Photo of the Week: The Big Red Barn

Once again a picture from teh first day I got my camera. Seems I took pretty good pictures back then when I was still working the automatic mode. I was in the passenger seat of a car when I got this shot. Love it because you can see the movement in the grass yet the barn looks pretty clear. This was shot in my hometown of Pleasanton, Ca. You from there know exactly where it is!

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Photo of the Week: Grandma Stacey & Tyson

a picture I caught while doing a mini photoshoot with Tyson of him and his grandma Stacey. I didnt really have many pictures of them together so glad this one came out so nicely. I was shooting Tyson and Grandma was walking up behind me and as soon as he saw her his eyes lit up and he went for the hug. This picture is just beautiful. Time to make a scrapbook page with it now. :)

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Photo of the Week: Jessica & Nyana

I took this pic once again on my first day using my camera when we went to Santa Cruz for the day. Love that a lot of my pictures come from that day and I didnt even know how to use my camera. lol

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Photos of the Week: Boardwalk Exit & The Moon

so this week I have two photos of the week because last week we didn't have one.

This first picture is from when I was in Santa Cruz. I was leaving the Boardwalk and was just taking random shots with my camera because I was convinced my camera was taking the perfect shots not me. Of course it was on automatic. I took this shot just to show to my friend right after that you can just point at anything and it will come out good. I didnt edit this picture too much. Just brought out the colors a tad.

This next picture is the picture i promised a few weeks ago when I showed the picture of the sunset. It is a picture I took of the moon with my super zoom lens. I had tried this feat before but the issue was I was always trying to take the picture at night at there wasnt too much detail to the moon. This time on the 4th of July the full moon was out well before it got dark outside so this time I had plenty of light. This is what I got SOOC no editing.




Personally this shot just amazes me. How often do you get to look at an image of the moon like this. THAT YOU SHOT YOURSELF with a regular old camera and not a telescope.

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Photo of the Week: Sunset

I absolutely love this picture. It was taken the day I went on the photoshoot with my friends to Mt. Diablo in Northern California. Same day the picture of Jessica was taken. It was obviously the end of the day and the sun was going down. We were pretty close to the top of the hill, we made it our mission to get there to take sunset pictures. Well I have this super zoom lens that gets pretty darn close and i though it was be cool to get a closeup of the sun. Well this got close alright. So close I couldnt even look through the lens as I took the picture it was so bright. I love it not only because the size of the sun, but becuase the colors considering it was so close, and the size of the trees and house on the horizen. They seem so small compared to the sun setting behind them.

I have a crazy picture of the moon too. Maybe I'll share that one next time.

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Photo of the Week: Jessica

I have always loved this shot since the first time I took it. I always wanted to do something cool to it but could never figure out what since by itself it's pretty awesome. No touch ups no nothing. I think mainly its just the clear blue sky of a background. And the fact we are taking a picture of each other.

This was on the second mini nature photoshoot I went on with two of my other friends. We all had new SLR cameras and wanted to go put them to use. I wish I could see the one she got of me on the other end.

Send it my way Jess.

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Photo of the Week: Jayden

This is a picture of my friend's daughter Jayden. She is almost two years old. I think she is just absolutely adorable. This is the very first time I got to see her in person. My friend lives in San Diego and I recently was living in Northern California so I never got to see her. Only pictures online which she never updated often. She looks just like my friend did when she was a little girl, except Jayden has these beautiful green eyes.

I took this picture in my friends backyard. Jayden was probably annoyed with me because I kept following her around with my camera. This picture is one of my favorties of her. Just so innocent looking.

I used the action "Perfect Portrait" from CoffeeShop to soften her skin adn bring out her eyes and of course write her name down the side. If you click on the picture you can enlarge it and see it better.

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