The sun was just over Violet's head. It was a perfect chance to practice capturing solar flare.
Oh...and she's FIVE now. I am head over heals in love with this kid.
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Showing posts with label i heart faces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label i heart faces. Show all posts
Monday, July 19, 2010
Over My Head: I Heart Faces
Oh...and she's FIVE now. I am head over heals in love with this kid.
Monday, June 21, 2010
My Baby Niece is 15 and if You Do the Math that Means I Am Old
My little sister got a jump on things about 15 years ago and gave birth to my lovely niece Breanna. Sure, people worry when 16 year olds have babies, but I'd say my sister is having the last laugh on that. By the time my sister is 40, she will have finished raising her kids AND she will hold several college diplomas.
My niece and nephew are coming to visit next month and I will surely take lots of WAY more impressive photos than this, but for now this must suffice.
Apparently, the folks at I Heart Faces are unaware of my summer schedule and decided to put on a teen challenge THIS week. I would fare much better if the challenge were held the last week of July, but whatever. I'm not bitter.
My niece and nephew are coming to visit next month and I will surely take lots of WAY more impressive photos than this, but for now this must suffice.
Apparently, the folks at I Heart Faces are unaware of my summer schedule and decided to put on a teen challenge THIS week. I would fare much better if the challenge were held the last week of July, but whatever. I'm not bitter.
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Baby Mine
I was at a birthday party this weekend and caught a little infection from my friend's baby. Baby Fever, to be exact. It is highly contagious, especially for people who have mouthy, independent, soon-to-be school aged kids. I Heart Faces is also running a baby theme this week, so I found myself wistfully flipping through the archives of The Heathen Family iPhoto albums.
I would have posted a photo of the infectious newborn in question, but I was too busy trying not to weep in public to think about training my camera on his little face.
Go check out the rest of the baby photos, but don't blame me if your uterus starts quivering.
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Play!
I love this photo of Violet. She's laughing. She's swinging. She's in focus...
Don't you just wanna jump into this photo and listen to her giggle? I wish I had recorded her voice. She was just like a wind chime that day.
All the other kids are outside playing too. Go check them out at I Heart Faces.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Sun Stroke
So, yeah. Remember when I moaned endlessly about our stupid weather and how it was bumming me out and making me sick? The pollen! The rain! Wah, wah, wah. Well, the sun is like a mother on her last nerve. I took my whining one step too far, as all children do, and the sun gave me a good case of heat stroke as my reward. Today, I am laying low and drinking a lot of water. Violet has permission to consume a few extra freezer pops.
Next weekend I won't spend 3 hours in uninterrupted direct sunlight, with only one bottle of water.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Mother's Day 2010
Not only was yesterday Mother's Day, but it was also Mama Has a Cold Day. I am sure you are familiar with all the traditions of Mother's Day, but MHACD takes all those lovely rituals and cranks them up a notch...also there is the regal barking of the orders followed by pathetic sneezing and nose wiping. Needless to say, three whole meals were prepared for me in an effort to minimize the whining and the moping. A list of household chores was completed and no one rolled their eyes at me.
I know. The husband is totally whipped, like non-dairy topping and he's all mine.
Seriously. I don't share well.
Late in the day, Violet began whispering urgently in her Daddy's ear about something. They both got very excited and agreed that "it" was a good idea.
Don't you dare try and tell me that her idea was anything but a selfless act of love. Those are not ravenous eyes. I swear, she is simply admiring a good plan brought to fruition.
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This week over at I Heart Faces, they are Celebrating Mothers. I can think of no greater celebratory food than perfectly ripe, seasonal strawberries wrapped in warm milk chocolate. Really. Don't they just look like tiny red babies all snug in wombs made of chocolate?
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
I Heart Faces - Smiles
With all the photos I take you'd think genuine smiles would be easy to come by, but they aren't. Violet flashes her her best grins so quickly that they can only barely be seen with the naked eye. As much as I want to capture that elusive Vi Smile, I am also sort of glad that only we get to see the real thing. There are so few things that get to be truly private anymore.
