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Either that, or the groom running around, still not in his tux…

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The house was built ten years ago. Only it was built to look like it was a hundred years old. I found myself wanting to steal the doors. Or just move in.  Either way.

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The third dress the bride tried on…

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One of my favorite detail shots from yesterday…

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I use Adobe Lightroom to edit my photos (which I don’t always do), largely because I don’t have Photoshop and I don’t have $1500 to get the Totally Rad Actions and Kubota imaging tools after getting Photoshop. Compromises, compromises.  Not to say Lightroom doesn’t do a fine job, I just would like to more than Lightroom 1 allows (I don’t have experience with Lightroom 2).

I wish this picture had little bare feet, but it was spur of the moment, and of course once he took his socks off, he never sat like this again.  Here is the SOOC – Straight out of the camera – version:

Even with socks on, I think the picture can still be made into a keeper with a little post processing.  I think my favorites are probably #1, #3 or #4, depending  on the feel I was going for.  #7 too though.  Anyway, these are probably my favorite and most used presets for Lightroom.  I just recently started experimenting with presets, which are something like a cheat sheet in my mind.  You can use them quickly and easily to bring a totally different feel to the photo, without all the work.

Left to right starting at the top left:

1. Wet Chrome 2. Metropolis 3. Fake it til you make it BW 4. Green Tint 5. x=mad+max+3200 6. x=summer+holiday 7. PH Naturally BW 8. x=warm+storm 9. x=smooth+as+velvia

Larger version here

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I don’t know which part is more embarrassing funnier… The fact that I bought these period.  The fact that these slippers were $3.24.  Or the fact that I bought the XL because they were $3.24 while the medium and large (more common sizes) were still $6.48.

Whatever the case, they make my feet smile.

Somehow they don’t look like boats from this angle on little feet.

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This year, we did a photo scavenger hunt instead of a basket full of candy filled eggs and dollar store stuff.  I went around the house and outside taking pictures of recognizable places.  The stove, the clothes hamper, a toybox, the bumper sticker on my car, a ball in the yard…  I printed all of these pictures out as a contact sheet (the one that fits about 35 photos).  After cutting them up, I put one egg with a picture in a small bucket that had a few other eggs and some easter grass.  The place in the picture was where Caleb should look for the next egg…and so on.  He ran all over the house, then out in the yard.  It took an hour to complete our “hunt!”  He seemed to really enjoy himself, and it was reasonably simple, although it took me longer to place all the eggs than I thought it would.

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