hearts

i heart faces is doing hearts this week!

Self Portrait

This week at I Heart Faces is all about self portraits.

Orange

This weeks theme at I Heart Faces is orange. I snapped this photo a couple weeks ago of my daughter playing in the front yard at my parents house. The light was beautiful.

Smirk

This image is actually an out take from my the one year portraits of my twins. I ended up loving this photo so much, that it was the only one I had printed. The little look my son is giving is his, "I'm up to noooo good" look. Check out the other smirk photos at I Heart Faces.

Photojournalism

This weeks theme for i heart faces is photojournalism. Basically, we can pick an image or images to tell a story. I have plenty of photos that when put together, tell a story. However, I wanted to choose just one image that could stand on its own. I was debating if I wanted to actually tell you what is going on or let you come up with your own ideas. I decided that if I had to actually tell you what was going on, then the image itself wouldn't be telling the story. I hope you enjoy.

Over My Head

My sweet little boy discovering the joys of a colander! Check out the others at I Heart Faces

All About Baby

This week at I Heart Faces they are doing babies. I had a really hard time picking just one, but I finally decided on this little chunker.

Yellow

Head over to I Heart Faces to see everyone's yellow themed photos.

Flowers and Faces

This week I Heart Faces is doing flowers and faces. While this technically isn't a flower, it is still foliage, so hopefully it counts.

Day 122: Dramatic Black and White

Dramatic black and white is the theme this week for i heart faces. Check out what everyone else did too!

I heart faces is doing angles this week. I have some very strong opinions on this style of photography. One of the things I figured out early on when I was taking all my photo classes in college is that things can appear to have more movement or appear more interesting when taken at an angle. Now, while this may be true, I really think it needs to be done right. There is this crazy epidemic going around of people who take a photo straight on, but it looks like they had a tripod that with one really short leg. They are the ones where the subject looks like they are almost laying on their sides or can fall over at any moment. Sorry if you are one of those photographers, but it drives me nuts. A little tilt is OK, but I just don't like it when it is taken to the extreme. Again, I don't mean to offend anyone, I just had to put it out there. OK, on to my photo. This was taken at one of our little play dates at a local park. Very fun day!

Day 120: Wagon Babies

One of my favorite things about photography today is the ability to use a computer to manipulate and edit an image. This week iheartfaces is doing textures. I love adding textures to my photos. This one was taken just before Thanksgiving dinner.

Day 119: Family

iheartfaces is doing families this week.

Day 118: Ella

Happy birthday to iheartfaces! This week we have a fun theme. We had to pick our best shot that was taken either this month or last month. Since I got my new 7D for Christmas I have been taking a lot of shots that I really like so I was having a hard time picking one. That is until yesterday. I took the kiddos out onto the front lawn to play in the sunshine and I took this one of Ella. I think she is eating some grass here.

Day 117: Logo

I had a bunch of ideas I wanted to do for the theme this week, but just ran out of time. Check out what others have done at iheartfaces.



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Day 116: Playing with Puppy

I know this is not an award winning photo or anything, but every time I see it, it makes me smile. It was hard for me to pick a photo for this week. I have a ton of really good ones of different animals, but I still keep coming back to this one. It got me thinking about what photography is really about. Is it about the perfect exposure, focus, composition, or processing? No. I realized it is about making you or your clients smile. Your client most likely has no idea what any of those terms mean, what they do know is that when they look at a shot that makes them smile, it doesn't matter if it is technically perfect. That's how I feel about this one. Sure there are some problems, but it makes me remember how much fun we had that day! See what photos other people have chosen at i heart faces.

Day 115: Sleeping Bear

There is just something so sweet about a sleeping baby. Check out the other sleeping faces at iheartfaces.

Day 114: Tushy Time

This week I heart faces is doing I heart tooshies! Here is my little girl in one of her 1st birthday photos. I love her little silver tooshy!!!!

Day 113: Book

So do you all remember my Pat in the Hat photo? Well, it has been officially published in the I Heart Faces book from Blurb. Pat even made the front cover! He thinks it's because he is "man pretty," his words, not mine. I think it is because I am awesome! If you want to see all the photos check it out here!

Day 112: Fix It Friday

It has been awhile since I have had time to sit down and take part in a Fix-It-Friday for iheartfaces. I did everything in Lightroom and Gimp.

Original

Black and White

Textured

Color Fix

Day 111: Pink

This week is PINK in celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness month. This picture of Ella was snapped a while back while she was just chilling in her little pink chair. See more pink photos at iheartfaces.

Day 110: Excitement

iheartfaces is doing excitement this week. This was Ella's first time on a swing and she was squealing with excitement! She loved every moment of it.

Day 109: Bath Boy

For iheartfaces this week, we are supposed to post a candid shot. Here is a shot of Jack I took the other night when they were taking their bath.