Night Shots

I used my new lens and here are some shots from the campfire last night at the Leubners. Fun!

Leubners!

We had an AWESOME visit with the Leubner Family!
From Left to right: Caleb, Bob, Paul Jr., Nate, Nick, Paul Sr., Sam, Natalie, Stephanie, Jake, Tiffany, Tim, Billy in front, Ben, next to Tim: Emily, Lisa, Baby Danny, and me! When I get home I will post the photo from 4 years ago :D

Ellis Island

Here are a few of us at Ellis Island waiting for the Ferry.

 

 

 

Vacation-Virginia!

We spent the afternoon @ the beach right in front of our hotel. It was a wonderful, relaxing time looking out at Chesapeake Bay.

 

 

 

 

Pioneer Woman

My friend Andi Maddux told me about the "Pioneer Woman" website a long time ago, but I have never taken the time to download the actions for Photoshop.
These are SO cool!


This is the original:

This is the "Heartland" Action (After I photoshopped it with a texture layer and JSprague Clipping mask)

This is the 'Colorized' action

Click on any of these to see them bigger.

A Father's Love

Who Loves Photoshop!!!

Before

After

Grid Scrapping!

Ali Edwards has a weekly tutorial on her blog and this week she invited Cathy Zielske to share. I have seen this style for quite a while, but never put together the fact that it could really provide me a HUGE breakthrough to overcome my perfectionism and actually Get some of my photos Scrapped! I was perusing the photos from Christmas 2004 on my backup drive and it struck me that I could use this to present all the snapshots... so here it is!