I Heart Faces: Week 9 "Hilarious Outtakes"

I apologize to my followers about being missing in action lately. We have been dealing with a lot of personal and family health issues. In fact, I wasn't doing many shoots due to all of the stress (my aunt is battling leukemia, my dad is fighting heart problems, my daughters have been passing around pneumonia). It just has been very stressful.
However, my first day back "on the job" was amazing!

This first photo was from the shoot, and it just made me laugh so hard. Not because of what is going on, but it appears that Daddy is encouraging the action!! :-)

These next ones were just random shots with my friends and family that were just priceless :-)

Now wait- i HAVE to explain this picture! My daughters made their own wrapping paper for their friend Connor! They spent so much time coloring it and just making it really pretty. Well, when he started to unwrap it, my middle daughter (Hailee- in the pink) FREAKED out! She got sooo upset that he was ruining her artwork! This picture is half way through Connor opening the gift. He opened it very slowly to prevent her from freaking out, and my oldest daughter (Kaydance- making the face) was just LOVING the fact that her little sister was getting upset!! She was WAITING for the next temper tantrum!!





OK- again... this was CONNOR'S birthday party!! Everyone was gathered around taking pictures of Connor and, leave it to Hailee to get jealous, she just HAD to get in on the action. So, again, this is MID OPENING PRESENTS time and Jesse (Connor's Daddy) took time out of watching his son open gifts to make sure Hailee got her minute of fame!






This was a shoot I did for a good friend of mine. In this picture, baby Lachlan decided he had business to take care of! He was quite vocal- and ripe for that matter. His sister, Jade, did NOT like the situation at all!





I was trying to get a picture of my youngest daughter standing up on her own!! I was so excited! Except, once I let go, she started to slide (her legs slid outward, doing the splits). I tried to catch her and accidently pressed the button... right at the moment that she ripped her pants!!



Be sure to check out "i heart faces" at www.iheartfaces.com to see all of the other HILARIOUS outtakes!!

Week 4: Texture Me

This picture is one that I think is just fascinating. It is so very subtle, but says so much. When I heard we were challenged by "www.iheartfaces.com" this week to work with texture, I INSTANTLY went to this picture. This picture captures a kind of texture that many don't SEE (although it IS right IN FRONT of our eyes ;-)

EYELASHES
My daughter has the biggest brown eyes and her eyelashes have always been envied by many adults! I took this picture a few weeks ago just so she could SEE her eyes. When she saw it on my camera she said "My eyes look like they have angel's wings"... so now we call our eyelashes angel's wings :-)
I also won the Flora Bella Collection of actions and textures and my laptop has not left my lap since! Well... I did eat... BUT- I ate while I played with it. This picture has the "soft urban" action with two separate layers of the "vintage screen" texture. The first layer is set at 33% opacity and covers the whole picture. The second layer is set at 38% opacity and fill at 18% and is set to the left of the face to cover the empty space. I love this picture and am honored to show everyone the collection I won!

Be sure to check out the other AMAZING entries by the best of photographers!!

I am entering this photo in the contest at iheartfaces.com and acknowledge the following statement:
"All photographers entering I Heart Faces, LLC challenges and contests, grant the rights to display their photo on this web site. Winning and finalist’s photos may be considered for use in the *marketing and promotion of this website or featured on items reviewed on this website such as photo books or editing software."

I Heart Faces Week 3 Challenge: "We are family!"

This family is just simply amazing! This is our church rock band's guitarist!! Yes- she does rock! I have photographed several families, but I chose this photo because of the uniqueness in the family! They have a two year old little girl and they are expecting a boy... why are they unique? First of all, she is an Aussie and he is a Floridian :-) But most of all, they are all about each other and their faith! I think this is one of my most favorite photos of a family spending time together :-) Although it will be much more fun now that the baby is here (born yesterday!).

Don't forget to check out www.iheartfaces.com for all of the great advice and they have to offer!
Also, be sure to check out all of the great submissions by the other photographers! SIMPLY inspiring!!

I am entering this photo into the "I Heart Faces" photography challenge and grant the rights to display my photo on this web site. I understand that winning and finalist’s photos may be considered for use in the marketing and promotion of this website or featured on items reviewed on this website such as photo books or editing software.

"i heart faces"... Happy Birthday Week

This week "www.iheartfaces.com" is celebrating its ONE YEAR birthday!! Amazing... with this in mind, I thought I would challenge myself to capture my middle daughter's birthday face! She just celebrated her birthday on January 5th... hard to believe she is already two!! :-( So bitter sweet... Happy Birthday "i heart faces" and Happy Birthday Hailee Jo- Momma loves...




Be sure to check out "www.iheartfaces.com" to see all of the beautiful faces from all of the other amazing photographers!!!





I am submitting this photo into the "i heart faces" weekly challenge and release all rights/permission to this photo to the site for use.

"i heart faces" Week 1 Photo Challenge

This week, we were challenged by "www.iheartfaces.com" to capture a photo utilizing the "i heart faces" logo! This is the first time I have ever done this with photoshop, so I was pretty excited to already see myself growing in the first week of this challenge! It was a lot of fun taking some of these photos and playing around with them. However, I did add a bit of creativity of my own!

This adorable little angel just had to get her hands on an "i heart faces" ornament! What better way of decorating the tree!

Who knew that "i heart faces" could be found in the mystical woods. Just goes to show that every fantasy can be reality in the world of photography.


Every little girl needs a personalized "i heart faces" headband!

My poor husband... I told him I needed to photograph him for sake of my progression! He still wasn't too happy. We had just woke up, I threw his hat on him, and said smile :-) I suppose this is what I get.



By the end of these photo challenges, my middle daughter is going to LOVE photography!! This picture was taken at 8:00 this morning. She got an entire FAMILY SIZE box of Sweet tarts if she helped me make "pretties". There were better pictures with her smiling, but I saw this one and thought of the "candy coma" she is now in! Perfect...

Be sure to check out the other entries for this week!!


I am submitting these photos into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photos for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.”

New Year... New Me

In October of 2009, I decided to take what has been a lifelong hobby of mine and turn it into a locally known passion- Photography. I started doing photos for a few friends, learning from my good friend Brooke Ashley, and watching other photographers... Brooke then told me about the site "I Heart Faces".
This site is wonderful! I am absolutely in love with it:
http://www.iheartfaces.blogspot.com/

I then noticed that they have this wonderful weekly contest that challenges photographer with various themes. I think this is a GREAT way to help me grow as a photographer, as an artist, and as a person! Therefore, I will be participating in these weekly contests!

Stay tuned for my blog posts with the challenges! I am very excited and eager to begin!