Daniel.
How absolutely adorable is this kid? For real. During my senior photo shoot in November I took a few candid photos of this darling boy and his big brother. I could seriously take pictures of this kid all day long. When spring gets here, I will be traveling back to Indiana to take some pregnancy photos of his mom and some family portraits, so you’ll be seeing him again in a few months.
This kid seriously makes me smile……
Go over to my photography website to see other pictures I took of these two boys here.
Filed under Photography | Comment (1)We’re animals….
over at the Sunday Shutterbugs photo blog. Go check us out here. Show us your photos!
Filed under Photography | Comment (0)Pet Photo Contest - January.
My etsy team PetsJubilee is having another pet photo contest this month on the blog. You can submit a photo of your pet with something new. There are already some cute entries, so even if you don’t want to enter go check them out here. Here’s the info:
What better way to usher in the New Year than with something new from our furbabies?! Send in your photo, slide show, or video of your pet with something new. Maybe it’s a picture of your new furbaby, or something they received for the holidays, or a photo depicting their New Year resolution. Add some words to be posted with their pic to go along with the theme.
We’ll be accepting entries from January 1st through the 17th at noon, EST. Visit us in the forums where we’ll be hanging out and introducing the new entries until voting begins on the 18th.
We welcome all pets: dogs, cats, birds, gerbils, hamsters, geckos, chickens, frogs, turtles, snakes, pigs, horses, just to name a few.
Here are the rules:
Submit your entry to petsjubilee@live.com through noon EST on January 17, 2009. (Please do not convo it).
- One entry per contestant (may be of multiple pets).
- INCLUDE with your entry the name of your pet(s), a little write up to go with your picture and either your picture, actual video or a link to where it can be seen (blog, youtube, flickr, photobucket, etc.)
- The entry must be of your pet(s).
-We reserve the right to omit entries that do not fit within the guidelines.
- You must have an Etsy account to participate, but it is not necessary to have an Etsy account to vote.
- Members of PetsJubilee team ARE eligible to participate.
- Previous winners (pets and their humans) are not eligible for the following 6 months.
VOTING:
- Voting will be from January 18, 2010 through January 24, 2010 at 12:00 noon EST.
- Look at the entries and pick one (per day) to vote on.
To vote, leave a comment by clicking on the Comment link under the pet you would like to vote for.
Then click on “Post a Comment”
Type your comment.
Type the “word verification”
Under “Choose an Identity”, click Google (Blogger), Open Id, Name/URL or Anonymous and enter your information. IF YOU CHOOSE ANONYMOUS, YOU MUST “SIGN” YOUR COMMENT WITH SOME ID NAME. You can use your Etsy, Artfire, AOL name - just something unique. (ie. I think such and so is so adorable. Sincerely, petsjubilee.etsy.com).
- NEW: One vote per person per day.
- Any comments made that don’t adhere to these rules will be deleted.
- If you have any questions, email them to petsjubilee@live.com and I’ll respond as soon as I can.
- The entry with the most votes will be announced here on January 25th. In the event of a tie, the person who submitted their entry first will be deemed the winner. The order in which the contestants are displayed is not necessarily the order in which they were received.
Prizes:
The winner will receive a free PetsJubilee sampler box and the winning pet will send a photo to be the team store avatar for the month of February. If the winning contestant has an Etsy store, we’ll also post a link to your shop with a write-up from our blog.
Rules subject to change without notice. Check back for updates. Email us with any questions.
Filed under Life | Comment (1)Senior Photo Shoot - Anastasia.
Frankly, this girl is so cute as a button it would be hard to take a bad photo of her. This was my 4th senior photo shoot I did back in November. I traveled to Indianapolis and we did a few shots in a small town outside of Indy and then traveled to Eagle Creek State Park for the “woodsy” and “watery” outdoors photos. These are some of my favorites, and you can see more of my favorites from the entire shoot on my new photography website here.
Go check out the full photo shoot here and tell me what you think!
Filed under Photography | Comment (0)I Heart Faces.
I belong to a great community of photographers called I Heart Faces. They have contests every week and this time I’ve decided to enter. You must incorporate their logo somewhere in your photos so that it looks “natural”. Here’s my entry. Leave me a comment and tell me what you think!
A couple of these may require clicking to enlarge the photo for you to see the logo!
“I am submitting this photo into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.”
Filed under Photography | Comment (0)Racing Birthday Party.
You might have read here the other day about the big surprise race car experience we arranged for my husband for his birthday. It was a “big” birthday, so I also planned a surprise party for him this year. I incorporated the race theme because he was still very into his racing day memories. In addition to going on ebay and finding plastic cups with race cars on them and checkered tablecloths, I came up with ways to use his photos from the race track that day. I love to find ways to use my photos besides just in the ole scrapbooks.
Here’s what I used for the table centerpieces
(the checkered ribbon is from American Crafts)
I have to say here that I got the racing flags from a shop on ebay and I loved the shop but the flags were actually from Oriental Trading Co according to the packages, and they were pieces of CRAP. Straight out of the package the second I touched the flags (not kidding here), the plastic flag just fell right off the stick. Every. Single. One. What?!? Try taking 24 flags and gluing them back onto sticks and leaving them lying around to dry while you’re at home with your husband and don’t want him to SEE them since they’re for his SURPRISE party! ha ha
Here’s the napkin holder my aunt (who helped me decorate) made on the spur of the moment with an extra photo. She drew those flags herself. Isn’t this cute?
