I ♥ Faces - May Flowers

I ♥ faces, but seriously, I also ♥  flowers ~ big time!

Can you tell ~ I just can't get enough!!

This week over at iheartfaces there is no judge and no faces!

But the beauty is astonishing, non-the-less :-)

Join in the fun ~ head on over to iheartfaces

Black & White Wednesday ~ Sharing the Fun!

This week has been busy and great fun.

In the midst of it all though, we lost our internet connection for a few days. It was restored yesterday evening and I am now just about caught up!

So for quickness here are my favourites of the week in summary. All the individual shots can be seen on my Flickr pages (look in my Black & White set)...

Crazy baby-faces!

Teenager turned 14!

Our Pastor was Inducted

(and also celebrated her 40th birthday the same day)

And Baby turned 20 weeks already!!

He's gone in his big cot tonight, in his shared room with his brothers, for the first time ~ moving on and up!

To join in with BW Wednesday, head on over to Lisa's and see her 6-month celebration of having their beautiful little girl amongst their family.

Black & White Wednesday ~ A Family Affair!

This weekend we went on a trip...

...to celebrate my husband's parents' ruby Wedding Anniversary.

It was all organised by these amazing sisters (who set themselves up in competition with me!!) :-)

"What are little boys made of..?"

"What are little girls made of..?"

Here's the whole crowd (taken by the waitress, who was happily rather familiar with my camera!)

To join in the Black & White fun this week, head on over to Lisa's blog ~ where it seems I am not the only one playing catch-up atm!!

Communal Global ~ "Around the World"

I've been playing with collages a bit ~ it's kinda fun!

I like the story you can create this way.

(I use PhotoScape - it's so quick and easy!)

Here's a few others I've done this last week or two...

(apologies if you've already seen them elsewhere)

Spring is out in full force here in the UK :-)


To join in and share your part of the Globe with us just link up to Communal Global and link in below...

Black & White Wednesday

This & That...

I did a photo-shoot for some friends
(my first ever for someone else)

And took the kids out for an Easter treat to Trentham Gardens....

That's mud on his leg ~ it's a 'barfuss' (barefoot) walk - great fun!

And DD had a go this weekend at learning to ride his bike without stabilisers ~ he did good!

To join in with BW Wednesday head on over to Lisa's :-)

Shooting For Others....

I've never really done a 'photo-shoot' for anyone before ~ not properly.

I've snapped away at family & friends at every given opportunity, but this was different...

These are friends of mine, but they wanted pictures for a purpose.

How did I do?

I'm not quite done with the editing yet ~ I want to try my hand at some head swapping in the group shots, but I need to take the pictures into PSE to do that and I just haven't yet.


My Friend has said she wants colour pictures, but I couldn't resist editing the odd one (or two) in BW also.
As well as the portrait-type shots, I also took some others. 

(these next few are hosted on Picasa, so the quality in-blog never looks as good as when linked to a Flickr image)

I hope they will be pleased.