Starting my 100 days of pictures

Hi girls! I hope you don't mind me crashing your party, but I really wanted to learn how to use my camera, I just didn't get on the ball soon enough. So I'll catch up with the lessons and start posting pix using what I learn. For now, I thought I'd just post some pix that I've taken this week (and a couple of old ones) that I think are somewhat artistic or at least show some effort in lighting and composition. This can be like a baseline for my improvement (hopefully!) - all these are using the automatic settings on my camera. FYI I have a Canon digital Rebel, the original not-as-cool-as-Melissa's one, with no extra lenses or flashes.

Myself reflected in the window

Becks and his modeling clay octopus (portrait setting, natural light)

Very early spring (portrait setting)

Trey with newborn Caeden (portrait setting, natural light, brown drape backdrop)

Caeden's birthday (portrait setting, flash)

Blowing a kiss (portrait, flash)

Trey with a butterfly

Gingerbread man (focused on cookie with portrait setting)

This is Carson's contribution (he might do the photo group)

Sports (fast shutter) setting

Hiding from the camera (I didn't know if the back light would ruin the shot but I think it turned out okay)

I'm so sad that I'll miss my tulips blooming this year! (portrait setting to blur the backgroup, I really need to learn how to decrease my depth of field more!)

Poser

I tried to take some pix of myself with the brown drape as a background and natural light. I was going to do a scrapbook page using the colors from my gloves for the CKHOF contest, but I didn't (but I did enter... wish me luck!)

So there are 14 pix and I'm going to call myself caught up. Starting today I'll do the picture a day with the rest of you.