I am trying to get better and learn as much as I can about photography. As I delve in, I continue to find sites that help in this adventure. There are so many contests and challenges to take part in. Winning is not the point. The point is just getting out and shooting to see what you come up with and learning to do more with your camera. Plus, it's a blast! :o) Thanks for stopping in! I only post contest and challenge entries on this blog. Visit my photography blog for more of my photography!

Monday, April 4, 2011

The last few days

In the past I have wanted to get pictures of the moon and have been unsuccessful. I read some info on how to and couldn't wait to get out and try to get some shots. I waited til the next clear sky came and got out to get some practice. Of course, since then I totally missed the beautiful full moon, but at least while I was practicing, I got a decent shot of a partial moon. 


the long road

A while back, we had fun playing at the park and going through tunnels. This is my take on The Paper Mama's them for her current week's challenge: SURPRISE. 
Peek-a-boo at the park!

The Paper Mama

This past Theme Thursday's theme was WATER. Here is the pic I took on Thursday waiting in the car to go into my niece's school to visit her and take her class some treats. 
Raindrops on windows


I got some great pics of a field burning along the highway on one of our many trips to Wichita. I call this one Deer in the Flames. Can you see it?


Thanks for visiting!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

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. 
Head on over there and check out more awesome pics!

 I thought I would enter this one into a few other challenges, too since it applied to them. :o) 
Check out these awesome challenges as well!
   the long road

Friday, March 25, 2011

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.


Head on over and see more phone pics at

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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!




Sunday, March 20, 2011

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. 


Check out other Green photos over at 

The Paper Mama

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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.