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Photo Tips for Holiday Photography and Digital Scrapbooking Projects -Part 3

Blog Admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:11:00 +0000

If you have been following our blog then you know we have been talking about Photo Tips, so a few days ago we talked about 5 tips for better Holiday Photos –
(see ~ Photo Tips for Holiday Photography and Digital Scrapbooking Projects – Part 1 and Photo Tips for Holiday Photography and Digital Scrapbooking Projects -Part 2).

So in this article we will give a few more tips for getting those great photos for your digital scrapbooking projects from all your holiday events.

Many of the photo examples in this article will be photos of the winter holiday season, but these tips will work on any holiday ~ in fact, they are great for everyday photography too!

Just a reminder are starting this article where the last 2 articles – (Tip 1 through Tip 5) left off!

Tip 6: Look for the Reflections in the Holiday, and Capture both the image and the Reflection.

One the quickest and easiest ways to add an artistic touch to your holiday photos is to focus on capturing reflections in any place it might appear.

For example in San Diego in December they have a boat parade in December, it is fun to capture the boats decorated with lights but it is nice to make sure and capture the reflections of the lights in the water too!

More reflections in the water are extra fun with these light from the boat shining in the water. Then adding such photos make a extra fun digital scrapbooking page

This holiday season besides reflections in water, you can look for reflections in puddles in the street, or in ice, ice sculptures, or even in Ice sickles

Keep a look out for interesting splashes of color, reflected from Christmas lights and other holiday decorations too.

Reflections also are great in glass, mirrors, and other lights. Like these New Year glasses below filled with cheer and reflections. This photo could work great in a New Year’s digital scrapbooking project too!

Candles also are a great source of reflections, but really reflections can happen in many places so keep your eyes open for the that photo shot that has reflections in it!

Reflections can be somewhat focused like the images above or they can be somewhat out of focus, just capturing the reflections.

Tip 7: Capture Just the Reflection

The Holidays can be a perfect source of abstract images.

The out of focused or abstract photos that suggest the essence of the holidays without being direct and explicit, because the photo captures reflections.

With capturing the “Just the Reflections” your photos can create a great mood for your Digital Scrapbooking Pages and projects

See the other examples of using this “Capture Just the Reflections” or abstract image technique below:

Or another example of capturing the abstract reflections:

Take a look around this holiday you might be surprised how many reflections you can find and how many creative photos you can capture!!!

Tip 7: Shoot Photo First, Ask Question Later! Take candid photos during the holidays. The posed photos are fun, but you can get some great photos if you take random, candid shots too!

Unlike posed portrait photos, with the candid photo, the photographer doesn’t get to direct the person being photographed. The real skill of a great candid photographer is being patient, watching, observing and really just waiting for the perfect moment when the person(s) and nature comes together for the perfect photo!

For example, taking candid shots of a child opening a gift – or playing with a gift for the first time. People having fun at a New Year party like the photos below.

To catch those very special candid shots by being alert and ready! When the photo op comes up, then you have to have your camera ready to fire off and catch the shot! If you think a good picture might be coming then start taking the photos and see if you can capture the event as it is happening and if you have a camera positioned, set up and ready then you should be able to get some treasured candid photos! A fast shutter speed can also be a helpful way to have your camera set up and ready to go too!

Exercise your powers of observations. Wait for the right moment and learn to anticipate what might happen, and then take the photo when it does happen!

It is fun to take the photos using these tips and make digital scrapbooking pages with them!

Use some of these tips and try to get better photos this Holiday Season!

Happy Scrapping!

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Photo Tips for Holiday Photography and Digital Scrapbooking Projects -Part 2

Blog Admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:10:00 +0000

Yesterday we talked about 3 tips for better Holiday Photos – (see~ Photo Tips for Holiday Photography and Digital Scrapbooking Projects – Part 1).

Now we will give a few more tips for getting those great photos for your digital scrapbooking projects from all your holiday events.

At writing this article we are coming into Christmas time so many of the photo example will be photos of this season, but these tips will work on any holiday ~ in fact, they are great for everyday photography too!

We are starting this article where the other one left off – Tip 1 through Tip 3 left off!

Tip 4: Plan ahead ~ Charge Camera Batteries, Clear the Memory Cards, Get out the Tripod, Pick the places for the photos and Check the Lighting before you gather the gang.

