I Heart Faces - Birthdays

This is my entry for I Heart Faces Week 21. This was taken at a school friend's birthday party. My kids will never even look at me when I want to take their picture; but sweet Eddie looked up and gave me a beautiful smile while waiting for us to sing to him :)

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I <3 Faces Laughter

Here is my entry for I Heart Faces Laughter category. Guest judge is my favorite blogger (and the blog that got me reading blogs - which eventually lead me to this blog) Pioneer Woman. Very exciting! This is my daughter; I got this with my brand new 50mm prime lens on the Big Wheel ferris wheel at the Irvine Spectrum. I think Ree might like it because it has spittle included (although I know she's partial to cow spittle).

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Baby H

OK, so here are photos of my first real (not so real) photo shoot. My friends Dave & Steph had a baby at the end of February and they allowed me to take some photos when she was 10 days old. So my first session was with a newborn and I learned a lot. I think I got a few good photos; Daddy was happy when he saw them this morning anyway, so that's a good sign. The photos look a little dark here though. Click on the photo above to see larger.

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I <3 Faces: Creative Crop entry

I took this photo of Lucas (my friends Paul & Lisa's boy) last summer. This was cropped in the camera. I love the way the color of his eyes just happens to match his shirt and his humongous eyelashes. I also love the funky crop (well at least it's funky for me).

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Album Designer - How Hard Can It Be?

This weekend I read Jeff's blog at PhotoWalkPro about a fun little project that has been making the rounds. I haven't personally seen it on Facebook yet; so I thought I'd get it going with some of my friends. The idea to use Photoshop (or similar) and some random titles and words to create an album cover for a fictitious band. So here’s how it works:

1 - Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random”
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to “Random quotations”
or http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. Give credit to the photographer.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it with this text in the “Body” and TAG the friends you want to join in.

The above photo is the one that I made from the exercise. I got lucky and happened upon a beautiful photo in flickr by Larissa °LaLi

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Tara Whitney Photo Collage

As is pretty evident on my page, Tara Whitney took photos of my family last summer. She was awesome, she was amazing with the kids and we have some amazing photos in the house. I recently downloaded a free program called shape collage and I thought it would be fun to use Tara's photos to pay a little tribute to her. The Shape Collage program allows you to make any shape you like and save as a jpg, png or even as a photoshop document for further editing. Unfortunately, the photos are really small in the collage above so you can't really appreciate them, but it's still kind if fun (if you click the photo above it opens on a new screen and you can see the individual pics better). Be sure to check out Tara's updated web-site or her blog; she is now offering home videos along with her photo packages which sounds like a lot of fun!

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I *heart* faces: Pets

OK, there is also a photo contest for pets this week. When we were in Scottsdale a couple weeks ago, I saw this HUGE dog with an amazing face at the Rock n Roll Marathon. In between cheering on the runners I kept staring at the dog. I finally got the courage to ask the owner if I could take some photos and she agreed. I found out it's not so easy to photograph dogs because they move around a LOT; but, here is my favorite.

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