Week 16 good to WOW SOOC Family and Friends

I feel like I'm saturating my blog with pictures of my family, but I forgot to ask my friends if I could post them or their children.  That is really too bad because I have a photo of two of my friends at the park that I really like.  My husband says it looks like one of them is threatening the other with the dark sunglasses, stroller between them, and the angle of the baby bottle, but I know they were talking about household chores, raising children and our last Acts Bible study class.  Actually, come to think of it I did take the photo with my telephoto and was standing hundreds of feet away by the swings with Sunflower.  Maybe she was saying "Give me the secret of your clean house or your baby will never see it's next bottle, grrrr!"

That said here are my Straight Out Of the Camera shots.  Sunflower on the slide:

1/100   f/5.6   150mm    ISO 200

And our obligatory family Easter photo:

1/125   f/5.6    22mm    ISO 200

I set the camera settings and then handed the camera to my SIL.  No one was interested in me checking how the photos came out and trying again.  At minimum I would have made sure SnapDragon was a little closer to the rest of us--preferably in front of me.  As it is I have 3 photos identical to this with a horizontal orientation and two more vertical ones.  I think I would only have one of each if the camera hadn't been in continuous shooting mode and she pushed the button long enough that it shot each photo three times (which made it so I don't have to do any head swapping).  I would have liked to have experimented more, but we got what we need.  In the future, so I don't have to boss people around (my kids don't count), I should really get myself a tripod.

Sorry.  Back to the scheduled program.  Make sure to check out other SOOC family and friend shots over at Jill's blog this week.  On Thursday head over to Ashley's to see everyone's photos go from great to WOW!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday--April 24th

I didn't actually plan on doing this week's hunt, especially since I didn't start it before we left town which means I would have to use my husband's laptop and only iPhoto for editing (and I didn't think that would happen).  However, after a few days of pictures, I thought I had some perfect shots for some of the prompts (not technically perfect, but fit the theme perfect) and I commandeered the laptop for my own enjoyment.

Reflections--

The tide pool reflected the rocks above quite clearly.

Guess What This Is?--

Maybe you know, but I had to look at the sign.  It is a gerenuk.

What's Inside?--

I wanted to spend more time getting a better picture of these plastic eggs, but that I did not have time for.  It is what immediately popped into my head for this prompt.  When my oldest was three he was given some plastic eggs at church but told not to open them without his parents.  We asked him if he knew what was inside.  He looked at us, shrugged, and said "baby birds?"  No, chocolate.

Playtime--

            One of my children's favorite things to do when playing is climbing trees...

Apparently this is also true for bears.

Lawn and Garden--

Since last week I used a lot of lawn--grass was in every shot--here is something from the zoo garden.

I hope you have a stupendous Sunday!  Be sure and check out Ramblings and Photos for more photos.

Week 15 good to WOW edit Easter

I so don't have any time. I have to go pick up SnapDragon in 5 minutes and when I get back we are driving down to spend the weekend with family. But I finished my edits on Monday, so I want to share! You'll have to go back to the original post to see the befores.  Once we reach our destination I should have a chance to come visit your blogs, but I won't be able to upload and play with pictures.  This is probably a good thing.

I did not edit my photo of a cross, but in my previous post, I did use textures on another version of it, if you feel disappointed.

These are all basically the clean, simple edits. I am particularly pleased with how different my middle son's photo is now.

I also did some creative edits which I liked. I particularly liked Golden Vintage on some of them. Rather than make my post super long, since I promised I wouldn't, I made a collage of them for next year's calendar for the grandparents.  I'll probably add names, later, but for now:

If you want to see more photos of my not so perfect Easter shoot, please feel free to check out my real life blog.  I found after editing I actually had other pictures that I liked a bit more than these.

Don't forget to check out Ashley's blog for other Easter edits!


Have a Blessed Easter Weekend!