Black and White Wednesday

This is one of Isabelle's best friends. We're so happy we got to hang out with you guys at the zoo yesterday!

Arts and Crafts Challenge

The photo challenge this week over at the Yellow House is Arts and Crafts. I love the texture of these paintbrushes!

Touch up Tues!

This is my first time participating in Touch up Tues. Post processing has always been my achilles tendon. I feel like a kindergardener every time I open LightRoom. Part of it is that my style is very minimal. I want my pictures to look like I didn't have to touch them afterward. But of course I do. Especially now since I'm spending more time shooting in Raw.

Anyhow, I was looking through some older photos and came across this one. Shot in auto mode before I had any clue how to use my camera, it was in serious need of some adjusting. I feel like it's still a little off in color, but a lot better than the original!

SOOC:


And my edit:


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Simplicity Black and White Photo Challenge

I've posted this picture before but it's one of my favorite black and whites!





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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while!

I wish I could say that I was confident enough in my photo skills to get consistantly good photos every time. But I don't. Most days I'm lucky if I get one or two photos that I truely love and feel proud of. Yesterday was one of those days. Isabelle is not nearly as cooperative with me when it comes to taking pics as Sophie is. So when I get a genuine smile from Isabelle (instead of her quick-take-the-pic-so-I-can-have-a-sucker face) it really makes my day.

Since photography is a hobby that has really taken on a life of its own for me, I need to be reminded sometimes why I got into it in the first place. I want to preserve smiles like this.








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These are a few of my favorite things...

When I saw that this weeks Trendy Treehouse challenge was "Favorite Things" my first thought was some kind of tribute to Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes with maybe a few snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelases throw in for good measure. But then I remembered that it's 90 degrees right now so snowflakes are out and if I put my girls in white dresses they would only stay white for about 30 seconds. So, dreams of a Sound of Music tribute were cast aside. And Lord knows I post enough pictures of my girls on here.

And technically speaking, my girls aren't things,they're people. Which leaves me in the clear to admit to my very favorite thing. Bacon. I love it. Really.





And one more to make your mouth water!



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Sophie takes picky eater to a new level.

Sophie has always been a really picky eater. If she had her way it would be noodles and parmesan cheese or french fries for every meal. We keep offering her new foods, but most of them don't even make it close to her mouth let alone in it. And at 2.5 she tells me "No thank you. That's too yucky for me." Seriously?

Anyway, one of the few new foods that she actually likes is orange peppers. She won't touch the green or red peppers with a ten foot pole but can eat an entire orange one by herself.
(And by the way, am I the only one who gets crazy looks from the grocery store employees when I break out the camera and pose my girls in front of produce?)



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