Photos of the Week: Week 1

Well....here goes nothing! As I blogged about before, I'm taking part in three photography challenges this year. Here are the pictures for the first week:

Theme: Happy New Year!
I took this picture of the first sunrise in 2011 from our condo at the base of the ski lift in Red River, New Mexico. I thought it was cool to have a picture of the first rays of sun shining on 2011.

Theme: Still Laughing
I fear that this picture may be one of those "you just had to be there" situations, but I was there, so I think it's great. Here were the "adults" on the Family Ski Trip ringing in the new year. It's hard to catch action shots, but capturing the champagne bubbling over in the bottom left corner seemed to work out!

And for the challenge with no theme: Suisse

I caught this shot with Cousin Swiss Mister's camera while I was traveling in Europe in August 2009. The flag was on the back of a boat that was sailing on Lake Geneva with the Alps in the background.