After you have gathered everyone together then the last thing you want to have happen is to realize you forgot to charge the battery! This can make everyone grumpy before taking the family portrait or holiday photo!

In addition to making sure your batteries are charged (or you have replacements on hand), you will also want to make sure you have a place for your potential images to be recorded like outdoors in front of the decorated house, or indoors in front of the Christmas tree. Before you line people up take some test photos to check the lighting and see about how the place will look on film before gathering everyone! Also get your tripod set up and learn how to turn on the self-timer again before everyone shows up!

If you are shooting digital, clear your flash memory card so you will have room for the holiday shoots.

Tip 5: It is Ok to stage some photos. Go ahead and plan a photo think through all the detail and then set up the photo. It is defiantly OK to stage some of your holiday photos of people doing this or that. and putting them in the perfectly posed positions! Not all photos have to be candid.

When a photo is going to be used in a scrapbooking project then staging a few photos can make an extra nice photo for the scrapbooking page.

For example, go ahead and tell your children to look longingly at their presents under the tree! Put them just right in the photo with the surrounding elements – like in this photo by the trees, backs to the camera and feet showing!

Or pose Uncle John for a funny photo, like the one below.

Now, don’t pose all the photos but posing a few adds some special fun to many digital scrapbooking projects!

Another great place to stage the perfect photo is when you are taking photos of food!

Arrange the food in a perfect position, and add extra touches to the scene. Make sure the background is not distracting! Taking the extra time to set the stage for a good photo will pay off when you scrap it.

Try these tips to see if you can get better Holiday Photos for your scrapbooking projects!

Have a very happy Holiday!

Enjoy!

Ps. Check back in a few days for more Holiday Photo taking Tips!

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Photo Tips for Holiday Photography and Digital Scrapbooking Projects – Part 1

Blog Admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:23:00 +0000

The holidays make for wonderful photo opportunities, which can later be scrapped into fantastic scrapbooking projects and pages. Today we will start giving a few photo tips for the holiday and then over the next while will be adding more… so, keep a watch on this blog for a bunch of great photos tips!

So let’s start off with some easy tips to help take better photos of Christmas, Hanukkah, or the other holidays. Try some of these tips and see if you don’t come away from the holidays with the absolute best photographs for your scrapbooking projects.

At writing this article we are coming into Christmas time so many of the photo example will be photos of this season, but these tips will work on any holiday — in fact, they are just good photo tips for everyday photography too!

Whether you are photographing the symbolic subjects of the holidays such as Christmas cookies, ornaments, or if you are photographing your friends and family, then getting creative with your composition with definitely improve your photos. This means paying special attention to how you organize the various elements in each photo. See the next few tips to help with this.

Tip 1: Move in Close. Especially when you center your subject subject in the photos.

This tips also works for off-center photos too, that we will talk about in Tip 2 & Tip 3.

While there are reasons to move out and take shots that show more of what is going on make sure you get some photos that move in close to the subject. When you go to scrapbooking your photos, you will appreciate that some of your photos are zoomed into the people or objects.

If you haven’t used this technique before then this is one thing that will make the big difference in the success of your picture-taking.

The simple fact is the audiences are always impressed when the subject is huge and impossible to miss. Therefore, make sure you have some of your photos where the subject fills the frame.

Tip 2: When taking some of the photos, off-center your main subject. Instead of every time placing your main subject in the center of the scene try moving your camera until this subject is off to the side.

This idea works with people and holiday objects too. Like Christmas ornament or Holiday food. These items as well as people are fun to scrap with, and using the off-center trick sometimes can turn up some interesting photos!

Photos that could make your digital scrapbooking page look awesome!

Tip 3: Main subject in-focus and off-centered, with the background elements blurred and in balance with the main subject.

Also, when you are trying the off-center tip, you might want to layout your shot to balance your main subject with something in the background, on the other side of the picture.

For example, if you are photographing a beautiful candle, try placing it on the right with the Christmas tree (or another supporting element in the background). Then adjust your camera to blur softly in the background on the left, yet leaving the candle (or other foreground object) in focus.

Using this technique can result in a photo that both records the candle in all its beauty and does so in an artistic, creative way.

Take a look at this same concept with another photo.

