One week down...

Here's the first week of June from the "Photo A Day" challenge.

June 1 ~ Many
June 2 ~ Looking Up
June 3 ~ Silly
June 4 ~ Starts with "B"
June 5 ~ Looking Down
June 6 ~ Who am I
June 7 ~ Forgotten

If you're interested in joining in click here.

Summer Vacation 2014

This year we went to visit family in Morro Bay, CA.

If you're not familiar with Morro Bay, it's kind of famous for the big "rock" which is at the entrance of Morro Bay Harbor.  I captured the fog rolling in so you can't really see how tall it is.

I miss the ocean, growing up not to far from Galveston, TX.  I love just sitting on the beach watching the waves crash up on the sand, seagulls running around and kids building sand castles.

I like to play in the sand too...lol.  Personally, the water is a bit chilly for me, but I did eventually put my feet in it.

Ok, maybe just my toes.

There were these really weird, but kind of cool looking jelly fish that washed up on the beach.  Here's Charlie writing a message out of them to his cousin (that's who we're visiting).  They don't sting, so no worries there.  Here's a better photo of what they look like (top and bottom)

We had a great time just relaxing and hanging out with family.

I love the beach!

Capture Life!

Portrait

Photo Art Friday!

Our theme this week is "Portrait"...

This is a photo of my son.  We were on vacation in Lake Tahoe and walking around the town.  We were at a cross walk waiting for the light to change and I took advantage of the opportunity to take the "shot".

I took the saturation down added a soft brown filter and added Skeletal Mess grunge texture.

If you're interested in Photo Art Friday...click on the picture below.

FMS Photo A Day Challenge

I've decided I was truly going to do this challenge and keep up...sorry to say, I'm two days behind...sigh.

Well, no need to beat myself up over it.  I rushed out this morning and got all caught up (except for today's photo).

Here are the first 3 days:

Day 1:  Today

Day 2:  Something New

Day 3: Heart

If you would like to join FMS Photo a Day Challenge, click here.

         Capture Life!

My son

My son hates for me to take his picture.  So....I have to sneak shots in when I can or really beg.  

Here's one of the two of us on our vacation.  On our way up to Lake Tahoe, there was some roadwork, we had to wait, so we decided to jump out of the truck and take some photos.

That's Topaz Lake behind us...beautiful day.  You can see how thrilled he is...lol.

Playing in PicMonkey.

I'll be adding more pictures from our trip to Lake Tahoe and Morro Bay.

Photo A Day - May Days 7 and 8

Here's my submission for day 7 which is "Someone who inspires you"...

This is a photo of me and my sisters and father.  My father is a constant inspiration to me (miss you daddy) as well as my sisters.  They are some of the strongest women I know.  I'm also inspired by nature and the arts/artists of all mediums.

Day 8 - A smell you adore;  as I love the smell of baking bread, cookies, bacon cooking and fresh brewed coffee...I also love the smell of gardenias.

Wish I had a real gardenia plant.

Tomorrow's photo is..."something you do everyday"...hmmmm.

Walking down memory lane...

Today I was in the mood to go through drawers to see what I need to get rid of.  I came across a drawer that had some cd's in them.  There were no labels on them, so I decided to put them in my computer and to my surprise were some old photos from about 10 years ago.

This is one of my son and his best friend...which now are both teenage boys.  Wow, how time flies and I thought these days were a bit hard...NOPE!

This one is a favorite of mine, isn't that just the sweetest moment...LOL.  The little girl is my friend's daughter that I use to watch, she adored my son (and even though he'd never admit, he adored her too).

Anyway, I just wanted to share my little treasures.  These pictures were taken with an old Point and Shoot, not even sure what the megapixel were...LOL.  There were a lot more photos on the discs, but chose just to share these.

Happy!

Gearing up for the 4th of July

 

What kind of plans do you have for this 4th of July?  We'll be celebrating our annual 4th of July BBQ Bash with friends, family and neighbors.  Swimming during the day and lighting fireworks at night.  

I just want to give a little shout out to our troops, who have and are still fighting for our country!  

God bless you and bring you all home safe!

I hope everyone has a fabulous and safe 4th of July.

It's another.....

Texture Tuesday

Our assignment this week is to take a photo with people or person and use one of Kim Klassen's texture.  

This photo was taken on Father's Day of my son with his father, our dog Leggs and a dear friend of the family.  We had our friends over and barbequed.  The day started out a little bit windy, but ended up beautifully.

I first duplicated my photo, added Gaussen Blur at 7% radius and erased the blur from the subjects.  I merged my two photos added Kim Klassen's Portrait texture at 100% Burn merged down again and added the same texture again using blend mode Soft Light at 100% and slightly went around the subjects with the eraser tool.

Here is the original.

 

If your interested in Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday click here.

Happy Editing!