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Ken and I went out on a date! Whoohoo! We went to dinner at Cheng Family restaurant, and then went to see Iron Man 2. I enjoyed our dinner, and I especially enjoyed the fact that it came very quickly! I ordered broccoli beef, and it was good. I loved the mushrooms!
 

Iron Man 2 was pretty good. It was quite loud, with lots of explosions, and a lot of action. I thought it was a little short on story line, but I guess they made up for it with a few good one-liners, and lots and lots of blowy-uppy things.

Have a great weekend – check in tomorrow for birthday party pictures. We’re celebrating Austin’s 11th birthday tomorrow!

(Oh, and for my Project 365 friends – I will do today’s challenge tomorrow. I just ran out of time today.)

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Friday Food! It’s also the Friday Challenge theme this week, so I got to do two in one! Here is Caleb enjoying his watermelon. I didn’t realize until I uploaded the photo that I had captured the piece of watermelon that went flying. That’s why there’s a piece over the back of his left hand. He didn’t want to get watermelon all over his face, but he soon discovered that the way he was doing it was not working out well. He ended up with watermelon all over his face anyway.

This was shot in full sun with no light modifiers – that’s why it’s so bright with hard shadows.

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Here’s a Friday Food photo! It’s chocolate milk, which I believe is its own food group!

I think I’ll continue to practice – maybe outside where I can get more natural light and not struggle with grain from a relatively high ISO (400 on this one – my 20d doesn’t handle 400 and above well).

I’m not going to have time to prepare the Friday Challenge photo – I was going to go with a “family” theme, but we’re not going to be together today, and I just barely have time to get ready for the Ladies’ Fellowship meeting this evening, so I’m going to have to miss this week.

I’m looking forward to our meeting – this month’s theme is “Tacky.” We’re supposed to dress tacky and bring tacky foods, and I imagine we might even have a tacky activity or two. I’m taking all my photo gear so I can set up a photo booth or something and make sure to capture this night for posterity. :-) (Or blackmail.) I’ll be sure to give you a peek tomorrow.

If you’re feeling inspired to try some splash photos, check out this set - ‘love ‘em! I can’t wait to try more in full daylight!

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Here’s my collage for the Friday Challenge – Spring Colors. We do have things blooming, but since I’ve shot flowers twice this week I decided to go with something else that indicates spring to me.

I used this template to make this. Not my best photos, but I’m still not up to speed after the stomach bug. I hope to be back in full force very soon! Thanks for dropping by!

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For today’s photo, I decided to put the Friday Challenge with the Friday Food. I went with a different interpretation of the “Green” theme for the Friday Challenge. Here are a few of my “green” items – reusable grocery bag, a reusable, insulated lunch bag, my plastic water bottle (reusable), and my snackTAXIs (reusable sandwich bags).

And just because I love, love, love, my polka dot Thirty-One lunch bag…

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I’m posting a bit late tonight. It was a fairly busy day…I spent a couple hours editing Burger Shack photos today, but I think I was gone for the rest of the day. I had several opportunities for Friday Food photos today, but my favorite was this spinach and strawberry salad we had at our Ladies’ Fellowship meeting.

The Fun Friday photo challenge was to take a portrait of someone without the person being in the photo. I thought this was an interesting challenge. I didn’t accomplish what I really wanted to with this, but here’s my portrait of my teenage daughter.

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Day 50! Whoohoo! This is going so fast! Today’s Fun Friday challenge - “Sweet” - fit right into my Friday theme – Food. I made a “sweet” treat for my “sweetie.” This is dark chocolate fudge. I’m not all that thrilled with it, but apparently I’m the only one. Everyone else thinks it’s wonderful!

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Well, I’m a bit bummed. I was going to do the Fun Friday Foto challenge today – A Loved One – but there was no time. I unexpectedly had to run to the “city” to pick my husband up from work, and I didn’t get a chance to take pictures of the birthday boy. I will do it tomorrow anyway, and post it over at the Project 365 Forum.

