I am running a little behind this month on my blog circle post, but with good reason. The end of April is always super busy for several reasons. It is the time of year when STAAR testing takes place in the public schools here in Texas so I was busy tutoring and testing kiddos. On top of all that, Brinley’s birthday is May 1st so the end of April means party planning and present shopping. So I apologize for the late post.

This month’s blog circle topic/theme was f/11. In basic terms that means that the camera is set to an aperture that closes the opening that lets in the light so that less light gets in. It also affects the amount of an image that is in focus. With an aperture of f/11, a majority of the image is in focus. Some of you may be thinking “why wouldn’t you want everything in focus?”.  Have you ever seen one of those shots where the person’s face is in focus and everything else seems to be a creamy blur, drawing your eye straight to the face….that is done using a lower aperture and that is where the creativity in photography comes into play. I won’t bore you with all the technical details, instead let’s get straight to the photos for this month!

For Brinley’s 2nd birthday we decided to take her to the zoo. She was so excited and the whole way there she kept saying “I go see aminals!” I figured it was the perfect opportunity to not only capture her birthday adventure, but take some images at f/11 for this post.