December 2008

POTD 12/02/08

Welcome back!

 
I finally got a chance to shoot a few portraits of my granddaughter. In this shot, she was sitting on a sofa with a black cloth draped over it. The cloth wasn’t actually large enough to cover everything it needed to, so I used a “clone” tool to copy parts of the black cloth […]

POTD 10/11/08

 
Hi. My name’s Mollie Beth and I’m four an a half months old. Grampa said I could be a “gest blogger” today, so I wanted to share this picture of me that Grampa took today. My aunts were having a birfday party and Gramma let me try some yummy stuff she called “frost sting” or […]

POTD 10/3/08

Mollie has been a real handful today. It seems like every few minutes all day long there was something that failed to meet with her approval and she required one of her grandparents to fix the situation.
This picture was squeezed into one of her calmer moments this morning. I was shooting the stuffed animals for […]

POTD 9/29/08

 
We spent a good part of today going through the house deciding what we can live without because this place is just too full. I suspect we’ll be spending the next several days looking for things my wife can put into her eBay store (since nobody here wants to sit around all weekend hosting another […]

POTD 9/14/08

Picture this: You’re 3 1/2 months old. You’re just waking up from a nap and have misplaced your pacifier. You REALLY want something to fend off this enormous sucking urge, but you still lack the eye-hand coordination to pick up the pacifier and get it to your mouth.
What’s a baby to do?
Simple: grab hold […]

POTD 9/13/08

 
Getting back to the “Baby’s point of view” theme, I have two questions for my readers:
1) How many of you can remember eating this way?
2) How many of you would actually be able to eat with this ugly mug looking down at you?
I’m surprised my granddaughter can eat at all… but she is a pretty […]

POTD 8/31/08

 
My granddaughter is turning out to be quite the music lover. At three months old, she already will sit nearly motionless for an hour while she’s completely enthralled by The Lawrence Welk Show.
In this photo, she’s sitting on her aunt’s lap watching a Disney music video that her aunt found on YouTube.
If this kid doesn’t […]

POTD 8/14/08

I got this picture of my granddaughter and her best friend, Holly, this afternoon. She and that doll are almost inseparable. She’s only 2 months old and she already has developed a special cry that is easily translated as, “I want Holly Dolly”.
Some people might look at that and shout about how that’s an antique […]

POTD 8/13/08

I was very pleased with the way this turned out. A few small steps really improved a picture that, in my opinion, wasn’t bad to start with. First, I fixed the baby’s red-eye problem. Next, I selected both eyes and used a little “unsharp mask” on them. While I had the eyes selected, I lightened […]

POTD 8/12/08

Another picture that I didn’t actually take, as evidenced by the fact that I’m in the picture.
This is (yet another) picture of my granddaughter. It seems that every time I pick this child up she spends a few minutes explaining, in the only way a 2-month-old child can, everything that’s gone wrong recently and then, […]