I Heart Faces: Wonder

 

Wow it’s been a long time since I have entered an I heart faces challenge. I have not had a lot of time to spend with my camera in the last few months. We are building a house and homeschooling Little Fire Chief, working part-time, and running a successful photography business. Sorry I Heart Faces, but duty called.

I decided that this weeks challenge was the best one to get me back in gear. Peanut is 7 months old and full of wonder.  I captured him looking up at me from his car seat just yesterday. His eyes full of wonder.

Head over to I Heart Faces to see more beautiful photos of wonder. 

{Love that Shot} Faces

I found a new link-up that I want to start participating in. Love your Shot Link-Up is a blog hop that allows photographers to share their photos. The link-up is live every Thursday and runs until Monday.  Ordinarily there is no theme, but occasionally there is a guest judge and theme. This weeks theme is “Show Us Your Favorite Faces” and guess who is guest judging?!? You guessed it I Heart Faces!

So today, I’m sharing a photo that I took during a family session this week.  This little cutie stole my heart, and I’m sure she will steal yours too!

This photo was taken with my Nikon D90 at a focal length of 40 mm, F4.2, shutter speed 1/1500, and ISO 320 in raw format. I recently starting shoot with back button focus. It has helped my photography immensely. It helps me keep the focus on my clients face and be able to recompose. I recommend finding out how to do this on your camera.

Seriously head over to Love Your Shot and participate this week. Angie and Amy would be most grateful!

I Heart Faces: Smirk

The theme over at I Heart Faces this week is Smirk. A smirk refers to a smile evoking insolence, scorn, or offensive smugness.  Check out these brothers!

 

I mean if those are smirks, I don’t know what is! 

Head over to I Heart Faces and see all the other beautiful entries, and maybe even enter one of your own.

I Heart Faces: Beach Fun

 

I had the privilege of shooting some maternity photos for a wonderful family a couple of months ago.  We decided on some beach photos around sunset.  Here is one of my favorites from the shoot which also happens to correspond with the theme over at I Heart Faces this week.

Head on over to I Heart Faces and share in the Beach Fun!

I Heart Faces: Surprise

 

If this doesn’t say surprise, I don’t know what does!

Head over to I Heart Faces for some very cool surprises this week.

I Heart Faces: Random Acts of Kindness

It’s Angie and Amy’s week off at I Heart Faces. This is a week instead of a judged photo challenge, there is an opportunity for us to come together as a photography community and share how we give back to our community with our photos.

I believe that every true gift that we have, whether it be the gift of the written word, song, artistry, or photography, etc comes from God.  As a Christian I am called to Go and take the word of God to all nations. I would one day like to use my photography for that purpose. But for now, I tote my camera to church functions and use it to help capture memories with my church family.

Last week was our Vacation Bible School. I toted my camera along in hopes of capturing special moments between our little ones and God, and the fun that they all had learning of His special gifts.

Father’s Day this year I was lead to offer my services to the kids in our church for a fathers’ day present for their dads. I had so much fun taking photos of the little ones and I think they had fun too.

 I Heart Faces is featuring a very cool charity on their site this week. Please visit The Littlest Heroes Project  by clicking on the link below.

How are you giving back to your community? please come share your story in photos with us at I heart faces!

I Heart Faces: Over My Head

I Heart Faces theme this week is anything that is over your head. They say the sky is the limit. Nothing better than a couple of love birds on a train right? 

Head over to I Heart Faces and join in the fun this week.

I Heart Faces: Pets Only

It’s Pets Week over at I Heart Faces, but any old animal will do.  I just love this goose. In the town of Mendocino there is a pond. In that pond there are many geese. This one screams unique to me.  Doesn’t it to you?

Please head on over to I Heart Faces to see all the other beautifully unique animals this week.

I Heart Faces: Babies

  

I can’t tell you how much I love photographing babies! I’ve only had the opportunity to photography mine and two others, but what an honor! Here’s another photo from one of my recent Father’s Day shoots. I hope you enjoy it.

Please head over to I Heart Faces and check out all the other baby love this week.

 

PS. We will be welcoming Peanut into the world on Thursday! Woohoo!

I Heart Faces: Play

 

The theme over at I Heart Faces this week is Play. There isn’t ever a dull moment when Mr. Moo is outside. This photo was taken at the Point Cabrillo Light Station in Caspar, CA. I did a little photo shoot for some of the children that we attend church with.  The goal was to capture memories for their daddies for Father’s Day.  I think that Hubby will love this one of Mr. Moo as it really shows his beautiful personality. 

Won’t you play along with us? Head over to I Heart Faces and join in the playful fun!

I Heart Faces: Yellow

Just a few weeks ago I wrote about going over to hang out with hubby at work. You can see more photos of that visit here. If it weren’t for the fact that Little Fire Chief was wearing the brightest yellow shirt you have ever seen on that day, I would not have an entry for this week’s challenge over at I Heart Faces.  So here it is, my mellow yellow photo:

Head over to I heart faces to see all the mellow yellow fun!

I Heart Faces: Fix it Friday

I’m participating in I Heart Faces’ Fix-it Friday today. This photo was submitted by a participant of their many photo challenges.  She said that she had been doing a 365 challenge and this was one taken as all of the natural light went away for the day. This is the before:

I lightened it up a bit, Pioneer Woman’s Cooler Action, cropped it a bit, and changed it to black and white in Photoshop Elements 8. Here’s what it came out looking like when I was all done:

On a personal and exciting note, I am going to be upgrading from a Nikon D40 to a Nikon D90 soon. It’s long overdue and I am also shooting my very first wedding in October. While I’m nervous, I think I have a lot of time to get tips and tricks from all of you wonderful photographers in the I Heart Faces Network. That’s my exciting news for the day. I think we might even have the D90 before Peanut arrives.  Oh yeah and I got a new Blackberry that has a camera on it, my old one didn’t. I’m happy that I finally have a camera that will go everywhere with me. Even if it is just a poor quality one.

Hope you all are having a wonderful week.

I Heart Faces: Flowers

 

Having boys, I don’t have many opportunities to take photos of faces and flowers. However, in April my sister-in-law got married.  I have some photos of her holding her flowers.  I had a really hard time deciding which one I liked the best but kept coming back to the same photo.  I just can’t help but love the umbrella as well as the flowers in this shot.

 

She made the most beautiful bride didn’t she?  She took everyone’s breath away, and was amazingly fun to photograph. Now please, by all means, head over to I heart faces to see what else is in bloom this week.