POTD 8.7.07

I don't have very much time to update today. :( Kendall and I are about before he has to be at work and then Shannon and I are {SCRAPBOOKING} :) yay! :) So, I guess just a couple that I've edited since the last post of the race. These are of the guys from the Alabama youth challenge. For those of you who do not know, DH is a runner, and a very good one at that! :) He works with the the YC program and got to take these boys out to the 5K. Unfourtunatly, I didn't really get to get any of Kendall running with them in formation. :(
Enjoy! {Candace}
.I really love this-the triumph on the guy's face is just so cool. You really can't see it b/c of my watermark, but i love how his feet are way up in the air. Oh, and the reason he is much lighter than than the rest of the photograph, is that he is jumping up in the water mist. Cool huh?

POTD 8.5.07

Yay! I can post pictures again! These are some of the ones that I took at the race yesterday. {candace}
.the lovely Miss.Amanda is about to cross the finish line. Go Amanda GO!

.I like this one. her feet don't touch the ground.

.This one really has to be one of my favorites, I just adore the look on this guy's face-just sheer happiness.

.i thought that this was an interesting take on things. I just hate that he's not as in focus as I'd like-but I liked the picture anyways.

.i love my saxophone.

Oh snap, crackle, AND pop! This silly thing is not letting me post my POTD. {grrrrrr}
Ok, so I guess that I'll just TELL you about my day versus SHOWING you my day. The last few days have been crazy-it's called bein' an insomniac. Last night I could not sleep yet again and so I just ended up going to the Woodstock 5k to cheer for Kendall and his little running group. Plus, the idea of taking pictures of the whole shindig really was an added bonus :) Anyways, after I got home from the race, Kendall just wanted to relax. I said Ok, just make sure that I don't fall asleep. {I had a baby shower to go to} Wellllllll.....of course I fell asleep 'round 11 or so and woke up about an hour later. Just in time to realize that I didn't have time to drive to it about 45 minutes away. I was so mad. But it worked out ok. I gave Brittany {my little sis} our present. Then last night, Kendall and I went over to visit mom, dad, and pup. Kendall and I took mom and pup on a walk. Afterwards, Kendall and I went upstairs and practiced our saxophones for about 3 hours. {It was the best fun!} Well, when we got home, we fell asleep about 2ish and I woke up at 4ish. I just could not go to sleep so after a hour of trying I gave up. Oh well, yet another day as an insomniac. Hope that you had sweet dreams, {candace}

POTD 8.4.07

short post today. The other day when I went out to shoot the pictures of my friend Kat {see a few entries down} I also took some of this wonderful Spanish style church on Ft.McClellan. It just had such a wonderful detail to it. The middle picture was actually shot in March but the other two were just last week. I hope that you enjoy! :) {candace}

POTD 8.3.07

My POTD is featuring two of my very good friends {lora and Jeffrey}. I have known them both since highschool. Lora and i became friends over our hatred of math and jeff and I over our love of music. It's a funny story really, Jeff went to a school about 2 hours from us. Ever since 7th grade i tried out for All-State honor band. That's how I met Jeff-at an All-State audition when we were in the 9th grade. {We had the same saxophone necklace-lol! :)} The next year we made the same band and got each other's AIM names-so we would chat on messenger. Jeff and I continued to be friends throughout high school and would see each other at various honor bands. Meanwhile, Lora was one of my best friends at oxford. I wish that everyone could meet lora-she is one of the {funniest, sweetest, most caring} people in the whole wide world. I just love her. Well, the time to go to college came near and I found out that Jeff was coming to JSU to major in Music ED. A few months after he got here he met Lora. He liked her-and who wouldn't!? However, it wasn't their time yet so fast foward a couple of years. Jeff and Lora met again. I just LOVE them together. It is the best feeling to see two people that I love and care about so IN LOVE with EACH OTHER! That's what I love so much about this series of pictures. I just love that you can see the love in their eyes when they look at each other-in a word it is simply {beautiful}. It really makes me happy to see them happy-both were there for me when I went through the HECK of my life and both were there when I found the LOVE of my life. So thank you to Lora and Jeff. {now, i want to do MORE pictures of you guys! :) }
.yeah, this is just them smoochin.

.This is Lora's family and Megan they are such a sweet bunch!

.I think that I ALMOST got it with this picture! Jeff has this look that he gives lora that is just so full of love. I've been DYING to catch it completly but I think that this may have been the closest that I've come.

.She's probally tellin' me "NO PICTURES PLEASE." :) {inside joke.}

.I just couldn't resist a storyboard oppurtunity.

