Favorite photo blogs

A friend of a friend has this photo blog:

http://ginsphotos.blogspot.com/

Check out the color saturation in these pix:

http://ginsphotos.blogspot.com/2008/01/beuaty-shop.html

And the baby photos:

http://ginsphotos.blogspot.com/2007/11/for-amanda.html

This makes me want to take my kids on a photo shoot in a rustic location:

http://ginsphotos.blogspot.com/2007/09/more-of-kiddos.html

Or maybe it just makes me want to have a daughter like this (what a sweet, adorable girl!)

Look what she did with Photoshop:

So much to learn!

And look at the inspiration blogs she has listed, particularly

http://amyfurstenau.blogspot.com/

This is my favorite of her many great pix:

And here is an awesome tutorial on how another one of her inspirations edited this picture:

http://thepioneerwoman.com/2008/02/because_im_impatient.html

There is so much more, I would definitely recommend for everyone to do a little blog stalking and see what we can come up with!

Starting my 100 days of pictures

Hi girls! I hope you don't mind me crashing your party, but I really wanted to learn how to use my camera, I just didn't get on the ball soon enough. So I'll catch up with the lessons and start posting pix using what I learn. For now, I thought I'd just post some pix that I've taken this week (and a couple of old ones) that I think are somewhat artistic or at least show some effort in lighting and composition. This can be like a baseline for my improvement (hopefully!) - all these are using the automatic settings on my camera. FYI I have a Canon digital Rebel, the original not-as-cool-as-Melissa's one, with no extra lenses or flashes.

Myself reflected in the window

Becks and his modeling clay octopus (portrait setting, natural light)

Very early spring (portrait setting)

Trey with newborn Caeden (portrait setting, natural light, brown drape backdrop)

Caeden's birthday (portrait setting, flash)

Blowing a kiss (portrait, flash)

Trey with a butterfly

Gingerbread man (focused on cookie with portrait setting)

This is Carson's contribution (he might do the photo group)

Sports (fast shutter) setting

Hiding from the camera (I didn't know if the back light would ruin the shot but I think it turned out okay)

I'm so sad that I'll miss my tulips blooming this year! (portrait setting to blur the backgroup, I really need to learn how to decrease my depth of field more!)

Poser

I tried to take some pix of myself with the brown drape as a background and natural light. I was going to do a scrapbook page using the colors from my gloves for the CKHOF contest, but I didn't (but I did enter... wish me luck!)

So there are 14 pix and I'm going to call myself caught up. Starting today I'll do the picture a day with the rest of you.