How To Photograph Fireworks!

This LIVE online workshop starts tomorrow at 10:00am Pacific Time and get this.....IT'S FREE! If you've always wanted to learn how to photograph fireworks, you won't want to miss this! It's quick and easy to enroll and if you check out their calendar, you just might find some other workshops that you're interested in also.

Check out FREE: Photographing Fireworks with John Cornicello at creativeLIVE

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Pigeon Shadow!

I took this picture along the riverwalk on 1/03/11 and I just love that I captured the shadow of the pigeon in flight! (***click on the image to see a closeup view!)



I've earned $25 in Amazon Gift Cards through Swagbucks....check it out!

Have you heard about Swagbucks?  I remember hearing about it, when they first started out a few years ago and I was very skeptical and dismissed it.  I mean come on, how can you earn money just by using their search engine, really? Boy was I wrong.....you really can and it's easy to boot!  I kept seeing people post on their blogs about how they bought their christmas presents with swagbucks and I finally decided to give it a try, so I downloaded their toolbar and now when I'm on my computer searching, I am periodically awarded swagbucks. So far to date I've earned 2,378 swagbucks (*note: you will see below on my widget that I don't have that many and that's because I've redeemed 2,250 already)!  You can redeem your swagbucks for products in the swagbucks store or for gift cards and I like using mine on $5 Amazon gift cards. I now have five $5 Amazon gift cards which = $25 that I can spend whenever I want.  Cool huh? 

Here's another thing I just realized......you can earn 10 swagbucks for every coupon you print (from swagbucks website here) and redeem at your local grocery store.  This is great for me because I've just recently started couponing! woot woot

Here is a link if you'd like to check out How It Works and here is their FAQs page where you can find out more about earning and redeeming swagbucks. 

I've included the widget below for those of you who would like to sign up and start earning some free money! (just click on the sign up button in the bottom right corner of the widget)

FEATURED REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY!! NICHOLE VAN’S {life as art} Workshop-In-A-Box

Hey y'all, you might want to enter this giveaway, hosted by Workshop Jungle, to win Nichole Van's {life as art} Worshop in a box! If you haven't seen her work, you'll want to hop on over and take a long peek because her photography or {art} is beautiful and I'm blown away by her creativity! Check out her blog here. 

My favorite portrait of hers is the beautiful bride leaping through the air at dawn!  I love all of her photos, but that one grabbed me the first time I saw it and it still grabs me everytime I see it! Here is the link if you'd like to see it yourself! (click on art then click marriage to find the bride leaping!) I would LOVE to win her workshop in a box, so I can learn from her!  Good luck to all of you who enter!

Free LIVE Workshop with Jasmine Star.....starts today!

This is another fantastic workshop from CreativeLive, featuring Jasmine Star teaching about building a Wedding Photography Business.  Enroll now and watch it LIVE for free!!!

Check out FREE Workshop: Building your Wedding Photography Business with Jasmine Star at creativeLIVE





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Posing and Lighting Workshop!

If you don't already know about creativeLive, you just have to check them out, ASAP! They offer free LIVE workshops and let me just say how AWESOME this site is!!!

Today I sat in on the first day of Bambi Cantrell's 3 day Posing and Lighting Workshop and I never dreamed I would learn so much in just one day! Seriously folks....Bambi is my new photography hero! She is absolutely brilliant with posing her models and I don't know about y'all, but that's the one thing I struggle with the most. I have a feeling posing will be a lot easier for me now, after watching Bambi in action and listening intently, to all of her careful instructions. One of the things she taught us, was how to pose the subject in a way that is flattering, slenderizing and natural looking or as Bambi would say, "Believable!" Oh my goodness, she taught us so much more and it's all still spinning around in my brain, as I type this post. Can you even imagine 7 hours of priceless instruction on posing and lighting? It was fantastic and I can't wait until tomorrow's class, in fact I'm still so excited from today, that I can't even go to sleep. lol I mean I posted about it 3 times on my Portrait Of My Heart facebook page and also tweeted several times today too, haha. Hmmm....I might be just a little excited! :)

Here is a short video I found on youtube tonight that I thought I'd share...

Bambi Cantrell's Tips for Beautiful Portraits

Helpful Hint ~ Prevent Avacados From Turning Brown!

I found this tip on preventing avacados from turning brown and just had to share it!

***Don't forget to pause my music player before playing the video!



I gave it a try and I have to tell you....it really works! 

This is 24 hours later and my avacado looks exactly the way it did, when I put it in the container with the red onion, the day before.  It didn't turn brown at all! woot woot (*note:  the brown you see on the avacado was already there when I cut it open!)  Isn't that cool?  Ok, well I'M EXCITED because this works better than any method I've ever tried!  I don't know what the red onion does, but it works like a charm and I can't wait to see how many days it will keep my avacados nice and green.  Hope you all enjoy this little hint.....give it a try.  :)