breaking all the rules

The more I learn about photography, the more I want to take pictures. And the more I take pictures, the more I get to practice using this technical piece of equipment. Yet, instead of getting better and better at following 'the rules', I find myself more often breaking the rules.

Rule #1: only shoot without the flash when you have tons of natural light.

*Since it's not very often I perfect indoor light I have to do what I have to do - - shoot in shutter priority mode and up the ISO (don't I sound so fancy? for the most part I really don't know what I'm talking about)

Rule #2: watch out for overly bright light sources behind your subject

*Oops.

Rule #3: blurry photos = bad. erase them.

*thanks to this girl and her amazing blog, I've embraced those blurry photos that I love. Blurry is okay. It's really okay. Every photo-blurry or not-tells the story of life.

Rule #4: hey, clean up a little

*just threw that one in there for fun. I try to clean up whatever will just show in the pictures if only to keep the pretense that I'm a good housekeeper. But that's life right now - messy rooms, playing with babies, and taking pictures of it all.

Some rules were just meant to be broken.