My friend Jill at Forever’n Ever’n Always Photography posted a wonderful tutorial on correct exposure yesterday. She is in the process of re-reading Bryan Peterson’s book Understanding Exposure and sharing her lessons learned along the way. She suggests that if you’re going to take photography serious in 2011, that you purchase your own copy…I did just that!Anyways, I felt inspired by her post last night. Although I like to think of myself as more of a creative photographer, proper exposure is really important regardless of the type of photography you shoot....

On Thursday evening, we celebrated Christmas with my husband’s family. We gave Carter a Chicken Dance Elmo. By the looks of this picture, he was pretty excited about it. I swear, kids at this age are so fun to watch…it makes me happy. And for those of you that are wondering where our niece was during all the excitement…I have plenty of funny faces to share of her tomorrow…stay tuned. Until then, check out more “new,” “sweet,” and “happy” shots at:     By the way, the linky for Memories, Dreams and Reflections will be open until...