I ♥ Faces - Week 16 ~ "Collages"

I took these a while back practicing a 'white wall shoot' outside. I loved how they came out :) ~ Click to see bigger.

To see the other collages from that shoot see HERE.

To join in with iheartfaces photo challenge this week go HERE!

SOOC Saturday ~Little Man...

I have family staying this week. (This is my Nanna ~ she is in her mid 80's, but you'd never know!!)

We went to these beautiful Gardens yesterday (the weather was amazing :D)

This is the old estate house through the trees.

It was even educational ~ this is the biggest model of a diamond carbon in the world (apparently) ~ it was beautiful!

An just because he does this.... (so adorable)!

Join Melody for a Slurp of SOOC life :D

Fix-It Friday #50- Urban Girl!

A while back this picture was submitted for Constructive Critcism Friday and I worked on it then. I have been out all day today with my family, but thought I'd show what I did then. I worked on it in Picnik (Premium) as I knew this was the Debbie (the original photographer) was using for editing and I wanted to be able to give her some tips :D


Here's a copy of the comments I left Debbie that day;


I'll try to remember what I did;

• Upped the exposure and fiddled with the contrast. I know I used the local contrast at about 10 and upped the ordinary contrast to 10 also. 
• I tweeked the shadows and highlights too.
• In 'touch up' I lightly used the teeth whitener on the whites of her eyes! The made them much less blue. Then I dodged her whole of her eyes lightly.
• In 'advanced' I used the faded daguerreotype curve and faded it out to leave a nice skin tone.
• I applied a light orange tint effect and faded that too (brought her skin up even better)!
• I reapplied the dag' curve and faded it out again.
• I blemish fixed her skin (always make sure to do this in phases as the undo doesn't work on this tool). And then I airbrushed all over her skin on her face and neck, fading in out about 60% to give a nice natural look.
• Lastly, I framed for effect :D

For more fixes of this beautiful girl head on over to iheartfaces Fix-it-Friday :D

You Capture - Fresh

Pansies freshly flowering :D

Blossom ~ Spring and all the freshness it brings is FINALLY appearing!

And there is nothing like fresh chocolate fudge ice-cream!

Hop on over and say Hi to Beth, welcome her back, and join in :D!!

Communal Global ~ "On a Walk"

CAROLINE ~ ENGLAND (UK)

Off to see the daffodils and feed the horses.

I've been wanting to join in with Communal Global for some time ~ 'Today' I've done it! :D

SOOC Saturday ~ "Busyness!" ...

It's been a busy week;

We took the froglets to the Monkey Forest

I love this shot of three generations of 'young men' :D

On Easter afternoon we did this for the first time :D

On Easter Monday we went for a walk with some other families ~ a lovely day :D

And then Spring REALLY sprung ~ at last!! :D

and all play transferred outside (even mine!)

The bubble even came out ~ always a sign of warm weather :D

Great fun till a big one pops in your face!

If these look pixelated, it’s a blogger thing ~ just click them!

5 Faves Friday ~ 5

Join In!! It's really easy ~ pick your favourite five of the week and link up  (open until Monday)  :)

YOU CAPTURE - 'Comfort'

My children playing and relaxing in the fields.

A walk in the countryside

The love my husband has for our sons.

The thought that summer is just around the corner!

What brings you comfort?

Share your pictures over at You Capture, hosted by Keli, while Beth settles into her new routine :D

5 Faves Friday ~ 4

Almost forgot to post up my own meme ~ it's been a busy day!! We're open til Sunday though, so please join in!

The problem with England (UK) is that you never know what season it really is. We had SPRING for two weeks and then WINTER returned with vengeance. This has left us all huddling inside this last couple of weeks and me feeling totally uninspired to take any photos, hence I don't have many to choose from in fact, but this is my meme, so here goes!

(NOT my kitchen, just so you know!)