RWS: a Picture a Day - 2008

Self-Portrait Tuesday: Size 12 is Not Fat*

Note: When I got married I was a size 3. Not by choice, it’s just the size I was without having to work at it. Then I had two kids and suddenly, size 3 was just no longer an option. And then, my (then) husband went and found another girl, another girl who was much skinnier and much bustier and much younger than I. It made my self-image take a huge hit. It’s taken me almost 3 years to really come around to the fact, but it’s very true. Size 12 is Not Fat. I am 6 feet tall. Size 12 is Not Fat. And neither am I.

Note2: *Also the title of a great book by Meg Cabot.

16-35mm lens @ 29mm | 1/200 @ f/3.2 | ISO 250 | Vivitar 285 off camera fired through umbrella from in front of camera to left
pp: Softy Bleach at low opacity, black and white home brew, Pioneer Woman’s Quick Edge Burn, resize and sharpen for web

The Sixth Sense Should be Love

My baby isn’t feeling so hot today. Not the same thing I had, something completely new and different. Which means all she wants to do is snuggle her fever-hot body up next to mine and run her fingers up and down my arm until she sleeps for a few fitful moments.

I, of course, treasure these moments. I want to hold on to these memories. Times when all she needs to feel better is to lay down next to me and let me hold her tight.

But she’s hot, you know. And this is Arizona on the cusp of summer. Plus, it’s Cinco de Mayo. So while I sit here and slowly bake next to her, all I can think of is “Gosh, sure would be nice to have a nice frozen Margarita right about now.”

And that last sentence is why I am TOTALLY in the running for Mommy of the Year. CHEERS!

ummmm……..yeah

Note: How I spent my day. A visual essay.
Note2: Happy Birthday, Mom!

16-35mm lens @ 16mm | 1/200 @ f/14 | ISO 200 | Vivitar 285 off camera at 1/16 with full ND filter through snoot
pp: defog, crisp color boost, Red’s Vintage at low opacity, resize and sharpen for web

Are You Looking at ME?

Note: Hee! He’s so cute!
Note2: Notice the new haircut.
Note3: Wide angle lenses are FUN.

16-35mm lens @ 16mm | some other settings with are incidental here
pp: defog, erin’s color action, resize and sharpen for web

Summer Haircut

His dad wanted to shave it off but ugh! I hate how that looks. It’s pretty short now, but it’s not completely shaved, so I’ll take it!

And yeah, this is mostly an ugly picture, but sometimes you just have to take them to document the moment….

Self-Portrait Random Day: Blue Steel and Fun with Flash

Note: Just playing around with the trying to get flash stuff to work. This was taken in my laundry room, which is such a tiny tiny room. 580EX on camera fired and bounced off of white cabinets over the washer/dryer and Vivitar 285 snooted on 1/16th with Neutral density filter fired at wall.
Note2: Blue Steel? Who? haha…..stupid movies…..

16-35mm lens | 1/200 @ f/9.0 | ISO 200, 580EX TTL exp comp of 0, Vivitar 285 Full ND filter 1/6th power
pp: I love the healing tool. Almost as much as I love the liquify filter. I bow down to the photoshop people who invented both of those.

Self-Portrait Tuesday: Why it’s Good to Have Friends who get Boob Jobs Edition

Note: My friend got her Post-Divorce Boobs (no, I did not go this route!) and as a result has no use for the multitude of brassieres that just happen to be MY non-big-boobed size…. it’s like waking up and realizing Victoria’s Secret barfed all over your underwear drawer.

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | 1/100 @ f/3.2 | ISO 640
pp: defog, crisp color boost, my favorite friend the liquify tool, Pioneer Woman’s Quick Edge Burn at low opacity. resize and sharpen for web

The End Is Near…

Note: The days remaining in the life of the green fairy dress are looking to be numbered…poor thing has been well loved!

16-35mm lens @ 17mm | 1/100 @ f/2.8 | ISO 320
pp: defog, crisp color boost, resize and sharpen for web

Doggie Feet

no notes on this one….

Turtle Turtle Turtle….

Note: There was this girl I knew at Band Camp in high school (I know! I TOTALLY KNOW what you are thinking, but it wasn’t like that) and she could make this awesome turtle face. I swear she looked just like a turtle and I was always so impressed with it and then totally cracked up by it at the same time. I am SO happy to see that my darling sweetpea can make THE SAME FACE! It’s a gift I’m sure she will treasure.

Note2: She can make some pretty goofy faces, this one. It’s like she has individual control of each and every muscle group in her face. It’s some kind of CRAZINESS, I tell you.

Note3: Yeah, I took this yesterday, what are you gonna do about it? huh? huh? BRING IT!

85mm lens | 1/2000 @ f/1.8 | ISO 320
pp: defog, crisp color boost, softy bleach at low opacity, high pass lighten at 4%, erin’s standard color at 50%, resize and sharpen for web (turtle!)