Miss. Kali

Like I already mentioned I was in New Orleans this past weekend, so while in town I also snapped some photos of my cousin Cristi's daughter Kali for her first birthday. We headed out to City Park, and got there right as it stopped raining. Thankfully we were able to get some cute shots of the birthday girl, her mom, and sister. Poor dad will have to wait until next time since he was working.

BEFORE

AFTER

I have been super busy and don't have all my steps but I shot this using my Nikon d5000 with the Nikon 24-70/2.8 lens. It was edited in camera RAW, then brought into CS5. Zoomed, straightened, slight unsharp mask. Levels adjustment and ran I THINK florabella's lullaby and dropped to the opacity down to around 30% or so.

You still have until Friday at midnight CST to enter my giveaway! Such a great response I have had so far, love it!

Dancing Queen

This past weekend we packed up and headed to New Orleans to see family, and so that Evan could meet all his other cousins. The other main reason we went was because my Aunt owns a dance studio and the revue (recital) was on Friday. This was her 41st year to be teaching - yes FORTY-ONE, she has it in this big theatre and it is always so neat to go. This year was special because all the little cousins were dancing with their dads this year so we had to go witness it!

My cousin Markel asked me to bring my camera to take some photos of everyone before they headed out on stage. This is her daughter Brooke (she has made her presence known on this blog too) getting ready to dance to My Girl, My Guy. They had the cutest little blue tutu costumes, fully outfitted with a crown and white gloves. Here she is in her dressing room about to dance her little heart out!

Don't forget about my giveaway - it ends Friday!

A Touch of Whimsy - Miss. Paisley

Late afternoon Thursday when we got to my parents house to sleep before we all headed to New Orleans for the weekend, I had the opportunity to take some newborn photos of my friend Wendy's little girl Paisley. She is a little over 2 weeks old in these photos and she was so sweet. This was the first time I met her too and she was such a good baby.

I think my post processing gives this shot a dreamy feel, which totally falls into the "whimsy" category.

Also my giveaway is open until Friday, so you still have time to enter!

And, one last oh so minor thing...my "your best photo" over at the Paper Mama was selected in the top 30. If you could pop on over and vote for #3 I would love that!

Miss. Olivia...

...and the cutest little crab smocked dress

I had a 9 month old session on Saturday morning with the oh so cute Olivia. Her mom told me about her dress and I could not wait to see it. How cute is it? I love that she is not dressed in the typical pink and white girly outfit (don't get me wrong I do love them)- I love the colors! She did a great job modeling and there are a lot of cute photos of her showing off her teeth!

Also, don't forget to enter my 100th follower giveaway - HERE

Your Best Shot Challenge

I shared this shot for shoot and edit awhile back but when I saw the Paper Mama's your best shot challenge my mind came back to this shot. Now don't get me wrong in the past month or two I have had to opportunity to shoot a lot of uber adorable kids, but something about the look on her face  - and the fact that she is covered in cake - nails it for me.

Check out more adorable kids...and pets

All about Boys!

The theme for the week at I Heart Faces is all about the boys! Yesterday morning I met up with my friend to take some photos of her son Caleb for his first birthday. I really wanted to use balloons so his mom graciously picked some up for his shoot. We originally planned on going to a park but it was so hot, and we got a later start then originally planned. So we headed to a little pavilion that is out on the lake in The Woodlands and got some really adorable photos. Here is one of my favorites:

Happy Dad's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the most amazing dad! You have taught me so much, and been there for absolutely everything in my life, and could not appreciate or love you more!
 

I am also pretty lucky to have an amazing father-in-law as well. I call that winning!

Hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend! I had a couple shoots this weekend, played 4 softball games Friday night and have a soccer game tonight! Hope all your dads, granddads, dads of fur babies all had a great day, I will see mine on Thursday when we all head to New Orleans, cannot wait.

Also, have you entered in my 100th follower giveaway yet? You should!

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100th Follower Giveaway!

For some time now I have been toying around the idea of doing a giveaway; then a few weeks ago I reached 100 readers - so I thought that this would be the perfect time! I have really enjoyed blogging  (even though I do not do it as consistently as I would like) and it has enabled me to meet some wonderful people and discover some very talented people out there. So I have finally put it together and I think there are some pretty sweet items up for grabs!

Now, I know you want to know what they are...

A set of four hand made coasters from my etsy shop - Carried Away by Paper. These can be customized with your initial on them, or if you have a different design in mind have at it!

This signed 8x10 print from the lovely and very talented Miss. Ashley Sisk from Ramblings and Photos.

Annnnd a set of 12 custom made cupcake flags from the talented and creative Laurel from Go Against the Grain. She also did my Fleurish Imagery logo, she does some great work!

Since there are 3 things up for grabs there will be three different winners!

Now how to enter:

Each entry requires a separate comment for each and will give you 1 entry per so you have 5 chances to enter!

1. Follow my blog, if you are already a follower comment and let me know

2. Follow me on twitter: eboix

3. Tweet about this fabulous giveaway - and don't forget to mention me

4. "Like" my photography page on Facebook: Fleurish Imagery

5. Blog about this amazing giveaway and use the button below in your post

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You have from today Friday, June 17th until Friday, July 1st at 11:59PM CST  to enter.

Winners will be selected randomly from random.org and I will announce the winners on my blog after

GOOD LUCK!

Shoot & Edit - Swing - The Edit

 Earlier this week I shared the adorable photo of Miss Molly enjoying her ride in the swing. Now I will share with you the edit. Here is the SOOC once more:

 SOOC

The Edit

Brought into ACR and made some minor exposure/brightness adjustments

Edited in CS5 

I zoomed, cropped, straigthened

Adjusted levels

Slight unsharp mask

I think I added the Milk Flora Bella action dropped the opacity to under 30%

Changed to black and white

Ran TRA's antique action

Check out more edits here

Sitting on the Bench

About a week or so ago I shared a photo from Mr. Drake's first birthday session down in Old Town Spring. I thought I would share one of his mom's and my favorite. We were walking around town and stopped at this little bench, Drake wanted to turn around and play with he back of it, but when his mom took out a snack he quickly perked up!

His actual birthday, and birthday party is this Saturday, cant believe he will already be one!

Shoot & Edit - Swing!

I remembered I had this photo from my mini session day and had to share it for this weeks shoot and edit. Miss. Molly has the best expressions and is such a happy child - and she just loves to swing!

Here is the original shot:

SOOC:

Come back Thursday to see the edit!

Bright and Vivid

I shared a photo of Miss. Aubrey about a month ago, but once I saw what the prompt was for I heart Faces this week I knew I needed to share another from her session. It is also a little bittersweet seeing as her and her family are moving to Kansas this week. Her mom Erin is one of my really good friends and I will miss her! I am saying a little prayer that they are not there for too long, I need her back in Texas!

Here is Miss. Aubrey - before she was covered in cake. If this does not qualify for "Bright and Vivid" then I do not know what does.

If you are interested you can see more from her session here. I have set up my Fleurish Facebook, feel free to "like" it as well (I still prefer "fan" to the new "like" thing...)

Hope everyone had a great weekend, we played some softball on Friday and celebrated Miss. Aubrey's big brothers 4th birthday at the pool on Saturday and had one last night out with her mom and dad before they move...sad face!

Today I headed out to the Astros game to meet up with some other Houston Bloggers. Right before  we headed to buy tickets this nice man came over and gave us all free tickets, and to top it off it was $1 hot dog day - hands down cheapest game I have ever been to. Winning! Even though they lost I still had a great time and met some wonderful ladies! If you are in the Houston area check out the blog - there will be more fun meet ups planned!