Swimming with Colby, Zac, and Sean

Today we had a playdate with Kelly and the boys....

I asked Sean if I could take a photo....

He is such a sweetheart and I love those blue eyes!

The new 007....

Colby and Michael hiding...

Ahhhhhh Ha Ha Ha....

Just gotta love the laughter...
Zac was playing camera shy today...I really tried to get a photo of him but he's pretty good at avoiding the camera!!

Thanks Kelly, Colby, Zac and Sean we had a terrific time!

Please excuse the quality of the photos too...I didn't have access to my harddrive and had to download these off the net, Yikes!! I need multiple USB ports, lol...

Hello Grammy....Did you Forget someone?

Jessica Sprague Lesson 8 - Type

Today's lesson was adding Type to your photo....

I never know what photo to work with on these lessons? Jessica used a beach photo for an example so I went with the same idea...

I also played around a bit more and Thanks to Jen I added one of her grunge mask/frames to it and I liked it....

You can check Jen's stuff out at Jencropable.com

Jessica Sprague and Lessons 4, 5, and 6

I had to play catch up with my Photo Editing: Frame-ups and Special Effects class at JessicaSprague.com, Ekkkk

Lesson 4 - Clipping Mask (In this case I added the photo to a blue frame)

(Wordart is from Elegantwordart.com)

Michael had his arms out and was pretending to either be a plane or a bird...lol.

Lesson 5 - Textures (I used the same photo above but turned it Black and White and then added a few textures to it)

Lesson 6 - TTV

"Through the Viewfinder". To get a worn, faded look, photographers will actually take photographs (often using a macro lens and a light blocking device) through the viewfinder of an old camera. The result is a photo with blackened edges, distortion, scuffs and scratches and marks. We used TTV photos and layered them and then worked our magic, lol...Take the class to find out more.....Below is my attempt!
I've been out of the Art/photography world to long this is all new to me....But I'm learning new things and leaving my comfort zone, Ekkkk!
I always liked playing in the DarkRoom so I suppose I can play around in PSE 7 too!

Indian Point...and Birds!

Most of you know I'll take whatever time I can to stop and get photos of birds...Since it was Michael and I and no one to moan and groan (no names mentioned) I decided to stop at Indian Point and get some more photos...Not to say Michael didn't moan and groan but he knows he isn't going to win so he makes the best of it, lol...Gotta love my boy

I did have my trying moments though and that was getting photos of the birds before someone chased them off, grrr...Michael has his ways of getting me back!

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Below is a laughing Gull, just before Michael got to it, lol...

I am thinking someone has spoiled this brown Pelican as he flew right up to us and then circled a few times really close before flying off...He also looked as if he might have had his winds clipped at one time....

I'm outta here they didn't have any fish....ARGH!

Here's the little Blue Bird that chases off my photo subjects!!

He just keeps coming...

and coming towards me...

Ekkk....He really thinks he's bad...ha ha ha, ho ho ho...He's bad but Momma is the Baddest, lol...I can take away his Xbox, na na na...

Long Billed Curlew

Redish Egret, he was chasing fish and making us laugh with his antics!

Tri-colored Heron in the surf

And that Ladies and Gents was our mini-trip to Corpus!!

And still more photos from Corpus....

Am I boring you yet? I told you we packed a lot into a mini-trip.

I was so glad I got a hotel room for the night instead of trying to drive home as we were pretty well worn out...

The view from our room at night...

The next morning someone was enjoying themselves...Laying in bed watching Cartoons, sigh!!

His Majesty Michael!

We had breakfast and headed over to the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History...We had never been there and were pleasantly surprised the place is HUGE and they have so much to explore

Michael found the Shark!

The Hat Pin collection was huge and I thought the bird headdress was cool.

We took a tour of the replica ships that Columbus sailed to the New World on...These ships were built in 1983 in Spain and made tours around Europe and the United States before being brought to Corpus Christi...

The ship above was the Santa Maria

We were allowed to go on and explore the Pinta.

I can NOT even imagine crossing the Ocean in one of these ships!!!

No sir, No way, No HOW!!

The Mast of the Pinta...

They are working on the Santa Maria

The Deck of the Pinta...

After our tour of the ships we headed to the Children's play area...

Michael enjoyed himself..

He loved fishing...

And hanging around like a bat, lol...

Then he found the canon, yikes!!

It was a really nice Museum and very Kid friendly...

Leaving the Museum it was lunch time so we went and ate lunch and then headed home...but wait Mom had one more place she wanted to stop, lol...

Short Clips from the Circus

I put a bunch of clips together into one just to give you an idea of what it was like...the music was awesome...They had their own band that played over in the corner...

The story behind the photo below was that Michael received about 15 clown noses and a clown hat and when we got back to the Hotel it was late but he still had to play at being a clown, lol....