Garage Photo Shoot

I think I'm getting better at photography! I took these photos in my garage. I did several different techniques on the post processing. As soon as Nathan gets over his cold and doesn't look like he's sick, I'll be taking some of him as well.

More pictures

It's our last day of our 4 day March spring break. Nathan had a cavity filled today much to his chagrin but he survived. We've just had a lazy day, it's been kind of nice. Here are some new photos!

This photo was taken in the field beside my house and I added a texture to it!

Week 3 of my self-portraits. They are so hard. I missed a week so I'll have to catch up on one next week!

Spring Break

We are having our huge 4 day weekend spring break. The kids do not get a whole week in their new school, bummer. They will have a five day weekend in April.

Mackinzi had a slumber party with 4 of her friends. I had 5, screaming and screeching, 11 year olds for 24 hours. Holy cow....they fed off each other like crazy. Overall, they were very good. Wow, are they the silliest littles things when they feed off each other. Scruffy was exhausted by the time they left today. He fell asleep within two feet of the front door and didn't even make it to the carpet. He's slept all day. It made him nervous if he heard Kinzi screaming because he thought something was wrong with her so he constantly checked on her and barked at the girls. My brave little puppy! Nathan just kept asking if I was feeding the girls sugar because they were crazy!

If you haven't checked out my flicker and/or smugmug photo pages, here are the links:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clnkblank/

http://clnkblank.smugmug.com/gallery/6476391_mimaX#492806967_mf88Z

Trip to Salt Lake

Boy, it's been a busy week. I went to Salt Lake for my first of two photography classes this past weekend. The women teaching the class is an up and coming portrait photographer in Utah. She was very good, I learned tons and had a good time. There was a very big change of climate. Check out the snow at her house. Burr!!!! But it was so pretty.


This is a portrait I did of Ingrid from the class. I thought it turned our rather well.


After getting back home with all my new found knowledge, I went and shot more pictures of ducks.

This is a cool gate that I drive by everyday on the way to the kids school. Look at the faces above the door.

The kids have a 4 day weekend this weekend. They are looking forward to that. Kinzi is planning on having five girls come over and spend the night.....should be fun!

Out of school and pictures

We just had a four day weekend, yeah! The kids get out for rodeo here in Tucson. Most of the schools in town do that. Anyway, the kids were thrilled to sleep in. On Saturday, we went up to Madera Canyon and hiked and played in the creek. Hopefully tomorrow, I'll post some pictures of that.

Today I'm posting Mackinzi's and my picture.

Playdoh Nose - Kinzi hasn't played with Playdoh in some years but yesterday she saw some playdoh in a dollar bin of a store and remembered how much she use to love it so she bought some. Instead of cute little animals that she use to make, she came down with this great big orange nose and her fingers in the nostrils. As mom, I had to make a comment about picking your nose and in her tween voice " I'm not...I'm just shaping the nostrils!" She was very unhappy I would suggest such a thing. Haha! Of course, then I had to snap a picture.

This is week 2's self-portrait. I'm not really a country person but it was rodeo week here in Tucson and I just loved this hat so I used it as my inspiration this week. I'm trying to get my exposure right, I tend to under expose pictures but I may have over done this one. Anyway, I'm not to unhappy with my second attempt.....man do I love photoshop....now if it would just magically make me loose those extra pounds....life would be dandy, haha!

Today's Photo Shoot

The kids and I went on a mini photo shoot today. The ones I previously posted didn't have any post processing but I've worked on these a tad bit. Let me know what you think!

Photography Heaven

I've been in photography heaven lately. I've joined a couple of groups where you post a picture a day and people give you feedback. Here are the links if you want to see them.

http://clnkblank.smugmug.com/?preview=1

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clnkblank/

We attended a meeting this week about high school and signed Nathan up at the same school. Everything is going great but it gets tougher from here on out but he seems more than ready.

Chuck is going to have surgery on this foot again at the end of April. The tendon is leaking fluid, he has a cyst and stitches are still in there from the previous surgery. Yikes! Chuck is just hoping that this time it will be better.

Kinzi went to a birthday party for twins at her school last night and we went to my best friends son's birthday party as well.

The weather has been beautiful in Tucson.

We scalped Scruffy today....poor baby!

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