New Camera - better pics.....hopefully

So For Christmas my family got me a new camera.  A digital 35 mm which I have been working very hard to learn how to use. My background is in photography but the old fashion kind that involved film, chemicals and darkrooms.  I was the queen of manuel photography.  However my version of manuel and my new digital camera's version of manuel are vastly different so bear with me while I try to master this modern beast and provide you with better exposed, less blurry (unless I intend it) pretty pictures.

First up - as I mentioned in the early post my Mom commissioned me to do a piece on a Monarch butterfly.  It is for a friend of my parents who's wife passed away a few years ago.  She loved Monarch butterflies....very sweet

The finished product!

Also here are some better shots of the abstract I mentioned in my previous post.  
Remember the one where I'm warring with myself over color choices and have admitted my craziness?  
Remember that one? 
 How could you not?!  
It's where I came out to the world and admitted what a nut job I can be in my creative processes
Oh well -  here's hoping a pretty painting will make up for the fact that there's a crazy train running lose :)

And remember those little ameobas (from when I wasnt crazy)
Well they are finished and photographed .   
 I'm getting ready to post them on my Etsy shop.  


Ameoba 1

Ameoba 2

Ameoba 3

Ameoba 4

and now for a random photograph not about my art
My fish Petri