Beautiful Black and White

Black and white captures the heart and soul of the subject....this is my littlest minion, helping me out with an idea I had. I want to do a series of these eventually.

Head on over to I Heart Faces to see more beautiful black and white photos!

It's all about ME!

At least over at www.iheartfaces.com it is! This week, the challenge is 'Self Portraits'...Well, I hate having my picture taken, so that was a challenge in itself, lol...But, add in my 3 girls, and my self portrait was a breeze :0)




My kids are a part of me, and I am a part of them, so this just 'fit' for me, as a self-portrait :0)

So come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and see all the entries this week...and while you are at it, enter your own!

I heart faces....

Over at www.iheartfaces.com this week, the competition is for silhouettes! My sweet oldest girl, yoga posing on the beach, lol....what could be better :0)

I hope you come on over and enter!

Love that Shot-Faces

This is my middle bit, she will soon be seven years old!! Yikes! Where does the time go :( I take lots of photos of my kiddos, but this one speaks to me. This IS my girl, this photo captures her spirit so well! Spunky, happy, a bit of a tomboy...the perfect combination of sugar and spice :0)

I took this in my driveway with my Nikon D90 and my Tamron 28-75 2.8 lens. I processed it with CS5. My processing on this one was pretty simple, as are most of my photos. I cropped, sharpened, adjusted levels a tad and then did my black and white conversion with an action. I think it turned out perfect :0)

Chalk play

Over at www.iheartfaces.com this week, the theme of the weekly challenge is 'Chalk'...well just last week, our homeschool group did a group study on clouds. After looking at clouds, and learning about clouds, the kids got to draw some clouds. They used white chalk on blue paper....here is what my baby girl came up with.




I hope you come over to www.iheartfaces.com and enter a 'Chalk' entry of your own!

Smirk....

Yep, over at www.iheartfaces.com this week, they want to see smirks! My kids are pros at the smirk, lol However, this smirk doesn't belong to one of mine...it belongs to the sweetest little newborn I have ever photographed....he looks like he knows something you don't, doesn't he? 5 days old and already wise beyond his days!






So come on over and check out all the smirks this week! lol

Vrooom!

Over at www.iheartfaces.com this week, the competition theme is 'Vroom, Vroom Vehicles'! I have a bunch of different takes on this subject, everything from tricycles to hot air balloons, but this one of my middle bit playing with her 'Cars' is my favorite.



I hope you come on over and enter your own photo in this super fun challenge! See you there :0)

Beach fun!

This weeks challenge over at www.iheartfaces.com could not have come at a better time! We just got back from the beach, where I snapped at least 30 eleban million photos :0) We had some beach fun!

Anyhow, here is my choice for this weeks challenge...

I had my family all color coordinated, everyone was positioned...I was going to get a great family beach portrait to hang in my home....to remember our vacation. My children were all trying their best to behave and give mama a beautiful photo...now Hubby on the other hand....HA!

The best part is, I did not know he was doing this until way later, when we were back in the condo and I was scrolling through the days photos....the big Goober! lol



So, if you would like to see more beach fun photos, come on over and check out www.iheartfaces.com, you will love it!

Shady character

Yep, she certainly is, doncha think?

This week over at www.iheartfaces.com the theme for the weekly challenge is 'Gotta Wear Shades' So what do you think of my little model? Isn't she adorable with her pigtails and lolipop?



So, I hope you come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and see all the shady pics this week!

hehehehe....SURPRISE!!!!!!!

Come on over to www.iheartfaces.com to see some super surprise photos this week! Here is mine, this lady sure looks surprised, doesn't she??




When that owl went zooming past her at the bird show, I don't think she realized he was going to get so close!





So I hope to see you enter this week! Come on and give it a try :0)

Nothing rhymes with purple....

Seriously, nothing does rhyme with 'purple'....things that make you go hmmmmm, lol Anyhow, over at www.iheartfaces.com the weekly challenge is 'The Color Purple'.

