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Monochrome Monday again! These Mondays are coming around very fast! I was browsing through Flickr this afternoon and saw this photo. I used it as inspiration for my Monochrome Monday photo…

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Snapshot Sunday! Here are a few snaps of the things my family was doing this afternoon. Playing, watching movies, doing schoolwork…a pretty mellow afternoon in Scrivnerburg.

I’ve been playing on Photovotr.com – it’s a Flickr app, and it’s fun to see the different photos and vote on your favorite.

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It’s day 100! I’m so pleased that I have made it all the way to day 100 and I haven’t forgotten a single day! This project (and this year!) are passing so quickly!Today we celebrated Nathan’s 7th birthday. I can’t believe my first birth baby is 7! Seven years ago right now I was in labor and just hoping this baby would come OUT! He was turned sideways and making me much more miserable than he had to. But all that misery was well worth it. Nathan is an amazing, funny, clever, adorable kid (no bias here). It was a 14-year wait to have my first birth baby, and it’s incredible to think that it’s already been 7 years since then! Happy birthday, Beanboy. I love you!

1. Nathan didn’t appreciate our version of the birthday song.
2. This beanbag toss game was hard! The holes are so small!
3. I loved how the row of goodie boxes looked.
4. The tire roll was a challenge for the smaller kids, but they all had fun.
5. This game was the Tire Toss – the kids tried to toss their beanbags through the tire as it passed by them. Only 3 or 4 made it.
6. Nathan got some great gifts, including Madagascar Kartz for the Wii.
7. Yummy chocolate cake with Boston Cream filling.
8. Happy Speed Racer Birthday Nathan!

(This fun storyboard template is from CoffeeShop.)

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I’m veering off the theme for today – again. The theme is supposed to be food, but I haven’t shot any food today, so I’m going to share my Friday Challenge photo. The challenge in our 365 group this week is “Shadows.” Here is my shadow photo with the DRI processing.

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It’s my first real cheat day! I spent the day doing some serious, deep cleaning (kitchen, my closet), and I never got my camera out. I did practice some post processing during one of my breaks, and that was fun. I love learning how to use Photoshop. But for today’s photo, I’m posting a shot I took yesterday at the dollar store. My two boys were having a good time goofing off…I am so thankful for these little men (and all of their cohorts)!

(I love the belly sticking out of the almost-too-small sweater!)

Just wanted to share this with my photographer friends

Hey photogs! I just played with this fun Photoshop tutorial, and I wanted to show my before and after.

Here’s a shot of the barn from yesterday, SOOC…

And here’s how it ended up…

Here’s a link to the tutorial I used - http://tutvid.com/tutorials/photoshop/tutorials/vividSkiesGreenGrass.php

Fun stuff! 

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Walkabout Wednesday! I got out and about a bit today. I had to take Austin to Missoula for an appointment, and on the way home I stopped to take some photos of this old barn.

(Processed with onOne free plugin for Photoshop – HDR look, then Chrome.)

(My own processing – mostly in Adobe Camera Raw)

 
(I used so many different things in playing with this that I don’t even know what ended up staying in the final product.)