I Heart Wind!

     Actually, I don't love the wind, but this week's theme at "i ♥ faces" is "wind" and we've had plenty of that this week here in North Carolina.  However, the wind does make for some interesting portrait shots!

-----------------------Quote of the Day:    Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

           — Louis L'Amour

Cowboy Hat - Wordless Wednesday

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Quote of the Day:
     The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
         -- Albert Einstein

Unique Family Portrait - Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday.  To see other's wordless wednesday posts go here and here.

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Quote of the Day:
       All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
               - Evan Esar

Sincere - I Heart Faces

    This is the daughter of a close friend of mine.  We were talking about my camera and so I fired this "sample shot" and I loved the way it turned out.  Sometimes the best shots are those you're not prepared for.
     One thing I appreciate this young lady is her love for Christ and her simple transparency.

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Quote of the Day:
     “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
           -  Marcel Proust

Looking In - Before and After

   This is a before and after of a recent photo of mine.  As shown in the graphic, I used three textures by Shadow House Creation.  I shoot RAW and then use Adobe Camera Raw with Photoshop Elements 9 for Mac.
   For this photo I also used a B/W gradient map, boosting contrast.  Then I used a slight warming gradient map on his skin, leaving the background a slightly cooler tone.

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Quote of the Day:

      “Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”
          -  Louis L'Amour

Little Girl's Sunny Portrait

     As I had my son at the park with some of our church friends' kids, I got to take a short series of pictures of this little girl.  It was full sun and windy, but we had a great time!

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Quote of the Day:
     Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
            - Paula Poundstone

I Heart a Slice of Life

    This week the theme at "i ♥ faces"is "A Slice of Life."  This picture is a good snapshot of a slice of my son's life.  He just loves playing in the park; I think he'd live in the park if we'd let him!

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Quote of the Day:

     I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
         - Mark Twain