Posts made in September, 2010

a weekend away, the last morning

Posted in Blog, personal photography

a weekend away, the last morning

There’s nothing like the most gorgeous natural surroundings and singing out praises with a couple of hundred women. It was a spectacular weekend and I was so renewed and filled with joy that I came home and promptly completed about 20 loads of laundry. The pastor’s wife was the main speaker and she had us rolling in laughter. Those are tears of joy! This was the third year for the Retreat at that particular location and they have reserved the campgrounds for next year as well. We had an entire afternoon of free time with several planned activities and there was interest...

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a weekend away, the first night

Posted in Blog, personal photography

a weekend away, the first night

I had the wonderful opportunity to escape for a weekend with some friends. I am so thankful.

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Posted in Blog, Fix-it Fridays

Original is top, basic edit second, edit with texture third. I didn’t think this worked well as a black-&-white, so I didn’t save that conversion.  Also, the texture I used warmed it up quite a bit (which I could remedy but actually liked so I left it) from my basic edit.  Sorry no tricks this week; I am leaving for the weekend in a couple of hours and haven’t packed a single...

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Dawn

Posted in Blog, portrait photography

Dawn

Dawn and I met this weekend for some time in front of each other’s cameras and with three great locations and some wardrobe changes, there’s so much more to come from this evening .

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Posted in Blog, Fix-it Fridays

Wow.  I had an incredibly difficult time with this one. The JPEG file was unsalvageable, despite reading that this was exposed for his face. Thankfully, I went back and noticed the RAW file had been added. Photoshop would not recognize that darn RAW file no matter what I did (PS, Bridge, you name it) though as a last ditch attempt, I was able to finally – yes, on Saturday – get it open in Lightroom. I admit. I hit AUTO adjust. Yep, I did. I was so sick of this file by the time I finally got it to open that I didn’t want to mess with it. After hitting auto, I...

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