Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
If you’ve checked out the Lensbaby website at all, I’m sure you’ve seen the “guru” section where they highlight the work of professional photographers who use the Lensbaby systems. As I was scouting through the site looking for more, eh...
Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Catching up. Sometimes I feel like my entire day is centered around just catching up. I suppose if I were a tad bit more organized I would tackle things before they became a crisis. But then, if there were no fires to put out how would I prioritize? Anyway, here a few...
Feb 5, 2011 | inspirations, photography
Cropping is something that I do to almost every single photo I take. No matter how carefully I try to compose and crop in-camera I always seem to just miss the mark. But searching around last night I came across this fabulous blog dedicated to all things cropping....
Feb 3, 2011 | photography, teach me!
10-Second Tutorial: Black & White Workflow with LAB Conversion from Jessica Maleski on Vimeo. I was so happy that I managed to get this recorded on Monday and it’s a good thing. If I had waited any longer it wouldn’t have happened. Winter can be so...
Feb 2, 2011 | just everyday
For February I decided to join up with Willlette’s latest offering — her FREE e-course The Joy of Love (by the way, there is still plenty of time to sign-up — her prompts are always inspiring). And the first prompt was to photograph a loved one...
Jan 28, 2011 | 365, photography
Wow! I can’t believe I only have three more days of black and white. At the beginning of the month I decided to process every POTD in black and white for all of January. Why? Well, why not, really! January is not exactly the prettiest month around here —...
Jan 25, 2011 | inspirations, vintage children's illustrators
This was suppose to be an occasional series — I would scan pictures from one of my favorite childhood books and share them here and on flickr. Ahmmm. Okay so almost 6 months later I’m finally getting around to adding another post! Oh well…this is...
Jan 25, 2011 | photography
My mother and her cousin have been collecting and scanning old family photos and then putting them up on a picasa web album to share with their family through ancestry.com. It has been a really fun project for them and interesting for all of us to see our family...
Jan 20, 2011 | photography
Only 11 more days of black and white…ouch! Yes, it really is getting that hard. We had a lovely sunset last night — for the first time in several days — the sun was peeking around the house across the street and the sky was a lovely blue with big...
Jan 13, 2011 | Freebies, Textures
Boldly ignoring the dust and dog hair accumulating around me, I decided to spend my free time this morning playing with photoshop. And I’m so pleased with the result! At least of the photoshop work — not the messy house! I’ve got a new set of brushes...
Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
In list format because it’s quicker and I’m all about quicker and efficient-er. 1. Well, that’s not quite true. It should be true. But it’s not true. 2. It’s been two months since I started my 365 and it’s still going strong....
