I Heart Faces – Week #17 – Smiles

Gorgeous German Beauty…

She is a beautiful young lady with a lovely smile; a foreign exchange student in my small rural town, and VERY photogenic.

Shake…shake…shake……………….Shake…shake…shake………Shake your bootie…….Shake your bootie, this is what I was singing to the littlest sister when she fussed.  I find taking pictures of kids especially hard.  They wiggle, squirm, scream, cry, run, jump, fidget…you get the picture…THE ENTIRE TIME!  It is those little fleeting moments when all is good in their world that you are able to capture just a moment in time of sweetness.  I think I got my sweetness for the day, as difficult as it may have been it was worth it!

I Heart Faces ~ Fix It Friday

All the adjustments were done in Aperture 3.0.2.  For the color version I made a slight curves adjustment, did a little dodge, burning and skin smoothing.  The BW version was done from the color version using yellow filter and adjusting the black point.

Photo Before

Color Version After

BW Version After

A little bit of European style in the Round Up City.  I love love love this door.   The color and lighting in the afternoon is simply fabulous.  This door is just one of my favorite places for photo shoots.  My model Jordan is gorgeous and one of my favorite people to shoot.  Jordan was with me during one of my antique hat buying trips, one of which she is modeling here.  Look for more hat themed shoots in the future, they are quickly becoming an obsession.

Prom night, the last dance for the senior class.  A plethora of fancy food and fancy dress.  The beginning to the final countdown for graduation.   I have to say they are a pretty good looking bunch of young men and women….Well gorgeous actually!  Here are a few of my fav’s.

We have been friends for quite some time now.  I have known Chantell and Gabe before they were a couple.  They are so dang cute together.  I have been eying this groovy laundromat with pink and blue dryers for quite some time now, an just knew it would be a perfect backdrop for this hip couples engagement shoot.    The weather was really crappy, and we only had a very small window to get any shots outside in between hurricane winds and rain.  This lovely couple will be married in the forest of the Blue Mountains on August 7, 2010.  Chantell has planned a completely unique, vintage wedding loaded with romantic touches and style.  Congrats you two….

Check out their custom wedding site HERE…

{The Cat’s Meow} 1920’s slang meaning: Something splendid or stylish; similar to bee’s knees; The best or greatest, wonderful.

The cat’s meow completely defines my latest photo shoot and with one of the most beautiful models anyone could ask for.  We started the day off at one of my favorite spots for shoots, the old train depot in Pendleton.  As we worked our way around town we found some really nifty spots.  The highlight of the day was venturing off to a small town north of Pendleton and finding some really swanky hats and mink stoles.  Which we used straight away at a few of those nifty locations found earlier.  The weather was swell, and the shots turned out gorgeous!  The car in some of the shots below is just like the one sold to Jay Leno from the same guy in Pendleton a while back!

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