End of Summer

Stacy has Theme Thursdays and I have been very lapse in my participation. This week's theme is favorite photos from summer. I went looking and found something quite surprising.... I did not take many pictures of my girls. This was an enlightening moment, the camera has got to come out more. I think part of the reason is we just hung out at home and went swimming. So here are a couple of my favorite photos, just the twins and remember they are 13 year olds, sometimes grown-up and sometimes silly. These are silly photographs

Theme Thursday - Winter

Okay, this isn't a very good picture. I took 4 and this was the best one, sorry. This is what I do in the winter, especially cold, cold days. Baking when it is cold means wintertime to me. It is in the teens right now and blowing snow, so I bake to keep warm.

Each of my 3 daughters (still at home) picked a dessert/sweet they wanted. Apple pie for the oldest, Chocolate chunk cookies for youngest and the middle daughter picked the cinnamon roll-ups. They are still in the oven at picture time, what are they? Pie crust rolled out then piled with cinnamon and sugar, cute into strips, rolled up and then bakeds. This is the only time I make pie crust and it is usually a double or triple batch! What about hubby? He likes all three, so I bought him Cool Whip for the pie.

Now to finish dinner, I am not hungry as I have been sampling the goodies as I bake!

Theme Thursday - contrast

I am participating in Stacy's Theme Thursday although I missed last week's color theme. This week is contrast.

Here is a photo of Carlos by Carlos Santana pump my 18 year-old daughter received for Christmas from her grandma.

The first contrast is with a few adjustments in Photoshop. Unsharp mask and then bumping up the blue contrast so the jeans pop. I like okay



Now some variations with black and white

Here is just converting to black and white:





More contrast for this look:



Lastly, I played with shadows and highlights. I like this the best.




Any other votes?