Turning your childs room into an artificial outdoor space makes for a unique decorating idea! Plus, surrounding them with reminders of the outdoors and items to climb, hang, swing or slide on make for tons of fun. Here is a video of our youngest taking advantage of the furniture in her brothers’ room. The climbing wall…
Camping Simplified - Continued
Yesterday in my post, Camping Simplified, I gave a couple ideas on how to take the ‘difficult’ out of camping with your kids. Here are a couple more to rummage around in. * When you do your regular grocery shopping pick up the things you’ll need for the camping trip and set them aside when you…
Camping Simplified
Today I had a friend post this comment on my personal blog… “you guys look like you are always having so much fun. we really need to get out and camp more but it takes sooo much work to plan and get ready.” Well, I have a sign hanging in my house that says, “Live Simply”. It’s constantly reminding me…
Photo Tips Part III
This is the third post of the Nature For Kids outdoor photography tips series. Use these tips to improve your family outing pictures. Lighting: Understanding and using light in a photograph is difficult. I have three tips that I know of to make the light in your pictures look the most natural. Keep in mind,…
Photo Tips, Part II
In Part I of Outdoor Photography I talked about outdoor portraits. Now I’m going to talk about creative ways to arrange an outdoor subject in a photograph. There are 5 compositions we will cover. Quickly and Easily…I promise. 1. Leading Lines: Use a natural line to draw the eye to your subject. Some examples are bridges,…
Outdoor Photography Tips
Part I Outdoor Portraits Want to take better summer vacation pictures of your kids outdoors?! I just finished an outdoor photography class through the continuing education here at a local college. Here’s some quick tips. Okay I’ll start out with the simple things I learned that are super effective! *When taking a portrait shot (where…