I took along Ken’s photo album that I made him just in case there was a party guest who hadn’t heard his racing story before. That was a real trip, trying to get this book out the door with me without him seeing it! ha ha
I also made a tri-fold photo display board for him at the very last minute, which means I don’t LOVE it but the hubby was happy with it so that’s what matters, right?
I used American Crafts chipboard letters to put ZOOM ~ ZOOM ~ ZOOM across the board like that car commercial that you used to see on TV all the time with the little boy. Remember that? ha ha
I had the cakes made with checkered flags on them and then I stuck a couple of these popsicle sticks I made into the cakes. What I did for this was just order some extra photos of Ken driving the Indy car at the track and just cut it out and used a 3-D pop dot to attach it to the popsicle stick. Easy peasy. Although somehow I managed to NOT take ANY photos of the cakes at the party, I did take one of the cake we had at home for him on his actual birthday (the surprise party was a few days later to throw him off).
A Photo Album Before A Scrapbook.
I did a project recently based on Stacy Julian’s philosophy and I’m really happy with how it turned out. My husband’s surprise race day at the Indy track produced several hundred photos (photography is my other hobby). I knew that I wanted to do a kick ass scrapbook about his day, but I also know that I didn’t have the time or motivation (it was in September) at that point in life. ha ha But I also knew that he was going to want to look at those photos often, so I bought a nice textured faux leather 2-up photo album and arranged all his photos inside that for him. Then I tied some ribbons to the spine (because I can’t help myself–I must do it!) and used some rub-ons to put a title on the front of the album. I also cut out a silhouette of him driving the race car and attached that to the front with 3-D pop dots. He absolutely loves it and looks at it every day. So that’s where they will stay until I get motivated enough to make him a rockin’ scrapbook. And you know what? It’s okay. Really. Thanks, Stacy!
(ribbon and rub-ons are from American Crafts)
Filed under Projects | Comment (0)It’s Monday!
Know what that means?
That means Edie and I have posted photos on the Sunday Shutterbugs photo blog. We’ve decided to do an A to Z format this year, and our photos will be based on the letters of the alphabet from A to Z. The idea is really from another blogger named Nicole. She’s got a website where you can participate in lots of ways, like eating foods that begin with the letter, reading books, watching movies, games with your kids, etc. I’ve joined up in several of them (including scrapbooking) and Edie and I are in the photography group so we figured we’d use it for Shutterbugs.
Our theme this week is ART. Go here to check our photos out and share yours with us!
Filed under Photography | Comment (0)The Indy Racing Experience.
On September 11, 2009, our family surprised my husband with the Indy Racing Experience at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway. He has described it as, besides the days his children were born, the greatest day of his life (noticed he mentions nothing of marrying ME in there! ha ha). Three and a half months have passed and he is STILL talking about it to anyone who will listen. I had the photos printed immediately and he looks through them every evening and watches the DVD of the video that we took at least once a week. It was really a fun day. If you have a race fan in your family, you might want to think about doing this for them when Father’s Day rolls around. They have it at the track in Indianapolis from (I think) May to September and in the winter months you can go to Florida. I think their track may be near Disney World.
It was actually a huge surprise to my husband. His daughter is a nurse and we told him that she was having an award lunch for her department and it was going to be at the restaurant at the Indy 500 track and she invited us to come see her receive the award. All lies! ha ha We met up at her apartment that morning along with my husband’s son, granddaughter, and sister and brother-in-law.
He never suspected a thing even at the point where we got to the racetrack and parked and then in this garage bay we all had to sign in on a sheet and say whether we were driving or riding or a guest. We all signed in before my husband and put “guest” but when he signed in he didn’t know what to do and the lady was asking him if he was a rider or driver and he was like “Hell yes I’d like to drive,” but didn’t realize that he really WAS going to drive! So we pulled him aside for a moment and told him SURPRISE and he was floored. Here are a few photos from his day.
our arrival at the racetrack
Summer took a photo of him all “suited up” !
I loved that they let our entire family sit in on the “driving class” that Ken had to go through before driving. It was pretty neat.
More being “suited up”
Summer with Ken waiting on his turn to drive. There were a couple guys in front of him and 1 woman, but we didn’t have to wait long. They really have their procedure working like a well-oiled machine at the track.
Ken really enjoyed talking to Stephan Gregoire beforehand. He was giving him tips on how to steer here, I think. He was very nice and didn’t act like it was a bother at all to stand and chat with Ken while he was waiting for his turn to drive.
He really was just the nicest guy to pose for all of us taking photos.
Ken with the car he drove on the left and the car he rode in back of on the right
Ken taking off in the car as he began his first lap!
Then after he drove 3 laps around the racetrack, he got into a 2-seater car with Davey Hamilton driving and he rode around 2 laps going 180 mph. He says it was exhilirating and didn’t last long enough!
It’s a tight squeeze!
There they go………. zoom zoom zoom …………
This is right after he got out of the car. It’s my favorite photo from the whole day because my husband’s face just radiates with happiness!
Ken even got interviewed by a TV station in Indy, channel 8 WISH TV. The reporter lady told us it would be on the news that weekend, but since we don’t live there we didn’t get to see it. I’ve tried to e-mail her to ask how to get a copy, but never got a response from her. Ken was disappointed. All in all, it was a great and very fun day!
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