Well, I guess that's about it for today. I've gotta go and make a card now for a baby shower in a few hours {it's 3:24am}. Have a wonderful day! :) {candace}

.just bored.

just thought that I would post the latest addition to my ever growing family of storyboards. :) This one is also from the shoot with Sawyer. I really have the very best time creating these things. Oh, and I now know how to install fonts into my computer.....let's just say that {I went on a little font frenzy}! :) So my entire day has gone to designing. I guess that I haven't been camped out in front of the computer ALL day...Kendall came home for lunch and so I left for a little while...:) I guess it's a good thing that I'm making all of this my career-I spend so much time with computers. :)

POTD 8.2.07

It's 6:57 in the morning and I'm wide awake. I went to bed around 1 and woke-up at 5. So, I decided to make good use of the time and do what I do when I have some time to spare-PHOTOSHOP! :) The other day I had a delightful time shooting Sawyer {the cutest little boy}. Well, I thought that it would be cute to do a collage of some of the faces and expressions that I got while doing the shoot. Some of them are just down right {adorable}! I have never done this before but really liked the result. I'm almost finished with editing and designing his pictures. I hope that these will always help him to remember what an adorable 1 year old he is! Oh, and if anyone would like to give me their oppinion, I am posting the black & white version and the chocolate version of this collage-I'm not really sure which I like better. Which do you like more? {candace}

. Here is the one in Chocolate.

. Here is the one in plain black and white.

POTD 8.1.07

I hope that you enjoy the new page design. :) I get bored with a design pretty easily, so every month or two I like a change of scenery. I'm going to try and work with color schemes that work well with pink and tourquise though {my favorite colors}.
That way my text won't look too funky with my designs! :) Anyways, on the photography! :)
One of my best friends {Kat} was kind enough to endure scorching heat to model for a photo shoot! She was such a great sport. We decided to do some shots at the Buckner Center on Ft.McClellan. I think that they turned out great-Kat really knows how to work the camera :) !
Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot.
{candace}

POTD 7.31.07

gah! finally! the last time i updated i believe we were still at the start of july and here we are in AUGUST!!!! I've done a lot of phot shooting since then soooo i've got a lot of posting to do. The question is where to start? Nothing really important has happend since my last post. Life has been uneventful here lately. However, in a few more weeks it will once again become CRAZY--it's that time of the year when i go back to school. :( In a way it's kinda weird-this should be my very last fall semester that I will ever take....YAY! :) As of right now I am due to graduate in the spring-April to be exact. {yeah, i've been counting down the months}
Atleast I will get to start my digital photography class in just a few more weeks-THAT I'm excited about! :) Ok, enough of my rambling-ON to the pictures! :)
Last Saturday, we went to my friend Megan's wedding-it was very lovely. I got some fun shots of her BIG day! :)

. I really love making storyboards-here is the one that I put together for Megan and Nick's wedding.

.no wedding is complete without a bride's maid BRAWL!!!!!

.i like this one a lot-'cept that bubble RIGHT on Megan's face.

.too bad that this is a little too snapshotty....

.i really like this one-although the whole selective coloring thing is kinda old. I actually really think that this one works well with the SC.

.i just loved the cake-and it was yummy! :)

.this one is most likely one of my favorites! i'm really working right now on getting my colors just right and I think I hit it in this one! :)

POTD 7.8.07

Well, I hope that 7.7.07 was a lucky day for you. It kinda was for me. Bad News: I over slept and missed my shot at going to the flea market to look at the cute bunnies. Good News: I got some new DVD's and I got the LAST copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that they had on sale...so I'd consider that pretty lucky. Oh, and I get to hang out with my SIL on Wednesday! We are going to go see the new HP movie! :) Plus, she is going to teach me how to sew a curtain! :) She's the BEST!

Here in Alabama, it rained all day-a good thing considering we are in the middle of a drought right now. So no new pictures today. However, I thought that I would post an oldie goldie from a few months ago. This was my very first baby shoot. I had the VERY best time with these guys! These are a couple of the storyboards that I made for their mommies. Hopefully, I will see my sister at my parent's house later today and get some good pictures of her! :)

Have a wonderful day! :)

{candace}

***sorry about this one bein' pixalated. I tried to make it bigger and instead screwed it up.***

POTD 7.7.07
The last few days have been so busy!!! We have driven EVERYWHERE! For the 4th of July we went with DH's parent's to this really cool Colonial American town called American Village. It was really cute. And of course Kendall, being the history buff that he is, just had the best time reading everything! :) Then, we went to watch the fireworks in downtown Birmingham. It was good times. Here are the pictures with kendall in the gallows. These are not technical-they are just snapshot type pics-so just ignore the technical mishaps.:) Oh, I also got ONE picture of the fireworks-it didn't come out so great. But I'm going to be ready next time-Anniston is having it's 4th of July show on Labor Day due to the drought. I also have a whole basket of sparklers left over from our wedding that I plan on experimenting with! :)






Then today, we went to cullman to have dinner with kendall's family. DH wanted to get there early so he could show me the town (he ran cross country in high school and did several matches there.) Anyways, we went to the lake and there were some really fun ducks there just begging for a photo shoot.....well, they were interested in my camera...:)

yeah, yeah, this one's a little blury...i just really liked the compostition to it.

