Creek Play

My new lense is here! Yippee! I'm really going to love it once I figure out how to use it. I got the 24-70mm L glass for my Canon. I love the way I can be so close and still get a full body in the frame. Such a difference from my 50mm. Here we are practising (well I'm practising!). I had to convince the kiddos that it would be a good idea to go for an adventure hike down the part of our creek below the waterfall. I knew this would be a good area for our little one, so he wouldn't fall down and be in total danger in the creek. The hike down was pretty wild. I haven't been down here since the forest took over and I forgot how enormous things get here very quickly. We managed to beat a path, it was worth it once we were there. I had given the girls some sparkly buttons. They pretended they were jewels, and dug them into the mud to hide the treasure from the pirates! Then they would do a search to find the treasure, dig it up and wash it off in the water. It's amazing how long they played this game! The little man...well he was just content picking up rocks and watching them splash down and of course he loves to bang sticks against the water.

I didn't have much time to edit, so these are pretty much just sharpened for web. Now that I look at them they are quite grainy. iso 1600. We didn't know it but at the time it was raining. We were protected by the canopy of trees so it was kind of a nice surprise when we got out into the open again.