52 project: Week 7

This weeks Subject was Negative space and the themes where profile & connected. I had 3 shoots last week and I decided to use one of my shots from a maternity shoot. It was perfect for this theme!

I am absolutely in love with this shot., but I'm pretty sure its just me! LOL 

I bought Paint the Moon's Luminosity collection this week. It was an excellent investment indeed!!! I am really loving these actions, I can't say it enough!

Like I said I had several shoots last week so I will have several shots to share by next week, so stay tuned. In the meantime, you should critique my work. Honestly, I love being critiqued!

PTM'S 52 project: week 6

This week the topic was "Good Morning!" & the themes were "yellow" & "strength". The point was to photograph anything that reminds you of the morning time. I think the most obvious thing would be a sunrise, surprisingly I haven't seen anyone submit one yet, although I am sure by the end of the week some one must... right? So I decided to go with one thing I do every single morning without fail, cook my sweet baby breakfast! Here is my submission for this week:

Nailed it. LOL!

Can you guess which theme I went with?

So I have a couple new shoots I will be sharing in the next couple of weeks! A maternity shoot and a minimalist black & white shoot with both a female & a male model. Score! I can't wait to get these edited & shared so I will work, work, work, as fast as I can! I am a one man army here, so bare with me!

Anyway, peace & love!

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PTM's 52 project: Week 5

Hello lovelies, one & all,

I hope everyone's weekend is going spectacular! May your team win the super bowl!

Today I would like to share with you this weeks submission & runner ups for PTM's week 5. This weeks subject was "finding the light" & the themes were creatures & repetition. So after much debate, I decided to submit this one for the theme creatures:

This was a close runner up, but for the theme repetition:

also a close runner up for repetition:

I love the lighting in this one! 

These are a couple more shots I took this week:

So what do you think, which picture should I have submitted? Would you have chosen the same one I did or one of the runner ups? Why? Comment below! 

Facebook cover photos

So let me start by saying Happy Friday!

Today I have been playing with Photoshop and making Facebook photo covers because 1. I can't ever find just the right image & 2. I rather enjoy it. On this first one I must admit that NONE of the images are mine... they were all found on  pinterest and put together to make this:

This is 4 separate images put together to make prettiness.

 I would give credit where credit is due but I cannot locate the origin of the images. If you know where they originated, feel free to comment with the links below! 

I have another I am in the process of making, I was actually hoping to have it in this post as well, but I do not see myself finishing it today. It is defiantly taking longer than expected & I have a two year old demanding my attention! 

I think I will be making more of these! Use it if you like! 

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, LIFE IS SHORT

I read the most amazingly inspiring blog posts this morning. It is from one of my very favorite fellow photographers, Lidia Grigoreon. I really look up to her!  Everything about this woman is inspiring, her attitude towards life, her work, her words, her relationship with her daughter, her battle with cancer. I think that this particular post from her is especially inspiring, so much so that I want to share it with everyone!
Click the link below:

http://www.ohsoposhphotography.com/blog/?p=6071


I think that as a photographer it is part of your job to capture the beauty that is life. The best part is we all have our own way of doing so, beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all!
Anyway please take some time to read her post, it is long but well worth the long read! & pass it on if it touches your heart, someone you know may really need these inspiring words to help them along!

Never take what you have for granted, love with your whole heart, & laugh until it hurts!

Here are some images of the beauty I have captured in my own life:

PTM'S 52 project: Week 4

For week four the topic was "A different perspective" & the themes were "blue & renewal".
All week long I was trying to get shots laying on the ground looking up I envisioned my entry for the week to be a picture of my son with the sky as the background. Unfortunately  I could never get my two year old to stand still long enough to get this shot.  By Friday, I still had no shot for this week. Thankfully a friend of mine, one of my best friends, took me out to a burlesque fashion show on Friday. I ended up with this shot from the balcony:

I know its noisy. It was dark in there my iso was at 1600. I need a speedlite for these situations, my on camera flash just doesn't work for this type of situation! That is my next purchase as far as camera equipment goes! 

I want to share one more shot I did for this topic although it has nothing to do with either blue or renewal, but I think it's cute! 

"Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys." 

(I think it's too late!)

Paint the moon's 52 project- week 3

This year I thought it would be great to try LOTS of new things with my photography, You know, expand my horizons. So, I have decided to take part in Paint The Moon Photography's (Annie Manning) 52 project for 2013. I missed the first two weeks of the project because I simply knew nothing about it. This project encompasses lifestyle photography based around weekly themes. 

This is my submission for week 3- "this makes me want to freeze time" 

The themes were dream or matching. 

I think that this goes more with the dream theme. You know how you sometimes dream memories? (at least I do.) This image to me seems like something I may look back on in the future or perhaps one of my memories that will reoccur in a dream, because of his laughter and how much he enjoys the car that Santa brought him. This toy is one of the few he plays with everyday, it is one we enjoy together because he likes it when I push him in it so he can drive fast and he laughs all the while (especially if we are chasing the cats)!