Cooper River Bridge

Here is Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, S.C.  This bridge is gorgeous at night, as you can see.  This view is from the pier just off the downtown shoreline.  I was lucky to get this shot this night because after I took this one they began to turn off the big lights at the base.  I know this is not the best shot because of the pier showing at the bottom of the picture, but, like I said, I had no other choice but to show this one.  And just in case you didn't know, the majority of downtown Charleston was man made.  I'm not talking about the buildings, obviously, I'm talking about the peninsula.  This was taken at 7:56pm (eastern time), during summer,  on a Panasonic DMC-LZ8, 5.8 aperture, 30sec shutter speed, ISO 100, and 19mm focal length.

Covered Bridge

Ok, here is the covered bridge I was talking about earlier.  Matt and I have been trying to find one of these to take pictures of for a while now.  We found one in Pigeon Forge but it was impossible to get a good shot of it.  This is found in Mahomet, Illinois in the Lake of the Woods county park.  It is absolutely gorgeous.  This would also be an awesome place to take senior pictures, wedding shots, bridal shots, engagements shots, etc.  I will definitely be hitting this place up again when it starts to snow.  This shot was taken at 1:50pm, shutter speed of 1/50sec, aperture of 8, ISO of 100, focal length of 24mm, I always use a polarizer on my lens, and of course the tripod.  I did some color enhancements and cropping in Photoshop.

Budget Budget Budget

We have taken care of our budget and fixated on our debt.  We are currently putting about 33% of our income into debt.  I am hoping by this summer I will have a full time job and triple my income in order to get out of debt faster.  My hope is to pay off the truck no later than March 2011.  My part-time job just isn't cutting it.  I am going to talk to a few people and see if I can rent a space to teach trumpet lessons in order to have extra income.  Other than that, we are living extremely tight right now until we are out of debt.  "Live like no one else, so you can live like no one else" (Dave Ramsey, 'Total Money Makeover')