Shoot and Edit - Ocean

After a taking a break for a few weeks I decided I'd try to give this a try again!  The last few weeks of summer sure got busy and my kids wanted every bit of my attention.  In fact, the last entry I did I never even edited my picture. :)  Now with my daughter in kindergarten and my son starting pre-school I have a few minutes here and there again.  I actually haven't really even picked up my camera much lately.  I did find a SOOC from our vacation back in June.  This was taken at sunset in Long Beach, CA of my son playing on the shoreline.  The evening didn't go as planned but things happen. :)  I had taken a bunch of cute pictures earlier that day on the beach but I didn't feel like I should use one because I didn't shoot in RAW until the evening.

Shoot and Edit - Sunset

I took this picture on our family vacation in June.  I attempted to take sunset pictures on the beach of the kids in their coordinating outfits.  The evening didn't go as planned.  I won't go into details but I did get a few cute pictures.

This is a SOOC shot of the marina in Long Beach, CA.

Shoot and Edit - Laughter Edited

I did a simple edit this week.

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Edited with Nice and Easy and Color Me Happy

Shoot and Edit - Laughter

I was about to skip this week because I hadn't taken any pictures that captured laughter.  However, I put in my memory stick and scrolled down and discovered this picture of my daughter slip 'n sliding and low and behold she's laughing!  I actually really like this shot even though there's a shadow on her.

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Shoot and Edit - Summer Edited

In case anyone was wondering, it's still hot here in Texas.  Things haven't changed here.  My little one had surgery yesterday so we're taking things easy today.  He's fine but we're staying in the a/c which gives me a few minutes to edit a few pictures.

Here are my edits this week.

SOOC

BJ the cow's sweaty nose edited with PW Seventies and Edge Burn

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My daughter edited with Everyday Elements Florida

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My son and a cow edited with Coffeeshop Golden Vintage

Shoot and Edit - Summer

It's been a while since I've participated in Shoot and Edit.  It's actually been so long since I logged into Blogger that I didn't even recognize the new format.  It's all very new and weird.  I need to figure it all out.  I just got back from a trip with my kids.  We went down to San Antonio to visit my mom and stepdad for 8 or 9 days and I snuck in a girls trip down to the coast, too.  However, I only took pictures one day when we went to their ranch!  After looking through my pictures and seeing the prompt for this week I couldn't pass up this sweet cow at the ranch.  I mean even the sweet cow is sweating profusely (check out her nose!).  It's so hot here in Texas is disgusting!  I'm so over summer.

And, because I like to post a picture of my kids.  I took these on the same day.  We stopped at a park on the way to the ranch and believe it or not it wasn't too hot to play.

My son just loved seeing the cows.  He really wanted to feed them but he didn't.  My daughter did pat one though! 

Hope you are are having a cooler summer than we are!

Happy shooting and editing. :)

Shoot and Edit - Bubbles

This week the theme is bubbles.  As much as I'd like to stay outside long enough to play bubbles with the kids it's too hot!  It's already 100 here.  YUCK!  I thought about trying to teach my daughter how to blow bubbles with her gum but decided she doesn't need to know that trick yet.  At least not the week of her recital!  So, I took a picture of water while they were on the slip n slide.  It's close enough to bubbles for me. :)

We leave for vacation this weekend so I won't be able to participate for a couple weeks.  I'll be busy taking lots of pictures in cooler California though!