I'm kind of in love with this one.

... and this one's cool too. Photoshop.

Eggs!

Playing with Picnik.
While I like editing and making cool artistic looking photos, I love the purity and simplicity of the original image. I feel like all the editing takes away from the beauty of the natural capture. So here I'm showing both.
I like the edits better on the 2nd one. It's not too different, just softened the color a little bit, and added the "matte" around the edges.

playing with photoshop

I'm still learning how to use Photoshop. I found some neat features while poking around tonight. The first two are pics I've taken recently, flowers from my yard. The last one was taken a few years ago, but was also from my yard. It's one of my all time favorites.

I know I haven't been posting too much over here. I've been focusing my creative energy on my Picture-A-Day series on my "family" blog. Just wanted to share this lily. We had just about given up on it because it sat in its pot for about 2 or 3 years and did nothing but sprout this tiny little bud on top of the bulb. Then all of a sudden, this year, it just shot up. Every day it would grow at least an inch, and now it looks like this! there are about 3 huge flowers at the top of a 2-foot-tall stem! It's absolutely gorgeous, and I'm glad we didn't give up on it after all.

Maternity Portraits - Ashley

I took these last week on a beautiful early-Spring day at High Dive park in Elkhart. Ashley was about 35 weeks along, due the end of April. She is absolutely beautiful, and it was so fun doing these pics for her. It was my first maternity shoot, and I'm really happy with how they turned out. I'm looking forward to doing new born pics for her in a month or so!

narcissus

food pantry

I did an interesting photo shoot tonight. A friend of mine works for an organization that helps families in the community. Her organization did a service project helping put together soup mix packets at a local food pantry, and she asked me to come take some pictures of them "in action." It was a unique creative challenge for me, and I took the opportunity to get a few "artistic" shots while I was there.