In this photo of holiday cooking the focus is on the candy for the gingerbread house and the other baking is in the background and blurred.

Also notice the off-center feature, with the balancing in the background supporting elements.

These images use the same concepts and have created very interesting photos that would be fun to scrap into many digital scrapbooking projects!

Try these tips to taking better photos as taking a good picture is still the best option for photo editing projects, and when we take a better photo this gives us more opportunities to create wonderful scrapbooking pages too.

However, even with our best efforts, sometimes is nice to know that we can fix our images for digital scrapbooking projects in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. If you want more help after you have taken the photo – then check out the Photo Editing Tutorials and Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials in the Scrap Shop!

Enjoy!

Ps. Check back in a few days for more Holiday Photo taking Tips!

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Use Quick Pages to really speed up your scrapbooking projects!

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Just out is the new digital scrapbooking kits for Hanukkah!

The Hanukkah Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is in beautiful blue tones to celebrate Hanukkah. Celebrate the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit! Celebrate “the festive of lights” with this digital Scrapbooking kit made especially for Hanukkah! Scrap with a Menorah, or decorate your holiday projects with a spinning dreidel!

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Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Let it Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital scrapbooking pages! This digital scrapbooking kit is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your moments look fabulous!

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Use the month-inspired Quick Pages to create beautiful scrap projects instantly. Designed with 12 different scrapbooking pages, one for each calendar month, many with holiday themes found in those months! Use all the digital pages in one project or just use one page for a particular holiday or project! This is a kit that makes digital scrapbooking fun and easy, just add your photos for quick scrapbooking!

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December Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Taking Ideas

Blog Admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:08:00 +0000

As a scrapbooker and photographer I am always trying to look for new scrapbooking and photo ideas, if you are like me then check the list below for lots of great ideas! Once you have an idea you can be on the look out for taking photos or getting scrapbooking supplies that match!

How did it happen? December already! Can you believe it is here so fast?!

December is a wonderful month for getting photos for great digital scrapbooking pages and projects!

So much is going on in this month – keep a digital camera in your purse, on your kitchen counter, in your car and every where you go.

Perfect December photos are going to surprise you everywhere!

Here are some ideas to keep in mind so you have a camera ready for the perfect shot or also so you can prepare and have the right digital scrapbooking supplies on hand for making wonderful winter digital scrapbooking projects.

December Ideas to get you started. Take Photos and Digitally Scrap these Events:

Snowball fights
Making Gifts
Scrapbooking
Making angels in the snow
Building snowmen
Ice sculptures
Ice sickles
Ice skating
Hockey games
Holiday Baking
Visiting Grandparents and family for the Holidays
Baking Cookies
Hot coco or Apple cider by the fireplace
Family gatherings
Holiday activities and preparations
Selecting a Christmas tree
Holiday decorations
Holiday recipes
Holiday Parties
Visiting Family and Friends
Images of Holiday travels like on airplane or road trips
Family dinners
Family in Winter clothing
Snow falling
Family Photos for Holiday Cards
Dogs and Kids playing in the snow
Visiting Friends
Helping others and community services projects
Canned food drives
Menorah being lit
Kwanzaa
Other Winter Holidays – find out about one you don’t celebrate and learn more about others
Nativity scenes
Decorating the house
Christmas activities
Decorating the Christmas Tree
Hanging Christmas stockings
Children writing to Santa Claus
Making Cookies for Santa Claus
Wrapping presents
Opening presents
Shopping events and Holiday Sales!
Nature in Winter

These are just a few December ideas to get you thinking about some of the fun things you can take photos of and then turn into wonderful digital scrapbooking projects!

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Decorate your digital scrapbooking projects with holly, adorable Christmas-themed buttons, or even a Christmas tree and Candy Cane! From sipping hot cocoa, making Christmas cookies for Santa, or opening presents Christmas morning, create digital masterpieces to cherish special holiday memories!

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Autumn Photography Tips

Blog Admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:36:00 +0000

Throw the digital camera in your car, put it in your purse or pocket and get out and get Autumn photos.

Make some effort to use your good digital camera this Fall. Now that everyone has a camera in their cell phone to many people are relying solely on cell phones for getting their photos. Cell phone cameras can come in handy on occasion when you don’t have your good camera, but cell phone cameras are not going to get you the best photos. Usually the lens are minimal and they don’t produce the photos that are amazing! I like to think of a cell phone shot, as a camera to use when the option is you will not have the photo otherwise.

