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Photography

My New Toy

September 5, 2010

I’ve been wanting to get a macro lens for quite some time now. None of my lens would really let me get close-up and they don’t give you that nice bokeh background (which I love). It’s either everything is in focus or everything behind what I want to be in focus is in focus. I [...]

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Summer Shots: Sweet Shot Tuesday

August 30, 2010

It seems that the summer is coming to an end.  It has been a bit cooler around these parts, but you can still feel that an unbearably hot day is still a possibility.  The theme over at I Heart Faces this week is photojournalism. I made this collage of portraits of TJ from each month [...]

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Sweet Shot Tuesday

August 17, 2010

I was wondering around the yard the other day while TJ was playing. While I was snapping photos of my roses, TJ came over to me and I gout this shot with my wide angle lens. I love it. He has such a serene and sweet look on his face and I love how you [...]

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I Wouldn’t Typically…

August 16, 2010

…enter a cell phone picture into a photography contest, but this little boy LOVES this ball and it’s a perfect fit for the Pioneer Woman’s assignment for “Love” this week. He’s actually sleeping with it right now. Seriously.

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Sweet Shot Tuesday: The Pups

August 3, 2010

Before I had a kid, the only other thing or things to take pictures of in our backyard was the dogs. Prior to 2008, I have a lot of dog pictures. So, last night the unbearable heat had died down quite a bit and TJ wanted to play in his sandboxes (also known as sprinkling [...]

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Sweet Shot Tuesday

July 27, 2010

I usually post my photography related posts on my photo blog, but I decided to share the love with my personal blog today. I think this is my second sweet shot and I got a pretty cute one yesterday while trying to get shots for all of my other photography related posts. I like taking [...]

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Amarillo in Photos

July 10, 2010

I Heart Faces is having a America themed week, so I did a short photo essay so to speak of Amarillo.  Go check it out on my photo blog! And tomorrow, if I get time, I’ll tell you about our adventure at the mall today.  It was sort of messy to say the least.  You’ll [...]

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Photo Editing Tip #1: Shadows on Faces

May 3, 2010

This is the first of many tips that I am going to share with you. Many of these are going to be tips that I find along the way while editing photos of my own. My first one is on fixing shadowy faces. I did my first studio shoot in my house back in February [...]

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I’m in Love with Photoshop Actions

April 22, 2010

Ever since I found The Pioneer Woman’s Photoshop Actions, I’ve been in love. I’ve also tried out a few of MCP Actions free actions and I can’t wait until I can get to buy some. I used her free Blog It Board action for the I Heart Faces collage week and loved it. MCP Actions [...]

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More Collages

April 20, 2010

I played around with several collages before I came up with my TJ Swinging collage idea. Here’s what I came up with. Our trip to Dolores, Colorado. The cabin belongs to my mother and father in law. The hummingbird picture was take on the porch and the photo below is Cliff Palace The place is [...]

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