i’ve been experimenting again with my post processing. playing in photoshop can be so much fun!

happy friday!

wow! that was F.U.N.!!

thank you so much to everyone who played along and left a comment! all 33 of you! i absolutely loved reading all the fun facts that were left! such fun! i think i might need to do this again!

i actually have a few of these awesome fast track photographer books to give away, so, late last night, i decided to give away two today! woohoo! so, without further ado, here’s how it all went down….. and the winners from today’s draw are………

our first winner:

Kim on 17 Sep 2008 at 12:13 pm 

Did you know that Gary Busey, movie and television actor, attended Coffeyville Community College in Coffeyville, KS, as did Buster Douglass, former heavyweight boxing champion.
There ya go!
Thanks
Kim

and our second winner!

Ursula on 17 Sep 2008 at 6:47 pm 

hhmmmmm….. I drove a pink jeep in college. Does that count as a fun fact?

congratulations to kim and ursula! it’s such a great book and i know you’re going to love it! i’ll be intouch to get the shipping information!

thanks to my beautiful assistant, emily! and thanks so much to everyone who played along! so, if you didn’t win today, no worries! keep an eye out here on my blogsite because  i’ll be holding another contest in a couple of weeks!

remember last saturday….. when the wonderfully talented photographer, shannon stevenson came over from vancouver to help shoot andrea and dan’s wedding with me?

well, on sunday, before we dropped her off at the ferry, we headed to this really awesome location in victoria and we had the most fantastic family session with her! she is so awesome and ubberly artistic and i am so lucky to be able to call her my friend…. even though she wouldn’t let me have just a teensie-weensie small peek on her camera last weekend and totally made me wait until today for a sneak peek!…. i still love her!

you can see our sneak peek on her site at la storia studios.  and be sure to leave her some comments too! she loves getting some blog love!

thanks a million shannon!

last night, we gathered at derek’s mom’s house to celebrate uncle bruce and uncle gregg’s (belated) birthdays! it was great to have the family together again especially because i got to spend some time with my two neices! these babies are so cute!! and i can’t believe how fast they are growing!

malaiya and mommy!

miss sadie!

emily wrote a poem for uncle bruce!

“somethings about bruce”

he likes to golf, he likes to boat, when he wins he doesn’t gloat. he likes to skip, he likes to cheer, he really likes an ice cold beer. he uses oil, he uses gas, he even has a big huge… TRUCK!!

LOL!! you know we ALL cracked up when he read that out loud! too funny!

family time…. it’s a good thing!

yes, i know this type of self portrait has been done a half a ba-jillion times before but hey, it’s still tons of fun to do it!

and yes, that’s derek beside me! and yes, he’s grabbing my butt!

happy friday!

p.s. still two days left to enter blog contest below to win a copy of dane sander’s new book fast track photographer! see post below for details.