So our biggest Photography tip today is DON’T use your Cell Phone Camera for your nature photographs, family photos or other serious photos where you want the quality to be higher.

Now you have gotten your good digital camera out and want to improve those photos too! So, here are a few tips to guide you to better Autumn photography!

Fall Photo Tips
(originally posted 10/28/09)

Now that Fall is here grab your digital camera and get out there and start taking photos!

Here are 6 photo tips to help you get the best photos this Fall

Tip 1: Take Fall Landscape or Outside Shots in Early morning or Late Afternoon. Outdoor or landscape photography work well from the early morning or late afternoon natural light. One Travel Photographer Susan McCartney says, “It’s best to photograph outdoors when your shadow is longer than you are.”

In the early morning, you might get some fog or mist that will provide a soft background with some long shadows. Morning can provide a great time to go out and take some wonderful Fall photos.

In the later afternoon or early evening the golden light just before sunset transforms not only leaves hanging on trees, but also the leaves that have fallen on the ground.

Tip 2: When taking photos in the middle of the day use backlighting to enhance the photos. When the sun is overhead, you can use backlighting to make leaves glow in your photographs.

For example, see in the example how the light showing through the leaves makes the colors bright and interesting.

Tip 3: Use a close up lens to get really close to the leaves. Go ahead, zoom in with your lens and then put the close up lens on to get even closer! This will give a better image if you want to turn it into a digital scrapbooking embellishment.

Tip 4: Vary the kind of day you take photos, take photos with different types of skies. Don’t always take photos on blue sky days, or don’t always take photos on cloudy days – vary the kind of days you take photos on for different effects. You can take a photo of the same leaf or tree with a different type of sky and have a totally different kind of photo!

Each type of lighting offers different opportunities. If it is a sunny day, you get the benefit of blue sky and strong light and shadow. However, when the sky is overcast or when clouds obscure the sun, you get the benefit of enhancing the colors of the leaves relative to the rest of the surroundings. Stormy skies can make subtle colors “pop.”

Tip 5: Start taking the photos as soon as the leaves in your area start to turn colors. When you see the leaves turn, start taking photos and then keep taking photos as long as you can. Then when the heavy frost comes along, or a big windy rainstorm, color can decrease in intensity, and the wind will rip the leaves from the branches. Don’t miss getting your precious photos by waiting to long before you start taking your Fall photos.

Need some good places to get Fall Foliage shots? Why not check out the this blog article that talks about Fall Scenic Drives: a Photographic Opportunity!

Tip 6: Don’t forget to take candid photos of people with Fall scenery. Fall can give you the opportunity for some great candid photos. Children playing leaves, and couples strolling down a lane with Autumn Trees in the background.

Use a telephoto zoom lens to shoot unobserved candid pictures from farther away. It is very nice to get up close and personal when taking good photos.

However, if you have a camera with a fixed lens then you would have to be so close to the people you are photographing that the shot might be influenced by you because you are now part of the action. Being further away lets the scene develop without people feeling self-conscious and often you can capture more intriguing intimate photos.

Check back for more Tips, Ideas and Helpful Hints!

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Follow the Fall Leaves and Scrap them too!

Blog Admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:08:00 +0000

With cool Fall days, and extra chilly nights the Fall leaves are out and about. It is a perfect time to get the photos for Autumn scrapbooking projects!

It is always fun to photography fall leaves, but if it is too late for leaves in your area this year, take a note and make sure to see the colors next year!

As Fall approaches one of the wonders of nature is the leaves changing colors and making many spectacular shows of color here and there.

Everyone probably has a favorite place close to home that has some fun fall colors. I like to take the drive up a canyon near my home to see the yellow and orange leaves when the Fall hits Southern California …more like in December here in San Diego! But never the less, when those leaves turn color, I want to be there with my digital camera!

Sometimes it is fun to plan a trip to an area that has a dramatic fall color show.