This photo is of the 'Red Hat' ladies. They always wear purple, and then they wear a red hat to complete their outfit. You have to be over 55 to be a red hatter I believe, and these gals have a ton of fun. I am definately joining up when I get to be of age, lol So here they are...the red hatters...oh wait...one of these things is not like the other 0_o





So come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and check out all the 'purple' entries this week!

Sometimes I feel I am in over my head....

Hey, with three girls, anyone would feel a bit overwhelmed at times, lol This week at www.iheartfaces.com, the weekly competition is 'Over my Head' Love this challenge! There are so many things that could fit this category...

Here's my middle-bit, she's got Georgia on her mind...:0)





I hope you come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and see whats 'Up' this week!

Wanna pet my toad?

This week at www.iheartfaces.com, the challenge is 'PETS'! Well pets come in all shapes and sizes...some are fuzzy, some are not, some are slimey, warm blooded, cold blooded...so many different types of pets!

Here is one of ours....




My girls all love frogs, toads, snakes, lizards etc etc. Of course they love dogs, cats, horses and hamsters too...in fact I don't think there are too many animals they don't like!

So come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and see all the fabulous Pets!

Teen week!

Hey everyone, we are celebrating teens over at www.iheartfaces.com this week. I love shooting teens, they always have such personality :0) I loved shooting this senior, she is beautiful inside and out...



So if you have some shots of some beautiful teens, come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and enter into this weeks challenge!

Oh Baby!

Its all about babies over at www.iheartfaces.com this week! I can feel the baby fever setting in already. My baby days are over, I am sad to say....they grow up too fast!

So, I have to live vicariously through others, and photograph as many newborns as I can get my hands on :0) Take a look at this little chunker...



Can you guess what his daddy's job is? Yep, he is a fireman for our local fire department :0) Oh, and these aren't props, this is daddys actual gear! What a memory we created that day, Dad LOVED these shots!

Come on over to www.iheartfaces.com to see all the amazing baby pictures posted this week!

Wanna Play?

Over at www.iheartfaces.com, the theme this week is 'Play'...well, doesn't my baby's face say 'come on, lets play!' She is super serious when it comes to softball, and I am super serious when it comes to Twilight...great combonation, doncha think?



So come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and check out all the PLAY photos!

yellow is...

Yellow is the color my middle-bit wears while playing softball! Go Honeybees!

Come on over to www.iheartfaces.com to see all the yellow entries this week!

Faces and Flowers

So this week over at www.iheartfaces.com, the competition is for Flowers and Faces. Your photo must have at least one face and one flower in it....so...do I get extra points for a whole field full of flowers? Or should I say flower petals :0) This is my baby girl, sitting in a sea of cherry blossom petals that had dropped from the cherry trees. It looked like a magical fairy land and my little one was enchanted with all the blooms.




Come on over to www.iheartfaces.com to see all the other lovely entries this week, and submit your own!

Smile and the world smiles with you...

Over at www.iheartfaces.com this week, the competition is 'Smile!' I bet I am the only one who enters smiling piggies...whatch think ;)



This is my middle-bit, she was eager to help me out with this photo. We both were giggling non-stop by the time I got done drawing all the little piggy faces, lol

So come on over to iheartfaces, it is sure to put a smile on your face this week!

Oh the DRAMA!

The drama of dramatic black and whites that is!



Over at www.iheartfaces, the challenge this week is 'Dramatic Black and White'. My entry this time, is my middle girl. All three of my girls love to model for me, they are going to have TONS of photos to remember their childhoods with :0) perhaps the good and the bad?



There is a story behind this photo. What do you think that story is? It is a dramatic photo in my eyes, and in the eyes of my daughter. She can't even look at this photo of herself, she gets very sad whenever she sees it. I had an 8x10 made of it and she asked me to put it away.

Perhaps I will let you all in on the secret of this photo after the competition is over, until then, I will leave it up to your imaginations. I think the mystery of it adds to the impact this photo has. What do you think?

Come on over to www.iheartfaces.com and see some amazing dramatic black and whites, and jump on in and enter one of your own!