Happy 4th! Red, White and Blue Week at I Heart Faces!

It's Red, White and Blue week at I Heart Faces! I have been wanting to do a front porch shoot with a vintage feel, so yesterday I decided to give it a try. I convinced two of my live-in models to help me out and bribed them with promises of soda after the shoot.

Don't judge!

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Bright and Vivid at I Heart Faces!

The category for this week's challenge at I Heart Faces is 'bright and vivid.' I took this photo of my daughters last week. I had set up a tea party for them in the back yard and let them have fun. They drank 'tea,' ate cookies and danced. I just stayed out of the way and let them play. Dancing with their pandas was their idea. :) I love the pure delight on their faces.

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**UPDATE** Eeek!! This photo placed #5 in this week's contest.

"Best Face Photo of February 2011" at I Heart Faces!

{Normally, there is a button to post but it's not working, so I'm going to post a link to the I Heart Faces page. Blogger is not allowing me to publish with the button address.}

The category for this week's challenge is best face photo from February 2011. I took this photo a few weeks ago of my son and his fiancee. He was home on leave from his Army post in Korea. They only had two precious weeks together before he had to leave again. We went to a park one day to take some engagement photos and this was one of my favorites from the day.

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It's "Winter Wonderland" week at I Heart Faces!

It's "Winter Wonderland" week at I Heart Faces! Faced with the daunting task of going through my winter photos, I looked outside this morning and the snow was coming down in huge, beautiful flakes! Seriously...they were the size of silver dollars. I bundled my kids up and out we went into the snow. This photo is of my four year old, who recently received a prosthetic leg. Since she was born with a leg and foot defect, this is the first week that she has been able to walk and play in the snow on two wonderful legs! She is loving it!



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It's "SMILE" week at I Heart Faces!

This week at I Heart Faces, it's "smile" week! This photo was taken at a nearby hiking trail that my kids love. "Smile us, Mom" is their favorite thing to say when they want me to take a photo of them (they still like having their photos taken, unlike my teenager).

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Orange Week at I Heart Faces

It's "Orange" week over at I Heart Faces! I took this photo of my daughter in our backyard a few weeks ago. She is just starting to lose some of her shyness around the camera and gave me some sweet, genuine smiles.

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I Heart Faces - Constructive Feedback Friday

It's Constructive Feedback Friday at I Heart Faces today! I am submitting a photo that I took a few days ago. I have done what I could to edit it but I'm not happy with the results. I can't make it pop. I don't like the dull colors of my daughters' sweaters nor do I like the skin color of my daughter on the left. I know it is a bit over-exposed and maybe I just won't be able to get it to look the way I like.

For some reason, neither Flickr nor Picasa is letting me post this photo any larger than this today. So sorry to make everyone have to click on it to get it bigger. :(

50mm, ISO 400, f-5.6, 1/60

To view on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24901987@N03/5062097013/