21st Century Pillow Book

So, after my “Think Pink” Post I had put up last week, I had gotten a LOT of feedback about the photograph. Basically, everyone wanted to know what kind of camera I have and how I did it. I have a Cannon Powershot Digital Elph SD850IS. This is not some super expensive SLR or anything, just a regular Powershot. It is the second greatest gift my husband ever gave me (the first is my engagement ring!)! If you have a Cannon, you probably have the ability to do this nifty trick. Here is an examples of Color Accenting: Basically, you choose the color that you want accented in your photos. The rest is in black and white. Here, obviously, I chose the orange of the pumpkins. Here, I chose the red on Phoenix’s clothes. Again, I chose red. Now, because our skin has some pink pigmentation, the camera (depending on the light) will pick up some of that pigmentation. You can really see this on Rhiannon. So, how do you do it??? First, if I could take pics of my camera I would but… not ...

We have been enjoying the beautiful weather outside, and have had lots of wonderful photo opps within the past few days. So I decided to share some of them with you. Rhiannon is 7 months old now! I cannot believe it. She’s gonna be walking and talking sooner than I can imagine. And how COOL is her shirt? It is such an Alison shirt! I love it! And here is my boy. Playing with 2 of his favorite things. His sand box and his front end loader. And no, this was NOT done in hoto shop! It was done IN my camera! It’s a Cannon 850 digital elph. Love!!! Yes, Phoenix is climbing UP his slide. At 2 and a half! Is that normal??? Should he be able to do that already??? I think it’s hilarious! He just started doing it this week! And my Girl…ain’t she sweet? This is today. Again, growing so fast I can hardly stand it!!! You may see a little red mark by the shadow ade by his chin. My poor boy got stung by a wasp today! It flew in to his shirt! Luckily, it flew right out, but of course stung little ...

So the other day, the kids were hangin’ out on my bed, ad I pulled out these zany Christmas hats that went with their coordinating PJ’s. I just started clicking away with my lovely little Cannon. I used one of my favorite in-camera features: Color Accenting. You shoot the camera on a specific color you want, obviously I chose red. The camera pics up only things with red hues, the rest of the photo is black and white. Cool huh?: Esp. for someone like me who has no time or patience for Photo Shop. So, I just let them goof off. Of course, Rhiannon had to have at the ball on top of Phoenix’s hat (not knowing she had one of her own). And Phoenix just started acting like a nut… as you can see here. I esp. love how red his nose is! So funny! So cute! I love moments like these. Short little spurts of time that are totally relaxed, unrehearsed, and just plain silly. I hope we always remember to have moments like these, ‘cause they are the BEST!!!