¦I ♥ Faces¦ Fix-It Friday!

I don't do FIF that often, but I saw this one and had a second and I just had to play with it!

Here's my edit:


And here's the original by Dana Suggs of http://www.momof3darlings.wordpress.com

iheartfaces -- Week 22 -- barefoot!

This week's theme at iheartfaces.com is "Barefoot"... raising awareness for Soles 4 Souls!

Love this pic of sweet Emmie's little crackly newborn feet... delicious!!!

i heart faces -- Week 20 FAVORITE!! :)

Woohoo! So exciting, my photo was picked as a favorite by Angie and Amy this week! Yay!! :) Click the button to see all the winners:

iheartfaces -- Week 20 -- Faces & Flowers

This week's theme at iheartfaces.com is "Flowers & Faces"... and it was waaaay hard to pick... I have two daughters who always have flowers on their heads lol. But I decided to go with this one of Sophie I just took yesterday... I just love the expression, and the little hands she did spontaneously. She LOOKS sweet and innocent... lol... and for the most part she truly is. ;)



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i heart faces -- Fix It Friday #51

Here's my contribution for FIF!

Original photo:


My edit:

iheartfaces -- Week 13 -- Dramatic B&W

This week's theme at iheartfaces.com is "Dramatic B&W"... I thought of this picture of my daughter right away. I'll be honest, it's not my best B&W conversion, the white in her dress is blown out in places, but I REALLY love it anyway! The cherubic little face gazing up, framed by feathery angel wings... I get the sense that she's listening to a whispered message.



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iheartfaces -- Week 12 -- Focusing on Angles

This week's challenge is "Focusing on Angles". I had a tough time with this one because I love playing around with angles and DOF... but ultimately, I had to choose this one because I just love the looks on both faces!!

iheartfaces -- Week 10 -- Jump for Joy!

I love love love this picture of my kids... especially my daughter's expression and her crazy hair with the sun shining through, and the memory of my son "directing" the jumps LOL...

iheartfaces -- Week 8 -- Hands On Fun!

As soon as I saw this week's challenge, I thought of this photo... my daughter is ALL GIRL but she also loves worms and dirt... LOL... I love that about her!!! She was so delighted to find this big fat one, and she played with it for like an hour. Poor little wormy... ;)

{My Favorite Things} - I ♥ Faces "My Story in Photos"

This is a "My Story in Photos" week at I ♥ Faces, and the theme is "My Favorite Things".

I have lots, so I love this theme!

First of all... naturally... my absolute most favorite things in the world are my kids. I'm not just saying that from a sense of maternal duty... the sun rises and sets because of these guys.

They're not perfect angels, in fact they drive me nuts a LOT, but I wouldn't change a single thing about either one of them.


Let's not forget the Pea... although I don't actually know him or her yet, I have no doubt that I will adore every little quirk. Hurry, April 2010...

My cats are also some of my favorite things. I am very much a Cat Person. Cats beguile me with their independent streak, and their contrary tendency to require love and then bite you when you don't do the love quite right. They can't help that they are fastidious.

Sweet Scamper was rescued from the side of a gravel road in Virginia when my mom, my best friend and I were horseback riding on a wagon train. I'd been saying how much I'd love a kitten, and that when we got back to the mountain house I wanted to look in the barn for one. We were on a stretch of road by ourselves, having gotten ahead of the others, when I heard this mewling sound. I looked around and said "That was a CAT!" Suddenly I spotted this tiny black and white face looking out of some brush - I scrambled my horse up the bank, leapt off in what my mom says was quite the most impressive dismount she's ever witnessed, and flew toward the scrap, feet barely touching the ground. And this tiny feral kitten, rather than running away from giant clomping horses and a maniac (me), came toddling out, saying "Mew! Mew! Mew!" which in Cat means "Take me with you!" I scooped the kitten up and the 3 of us took turns giving the baby its first horse rides all the way back to the horse trailer. He contentedly purred along, happy as could be with this arrangement. That was 3 years ago, and Scamper is still warming my side stoop.


Sampson became part of the family because, again, I have a serious addiction to kittens, and I managed to talk Jeff into it. I found him on Craigslist for free, in a litter of several, and his little pewter gray cuteness caught my eye. After a few emails and several weeks of waiting, I finally got to go pick up my new baby. He was in a windowless shed with his littermates in the back yard of an older gentleman with attack Border Collies (these dogs seriously wanted to eat me while the man was catching the kitten in the shed, but that's another story). I got him home and he became a member of the family in short order, with a very precious and playful personality.


My next favorite thing is a website... I Can Has Cheezburger? Pictures of cats with hilarious captions. I told you I'm a Cat Person. These are really funny though, and a great way to waste a few hours online. And this is my favorite LOLcat of all time (so far)...


Favorite thing - cupcakes from Bangarang Bake Shop. Have you had these? If not, you must... that's an order. These are the most scrumptious cupcakes and they are delivered right to your door! They have tons of flavors and they are all SO GOOD.


Favorite thing - my bulletin board and wall art in my office, right above my computer screen.


Favorite thing - my angel magnet.


Favorite thing - my living room - I redid it and made it bright and happy and cheerful, and I love it. Especially when it's full of my kids. :)


Favorite things - the planters the kids and I created from their own flower choices.


Favorite thing - My Ott-Lite - worth every penny for its clear, bright light.


I have lots more but this post is long enough, so I'll leave it at that!

Can't wait to see some other bloggers' favorite things!

{Greensboro Portrait Photographer} I ♥ Faces - Sepia Toned (Kids)

I don't do a whole lot of sepia images... some antique color sometimes but most of the time I like bright, bold, contrasty color. So this was fun to play around with! I knew I wanted something evocative, with a lot of emotion, to capture the interest without the use of color. I decided on this one of my daughter, age 4, on the wooden "marsh walk" that leads out onto the intracoastal waterway in NC... one of our favorite places to be! I love the moodiness of the image and the sepia tone actually suits it really well.

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{Greensboro Portrait Photographer} I ♥ Faces - My Friend & I

I love this week's theme at I Heart Faces! I have so many cute pics of kids together, it was hard to decide on just one. Eventually though I had to go with this one of my own kids... it just tugs at my mommy heartstrings!!! So here is my entry for the kids' division - "My Friend and I":


For the adults category, I just love the expressions in this one - my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are very close and it shows in this picture I took of them on the beach - so happy!! Here's my entry:

{Greensboro Child Portrait Photography} I ♥ Faces – Pouting

This week's kids theme is pouting - and I had a tough time deciding which pouty pic of which kid to use lol... eventually I settled on this one of Ian, which was a totally unsolicited pout, and therefore all the more hilarious.

KIDS ENTRY:



PETS ENTRY:

Anything goes for pets this week, so I'm posting this one of my neighbor's dog who stopped by when we were outside playing in the big snow... this poor critter was so funny trying to hop to bare patches, but he paused long enough for the kids to pat him and for me to snap this.