Lights, Camera, Action!

We hit up the Raleigh Christmas Parade this morning, and I schlepped along the big camera for the first time in a while.  Of course, I was disappointed to learn I'd forgotten the battery.

So once we were home, the girls were eager to show me their rope skipping skills like the Cary YMCA Super Skippers, so I thought I'd experiment shooting in manual with jump ropes.  I think I'll need to up the shutter speed to 1/1000, and the high ISO made it a little grainy.  But for not having tried in a while, not too bad.

Of course my favorites were the more sitting still/tree shots.