This week’s photo for Fix-it-Friday was provided by Keli Hoskins. It is a photo of her daughter, Emma. Click here to see the original photo.
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My Edit: For my edit, I used Corel Paint Shop Pro. First, I cropped the photo closer, duplicated the layer, created a layer mask, and brightened the photo. The background was very bright [...]

Lens: 50mm ~ 1/1000 sec ~ f/2~ ISO 500
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At my Grandma’s house, there is a large picture window facing her backyard. It provides gorgeous lighting, and the rest of the house is so dark that it fades away.
I’m sort of “into” vintage at the moment, as my editing of this photo reflects.
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This week’s challenge from I ♥ Faces is “We Are Family”. What a lovely theme.
My entry: In this photo, my aunt and uncle are enjoying the attention of their grandson and grand niece.
To see many more beautiful family photos, stop by I ♥ Faces.

January

The Faces of Elinor
February

Vacation
March

A Visit
April

A Girls’ Party
May

Spring Day

Bonfire at Ben and Mindy’s
June

Camping at Itasca

Fishing on Wolf Lake
July

The 4th

Sparkler Fun
August

Grandma and Elianna’s Birthday Party

Golfing at Castle Highlands
September

Party at Ben and Mindy’s

Misty Morning
October

Snow in October
November

Indian Summer

Judah Evan Kastner
December

Making Lefse with Grandma

Skiing with John

Every year, Grandma makes a large batch of lefse for Christmas. This year, she asked us to help her!
First, Grandma rolled out the dough on her well-floured counter.

Then, she transported it to the table, where John waited to cook the dough.

Next John, the expert lefse cooker, carefully placed the dough onto the hot griddle. I [...]

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This week’s photo challenge from I ♥ Faces is “Sweet Dreams”.

I couldn’t remember any nice sleeping photos (I generally take them as a joke), but I knew that Judah would be the perfect subject. He seems to sleep through most of the day.
To see many more sleeping photos, stop by I ♥ Faces.
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Judah Evan Kastner
Born: Sunday, November 29th at 9:00 p.m.
I am so proud to be the aunt of this little boy! To see more photos, follow this link.
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© 2009 by Erica Lea

As I have mentioned before, I ♥ Faces is a photo blog dedicated to the beauty of faces. Every week they hold a photo contest, and I decided to join in this week.

This week’s challenge is “Autumn Beauty”. My entry is of my beautiful sister, Katelyn. This photo was taken on a lovely Autumn evening [...]

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For the past week or so we have been enjoying an Indian Summer. It really was a nice break from the cold and gloom we experienced in October.
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One fine afternoon, Mom insisted that we all take a walk. We ambled down to the beach and found many birds on the lake.
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Elinor loved playing in the [...]

On Tuesday, the sun rose a vibrant orange-pink.
This was a “Hey, photographer!” moment:
“Hey Erica, you have to take a picture of this!” my brother John informed me as I was reading Monday’s paper. I managed to snap off a few shots while the colors were still vivid.
© 2009 by Erica Lea