Miss Bex

Had such a good time on Saturday on this shoot. Just love this girly and her family so much. So many great pictures. This is my favourite. It's going to take a while to edit all the pictures, so this is just a taster. I should have them all edited in two weeks time.

Sitting still is hard to do when you're 2!

To raise money for EFY (Especially for Youth) Church Activity, our local Wards held an auction of promises. My offering was peanut butter cookies (absolutly yummy) and a children's photographic portrait session. The lucky bidders were the Webb family from our ward. This is just one picture from our session together, and my personal favourite.

My Beautiful Neice

Happy Father's Day little brother. Hope you like the pickies, some of them turned out pretty good, didn't they. The disc will be in the post soon. Love you all so much. Congratulations to you both on being a new mummy and daddy, little Ashleigh is adorable.

How cute is my boy...

Very serious, and very cute.

Young Women's Photograph Editing Mini Class

Some links to several great tutorials for Adobe Photoshop Elements

For photography

1. Basic Photo vignettes


2. Removing elements in the background of a photo


3. Lightening photographs (without using an action)


4. Black and white photographs with colour spots

For scrapbooking/photography

1. Re-colouring digital elements


2. Creating saving & organising brushes

I find these tutorials easy to follow and you can have a lot of fun editing your photos with them, I've used them all several times, it's just handy to have links to them all in one place.

Also a link to Jessica Bell's photoshop tutorials, I purchased Jessica's Actions some time ago, I currently use an old version of photoshop (because I'm set in my ways and I'm saving up for the full version). She has several great easy to use tutorial here, including making a watermark for your pictures, selective colour on a photograph, adding texture to a photograph and colour correction.

Nathaniel and I

My most willing photography subject!

Tricky shot

I shouldn't have left this shot till last yesterday, It's one I've been wanting to set up for a while. My little boy really doesn't enjoy being on his tummy much and he was tired so didn't want me to take pictures at this point. This was the best of the bunch, and it's not too bad. The light was also doing bazaar things, and was actually a little too bright as you can see -casting quite a harsh shadow - or is that just artistic? I would prefer if both of his eyes were bright with those little catchlights that make for great pictures.

Which picture is best?

I just love these two pictures, one has a plain black and white action on it whilst the other has a retro. Can't decided which is my favourite!

So many pictures, so little time!

Six weeks

Nathaniel is six weeks old - it's gone so quickly. I'm going to try and chart the weeks and months with a similar picture of him, so that together they show how much he has grown.

Baby of mine...

This picture of Nathaniel was taken at just a week old. He is lying on the blanket that Grannie made, I just love it, and he's wearing the most adorable cashmere cardigan from Gap given to him by my cousin Becky. Can you believe he's almost outgrown it? I think this picture captures just a little of his bright little personality.