Welcome to the 44th week of Shoot and Edit: Part 2. Click HERE for all the details and upcoming prompts/themes (also including previous editing tutorials). This week’s theme or prompt was to show us one “Macro” SOOC shot (this was just a suggestion, you can show us any SOOC shot). Hopefully you linked up with Jill’s blog earlier this week.Most Thursdays (and I say most because I won’t be sharing a tutorial today), I will take my SOOC shot and provide a simple/basic or advanced Photoshop/Photoshop Elements or Lightroom tutorial. You can then try my tutorial...

On Friday I mentioned that I’m in a creative rut. I’m still blaming the heat and humidity. However, I also think that by saying it “out loud,” (“out loud” = via my blog) I am motivated to push ahead. I really do need to be more intentional with my camera though. I recently read an article at the Digital Photography School called “3 Stupidly Simple Reasons Why Most People’s Photography Does Not Improve.” This article totally called me out…“You can carry your camera around with you 24/7 for the rest of your life but unless you learn...

I have a confession…I haven’t been in much of a mood to photograph anything lately. I’m going to blame it on the early (normal) arrival of summer in North Carolina. Yes my friends…we’re already in the 90s with ridiculous humidity levels. Just in case you don’t know what that feels like…imagine taking a shower, getting ready for work and then walking outside and feeling as if you never showered. It’s enough to make you exhausted just thinking about it…and desperately wishing for fall temperatures. I’m not sure what that has to do...

I was going to say something witty to open up this week’s Scavenger Hunt, but the truth is I’ve got nothing. The first part of the week, I was trying to recover from last weekend…by the time I recovered, I’d forgotten what day I was on. Example – Wednesday morning I took our garbage to the end of the driveway. I went to work, went to the gym and then went home. When I got home, our garbage can was the only one still out. It felt heavy so I looked inside to see that the trash was still there. It wasn’t until that point that I realized our trash is collected...