black + white Archive

8Wed March 23, 2011
Napping on the Couch

Mr. Serious wasn’t feeling too well yesterday. While laying on the couch with me watching a Special Agent Oso entitled, “For Sleepy Eyes Only”, he…
6Mon March 21, 2011
The Playground in Black and White

Last weekend we went to the playground up the street from us and had a little picnic. Since the weather’s been so good, we’ve been…
11Fri September 3, 2010
Friday Finds: Black & White

Happy Friday everyone! I can hardly believe another week is at an end! This week’s photographic topic was Black and White and the Flickr Group…
1Tue June 8, 2010
Black and White Conversion and Retouching

It took me a while, but I had a lot of fun editing the photos taken at Boa’s birthday party. I really appreciate all the…
4Fri June 4, 2010
Kaleidoscope B&W Experimentation [153/365]

More experimenting tonight with Kaleidoscope textures. I promise, I’m getting it out of my system and will not be using them so heavily in all…
11Sun May 30, 2010
A Picture Kind of Day

Today started out well, as most Sundays do when it’s my turn to sleep in. I woke around 10am and Boa was already down for…
4Sat May 29, 2010
Running a Site as a Project Management Exercise. (And the contents of my purse.)

Off-topic tidbit: For lunch today, I gave Boa cut up mozzarella cheese, turkey and wheat bread. Despite the lack of response to my heartfelt entry…
0Mon May 24, 2010
Inspiration: Meta Musings [144/365]

Mr. Serious expressed his creativity today by making this paper plate mask with my mom! If you haven’t noticed, the past few days I’ve been…
3Sun May 23, 2010
Weekend Photo Focus: Headless Portraiture

Fuel Your Photography‘s Weekend Photo Focus was on Headless Portraiture. I was inspired by the photos in the article and wanted to take a stab…
20Sat May 22, 2010
Photography Assignment: Fences [142/365]

Speak Softly, Boa This week’s Digital Photography School assignment (05/12-05/26) is Fences. I was excited for this simply because I knew it’d be easy enough…
4Tue May 18, 2010
An Amateur Photographer Parent’s Dilemma [138/365]

Some days photo editing doesn’t go so well. I’ll load my RAW files and see something promising, but usually the exposure sucks. Sometimes these photos…
4Sun May 16, 2010
Beautiful Sunday [136/365]

The weekend was mostly gorgeous, though I think the forecast called for scattered thunderstorms all throughout. Fittingly, there was plenty of sun on Sunday; in…
3Tue May 11, 2010
Action Tuesday! Introduction and CoffeeShop Review [131/365]

You folks who blog for a living really have my respect. It took me an insane amount of time to prepare for this week’s Action…
0Sat May 8, 2010
Mother’s Day Dinner [128/365]

On Saturday, Doug and Laura, Mark’s brother and sister-in-law, hosted a family cook-out in honor of Mother’s Day. Like the geniuses we are, we let…
4Fri May 7, 2010
Create Your Own Bokeh Experiment

I’m quite happy with myself that this evening I found some cardstock and created a cover for my lens to create my own bokeh. If…
1Wed May 5, 2010
Sharing Toys and Site Notes [125/365]

Boa has been having a blast crawling all over the place. He loves following us around and exploring the house. Surprisingly, the only thing he…
4Tue May 4, 2010
Playing with Actions [124/365]

I have some actions loaded into Photoshop again, so I decided to play with them. I believe I applied The Pioneer Woman’s Action Sets to…
2Mon May 3, 2010
Dinner Time [123/365]

Dinner was incredible. Mark made a tasty marinade for some flank steaks and cooked that in the oven along with bacon wrapped fillets. For sides…