According to Fine Living Travel here are 8 Great Fall Drives one must take. They are:

VERMONT: Route 5
WISCONSIN: Cranberry Highway
PENNSYLVANIA: Lehigh Valley
GEORGIA/NORTH CAROLINA: Great Smoky Mountains
TEXAS: Lost Maples State Park
UTAH: Guardsman Pass Scenic Backway
CALIFORNIA: Yosemite National Park
ARKANSAS/OKLAHOMA: Ouachita Mountains

These might be some places you could go to see some wonderful displays of fall foliage and dramatic color!

This is a great time of year to get beautiful pictures of scenery, so don’t forget your camera! Images so brilliant, that you might want to come home and frame them. Also it could be a great time to get some wonderful family photos – ones that you would want to digitally scrap and turn into family scrapbooking albums or gifts like a mouse pad or puzzle! And don’t forget that fall leaves make fantastic embellishments for digital scrapbooking projects so take lots of close-up leaf shots because the really make great digital scrapbooking embellishments!

Have a colorful fall and don’t forget to take time to look at the changing foliage and take a few photos while you are at it!

Cheri

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November Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Taking Ideas

Blog Admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:52:00 +0000

Need some inspiration for Digital Scrapbooking? Not sure what to take a photo of? Well then you are in the right place! Take a look at these ideas and get inspired this month!

I love Fall but sometimes I need some ideas to get started scrapbooking or taking photographs.

November is a wonderful month for getting photos for great digital scrapbooking pages and projects!

When you think ahead of some of places to look for photos, then you can be more prepared to get great photos for your digital scrapbooking projects. So grab your camera, and look for those perfect scrapbooking photos!

November Ideas to get you started. Take Photos and Digitally Scrap these Events:

Apple Picking and Baking
Pumpkin pies
Visiting Grandparents
Baking Cookies
Hot coco or Apple cider
Fireplaces and families gatherings
Thanksgiving activities and preparations
Thanksgiving decorations
Thanksgiving and people at the table
Thanksgiving recipes
Thanksgiving leftovers
Family dinner, watching TV, playing board games
Family in fall clothing
Leaves changing color
Raking up leaves
Kids and Grown-ups jumping into leaves
Sports Events and family members watching “the game”
The first snow fall
Family Photos for Holiday Cards
Dogs and Kids playing in the snow
Family gatherings
Visiting Friends
Helping others and community services projects
Shopping events and after Thanksgiving Sales!
Nature changing
Birds flying south
Water freezing

These are just a few November ideas to get you thinking about some of the fun things you can take photos of and then turn into wonderful digital scrapbooking projects!

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Scan your Photos with a Mobile Scanner for Digital Scrapbooking Projects

Blog Admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:33:00 +0000

Scan those old photos and make them digital!

Have you been looking through your old photo albums, and wish those photos were digital? If so then you might be thinking that you might want to scan those photos so you can use them in your digital scrapbooking projects, keep a backup or just have them turned into digital to preserve them.

Here is a new way to scan those old photos!

Every once in awhile we come across a gadget the is nice to share with other digital scrapbookers.

This product seems especially interesting to us. If you are like us and have loads of old photos sitting around then you might want to try the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner

Here is an exciting tool to scan your photos because this scanner is compact, doesn’t have to be attached to a computer, and stores scanned images on a memory card!

According to the maker, the Flip-Pal mobile scanner can scan photos safely while they are still in the album or frame!

Also according the the maker you can scan Photos, drawings, quilts, even small objects like coins or jewelry. Also they claim to scan Newspapers, bound books, albums and magazines!

We just ordered one and when it comes we will test it and let you know.

But here is how we imagine using first, is to take old photos in our album and make them digital then make a back-up copy so I can give my family copies too! Then digital scrapbooking any of the new digital photos!

As soon as we get our we will let you know how it goes!

In the meantime you might want to take a look at some of the Flip-Pal videos below:

Take a look at this and see how the manufacture of Flip-Pal uses this nice little scanner!

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After you have scanned your photos you might want to fix a few things!

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Quick Tip: Double vision in Photoshop Elements to make Photo Edits – Part 1

Blog Admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:59:00 +0000

When you are editing photos in Photoshop Elements some precision tasks in such as retouching may require you to work on your photo while zooming in quite a bit.

Using the zoom feature in Elements is the only way to see the image in enough detail to work effectively.