My normal theme for Friday is Food. Guess where we went for our Valentine’s dinner? Yep, you guessed it – The Burger Shack. I know you’ve already been subjected to hamburger photos this week, but you’re gonna hafta suffer again. I had to shoot my yummy Stevi (Steev-eye) burger before I ate it. I didn’t have my high-tech lighting setup for this shot but that’s okay because I was only interested in eating it!

Thanks for dropping by! I’d love to hear from you! Oh, and photographers, if you haven’t done so, drop by the Project 365 Forum and say howdy!

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It took me a long time to get around to my Friday Food today. I’ve been very tired all day…didn’t feel like cooking, so we had Freschetta pizza for dinner. Ken and some of the kids love the spinach and mushroom one with a cream sauce. Weirdos.

I lit this by bouncing a flash of a window and filling with a white poster board.

The Fun Friday Foto challenge was The Color of Love.

To me, the color of love is the olive-toned skin of a man from Nazareth. It’s the sun-bronzed, calloused hands of a carpenter. It’s the black hair of the Heavenly who constrained Himself to a human body. The color of Love is the gray-brown color of a wooden cross. It’s the white of celestial robes. It’s the glistening Light of Heaven. The Color of Love is so much more than pigment – it is the glory of Jesus.

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Friday Food! We had our Ladies’ Fellowship meeting this evening, and the theme for our food was “pizza.” I made a fruit pizza…yummy!

The Project 365 Fun Friday photo theme was a self-portrait. I was going to do something that told a bit more about me, but I just didn’t have the time today to work it all out. So this is it…just me.

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Friday Food! I was so hungry when we got our food at Perkins that I didn’t even think to take a picture. Oops. But Austin gave up his Perkins cookie long enough for me to snap a shot of it.
 

By the way, I think Perkins’ raspberry mammoth muffins are my new favorite food.

In our Facebook Project 365 group we’ve been having a Fun Friday challenge. This week’s challenge is to do a color collage. We choose a color and take photos of that color – I think most of us are putting them into a collage. Here’s mine…

The middle one is another attempt at “poor man’s macro” – it’s not as clear as I’d like, but there is one tiny bit of that butterfly in focus! lol. It was a tiny butterfly bracelet – those butterflies are probably about a half inch tall.

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I did two photos for today! (Well, okay – I took more than 2.) My daily theme for Friday is food, so here is my Friday Food photo…

The other photo(s) are for a secondary challenge in my Project 365 group. It was a Fun Friday Foto challenge to take a photo of a character or toy from our childhood. I couldn’t get to the Winnie the Pooh collection I have, so I raided my Mom’s toy box to get some photos of this great little train. I used to play with it every Christmas, and every time I see it it brings back memories of building cities with leftover boxes. I love this little train!

I added the Serendipity books for this one – I loved these as a kid, and now my kids love them too.

(Oh – for those who might wonder about the mats – it’s a Photoshop action I downloaded from here. This one is Sharon’s Mattes, all the way at the end.)

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I got to go out on a date with my sweetie! We went to dinner at a local mexican place and then went to see Sherlock Holmes. (It wasn’t my vision of Sherlock Holmes, but it was a pretty good movie.) Here’s my Friday Food photo…

Here’s a bonus photo – my darling husband also sent me flowers today! He wuvs me!

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It’s January 1, 2010! Wow! I can’t believe it’s 2010. As I’ve mentioned before, I am starting a new 365 project with a group of friends. We have a Facebook group set up so you can find all of us there - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=232089574931.

Today is Friday! (I’m guessing you knew that.) Friday’s theme is Food! My New Year’s Day turkey is roasting right now – it smells great in here!

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Here are a couple bonus photos (because I can’t post just one!)…

This storyboard is from the CoffeeShop…there are a lot of great resources there!