Tagged by my friend

Michelle. So the deal is to go into my photo folder and pick the 6th folder and the 6th picture and post it on my blog. Since I was tagged while at Disney, I picked from the folders before Disney and the folders after Disney, LOL.

Before:


After:


And now I get to tag 6 people:
Noel, Jawan, Natalie, Cheryl, & Shelley. I know that's five. If you are reading and want to play, please consider yourself tagged, LOL!!!

Sky Scape

Oh, I love clouds. This is my all time favorite cloud picture:



I have more recent ones, too. After our unexpected snow, the sky cleared and there was this whisp of cloud floating by:


I could go on, LOL! I love the clouds :).

Happy First Day of Spring!

To celebrate the Scrapbook Shoppe girls are posting their five favorite things about Spring. Check out the Scrapbook Shoppe Blog to see all the lists.



Credits: Light green, brown and lower pink papers: Jen Wilson; Tags & blue clip: Susan Bartolini; Upper pink paper, blue paper, heart overlay: Mandy Made; Brads: Leah Riordan Designs; Ink: Rhonna Farrer; Stitching with sequins: D Corbitt.

Hope

In the south, Spring seems to explode from a dark and dreary world. I am very happy to be in the midst of that change of seasons.

Check out Shutter Sisters. There's a burgeoning sense of something about to happen. I'm very intrigued.

Lucky in Love: The rest of my layouts!

So I finished all these about a week ago I guess. I had a great time playing along with all the fun people at DSM. The games end tomorrow, so check it out!

Here's the link to my Lucky in Love Album. All the credits are right there :).

A Dream of Spring

I love the bokeh in this shot. I used my macro lens and manual focus. The breeze was blowing so it was a bit difficult. I really think the background looks like a painting in this one.

Shutter Sisters continues to be a wonderful inspiration to me :).

Post Processing Pictures

I guess that's PPP, LOL. I've been spending a lot of time doing clean and simple processing on my pictures. You know, the working with a calibrated monitor, getting rid of the color casts, no obvious color or eye pop type of processing. Today on Shutter Sisters Tracey is encouraging photographers to let go of a little of that and see where radical post processing takes you.

I have one example to share right off. This is a picture from last October. A combination of factors conspired to lead me to a picture that was pretty wretched sooc. So to "save" it for my album and our own fairy grandmother, I really worked on it:



Credits: Template: Moriginals; Font: Times New Roman; Blue paper: Baers Garten Design; Cream paper: Amanda Dykan; Text path: Kristin Aagard Designs.

I don't know about you, but I'm terrible about actually printing the things I work on in the computer. This one I actually printed as a 5x7 to give to the Fairy Grandmother, and it looked beautiful. Much better than I expected.

Here is another one:



Credits: Frame: Anna Aspnes; Cream Paper: Doris Castle; Clipping mask: Amanda Johnston.

I guess radical post-processing for me goes along with digital scrapbooking :).

Weeds

There is something fascinating about small things to me. Next to taking pictures of my daughter, my favorite things to take pictures of include leaves, sticks and weeds. I'm thinking about starting a series of this type of images. We'll see.

Here's one to start with in any case:


I'm including this in the Flickr set for Shutter Sisters' word of the month. Here's a link: Weed 1.

Don't forget the G45 DT Call!

Check it out!!!

Snow?

Yes, it's snowing at my house. What a treat!



I'm really enjoying Shutter Sisters. This is my first month to participate in the their One Word challenge. Check it out! How could I not participate :).

And here's my Flickr link. I don't know what I'm doing over there, but I added my picture to their pool, LOL. We'll see how it goes this month.