Weekly Photo: Week 4, Dinner

This weeks photo challenge was dinner. Here in Oregon, we've been having rain. Boooo! When I researched how to take nice pictures of food, I found that you need to take them outside in natural light. Well, with the rain this week and last, it was kind of difficult to do that. So here is a picture I took of my dinner a couple of weeks ago before the rain started.

By the way, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day today!

No need to edit this one!

Yum!

I made fish tacos. If you want a similar recipe, I got my inspiration from here.

I mixed it up and added cole slaw. You should totally check out Mix and Match Mama, I've gotten a ton of delicious, inexpensive meal ideas from reading her blog.

Next weeks, photo challenge is "from a high angle".

Weekly Photo: Week 3, Bold Colors

I love that this weeks challenge was "Bold Colors" since right now the bold colors of summer are making their appearance. I purchased these pots at the craft store to put citronella candles in for the summer. I chose these ones because of their colors and I wanted to brighten up my outdoor living space before all my flowers started to bloom. When I was eating dinner out side last week, I thought these would be perfect to snap a few photos of.

First edit. I used the Red Color Stroke (see my flowers in the background?)!

Second edit. I use the Green Hue and it changed up the colors. I liked this combo.

That's all I have for you this week. Week 4 of the photo challenge is Dinner.

Stay tuned, I'm going to show you later this week what we were up to with our yard this last spring.

Weekly Photo: Week 2, What Makes You Smile

I'm catching up! This photo challenge is beginning to be fun. It's making me take out my camera and take more photos. I took 200 photos just over the weekend!

So, you want to know what makes me smile? Well, a lot of things. But at the moment my little family. Josh and Sydney.

Here is a photo of our "fur kid" playing at the lake this weekend.

First edit. Please keep in mind, I'm still new with my editing program.

Second edit. I brightened her up, so you could see her gorgeous coloring. I might am biased, she is beautiful and she makes me smile.

Next photo is of the man I love and me. We went down to the lake in the evening and took pictures of the sunset. It took a few times, but we finally got a decent shot.

Here is the original.

First edit. I brightened this one up.

Second edit. I had some fun with the Vintage look.

Here are a couple more pictures from the weekend.

I was playing around with a silhouette photo.

We stopped at Timberline Lodge on the way home. This is Sydney's worried look, her ears show her emotion. She probably thought she was going over the cliff.

Next week the photo challenge is "Bold Colors" and I already got a head start tonight.

Weekly Photo: Week 1, Self Portrait

Okay, so I knew this would happen. I pretty much failed on the first assignment.

1) I didn't get it up online on Sunday, as I was planning to do 2) I only got two self portrait shots and 3) I just didn't have fun with the self portrait, but that's why I don't like self portraits. I feel weird just taking a photo of myself. I'm going to have to get creative on the last week if the challenge, when I need to do a self portrait again. But I have lots of time to think about it.

So here are my photos. Enjoy!

*Please make note, I didn't do any editing this time around.

The sun was really bright!

Now on another note, we went to Happy Hour at the Riverview on Saturday and I grabbed a couple of cute pictures. It was a beautiful evening!

As you can see, it takes us a couple of tries to get a good shot. I have a goofy husband.

Here is my Mom and Papa Junk. They only need one try, they are pros.

My next photo challenge is "something that makes you smile". Well, I have lots of things that make me smile, so this should be fun!

Happy weekend!