Dragonfly

We're on our way home from holidays right now and I'll probably be posting a lot of pictures from this week away in the beautiful forests and lakes area where we where outside of Berlin. For now, I posted a picture of a dragon fly that I was so happy to capture. They flew and darted by so fast and I was determined to capture one in mid flight. I did get a couple of pictures I'm happy with and this one is one of my favorites.

Holiday Break

Just in case you're wondering, I'll be taking a 10 day break from my blog. ;-)
Hope you're all enjoying your summer!

EDIT Thursday

Following my SOOC Wednesday, I'll be doing an EDIT Thursday. I may edit one of my own pictures or somebody elses  picture. Today it will be somebody elses. A number of other ladies in a forum I'm on are doing the SOOC Wednesday and this straight out of camera picture was taken by one of these ladies of her son:

He's adorable and I just love his freckles!

I started off with doing a clean edit on the picture adjusting the white balance and running AMPs "clean it up"  and "Daydream" actions, tweaking until I liked it:

Since I am lucky enough to be one of AMPs testers of a new set of texture actions that she's creating, I decided to work these actions for my edit. I am constantly amazed at Amy's talents in her photography as well as her photoshop actions and lightroom presets!! Here are my edits:

SOOC Wednesday

This is the first post of a new tradition, "SOOC Wednesday". Every Wednesday I'll be posting pictures that have not been edited other than re-sized for internet. They are "Straight Out Of Camera" pictures. Since I've been trying to get practice in with my speedlight, my SOOC pictures today have all been taken using my speedlight. I had my tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens on. Camera settings were: f/2.8, SS 1/60(first two pictures) SS 1/100 (third picture) and SS 1/160 (fourth picture), ISO 200. The speedlight was set on TTL/BL at -0.3 exposure.

4 Seasons Photo Shoot - "Summer" Sneak Preview

My friend and I have started a 4 seasons photo shoot series. We've done winter and spring and tonight we did some summer shots. Here is a tiny sneak preview of "summer":