AND, the winner of the "Green" photo challenge is...

June 11th
This weeks challenge: Green
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid... or puppy... or kitty). Wearing green. Eating green. Around green. Whatever green! Green living? :D

 First:

{RSVP Ink}

Congrats to the winner! Great job, and please feel free to grab the Fact: I'm Awesome button! Because You are awesome!!

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Second:

{Simplicity}

Third:

{L to the Third}

 Fourth:

{The Daily Wyatt}

Fifth:

{And, then she snapped}

Congrats to my top 5 winners! If you'd like... you are more than welcome to grab a Top 5 Photo button below!

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My favorites (in no particular order):

{They Call Me Mama}

{Life by the Creek}

{Soul Singing Liv}

{Moments and Impressions}

{Meli Faif Life}

{DRW Photos}

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Winners so far this month:

- Self Portrait: ... Snappin' Candy ...

- Family: ... Mama and the Dudes ...

- Green: ... RSVP Ink ...

- Parenthood: ... no one yet ... 

And, if you all get a moment.... 
I'd LOVE a vote! :D

♡ Chelsey

The Paper Mama Photo Challenge: Green

June 11th
This weeks challenge: Green
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid... or puppy... or kitty). Wearing green. Eating green. Around green. Whatever green! Green living? :D

My example of Green:

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Here are a couple links to some free photo editing software if you don't already have something:
Picnik 
Picasa
Gimp
Pixlr

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Remember: my photo challenges do require you to have either your children or one of your furry children (pets) in the photo (unless it's a self portrait week). It could be just one finger... or a toe... but, they must be there.
There always has to be rules... I know, boring right? But, it's to help me and you. :) Click on this link for more details... Each entry does need to link back to my blog... All photo entries need to be in by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on June 9th...   

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Winners so far this month:

- Self Portrait: ... Snappin' Candy ...

- Family: ... Mama and the Dudes ...

- Green: ... no one yet ...

- Parenthood: ... no one yet ...  

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And, if you all get a moment.... 

I'd LOVE a vote! :D

♡ Chelsey

AND, the winner of the "Green" photo challenge is...

This weeks challenge: Green.
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid... or puppy... or kitty) wearing green... next to green... near a 4 leaf clover... eating green eggs and ham? ;D

The winners chosen by me:

First: Love the different angle.

{Babe in Boyland}

Congrats to the winner! Great job, and please feel free to grab the Fact: I'm Awesome button! Because You are awesome!!

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Second: The sunflare is awesome!

{The Mommyhood Memos}

Third: Love these dirty baby feet!

{Crazy Daisy Pictures}

Fourth: The green detail on the shirt is lovely.

{Must Love Photography}

Fifth: Sweet messy face!

{The Franklins}

Congrats to my top 5 winners! If you'd like... you are more than welcome to grab a Top 5 Photo button below!

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My favorites (in no particular order):

{Snails and Puppy Dog Tails}

{Les Cadeaux}

{Blue Skies Photography}

{Stoneyville}

{Being What I Want to Be}

If you're one of my favorites you are more than welcome to grab a "Paper mama hearts me" button below!

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Guess what.... after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges... 1 more challenge to go...

Winners so far:
Simple Beauty: ... Hella Kids ...

Peace: ... K. Laudick Photos ...

Green: ... Babe in Boyland ...  

Sweet: ... no one yet ... 

 

And, if you all get a moment.... 

I'd LOVE a vote! :D

❤ Chelsey


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The Paper Mama Photo Challenge: Green

March 19th
This weeks challenge: Green.
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid... or puppy... or kitty) wearing green... next to green... near a 4 leaf clover... eating green eggs and ham? ;D

My example of "Green":

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Here are a couple links to some free photo editing software if you don't already have something:
Picnik 
Picasa
Gimp
Pixlr

..........................
Remember: my photo challenges do require you to have either your children or one of your furry children (pets) in the photo. It could be just one finger... or a toe... but, they must be there.
There always has to be rules... I know, boring right? But, it's to help me and you. :) Click on this link for more details... Each entry does need to link back to my blog... All photo entries need to be in by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on March 24th...
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Guess what.... after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges... 2 more challenges to go...

Winners so far:
Simple Beauty: ... Hella Kids ...

Peace: ... K. Laudick Photos ...

Green: ... no one yet ...  

Sweet: ... no one yet ...

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And, if you all get a moment.... 

I'd LOVE a vote! :D

❤ Chelsey




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Some photo challenges...

Simplicity Photo Challenge: Food
AND
Pixel Perfect Before and After:

After:

Before:

Before:

365 Challenge:

Day 10{365}: Orange you glad I didn't say apple?

Day 11{365}: Tea time.

Day 11{365}: Water study.

So, I'm linking this up with Jill's water study link up. I'd LOVE to see if you guys try this out too. I have only ever tried photographing water a couple other times. During these photos my lighting was pretty bad and I had to REALLY raise the ISO to it's highest. I didn't want to use a flash and I don't have a speedlight. :D My SOOC photos were fine, but I really wanted to sharpen these photos up.

Other water drip photos I liked:

I've linked these water drops up here!

Shoot and Edit:

Before:

After:

Edit: For this weeks edit Ashley stuck with a basic/simple edit. Since I had already done that with this photo previously... I just linked up the edit had already done. I can't remember the exact details of my edit... but, I always adjust my Levels.... curves... run through Noiseware... sharpen if needed... So, I sort of have issues with with shadows. I'm uncomfortable with them. If there's a lot of shadow I automatically feel the need to fix it. But, I didn't. I'm ok with that! :D

Following Ashley's Edit:

Following Ashley's edit: I pretty much followed Ashley's second edit exactly. I really love how soft and sweet it turned out. AND: the shadows are not as harsh. :D

Altogether now:

You Capture: Doorways

This is the lock to our garage. It's prettier if you zoom on in. :D

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