Here is an almost perfect Vi Smile. It's not the real deal, but it's still pretty joyful.
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| Click me if you wanna see a big version. This little thing is kinda lame. |
I Heart Faces has lots of smiles, real and almost real, this week. Go look!
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Monday, March 15, 2010
I Heart Faces - Week 11
Everyone is bundled up over at I Heart Faces this week. It was a rough winter, I know you've got some photos of it!
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Monday, February 22, 2010
I Heart Faces: Week 8
This is the shot I wish I had taken of my own child's hand when she was a newborn. I have become a bit of a newborn stalker amongst my friends and acquaintances. I love photographing them, especially their wrinkly hands and feet. Oh, and newborns are REALLY cooperative.
It's all about hands at I Heart Faces this week. Click the camera. Go look.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
I Heart Faces - Week 3
I do not get many opportunities to artfully photograph families. Oh, I get lots of kid group shots, but the frazzled adults always seem to disappear when portrait time comes along. I understand. Showering is not priority one, survival is. It's hard to convince a greasy, tired mama that the radiant light of love between her and her children is enough to make her presentable for photographs. Dads are less persnickety about their appearance and easier to catch, especially when they are stuck holding the baby who may scream for his mother at any second.
This week's theme is "We Are Family" at I Heart Faces. They want grown-ups in the photos too, no unsupervised gangs of babies need apply.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
I Heart Faces - Week 2
Well, I've been a bit absent from i heart faces as of late, but I have renewed photographic inspiration and ...okay, I'm a little bored too, but that doesn't make me any less inspired. It just means that I don't have any other projects distracting me from obsessing thinking about photos. It is also i heart faces' birthday and it would be rude not to send them my Best Face Photo.
This would be Violet's interpretation of excited wonderment...not really. I think she was telling a poop joke about a chicken who crossed the road because he had...you-know-what on is head. I guess you had to be there.
It's the lights in her eyes and the lashes that made this one pop for me.
Go visit i heart faces and see a bazillion other Best Faces. Go on.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
I Heart Faces
I Heart Faces is celebrating their First Birthday with a great contest and giveaway. Notice my sneaky placement of logos in all my photos. I'm pretty pleased with myself. Go see some more lovely faces and enter your own. You could win a new lens for your camera!
I am submitting this photo into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I ♥ Faces
Didn't I just say I was in a slump? And now I'm posting for a second time today?
I don't understand myself either.
I forgot that I needed to enter my photo today for this week's I ♥ Faces contest. The theme is Sepia, which means that I picked my most recent favorite and tinted it a bit.
Okay. I'm going now. I mean it this time.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
I ♥ Faces
This week's theme at I ♥ Faces is "Happy Birthday". Violet will be 4 this July, so I have a few birthdays to select from. Her first birthday was a scream fest, her second birthday was so much fun that I don't have any good pictures and she passed out in the grass at her third birthday. So, I decided to go with the actual day of her birth. Of course, that requires that I break a rule and eliminate myself from winning the contest. Obviously, I didn't take this photograph. A long forgotten nurse took this photo for us, but I did spruce it up in Photoshop. Does that count?
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Monday, May 18, 2009
I ♥ Faces
Whew! This week I ♥ Faces wants the BEST. Do you know how hard it is to pick the BEST photo you've ever taken of someone's face? I narrowed it down to a few and then I let Violet choose. She has shown an aptitude for picking winners in the past. So, why not?
"I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites."
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Monday, May 11, 2009
I ♥ Faces
This week's challenge at I ♥ Faces is Laughter.
Kid's Entry
Adult Entry
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Monday, May 4, 2009
I Heart Faces
I found a really cool blog devoted to photographing faces. They host a new contest every week. This week's theme is Hats. Be sure to head on over to www.iheartfaces.com to check out all of the beautiful face entries this week!
Kid's Entry
According to Violet this is Princess Hair, but I think it counts as a hat.
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