I told you I had one more blog post today. 🙂 This weekend is Father’s Day – which means I’m heading back to my hometown to spend a little quality time with my Dad (and my mom since my birthday is next week and they’ll want to celebrate with me). He doesn’t know it yet (because I am doubtful he reads my blog), but we’re going to be setting up his brand new VHS to DVD converter that I bought for his birthday earlier this month…and potentially converting a few of our old home movies into DVDs. It should be fun. The shot below is one of the pictures I...

I normally live for Fridays so I can rush over to I Heart Faces and submit my “fix” for Fix-It Friday. But lately, I haven’t been inspired…and I have several photos submitted by my followers/readers/e-friends that need to be “fixed” first. So, I’m taking a week off from Fix-It Friday (I might take 2 or 3 even – although if I’m honest with you, I’ll probably still go back and do Fix-It Friday because I have a mild obsession), and will instead share another Before and After. Larissa sent me the photo below almost a week ago after I...

As you know, I’ve slowly been following TWOpeasinabucket’s Photography Course for a few weeks now. We’re now on Week 7 (oops, I missed Week 6 – I’ll come back to that one later) and this week’s lesson was shooting in the great outdoors with specific regard to macro photography. “When outdoors, we must consider not only the amount of the light and its color, but also the direction of the light, the intensity of the light and how the surrounding atmosphere affects the light.” So, this week’s challenge was to experiment with macro mode. I...