Experimenting with photography...a fun day spent outdoors

    The weather has been pretty darn hot in Seattle the past couple of days and we have been spending loads of time in my parents back yard.  I thought it might be fun to experiment with my camera a bit and take some "nature" shots.  Because I have an almost four year old son and because I sell things on ebay I take a lot of pictures but I rarely use more then one or two settings on my camera so I thought what the heck?  I was going to be outside all day so why not do something creative?  Of course I couldn't resist snapping some pictures of Jack either. 
    This is what I came up with not very exciting but still a fun tour of our outdoor sanctuary.  Jack really likes feeding the birds so I thought I would try to get some photos of them but that was way easier said then done! So I settled on taking pictures of the foliage, flowers and fish pond.