Photo Challenge: Contemplative

So the Theme this week over at I Heart Faces was "Contemplative".

So I have kinda been waiting for this theme because I love this picture of Justin. This was the very first day I ever used my DSLR camera. It was two days after Christmas and Justin hadn't seen our son and I for about a month [we had previously broken up and I had moved across the state]. We took a family trip to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. I was sooo excited about my camera that I was taking pictures of any and everything. We had always discussed moving back in together and before this picture I had made the decision to move back to LA in a few months [i moved back in March of '09]and although I don't know what Justin was thinking, I imagine he was thinking about being back in each other's lives.

As you can see by the none clarity of the picture, I didn't know how to use my camera very well [still dont--i finally start my photography class on Tuesday] but I still like the light circle around him and one of the reasons I loved this camera versus my digital cameras in the past is I love how it blurs the background. I'm not too good with photoshop yet, as far as just instinctly knowing what to do to make a picture look awesome but after hours of doing and re-doing this picture, I had to make myself just be fine with this final product!!!

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