Mirrored Beauty

Another image from the shoot with Jenn and Alli. I am so incredibly happy with how this photo came out. The idea was to have Jenn and Alli mimicking each other as if one was the mirror image of the other. I love it!!

This photo was entered in Best Face Photo 2010 contest at iheartfaces.

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I ♥ Faces: We ♥ Kisses

This week's theme at I Heart Faces is Kisses. I was going to post a more traditional shot from either Tyler and Lynn's wedding or of one of the several kissing shots I have of Dave and I, but I thought this one was much more fun.
It was taken at Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Florida. Stilt walkers tour around the theme park and of course play with the guests, taking photos and in this case, making out with Dave. It is obviously a very lucky puppet.

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I ♥ Faces: Texture

This week's photo contest over at I Heart Faces is texture. I have decided to go a more natural route and am submitting a photo from about a year ago of Chris.
We were doing a photo shoot for my an assignment and Chris decided to lie in the leaves. She was able to stare up at me for a little bit and we got a few really nice shots. I think the green of her shirt compliments the leaves quite nicely.

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I ♥ Faces: Family

This is one of the family portraits I took of the Konings and I at Christmas. It didn't come out exactly how I had intended, but it still works.

It also happens to be my entry for this week's I Heart Faces contest entitled We Are Family. Though not the most original portrait setting, it captures the acceptance of myself into the Dave's immediate family which is something that is very important to me.

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I ♥ Faces

I Heart Faces is "a photography site focused on the art of capturing faces and their various emotions. Each week, people from across the world have the opportunity to enter their favourite face photos into a themed photo challenge." The top ten get displayed on their homepage. I heard about it through the blogging grapevine and thought I would take a look. Turns out I have some decent 'face photos' (portraits) and have decided to take a shot and enter one this week. I have chosen an older photo of Olivia (Dave's youngest cousin). I don't expect to win as there are some really good shots already submitted and over 700 total entered so far - but it is something to do to try and get my name (and work) out there.

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Agricultural Museum

The Agricultural Museum has a photography contest for members ever year and this year was no exception. When Dave and I got our annual memberships back in March, I read about the contest and waited patiently for the entry time to arrive. And it has - October 31st is the deadline for entry into this year's contest.I began looking into my photos taken at the museum earlier this year and found that the vast majority of them, including the ones I liked the most, were taken before the June 15 start date. I rushed to the museum and tried to take a bunch more to add to the one set that fell within the correct date range. They weren't as good as the ones I had taken before, but they did fall into the correct range and were acceptable enough to be entered into the competition.To be honest, I don't know which of the three images I submitted is my favourite as my favourite from the museum was taken back in April. None of the images have much Photoshop work, in fact the only thing that was done to them in Photoshop was some contrast adjustments and file size and type changes. The rules stipulated that you could only adjust contrast, brightness, and sharpness of the photos, anything else done to the images would eliminate them from the competition.

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