I hope that today is YOUR lucky day! :)

POTD 7.4.07

HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!!
Well, it's just after midnight on the 4th. I thought that I'd get an early start on my POTD for the day. Well, I promised pictures from Kat's big birthday bash. Unfourtunatly, we celebrated at Olive Garden and the lighting in there is very low. I REALLY hate using my flash-esp. in a public place-so I had to use low ss. Most of my pics came out pretty crummy. :(
However, I did get this one-It's a good thing too-it's my favorite of the bunch. Although, the pictures of Kat when everyone came out singing were pretty funny! :) I<3>
We had a really wonderful time having dinner with these two! I can hardly wait to do it again!



Don't they just make the CUTEST couple!?

POTD 7.3.07

so finally...PICTURES! :) I call this collection..."completly RANDOM." Today has been such a wonderful day! Kendall had today off and so we went SHOPPING! :) I got the CUTEST dress at American Eagle. I also got to shoot some pictures of "pup" my dad's pet. However, he is NOT very photogenic!


I just love this picture-It's Kendall's hands! (of course I'd love them) :)

oh, this is that neato potato icecream I talked about a couple of posts back. I mean the thing even has wrinkles!!!!

everyone meet Pup.

POTD 7.2.07

ok....so there is no photo of the day today-or the last two days :(
Everytime that I've got ready to shot something happens. The other day DH and I went out of town. I thought-oh perfect! I can get some nice shots of him somewhere diffrent! However, just my luck it started to RAIN-and not just a little bit....it was like a MONSOON! So on Sat. I decided to dedicate the day to a photoshoot of kendall. We were going to go back to the same place that we were the day before (it's about 2 hours away and kendall was for a nice drive). It was BEAUTIFUL and I was so excited on the way there. Well, we get about 45 minutes into the trip....and I realize that I DON'T HAVE MY CAMERA!!!!! :( I had forgotten it despite putting it next to my purse on the night before. It just about RUINED the rest of my day.
Then today I MADE SURE that my camera was with me. We went over to my parent's house for our weekly visit. I wanted to shoot some with my dad and his "pup." My mom does not allow the puppy in the house so outside shots were a must. Well, by the time we got down to their house...a thunderstorm magically apears AGAIN!!!!! :(
I just can't believe the bad luck that I've been having lately. However, I did get some nice ones of Kat and Will. It was Kat's big 2-5 on Friday and Kendall and I joined them at Olive Garden. We had a great time-it was so nice seeing them again! :) I got a GREAT one of Kat's face when they sang to her! :) I still have to edit them though so hopefully all this bad luck will end and I will be able to go out and shoot some tomorrow. I really hope to have my POTD back up by then. Well, I hope that everyone else has had a much better few days than me!
-candace:)

POTD 6.29.07

Today has been the very BEST day! DH had the today and the rest of the week off and so we were lazy all day. Then he took me out to this DELICIOUS Italian restraunt in Rainbow City. We even split a dessert-it's ice cream but it looks just like a baked potato-the put cinimmon/cocoa for the "skin" and whip cream for the "sour cream." I took a picture of it but of course my batteries went out on me right then. Anyways, I'll post a not so good picture of it later.
I am married to the VERY BEST guy in the whole wide world! He is letting me get a new film SLR camera! :) After taking film photography last semester I have really fallen for the challenge of it. I've also bidded on a telephoto lens and a wide angle lens! (ha ha last paycheck from the nursery should pay for these :) I hope that I get them. The camera is a Canon Rebel K2 EOS.
I'm so excited about today! It's my dear friend Kat's BIRTHDAY! She is 25!!!!! sooo...HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAT! (and most likely the subject of my next POTD!)
Well, since I've been LAZY as everything today-i'm leaving you with a couple of pictures I took recently.


This is my "niece" Molly. She is my sister's doggie (the one that just got married). I just LOVE her!

I really LOVE this picture. This is my Paw-Paw and this picture really captures him for who he is.

POTD 6.28.07

today's pictures are self portraits. Kendall my DH, went to the Brave's game tonight and that gave me some just me time, so I decided to try out some natural lighting from the big window in our living room. Unfortunatly, I chose the WRONG day to do it. After I had got everything set up-a storm came and there went a lot of my natural light! :( Sadly, on the majority of these I had to use a low shutter speed and the pictures are blurry. :(

Hopefully next time I will have a better subject to photograph. It's HARD doing self portraits! Oh well, I needed a new myspace picture anyways....


I'm actually kinda surprised that this one ended up being my favorite of the bunch. I'm not wild about the crop on it but it is in much better focus than the others.....dumb storm! :(

this one was taken infront of my white backdrop ( just a white blanket for now). I got my exposure pretty close on it but you could see through the blanket so I had to dodge the crap out of the background. I just hate that it is BLURRY!!!!!!!

here i am with my trusty kodak Z650......yeah....hopefully, not much longer....

Thanks for looking! :)