Motion

You would think, since my children are constantly in motion, that I would have lots of incredible captures to share--or at least one incredible capture.  Alas, it was not to be.  However, I am a firm believer in quantity making up for quality.  Yep, yep, I am.

I am starting to rethink my belief that children who can dress themselves should.  I decolorized this so the clashing pink and teal aren't as noticeable, but the flowers and stripes are still there.

SnapDragon was the most cooperative at running for motion shots.  He is very interested in photography and what I'm posting on my blog.

This day we were gone from home all day so she didn't have a chance to change and change and mismatch what Daddy originally picked out in the morning.

I do actually love this picture of my kids, though I'm now realizing I have no forward facing pictures of Huckleberry in this set.  After a long week at camp he was very reluctant to run and jump for my camera.  (The black and white solved the pink, orange, and green shirts present amongst my children.)

I'm not sure she is actually in motion in this shot, but she is certainly warning her brothers of her plan to attack.

He ran back and forth, back and forth.  Yet I was not successful in capturing exactly what I envisioned.  Still, this shot is fun and I have 100 50 more similar ones I cannot quite bear to delete.

Seriously, who lets these kids out of the house dressed like this?  We are at a public park!  I used my 55-200mm zoomed out to 200mm because they just ran that far, but I do prefer the images I get with my 50mm.  It feels like I have to do so much more to the 55-200mm images just to get the colors right--though maybe I shouldn't have been so true to the original colors here.

But before I got my 50mm, I loved my long lens.  I want to love it again.  Sometimes the distance just needs a longer lens.  Here is an image I took weeks ago, long before my new lens and I didn't do anything to it (except size and resharpen for web).

There is just something about this image I love though when I try to figure out what all I see are the things wrong with it. But I don't mean to sound discouraged.  The weather discourages me, not capturing exactly what I intended does sometimes disappoint, but I know I am learning and improving and that is what matters. 

So those are my captures for Crazy Days of Summer Motion theme.  Be sure to check out the other posts linking up.  There are some talented photographers out there and motion can mean so many fun and different things.