Nina's Exhilarating Life

In two weeks, I’ll be an old married hag instead of a old single hag like right now. I am excited! In other news…. I did the swimming part of a triathlon today. It was fun! They are doing it again in September if anyone is interested. They also have a kids triathlon which is [...]

I am pretty sure that I am completely converted over to RAW + Manual only. This weekend, I reallllllly wanted to be lazy and use an automatic mode on my camera but it ended up frustrating me more than anything. I think my pictures are much better when I have completely control of the light. [...]

We headed out to Northwest Trek early this morning so that we could catch the first tram of the morning. Apparently, that is the best time of the day because its food time! We had an amazing view of the animals. Tom was sure it was going to suck but he said he even enjoyed [...]

It took me a couple days but I did enjoy photographing the day. It is a very long day though… especially when your almost husband wants you to take him to the airport at 4am. My wrist hurt the next day from holding the camera too! Anyway, here are a few more of my favorites: [...]

Here are a few of my favorites from the day: Grandma, do you have a belly button too?? Groom waiting for his Bride Father and Groom Silly Groomsmen Bridal Party All the family! Full set is located here if anyone cares.

Our lovely photographer sent us a DVD of all our engagement pictures. The full set is located here or on flickr. This is Tom’s fav – Totally exciting! In other news, I volunteered to do photography for a wedding on Whidbey Island next weekend. Sounds like a prefect reason to pick up a flash and [...]

Tom likes planes…. so we took my 70-300mm to the airport on Monday and took some sunset pictures. Here are a few of my favs: I think Blair has convinced me that my next lens should be a 28-135mm. It looks pretty sweet! Maybe in a couple weeks I can mess around with it instead. [...]

Since Tom has never experienced beautiful Leavenworth, we decided to head that way today with a short stop at the Reptile Zoo. Here are a few of my favorites: Look mama, two heads! Full set is here

One jeep with two kids drving, one really tall kid next to it, two short parents? and three ducks following the jeep.

Today is Norwegian Constitution Day so we headed out to Ballards very own Syttende Mai Parade. Here are a few of my favorite pictures: Full set is located here.