I hope that everyone likes the new look of the website. It has been a huge undertaking...my husband and I did everything ourselves. All I can say is thank goodness for tutorials! The photo header slideshow was the most difficult. My husband wasn't happy with the slides just changing... they needed to fade. Well they fade... and now he has to fix the slideshow on our website cause it was messed up in the process! Something always has to be messed up or the world just doesn't seem right. I have learned a few new tricks while my blog has been on hiatus. Yesterday Ashley over at Ramblings and Photos posted a wonderful tutorial about using ACR. I have been opening my .jpeg photos in ACR to give them a clean edit. I had not really tried much more than that though. Now most of my editing is done in ACR and I just run presets when I switch over to photoshop. I love learning new things... but when I do I always think that should go back and edit all my photos again with my new editing abilities. That is really just not a possibility. I don't know if I am going to get completely caught up or not. Eventually...
1: Of course this week was the 4th of July so I have to mention that here. We really didn't do much. No big fireworks or anything of that nature. Nor did we attend any public shows. My brother-in-law (he is 9) begged his mom long enough to get some of the smaller fireworks... the fountains and such. We were over there while this was going on so I did manage to get a few nice pictures.
2: As you can probably guess from the fireworks photos above, I found something new and fun to play with on the Coffee Shop Blog. She has a ton of great storyboards and frames. Something new to play with every week.
3: Kiera attends gymnastics on Wednesday evenings. I am mentioning this because this week for the very first time she did a complete sit down, stand up. This was the first time ever! I wish that I could have gotten photos of it but I don't take my camera to gymnastics. Besides the parents are in a room above the trampolines so it would have been an ugly photo anyways... straight down and at an angle. Blah! But totally GO KIERA!
4: This was too good of a photo to not share with you all. I was going to save it and post it as a project 365 but did this first and didn't want to wait. I love that it gives the feeling of country relaxation.
5: I will not have a 5 on Friday next week because I will be on my to Mobile, AL. We are going on a cruise to Mexico. Progresso and Cozumel to be specific. I have never been on a cruise and am super excited! I will have tons of photos to share though when I get back.
So this week was more talk than photos... boring on my part... how was your week?
Sunset. I realize that it may be slightly underexposed, but I think that it works for this one. I could only get the pretty sun color fade by underexposing it. If I had made the shutter stay open any longer I would have gotten a fuzzy photo. There was nothing to prop the camera on as a temporary tripod and getting mine unhooked from my bag and set up would have taken too long. The sun was setting very quickly. I was taking pictures just as quickly as I could change the settings trying to expose it correctly and only 2 or 3 photos after this one the sun was already halfway behind the tree. Still I like it. I really need to stop posting after midnight.