However, while zooming in is needed to see the area you are editing, you might also need to see how the correction fits into the overall image. To do that you might find yourself zooming in to the image, making part of the corrections and then zooming out to see how that looks. This can be a difficult task, but if you know one of the secrets inside of Elements then you can actually have two separate windows, both showing the same image. Not just a copy of the image, but the actual image.

Here is how to do it….

To open dual windows of the same image, do this: select View > New Window for DOCUMENT from the menu, the DOCUMENT or IMAGE is the name of the file you’re working on. For example our image is named “Girl_Hair.jpg” so the New Window will include that name on the menu too! See the image below.

This will open another window of your image up in the work space. Notice that the new view of your image will be named the same and will be highlighted (See #1) and the other one the name will be faded (See #2)

Now that you have both windows are open at the same time, try zooming in on one image. You’ll notice that the other stays at the same magnification while you are zooming in on the other.

When you make edits in one image, then they will appear in both windows. Now you will have a close up view and a whole image view.

In the image above we took some of the extra fly away hairs off this girls neck with the spot healing tool. It was really helpful to have both the close up view to work with and also see how the whole image would be affected as well while making the edits.

Now save your image and close them.

This tip is so helpful to use in when editing photos and even when you are scrapping too.

Once you try this tip you will probably fall in love with it and use it most the time you are doing close up work with photo editing or scrapping!

Have a nice day and try this Photoshop Elements tip today!

PS. Check back soon to find out how to do this in Photoshop!

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Have a camera ready for unexpected surprises

Denise Bell — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:20:00 +0000

Cougar Visits the City! This was the title of our home town newspaper this morning. You might think Cougar?

Yes, Cougar, as in Mountain Lion! Who would have thought that a visitor like this would come wandering down the street. It did though, and as surprising as it is, it is not the first time.

A couple of years ago my neighbor called me and said he had something I had to check out over in his garden. So I went over expecting to look at a beautiful tomato. Did he ever surprise me.

Right next to his house, next to my garage there was a Mountain Lion print in the mud. It was clear as could be, but to be sure, we called Fish and Game out to see it. They confirmed our suspicions and told us that it probably had come down out of the mountains or from the near by Indian Reservation and followed the empty canal that is across the street from our houses.

Yesterday however was a big deal. They were not letting any kids ride the buses or walk home because of the Cougar out by the bus stop. At first I laughed, and then it hit me, this is real, if one can be in my yard, why not at the bus stop. So we left the school and the rest of the day was spent looking out the window for the Cougar. As my daughter said, the entire city changed it’s behavior because of one wild animal. I arrived at the school to pick up my 5^th grade daughter and all of the parents were there picking up their children. They were going into the school and escorting the kids to the cars. I guess I had missed the call from the school asking me to pick my daughter up.

I chuckled at one of my friend’s posts on Facebook. Her husband is a local Police Officer. She said her husband had spent the day hunting, “for cougar”. The reality really hit when I looked at the news report on the internet. My friend that lives less than a forth of a mile from me had gone into her basement to light a fire in the wood burning stove. She glanced at the window that lies underneath her front deck and two shining eyes were staring back at her. Imagine the shock.

She ran upstairs and grabbed her camera and took a picture. She took another and the big animal started hissing and clawing at the window. She was done, she ran upstairs and called the police.

Well, it’s a great story to tell, but the point is, my friend had a camera handy. So now, all of us that didn’t get to see that big cat get to see the pictures she has posted.

You never know what might happen in your home town, so keep that camera handy! Wishing you adventure in you photo taking!

Denise

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Airbrushing Portrait Photos in Photoshop Elements 7

Removing Shadows and Lightening Photos in Photoshop Elements

Convert Photos to Black and White in Photoshop Elements

Removing Demon-Looking Red-Eye in Photoshop

Removing Demon-Looking Red-Eye in Photoshop Elements

Getting Rid of Wrinkles, Zits, or Moles in Photoshop Elements

Whitening Teeth within Photoshop Elements

Adjusting Skin Tones and Digi Tanning in Photoshop Elements

Removing Wrinkles, Lines, and Bags in Photoshop Elements

Also see these baby editing tutorials:

NEW: Baby Series- Removing Baby Red-Eye, Converting to Black and White, and Adding Artistic Effects to Baby and Pregnancy Photos

Happy Scrapping and Photo Editing!

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