The Paper Mama Photo Challenge: Parenthood; I Heart Faces

This weeks challenge is Parenthood.

At I Heart Faces the theme is "Let's Hear It For The Boys"

This is one of my all time favorite photos of my 2 boys, Master Q & Daddy during a photo shoot I did for a friend. They were skipping rocks :-)

Photo Story Friday: Yucky Week

This week has been an icky one. It's my long week at work so I never get as many pictures, plus I'm simply trying to get more taken. But then this week to add to the work stress Master Q became sick late Wed. night. Daddy was with him while he threw up most the night. I was off Thur. night so I was with him through the fever and achyness, poor boy just could not get comfy, then his throat started hurting :( 

Fortunately he was starting to feel better today! 

Watching some cartoons

Mommy's Treat

Playing with the camera phone editor!

Closest kiss he'd give! lol 

Kicking those germs butts! 

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Shutter Love Tuesday: Wind & Sweet Shot Tuesday...

....yes I realize it's Thursday lol but I still wanted to post these, I'm really trying to get my blog more active and keep posting more....so here they are! :)

Shutter Love Tuesday: Wind

Ok I was a little stuck on what to do so this was the best I got lol

Sweet Shot Tuesday:

A good friend of mine said that Sweet Shot had to be of colorful candy, all I had available were fruit loops! lol 

Macro Monday & Letter Photo Challenge

Running a little late on these but still wanted to get it posted! 

I'm sharing this photo for Macro Monday & Letter Photo Challenge 'C'

Cheerios!

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Fix It Friday #102

Haven't done this in awhile so it's nice getting back at it! Edit 1 Started with some tweaking layers in PSE RAW in the exposure & contrast. Moved on and used a layer of Pioneer Womans Slight Sharpen & Slight Light. Then cloned out the white on the eye lid. Last added Pioneer Womans Boost and tweaked the layers a bit. On Edit 2 I added a Gradient layer to create the B/W.

Thanks to Angie Arthur Photography for the adorable little girl to edit, I only have boys! lol

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Wordless Wednesday!

Last Wednesday we took the kids to the local Ramada that has a huge waterpark! It's called Buccaneer Bay and has a Tiki Bar next to it! Daddy & I enjoyed some quiet poolside time after the pool closed later in the evening!

They had a blast and look at that pirate ship!!! They also had a full size twisty water slide! It was awesome!

 Jacob on the Pirate Ship

 Ian coming down the big slide

 Master Q just chillin'

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Fix It Friday #89

This weeks photo comes from Dana Suggs

Original:

Edit 1: Made an adjustment layer, Hue/Saturation and decreased the Red Sat.

Made another adjustment layer and increased the Brightness & Contrast a bit.

Duplicated the background layer and switched to Soft Light and decreased the opacity.

Cropped

Edit 2: Continue from Edit1, applied a Gradient layer to make my own Black & White

Edit 3: Continue from Edit2 and decreased the opacity of the Gradient layer

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Fix It Friday # 88

YAY! I'm on a roll with and loving these Fix It Fridays over at I Heart Faces!

This weeks lovely photo is brought to us by Angie Arthur

Original:

Edit 1: First I added an Adjustment Layer and tweaked the brightness and contrast a bit. 

Next I added a screen layer using Soft Light and adjusted the opacity for just a smidge. 

Edit 2: Continued from Edit 1 and simply used a Gradient Filter Adjustment to create a black and white conversion.

Edit 3: Again continued from Edit 1, then added the action Watermelon Blues, ETA from My Four Hens (Thanks Amy!)

Edit 4: I was on a roll and thought this would look lovely in a Vintagey feel, so again a continue from Edit 1 then added the free Vintage action from The Pioneer Woman (I think I LOVE this!)

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Wordless Wednesday!

Quinn helped daddy feed the fish in our new aquarium, think he loves the fish? :) Unfortunately we've had a bit of a death issue with out new fish, only 2 of the 5 we started with are still with us, I think we're gonna give it a few days in hopes that its not the tank but maybe a bad batch of fish? It was the 3 Neon Blue Dwarf Gouramis that didn't make it, the 2 Pink Kissing Gouramis are doing fine....so far.

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Two of a Kind

Sweet Shot Tuesday!

We went for a drive trying to find some photography locations and I came across this old truck, tractor and there is a barn to the right and they were just begging me to photography them!

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Fix-It Friday #87

This weeks precious picture comes from Andrea Riley 

Original:

Edit 1: I added a New Adjustment Layer and increased the Brightness & Contrast, merged. 

Next I duplicated the background changed it to Screen and decreased opacity.

I cropped and used the Clone Tool on the lower left corner to remove some of the wrinkles

Edit 2: Continued from edit 1 and applied the action Shabby Suitcase from Nelly Nero and did some tweaking

Edit 3: Continued again from edit 1 simply did a Black White conversion b/c I just love these kinds of pictures in black and white

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