Drama~ the fun kind

So apparently both of my children have inherited a touch of the dramatic. My mom would swear that they get it from me but I am still in denial... Wherever they got it from, they both definitely got a heaping dose of it.
Both kids love to dress up in costumes~ the store bought halloween kind will do but the best ones and the ones that are the most entertaining for me are the ones that they come up with themselves. For example:
Here he was dressed up as an agent~ no, he didn't specify what kind or who he was working for, but then what good agent does??

Here he is dressed up as an Israeli paratrooper: (the costume was brought back from Israel by his Gigi and the wings are from a friend of ours in the Israeli Air Force)

Indiana Jones. His Gigi bought him that hat and he wears it all the time!!





His sister also enjoys the occasional venture into the dramatic. Thankfully her costumes run to the more whimsical- heavy on the tutus with a tiara thrown in every once in a while. She's loved dressing up since she was able to , well, dress up...

This was some sort of reindeer fairy~ you know, a pink tutu never fails to beat the mid-winter blues!!

and of course the old standbye Princess~

Ok, this one isn't so much of a costume as it is accessorized :

Dressed as Fancy Nancy with her fancy Nancy doll, compliments of her Gigi (I'm seeing a trend here- maybe the drama is from Gigi as much as from me???)
Sometimes they warm their mommy's heart and play TOGETHER! This was my all time favorite~ Lilly and I had been out in the pasture taking pics when Garrett came out in his armor holding his sword and announced "Every princess needs a knight" and it was on...

Addicted to textures

I really love taking pictures and I really love the process of using photoshop to being to life the scene as I saw it. I know that there are different schools of thought on whether or not photoshopping digital photos is the same as dark room developing~ I'm not going to get into all of the arguments here because this is MY blog so I will just tell you that I believe that some form of post processing is necessary to complete the digital picture. Just as it takes a certain amount of skill in the darkroom to bring out the best possible photo from a negative, so too does it take a certain amount of skill in photoshop or some other processing program to faithfully reproduce what it was that the photographer saw through his viewfinder. Whew- with all that said, sometimes it is fun to play with pictures and to heck with the faithful representation!! Lately I have been completely addicted to textures- different patterns and colors. It has been fun to play~ almost like a painting or a collage. I would really like to find a place for this type of work in my photog business but I am not sure how to work them in. Until I find exactly where I want these to fit I will keep playing and maybe inspiration will follow!