i never "win" anything!

I can honestly say that I never "win" anything. I'm never one to enter into any big sweepstakes, givewaways, maybe. I think I've participated in the lottery maybe 2 or 3 times in my life at best, and the last contest I really entered was probably the coloring contest from our local pizza shack (oh, wait a minute, I think I won the Hello Kitty toothbrush holder...when I was 5). No, I'm not like my sister who has entered Publisher's Clearinghouse for the family every year since she was about 12. I did, however, enter a recent photo in the iheartfaces girlfriends challenge and much to my surprise, I won! Then today, Lolli, from Better in Bulk, announced that she had picked my photo for last week's Bloggography Challenge!

Really, me? I'm wondering if this is a sign...

:)

bloggography challenge, week 2

This week's challenge was to take photos of children's toys while experimenting with different ISO's (these were all taken in P mode). We have had this Mickey airplane since Kieran's 1st birthday. He still rides it in the house and does laps and he's almost 4. Anna will ride on it occasionally, but mostly presses the buttons for the music :) For some reason, this is the one toy that all kids that come to our house gravitate toward. It's Mickey and there's music, enough said. So, I gravitated toward taking a picture of it, because I know when it's retired Kieran will ask where it went :)

1/5 sec ISO:100 f-stop: 5.6

Canon 20D, Canon 17-85mm f/4-5.6

 

1/20 sec ISO: 200 f/ 4.5

1/20 sec ISO: 400 f/5.0

1/25 sec ISO: 800 f/5.6

I'm looking forward to the next challenge!