My photo placed 4th this week. I am so excited I can hardly contain myself!

I have been faithfully entering the I ♥ Faces contests every week. There are always so many wonderful photographs. Each week I enter I hope that it will be my week. I can’t tell you how many weeks I have spent hours on my photo, and then been disappointed when I didn’t win. I just kept entering hoping that soon it would be my turn–and this week it was!

Last week I took the kids out in the backyard one evening to snap a few photos with a lens I haven’t used in a while. Everyone else I know who has it just raves about it, so I wanted to play with it a little more. Ian was in his PJs and I just started taking a few photos of him. I got one that I really liked.

I have been so busy lately I hadn’t had a chance to check to see what the I ♥ Faces theme was. I was so happy when I saw that it was “Let’s Hear it For the Boys” I knew which photo I wanted to enter.

Unfortunately, I am having some trouble getting the colors in this photo to show up the same way on my blog as they do on my monitor. I have been having this problem lately with many of my photos. I think I know how to fix it, I just need to do a little reading up on it to figure out how to fix it.

Anyway, I was thrilled to place in the top ten this week! It just gives my confidence such a boost.

Thanks to everyone for their nice comments, too

I don’t really have any winners this week I was so busy I never even got out my camera!

Would you believe this is the only photo I took all week??? My sweet husband loves to make faces in photos. I have very few photos of him without silly faces.

Scott and I rode in the Bike MSroad bike ride in Logan, Utah this weekend. We rode 100 miles on Saturday and 75 miles on Sunday. It was the best century I have done so far, It felt surprisingly easy compared to the other century rides have done. It was a lot of fun and it was for a great cause.

This week I would definitely go visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom to view all the Weekly Winners participants. I’m sure there are many better photos than mine

I don’t know how I missed last week’s Fix-it Friday, but I am back this week I really liked this photo–it was a fun one to work on.

Here is my edit:

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Be sure to check out I ♡ Faces to see all the amazing photos that were entered in this week’s contest.

Here are a few of my favorite photos from the week. Ian found a cicada on our deck one morning. He picked it up and carried it around. Scott told him about the life cycle of a cicada and Ian was fascinated. I just had to snap a few photos.

Here are a few more from one night on the playground. I was playing around with one of my old lenses and I loved how the photos turned out.

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Here is my entry for the week:

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Another tutu photo shoot–only this time we did it outside. The evening we picked was pouring rain. That seems to be a pattern lately. We decided to drive around and just check things out. We got to the first spot and took photos for about 5 minutes before it started raining. We got back into the car and drove a bit more. All of a sudden it cleared up and the lighting was beautiful. We managed to get a few shots, but I was pretty soaked!

Please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom to view all the Weekly Winners participants.

I found out about this FREE photo editing class from a fellow photog friend.

It looks great! Registration starts on June 22nd, and the class will be two weeks starting on July 6th.

The best part is you can do it from home. Each day you will get an email with an assignment and and instructions for accessing the info on their database. You can access it at any time so you can work on the topics at your own pace.

I am always up for learning new techniques, and this one is free.

You can read more about it here.

Now I just need to mark my calender for June 22nd so I can register. Does anyone want to do it with me?

I ♥ Faces is giving away a $40 gift certificate to Prop Insanity.

They have so many cute things.

I love the Cocoon Pods, which you can see here.

I’d also like to have one of these Fringe Blankets.

I hope I win!

P.S. Sorry I have not posted much in the last few days. I have been busy working on my new photography website. I’ll publish the website just as soon as I get it launched. Stay tuned!

A friend of mine makes these cute tutus. She asked me to do a photo shoot for her so she would have some photos for her website. We are going to do another shoot this week at an outdoor location, but I think these turned out pretty cute.

Please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom to view all the Weekly Winners participants.