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iHeartFaces Week 2 (2nd Year): “Best Face Photo”
This week's themes at iHeartFaces is "Best Face Photo" and they have called back EIGHTEEN of the guest judges from last year for this week's challenge. The theme's description is: You should enter the face photo that you love the best that you took either in the month...
NAPP Memberships: They Just Keep on Giving (and The Best of Photoshop User: The 11th Year DVD-ROM giveaway!)
[Contest is closed. The winner is Kathy!] Did you know that all NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) members are eligible for referral benefits? Once you join and login to the members' only area of the website, just scroll to the lower left sidebar...
Little Bowling Queen
Although my husband and I hadn't been bowling in years, and some of our kids had never bowled, we've gone twice as a family since Christmas. This is our youngest: Heading right down the middle... Are you watching, Mommy? Looking good... I DID IT! Don't you just love...
Mimobot Designer USB Flash Drives (and why a flash drive is a must-have item)
I'm all about user experience. That's why I have Macs, an iPhone, a Nikon DSLR, and drive a 15-passenger van. {Okay, so the 15-passenger van is totally non-conducive to user experience; it's a necessity.} I could talk, type, shoot, edit, and design on other equipment,...
Girlhood: An Image
This was one of the first images captured of the new year, my daughter playing with a baby doll in the friends' home where we stayed on New Year's Eve. Although you can't see her face, something about this just sums up girlhood to me: the pink and purple, the doll,...
Please Pray for Baby Gavin
Natalie Norton is a portrait photographer in Hawaii whom I first discovered several months ago through a post she had written at Digital Photography School. Her eight-week-old son is in grave condition in Pediatric Intensive Care. You can visit her blog, Pics and...
BlissDom ’10: Follow Your Bliss
I am crazy excited to be not only attending, but speaking at BlissDom '10 next month in Nashville. Thursday is a full day of Wisdom Workshops, and Mishelle, Deanna, Angie, Jennifer and I will be leading the one on Photography (check out the workshop agenda here). Here...
The 12 Days of Christmas
We attended a New Year's Eve eve (my cousin tells me they call this date "New Year's Adam"—the date you start cooking) party last night at our pastor's family's home. Our pastor's wife had the idea of organizing the whole mass of folks of all ages into one big...
Pardon My Dust
I've been meaning to switch to the Thesis WordPress theme, but just haven't had the time to research all of the customization options. I'm just going to go ahead and install it, figuring it out as I go. Things may look a little wonky at first, or if they look exactly...
I’m a Guest Fan Judge for this Week’s iHeartFaces: Hilarious Outtakes!
As a participant in the iHeartFaces weekly photo contests since the beginning, I am honored and thrilled to be a Guest Fan Judge for this year's final contest, week 51: Hilarious Outtakes! The photos should be really crazy this week; I imagine my kids and I will spend...
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