Week 15 - Photo Challenge (Adults Category)

This will be my first entry in the I ♥ Faces adult contest. To see more great entries click here. http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/

I forgot I had this picture of myself that I took almost 3 years ago. There is a great story behind this photo... and yes I am going to share it with you (lucky you!)

My father is a self taught photographer and when I would visit him he would take these incredible pictures of me. I thought at times... wow maybe I'm not that ugly in real life (:D. I always deleted pictures of me when I took them or someone else did because I always looked so horrible in them.

Me knowing nothing about photography at that point came to a conclusion that it wasn't the person behind the camera that knew what they were doing it was the extremely expensive camera that could take a nice photo. So of course I decided to buy a nice camera. My first camera I purchased was a Olympus Evolt 300. I found a great deal on it on Amazon and bought it. When I got the camera a week later I dragged all the kids to the park for a photography adventure. I soon realized that my "amazing" camera that I thought I bought was no better then the cheap point and shoot fuji I had already owned. Well I take that back... the camera was better.... but I wasn't.

While we were taking pictures at the park on the way home (It was extremely hot that day) we got into the car and gulped down lots of water. I took my camera and decided to take some pictures of me (hoping they would be "photography perfect!) So I was in my driver seat taking pictures of me. They just weren't very good. So I got this bright idea I would BLAST the air conditioner and get a picture of me with my hair blowing in the wind...

So with my camera was up on the steering wheel, the air conditioner blowing around the hair, and me pretending to be some model looking away into outerspace, this was the ONLY one out of dozens of pictures that managed to survive all these years. I have a tendency to go back at all my thousands of photos and deleting the ones I don't like. So I figured maybe there was a reason it was still around...

Week 15 - Photo Challenge (Kids Category)

This will be my second entry in the I ♥ Faces contest. To see more entries by others entered click here. http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/

This week was a GREAT LESSON for me to learn! I saw the self-portrait contest and read it needed to be of a face and assumed it meant of your kids only. I read it had to be taken in your hand without a tripod... etc and I was like... I have plenty of those! After I posted a picture of my son I went back to look at other entries and was wondering why people were posting pictures of themselves with their kids.

After re-reading what I didn't really read in the first place (just glanced) I realized that this was a lesson learned. I wonder how many people looked at my entry wondering what I was thinking! :D

I don't normally take pictures of myself. If I do they get deleted because I think they are terrible pictures of me! (I am my biggest critic). This picture is of me and my niece. She is like my second daughter. She is six weeks older then my daughter and they are each others best friends. She comes over to play 3 times a week and we have so much fun. Everyone thinks that my daughter and her are twins. She brings so much joy to our household and we enjoy every moment with her.