsunami warnings but they have all cleared now to thats good. So far can't find any info on damage up there. Its pretty rural up there so in the harder hit areas hopefully there wasn't too many people. Its kinda scary when things like that happen and we are so far from each other, but what can you do. Can't worry about something you can't predict.

Movies in Japan

Steve and I have gone to a few movies here in Japan. It's a tad more expensive. But if we go on Wednesdays after 8pm its cheaper because its ladies night and movies after 8 are cheaper. The only real difference is that you get to pick your seat when you buy tickets. Also, everyone is so quite. Through out the movie you don't hear anyone laugh or react at all. Which is much different. We don't know if thats like a culture thing or if they just don't find it funny or get the humor. We went to see 21 and there was a part where the one guy is talking to his friend and complaining, and his friend says "Well look on the bright side I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance." You may have to see the movie to find the humor but at the time we both thought it was amusing and no one around us reacted at all. There has been several other things in movies that we have noticed that no one reacts but this past weekend we went to see Hancock and the beginning of that movie is hilarious. Its just completely not a role that you would think to see will smith. And the two of us were cracking up. One scene where there was a group surrounding Will Smith yelling at him and a guy said "She should sue you" and Will Smith says "You should sue McDonalds, they f'd you up".. Hilarious.. no one laughed but us. Maybe you have to be there. But after the movie we were discussing that maybe they just don't get the jokes or something. Well we just wanted to share our Movie going experiences...

Here is the Hancock clip.. there is quite a bit of swearing so just be aware..


Also here is the part from 21 its at the very end got to 8mins if you don't want to watch the beginning.

Photo shoot with Jen and Jay Jay

Lately I have really been working with my camera and starting to learn much more about how to use all the functions. Mostly just basic photography stuff. I think I defiantly have an eye for capturing moments, I just need to learn how to get my camera to portray my ideas and thoughts!

So this past Monday I did the photo shoot for Jen and Jay Jay as I had mentioned in a previous blog. I did a shoot for the Bigbies but it was getting dark and we had limited time due to Larry's practice running late. There were still a couple good ones but not really what I imagined. Here are a couple I like of the Bigbies....









So I was not as happy with their pictures as I was with Jay Jay and Jens. It was a beautiful day out and we were out for about 3 hours. I took a ton of shots, and some I feel are really good. I was pretty proud of myself since I am very amateur, and all I know is what I taught myself. The "feel" of the engagement photos are much like when Steve and I did ours, brought back some great memories! (Our photographer was basel from preciousmemoriesphotography.net) I did all the shots on Manual settings and tried really hard to get the exposure right. The lighting was great because of the beautiful day, at some points with the sun coming through buildings and trees there were a few tough moments with harsh shadows, but overall I really am happy with the pictures, as are they! And that's all that really matters!! I also recently got a new lens for my camera which really helped with getting both near and far shots. If you would like to check them out they are on my smugmug account under Jen and Jay Jay. Feel free to leave some comments of what you think!
Here are a few of my favorites.. since my smug mug has over 600lol.
(Also just want to say I do not have photoshop)














I also want to say I really appreciate Jen and Jay Jay letting me practice on them!! :) As well as the Bigbies, just wish I could have done a better job for them. Just not that good yet in low lighting..