Before & After Challenge

I Heart Faces -Week 34 - "Before & After" Challege - September 1, 2009

We’d love for you to still share photos during this week, so we are going to try out something new this week…a “Before and After” feature where we all can write about just how much our photography and photo editing has improved since we first became seriously interested in photography. ...(read all the details on their website)

I think this week might be my chance to express my feelings about a few things. I almost always prefer the image that is closest to the original. I do not care for over-modified, over-stylized, over-processed images. WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get. That's my motto. I will never win a contest at I Heart Faces, because I do not alter my photos very much. A little contrast difference, a little dodging or burning, but not much more.

Whew. I got that off my chest. OK, now to submit some photos for this week. I have learned that my digital photos sometimes do need a little enhancing. Photo #1 is from 2005, and photo #2 is from August 2009.

photo #1, I had just started using a digital camera. Vista, age 1.



photo #2, from August 2009. Vista, age 5.

Nostalgia

I Heart Faces -Week 30 - "Nostalgia"
- Tuesday, August 25, 2009 -
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Wonderful newlywed nostalgia, April of 1996. We didn't have a place of our own when we returned from our honeymoon. We quickly found an apartment, and this is our first dinner in our first apartment. Look at the love! That was thirteen years ago.

Funny, Silly Faces

I Heart Faces -Week 29 - "Funny, Silly Faces"- Tuesday, August 11, 2009 -Here's the link to the I Heart Faces website - http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/

"Funny Fiona."

After 3000 miles of sittling in her carseat, Fiona flipped her wig and started making this face. Oh my! She was making this face at my friend, Lorie, while we visited in California, July 2009.

The Summer Edition

I Heart Faces -Week 30 - My Story In Photos: "The Summer Edition"- Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - # 2 of 2 I Heart Faces website - http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/

"Our little (mafia) family"
Our family vacations include self-family-portraits. I set the camera to timer and run into the shot before the button goes off. This one is my favorite from this year's holiday. Just kidding about the mafia in the title. This one is from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. I love photographing old abandoned buildings and such along side of the road and this seemed like a great place for a family-self-portrait. Unfortunately, we didn't see the 'do not climb on this' sign until we were done with our photo shoot.

I Heart Faces -Week 30 - My Story In Photos: "The Summer Edition"- Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - # 1 of 2 I Heart Faces website - http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/

"We are Joshua trees."

Our family vacations include self-family-portraits. I set the camera to timer and run into the shot before the button goes off. This one we wanted to pretend to be Joshua trees, reaching our arms up to heaven. This was at Joshua National Monument, California this July 2009.