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But there's been a development:)  Our little man arrived 2/23 and we're just getting home and getting settled. Your regular 365 blogging will resume shortly and I promise I've been taking lots of pics and have great things to share:)

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This week's challenge has to do with hands and is one of the few weeks that we can go without faces in our photos. I had one hand photo that I have to share because it has a very touching story behind it.  A number of ladies on a photography board that I frequent wanted to do something special for Anissa Mayhew.  Anissa is a mom that suffered a fairly catastrophic stroke (two actually) and

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Wow! Time is flying - I can't believe 4 days have passed since I posted the last set if pics....lots of fun things have happened...:) Feb 12: Yea, time flew by so quickly that I totally forgot to take a pic today! We had company over for the weekend and they all arrived today so no pic. Feb 13:  Pics from the impromptu shower.  Aunt Lee made little lolly pops with baby washcloths and bibs...too

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That's what they're calling the latest round of weather here in the DC area....record levels of snow according to the news lady!  We've been taking lots of pics the whole storm and I tried to pick a few of the best to share....   

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Feb 8:  I wanted to take a pic of our kitchen reno to show other folks and it happened to be the only shot I took that day so it will have to do! Feb 9:  Again, was taking a pic for a friend of mine of the mobile that I made for our little mans room.  I know it has lots of kid unsafe things on it so it will hang far away from his reach, but it's still pretty:) Feb 10:  People pay good money

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The theme this weeks i ♥ faces challenge, in preparation for Valentines Day, is "We ♥ Kisses".  I had three images pulled for this and it took me forever to decide on one.  I'm going with this one because it's more your traditional "kisses" expectation. This is K and E, Mark's cousins at their wedding last summer.  K was the most beautiful bride and E's a lucky man having caught such a lovely

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So, there's a theme to the last few days worth of photos - Blizzard 2010!   Feb 4: We'll start with the weather forecast... Feb 5:  To the first night of snow - taken past midnight so technically this is on the 6th but I'll count it as the 5th since I hadn't gone to bed yet. Feb 6:  The evening of the 6th as the storm broke - 34" later Feb 7:  And Sunday, a play day for the dog!  We

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Jan 30:  Kinda of ashamed of this pic.  I was half assing it just to get the pic in for the day.  It was cold and snowy outside and I really really didn't want to go out so I shot this from my front porch.  Say hello to my Autoluken Laurel which has been heavily post processed because the original was crap! The only good thing about the image is our new watermark in the bottom right...how cool

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This weeks i ♥ faces challenge is to highlight the most romantic places you've been and then tell the story of why. I started looking back thru our photos as we've definitely been to some very romantic places - sunsets on the coast in California (a favorite weekend past time of ours the 5 years we lived in Northern Cali), secluded beaches in Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii, remote back country lakes and

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Wow, it's been a busy week! Jan 25:  Marveling at two things - 1. my toenails are painted (8, almost 9 months pregnant - that's a feat!)  and 2. my right foot/leg is slowly trending toward tree stump shape! Jan 26:  Handsome hubs! Jan 27:  He was relaxing with a glass of wine - not me:) Jan 28:  Playing with the white balance.  Left image is auto WB and the right is custom WB Jan

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I've always wanted to do the i ♥ faces fix-it friday challenge but never had time to do it. This time they wanted to focus on textures and I'm happy to oblige and make time because I need more practice on this stuff... Here's the original:   Here's my first edit.  I adjusted recovery, fill, blacks, brightness, and constrast in LightRoom and applied the LR preset called PH Soft & Dreamy.  I also

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This weeks challenge at i ♥ faces is all about Texture!  I tried and tried to put in a texture to an image using Gimp but I'm afraid I'm just not that good yet so I thought I'd look thru my pics and see what ones I had that represented texture well...it was tricky.  The topic is obviously up for interpretation and I'm not positive what they were looking for. I had a few shots that I really

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Jan 21:  Cute little mushroom night light from little man's room!:)  I was at a loss again for something and this just kind made me smile so I figured - what the heck!  I even turned out the lights for a good show! Jan 22:  Macie lounging on the new rug in the baby's room....V's are known for their proper posture and we find her alot with those pretty paws crossed in front of her. Jan 23: 

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Jan 18: So, today I made binky holders out of ribbon and snaps.  The second shot is of my poor finger after it met its match with the hammer:( Jan 19:  Our pup has a habit of hiding under my clothes in the closet.  We figured out it was because it was warm under there (heating vent protected by the clothes).  Now, when we're in the bathroom or in our room she's generally hiding out under there.

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This weeks challenge at i ♥ faces is "we are family" and while I had a few to choose from, this one taken with a timer was the most fitting for us! 

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So, it seems I've been doing this every three days....maybe that pattern will continue, maybe not:)  Anyways, here's the latest installment of my 365 project - I'm still taking them every day!! Jan 15:  So, Macie has taken to sitting on top of her crate rather than in it these days...I thought it was hilarious the firsts time but still get a kick out of it even months later.  The poor crate top

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Jan 12:  The sunlight in our bedroom this AM was really nice but hard to deal with (it was far too direct I think).  I messed around with the manual settings for a while to see what i could get but wasn't happy with any of them.  This one is the best of the bunch I think , I love how her eyes are in focus and her nose isn't. Jan 13:  As part of my version of nesting for this baby ( i think )

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This weeks i ♥ faces photo challenge is all about your best face photo taken in the last few weeks. I had two that I really liked but you can never go wrong with kids so I present to you - Little B!  Head on over to i ♥ faces to check out the other entries!!

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Jan 8:  This was on our morning walk. The snow had crusted over and had the tracks of not only my husband and our pup but other pups and animals as well.  It was an interesting shot.  I had to pull back some of the blue since that's what you tend to get when you photograph snow and I've not figured out a way around that yet (my WB settings were of little help). Jan 9:  I couldn't pick just one

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Jan 4: decided to have a photo shoot with the puppers.  Until our little one arrives you'll likely see lots of pictures of her:) Jan 5: So, I tried to take a few shots of myself in the mirror (since today is the day I normally do my weekly belly pic) but found that unless I jacked the ISO up way high, i just couldnt hold the darn camera still enough.  This was one of the best shots i got.  First

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This is my first "I ♥ Faces" content entry and the theme was "I ♥ Faces" in honor of their 1 year birthday. I stumbled upon their website via another blogger (who, unfortunately I can't remember now) and was instantly hooked! Take a look for yourself and see some of the other entries for this theme - I ♥ Faces They run a different theme each week and often times you can only submit one image.

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Let project 365 commence!  I think I'm going to do this in week installments so here's week one - it's a short week Jan 1:  Carnage - it's a tradition with Mark's family to have surf and turf on New Years Eve.  This year due to car troubles and a lack of foresight, we ended up with surf and turf on New Years Day instead.  This is the carnage of 2 lbs of snow crab and two adults! Jan 2: 

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I've seen a number of posts by other bloggers about the 365 days of pictures and thought that I'd try myself.  The goal (for me) is to improve my photography and to document the new addition coming soon.  It also helps me to focus on looking at my environment from a different perspective to find the most creative way to photograph it. I'm not sure what format I'll pull together here.  I think

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So, while browsing photography topics the other day the subject of bokeh came up.  Bokeh is the blur beyond the in focus subject you see in photos.  Getting good bokeh depends on a lot of things including: - aperture (f-stop) - distance to the subject - distance of the background beyond the subject that you want blurred. I was intrigued so I grabbed my camera and plopped in front of the

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