August 2010

How I Edit Guys

August 28, 2010

Please note: This is how I edit guys. Not necessarily how anyone else does or how you should, but what works for me. Photoshopping is a hot topic: whether it’s appropriate, ethical, alters reality, etc. If my photos were going on the cover of TIME magazine, this might be relevant. Since they aren’t, I can [...]

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Homeschool Class Pictures 2010: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

August 27, 2010

I’m not sure why it took a homeschool meme last year to make me realize the importance of homeschool class pictures, but now my biggest regret is that we don’t have them for the first 16 years of our homeschool. This is the beginning of year 18 for us and our second year of class [...]

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Education: It’s Not Just for the Kids

August 25, 2010

This is our 18th year as a homeschooling family. If all goes as planned and we continue until our youngest graduates high school, I will be a homeschooling mother for 31 consecutive years. That used to make me tired just thinking about it. Honestly, I spent most of the past three years in a state [...]

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Images I Love from Today

August 20, 2010

Today the kids and I attended Braves’ Homeschool Day at Turner Field. Another post will probably follow, but for tonight I want to show you some images of my youngest that were captured and have smitten me. Please don’t look too closely at the hair line on my selection here. I’m a busy gal and [...]

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A Little Link Love

August 19, 2010

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers plus BONUS If you use Lightroom 3, you’re going to want Scott Kelby’s new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers. It retails for $39.99, but NAPP members can get it for $29.99. I ordered it early because Kelby Training was offering a pre-order bonus: [...]

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I’m 1st Runner Up in the Solo Cup Photo Contest!

August 17, 2010

When I heard that Solo Cups was having a photo contest, I decided, “Someone’s got to win it, and it might as well be me!” and started brainstorming creative uses of Solo Cups. I had the idea of making hats with the cups, but my dad expanded it and said to incorporate our dog into [...]

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iHeartFaces Week 33 (2nd year): Got to Wear Shades

August 16, 2010

This week’s themes at iHeartFaces is “Got to Wear Shades!” I took this photo of my buddy SaraSophia’s daughter at the Hebrew National Better-Than-A-Picnic in Atlanta. Isn’t she precious?

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And Now We Leave…

August 12, 2010

We drove out of Dallas less than two hours ago, leaving our son behind for his freshman year of college. Truly, this is one of those aspects of parenting that isn’t for cowards. Our oldest has always been in Georgia, an easy drive. It took us two days to get here, and I feel it [...]

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En Route to Dallas

August 10, 2010

This is a first for me in 4 years and 960+ posts of blogging: composing a post, including photos, from my phone in the car. This is Day 2 of our family road trip to Dallas for our second son’s freshman year of college. Our first night was spent in Jackson, MS, with family that [...]