Fishin' Jimmy

Last week I decided that I wanted to get a really good summer themed photo of Jimmy. I took him to a nearby church that has a pond with a dock.

With his ADHD and ASD, I knew he wouldn't pose and I'm not really into posed photos anymore anyway. I tied a string to a stick and let him play. For the above photo I was going for a vintage look. This I'm going to enter into the Rock The Shot photo challenge www.rocktheshotforum.com

Here's the color version. He had a lot of fun and now wants to go fishing with a real pole and catch some fish! Now I need some fun summer pics of my teenage daughter!

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Yellow Springs, Ohio

Took the kids for a two day vacation to Yellow Springs, Ohio...a fun little hippie town north of here. They have a great dairy farm with lots of fun things for kids to do!

 This purple cone flower, at a city building in Yellow Springs, Ohio was edited with Kim Klassens' Follow

Fun in the Woods

I was lucky enough to be commissioned to take photos of Melina and her Cousin Alison on Melina's birthday. They wanted a wooded setting, and told me I could have fun with the photos, and I am having fun with the photos!!!

 I've added fire and wings....

a wolf, fox and butterfly.....

 The fog is from smoke emitters I had with me.....

 The girls were so lovely and fun to work with.....

and a happy birthday to Melina!

Catching Fire

This is my entry for www.rocktheshotforum.com monthly contest....Favorite picture from last year. I titled this "Catching Fire" My daughter had no idea why I asked her to hold her hand up while taking pictures. Then she saw and liked it!

I am quite behind on blogging as at the end of September I had to have two stents placed in my heart and then a few days before Christmas I had a stroke (at the ripe old age of 49).  I'm feeling much better and getting back into the swing of things!

The Wild Bunch

I was trying so hard to get a serene and peaceful Fall photo of my kids, with leaves gently floating around them. This was as close as I could get! It was still a keeper. I'm also entering this into the Rock the Shot monthly challenge at www.rocktheshotforum.com

The Announcement Shoot

A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of photographing my friend Christine and her beautiful family with a soon to be 4th.

Christine chose Rowe Woods, Cincinnati Nature Center as the setting and it was so beautiful with all the fall colors! The kids were adorable as always. The new addition will be lucky to have such great older brothers and sister, and great parents...of course!

Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati and a little HDR Fun

Had so much fun going to the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati, which by the way, is in Latonia, Kentucky. I went with the camera club I belong to, Misfits With Cameras on June 8, 2013. In the afternoon, it did get kind of warm, especially going inside some of the old trains. In this post I'm just sharing some of the HDR photos I created from what I took that day. In the next post I'll show more inside photos of the vintage cars.

This photograph, was the first one I did in HDR, just for fun

 and I added the sky overlay.

BEFORE

AFTER

I felt like the above photo on the right  needed something more, to make it a little more interesting, plus I absolutely love Photoshop! I love to play with photos, to take them and make something more out of them. The clouds and sunset is an overlay from Jessica Drossin Textures. If you haven't checked out her work yet, I suggest you do. It's amazing.

This is a Pennsylvania Railroad Engine. Did more of a painted look on this one.

 All in all it was a fun and interesting day. The next post will have pics of the inside of the old train cars and they won't be HDR. I just had to have a little fun with them .

Prints will be on sale soon in my Etsy Shop. They are printed on metallic paper which really brings out the color!