a slice of my weekend

This weekend we took a little trip to stay with the grandparents and go see one of my husband's best friend's band (7 Year Itch) play. We appreciated two nights out of the house, while the grandparents watched our little one. Friday night, I took my camera with me and practiced shooting in the dark without the flash. It was fun and I got some fun pics. I took some color pics and I played around with my Monochromatic setting on my camera as well. This picture has not I will be posting more pics later on, but here is just a little slice of our life from this weekend. 

The theme over at I Heart Faces this week is Slice of Life. 

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 I thought I would enter this one into a few other challenges, too since it applied to them. :o) 

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iPhoneology

This is my first time participating in an iPhoneology challenge or as I would like to call it, an androidology challenge. I guess we are just supposed to post pics taken on our phone. I figured I would post some pics of what I tend to take the most pics of: my sleeping child. :)

A few of these were taken in the past week and the rest were taken in the past couple weeks.

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Theme Thursday: Active

I found a fun challenge over at Nicole's blog, (thanks for visiting my blog and leaving some comment luv!) and thought it'd be fun to participate! Today's theme is Active.

We went bowling yesterday and I got a shot of my sister-in-law in action. I thought it was kind of a cool pic and thought it fit the theme. 

This is only the second week of Theme Thursday, so make sure you check out the other pics over there!

Green

I thought I would enter into the Paper Mama's Green challenge this week. 

The picture just needs some green in it. I know most people are probably posting pics from St Patty's Day, but I thought I'd post a cute pic where you can see the green plane. 

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Sun Flare

I went outside and took some pics of my little boy today in the beautiful weather. I figured it was a great time to practice some sun flare pictures and get one to submit for the iheartfaces challenge. I took some other pics too and would love your feedback. I don't know a whole lot about taking sun flare pics. I didn't do really anything in post-processing. 

Check out all the other sunglare photos at iheartfaces.com. 

Sun flare shots

This week's challenge over at iheartfaces is sun flare. So I took my little boy and my camera outside in the beautiful weather we are having today and tried to get some sun flare shots. 

Here are some of the shots I took. The last one is the one I am submitting for the challenge.
These are all SOOC shots. If you have any CC on what I should do in post-processing, I would love to hear it. The only thing I did on the one I submitted was a little color enhancement. 

Best Face in February

This week's theme is another People's Choice Photo Challenge: Best Face in February. Since I took my son's one year photos in February, I thought it would be nice to use one of his photos. It's up close and personal. I love that you can see his frizzy curls. I love those curls! 

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Fix it Friday #89

I played around with this week's Fix it Friday a little more than usual, so I have a couple different edits below.

If you want to see some other great edits, head over to iheartfaces.com.

The original - take by Dana @ http://www.danasuggs.com/

First edit - I don't believe you should crop images if you don't need to, so I left this one, just polished up the colors a little bit.

Second edit - Had some fun removing the color. Here is a sepia version.

Third edit - cropped and given a BW green/blue tint

Fourth - My favorite crop. I just love seeing faces close up! I played with the colors a little bit and popped the eyes a little.