Popinjay Weekly Challenge: BOLD


From a recent engagement session I shot. I love the orange tree in the background.


I'm new to photography (and a little obsessed) and trying to find my "style". There are so many styles and techniques that I just LOVE. Right now I'm totally diggin' the more bold ones, could be a more muted tone tomorrow though :)


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Popinjay Weekly Challenge #3 - Dorky

TEAM EDWARD!!

Need I say more?? (I can totally see Michelle rolling her eyes)

and btw, I really am Team Edward :) But this isn't MY lifesize cardboard cutout of him, it's my 13yo's. LOL.

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Next week's word: Guilty.

Popinjay Week #2 - Alive



I don't think my picture requires an explanation this week :)

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Next week's word: Dorky (Already have an idea in my head!!)

Wordless Wednesday: It was 80's day at school :)

Popinjay Photo Challenge #1 - HOPE.

There are so many things that come to mind when I hear the word hope that this was really a challenge for me.

Hope for the future...
my children
my spouse
owning a home some day
being financially stable
having good health
and many more.

Today I saw a "help wanted" sign in a window. I had to go back and take a picture of it. My real and current hope is that my under-employed husband will find a full time job. We've been scraping by for 11 months now.


I have hope in Christ that it won't be much longer until he's working full time again.

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i heart faces Photo Challenge!

This is my first (and hopefully not last!) week participating in the i heart faces weekly challenge :) I'm totally in love with my Nikon D40 and hoping to learn more about photography as I go. I'm so glad I found i heart faces because I was looking for a challenge that included people (maybe someday I can be a portrait photographer? A girl can dream.)

Here are my entries...(I think I should get bonus points for my awesome i heart faces that I drew on printer paper. I don't have photo shop yet, so I had to improvise) haha!

Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil

I couldn't decide between these two. You're allowed 5 photos, so why not enter them both?!

The typical "self portrait in the mirror" i heart faces edition :)

Judge me all you want (haha!) but yes I did write on my son's belly with permanent marker. He loved it! Until he found out that it isn't coming off for a few days. LOL.

So, what do you think? Not too bad, huh? I have some practice shoots lined up this week for friends, I'm so excited to start practicing on people other than my own kids (their pretty happy about this too, lol!)!!

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

We had a Very Merry Christmas...

We took silly pictures...

We had melt downs...

We received new stuff...

We made lasting memories...

We had fun boxing on the Wii with family we aren't able to see often...

and we posed for pictures (lots and lots of pictures!).

How were your holidays?