Another one bites the dust!

Gotta love the continuous shutter...

and one more because it's so rare to get a good, natural shot of my son!

All she wants for Christmas...

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Church in West Palm Beach, Florida

I took a ton of pictures of this really pretty church in West Palm Beach, Florida. The architecture was amazing. Here are a couple of my favorites:

I'm still around... barely!

My golden girl

I still don't know where Sophie got her blonde/blue eyed looks and I'm still jealous! ;)



Check out the large version and you can see the sky reflected in her eyes.

Dragonfly

Winning is suh-weet!

Here's my girl after kicking the winning goal in her last soccer game. (What were you saying about perfect hair, Toni?) LOL!

Ladybugs, Game 1

The chasedown:


And the steal:

Bubble Beards!

Soccer!

Well, one of my two girls loves soccer. And I never would have prediced this in a million years - but Gemma, my rough, tumble, get-dirty, tom-boy girl HATED soccer so much that I pulled her from her team and promised her several times that I wouldn't make her play. Sophie - my princess, pink, dainty, girly-girl LOVED soccer so much that she's been practicing all she can every day in the backyard, despite the temperatures in the high 90's and the humidity not far behind. Who knew??

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Photo Actions!

Why didn't I know about these before??? Actions are handy little scripts that you load into your photo editing software (PSE 5 in my case) and they apply effects to your photos with one or two clicks rather than spending eons of time adjusting this and that.

Today I found a freebie "vintage" action, so this picture:



Became this picture:



in about 3 seconds. FUN!

I think actions may be addicting!

My cheeky girl

Gemma is developing into such a fun little person. She loves to make people laugh and is always making up jokes and stories. My sunshine:



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August 13, 2007

snapped this in the 5 seconds we were outside today. It's HOT!!!



Click here for a larger version - stupid blogger!

The view from my front porch last night

No girls!

Alex is spending the week in Arizona with his grandparents. (His first solo flight!) I about died laughing when I walked up the stairs last night, after we returned from the airport - I had no idea he'd done this to his bedroom door.

Photoshop

I have finally joined the rest of the free world and gotten myself a copy of the latest version of PSE. (I was a diehard Paint Shop Pro fan for years, so it's like learning a new language!)

I wanted to fix the photo down below of Sophie because that weird yellow cast was driving me nuts.

Before:



After:



I like the punchy color and sort of urban feel of the fixed photo. What do you think?

Photos from last week

Clearly I need to rename this blog, "HB's weekly photo". Here are a couple that I liked from this past week:

Sophie

These are her 'model' poses. This is all her doing, her own poses and expressions:



I need to photoshop this one, the color's a little weird:


Hanging out in the backyard:


And today, catching roly polys:


Are you in there?

Off to the playoffs!

Go TWINS!!

June 17, 2007

Have you ever seen anyone look this relaxed and happy while watching golf on TV?! (Booooring - but apparently not for my son!)

Sunshine and green grass

Taken June 9.

Sophie after a birthday party this weekend

May 30, 2007

My cat got stuck outside during a thunderstorm:

Catching Up

To properly catch up I'd need to post 24 photos. I'll spare you! Here are a few favorites from our recent trip to China and Thailand.


A woman praying inside the Man Mo Temple. Hong Kong, China


I thought this woman was so cute.


An orchid stall, Hong Kong street market


Starbucks really IS everywhere! (village of Ngong Ping, notice 'Big Buddha' in the background.)


Victoria Harbour


Kowloon side


Phuket, Thailand


Firedancer, Phuket, Thailand


Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand