My little princesses loved being princesses and being treated like little royalty.  I enjoyed capturing the event.  What great memories we are making together.  I love the way pictures help you remember cherished moments.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Selah.  I love this picture, but I realize that the color of her skin was a litte to orange.  So I decided to play with it and work a little with the image.

Here is my first edit where I worked on Selah's skin.

And for the final image I tried a vintage effect.  I think it is a little overexposed (as in too bright), but I like the way it makes her eyes stand out.

"When I look through the lens, I see life." - Ali Edwards

We had a blast at the fair this year.  I also enjoy having this keepsake of photos.

Here are some of my favorites from the petting zoo at the fair.  Seth and Selah loved it but Sydney not so much.

I love the brightness in Selah's little eyes.  I also like to be in the middle of the twinkle in her eyes. :)  She's a cutie!

So I began getting serious into trying to improve my photography when we bought our first digital SLR, a Canon Rebel and I began taking pictures of our little Seth & Selah.  I was happy with the pictures we were getting.  Then I wanted to try my hand at digital scrapbooking.  So I bought Photoshop Elements (The full Photoshop version is expensive and not in our budget) which was all I really needed.  Of course I needed some classes to know how to use the program.  Now to share with you some of the people who taught me much of what I know.  I want to thank Jessica Sprague and Rita from CoffeeShop.  Through Jessica I became familiar with Photoshop Elements.  I also began learning that a trick that a lot of photographers used was something called "actions" for Photoshop.  I was feeling left out because it seemed not very people made "actions" for Photoshop Elements and those few that did of course charged.  Then I came across a link to CoffeeShop which offers FREE action for Photoshop Elements.  I love playing with these things. 

So then my pictures I feel went to the next step.  Let me show you a little that I can now do with Photoshop Elements.  Here is a little editing action.

Here is my little Selah.  A great picture straight out of camera (or SOOC photographer lingo)

Now here is Selah brightened up with a little color correction

And because I couldn't stop playing with this great picture I went on to try a little vintage look on her.  Now I can't decide which edit I like better.  What do you think?