I Heart Faces: Pets

As soon as I heard the theme was Pets, I knew exactly which once I would enter. Some of you may have seen this before, but I'm sure you'll get over it :). This is our kitty Isabelle. Isn't she pretty?
Go check out some more furry (and not so furry) friends at I HEART FACES!

Ribbit

Who'da thunk it...a tree frog in Michigan? I never knew! Found this little dude crawling/hopping up my window a couple nights ago. He was a lucky find! Isn't he cute!?

who needs fireworks?

I took these last night from my garage. Stupid? Maybe. Amazing? YES!

Who needs fireworks? Mother nature puts on a pretty amazing show all by herself!

Project SOOC: Group 2 Edited

Ok...here they are. My lovely little Rosie Cheeks. I've been toying with the idea of framing some of these and putting them in the girls' new play room. We'll see. Anyway, I've really been loving my back and white photos lately. You just nevermind my ever changing watermark. I haven't made up my mind on what I want. If you have an opinion, shout it out!

I Heart Faces : Celebrating Teens

This week we're "celebrating teens" at I Y Faces. Isn't this 2010 High School Grad beautiful? Go check out so more teeny boppers over at I Y Faces!

Fix-It Friday!

It's Fix-it Friday again. I haven't done one in a while so I thought I would today.

Just look at this little cutie! I love her skin...Isn't she just yummy?

ORIGINAL

edits

So, after a little Coffeeshop Perfect Portrait Action, I added a couple of solid color layers and changed their opacity and such. It looked just right when I was editing it, but now on blogger it's lookin a little over bright and more pink than I thought. Not sure what's going on. OH WELL...either you like it or you don't! Go get your FIX at I Y Faces.

Project SOOC: Group 2

I took these a couple of weeks ago for my Rosie Cheeks 18 month pictures. She's just getting so big I wanna cry. She already talks so much, I'm not ready for her to be a big chatty toddler. So, here they are as promised, SOOC group numero dos. Isn't she precious? Ok...so the last one isn't SOOC. I accidentally saved over the original with the edited version, but isn't it just sweet?

I Heart Babies

Look at those cheeks! I want to eat her up! Check out I Y Faces for more squishy babies!

Project SOOC: Group 1 Edited

Ok...I lied. I retouched them, and I couldn't stand to wait a week to post them! Here they are...

CRITTERS

We went camping for Memorial Day weekend. I found this Spider when I caught his web right in the face. I don't think he was happy...this is the look he gave me.

There we tons of these little damsel flies around. They're so beautiful. I love that black and iridescent green combo!

My daughter found this microscopic cricket on our patio table as we were getting ready to leave home for camping. I'm so glad she told instead of squishing him. I LOVE this photo.

We went to Holland, MI after camping and visited Dutch Land. If you haven't been, go. They have real wooden shoes that you can actually wear, and YES they are SOOOO comfortable! This bee just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I was sad I missed all the tulips, but they still had lots of flowers everywhere. This bee just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

And...this dude was hobbled across our lawn one afternoon. My AVJ really wanted to keep him as her pet turtle. Yeeaah...no. I have a picture of her with the turtle, but that's later.

Project SOOC: Group 1

Ok...here we go! Lets get this Project SOOC going! I'm going to try to group these in themes like critters, people, and plants. Please remember that SOOC means "Straight Out Of Camera." That means I haven't corrected any goofs I made, or brighten them up, or added contrast, or... well...ANYTHING (Hence the term SOOC)! If you have something interesting to say or a CONSTRUCTIVE critique to add, feel free!

This is my group #1:

CRITTERS

A Little Sweetness

Ok...before I do any of my little project, I figure I better get this little angle up for her mommy. (she did let me practice on this little cutie princess after all!) So here she is! You may remember her from an earlier post. I think it's been about 4 months. Isn't she so cute!? I just want to eat her up!

Still Here

I'm still here! We moved into our new house a almost 2 weeks ago. We've really been enjoying ourselves! So, I haven't had anytime for the other fluff I normally do(which includes this blog). I'm spending the next week unpacking (FINALLY!). It's just too tempting to stay outside in the sunshine and play when you actually have a yard!

After our life is unpacked and put away I'll be back. I'll be bringing a new project. I've decided to go SOOC (straight out of camera, for all you non-photogy people) for a week and then go back the following week and do post processing. I'm hoping that this will help me better my photography before it actually hits the computer. You see, I really love to draw and paint (but with kids there's not enough time). And so, I really like small details in faces like catch lights in eyes and how you can see that the light shines through the eye and lights up the opposite edge of the iris. I love me some Photoshop, and the eyes are the first thing I hit up when I open my photos. It'll probably drive me nuts to not post process everything right away, but I'm gonna do it...for one month. It shouldn't be too hard at first (my regular computer with PSE on it is still packed away!) I hope I improve as much as I think I will. I'll let you be the judge!

Here's a my Rosie Cheeks while you wait! (taken today...SOOC :) )