PhoTuesday

I have a beautiful 4 year old little girl.



You are just going to have to trust me on that, because she has a strange affliction that is hereditary.





The affliction is "not being able to be in front of a camera without being compelled to make the strangest face that you can." This runs through my family in my gene pool.



It can't be stopped and asking the afflicted one to stop will just make it worse.


Trust me. So you want to know why I have been out in my studio so much practicing....this is what I have to work with. How can someone be expected to work in these conditions??


Even my sister is afflicted. I literally have hundreds of pictures of my sister this way. I have another several hundred of my dad. My memories of my family when I look back through the scrapbook are going to be of fish lips, crossed eyes, lizard tongues and monster mouths.

It's a curse I tell ya...a family curse.





I leave you with my favorite picture from the past week.. What do you do when you have to walk away from a good book?


Dog ear the page, of course....

PhoTuesday

In today's edition of PhoTueday I don't have much to offer in the way of photographs, because I have been too darn busy. Too busy to blog, too busy to do Twitter much...too too too busy. I did get this fun shot of a pool ball. I am not sure why I like it so much...I just do and that's good enough for me.

Some of you know (and some of you don't so I am telling you now) that the reason I haven't been online much is because I am working on creating my own photography studio. We have an outbuilding that contains an apartment and large garage that I am converting. At the same time I am having my photography website overhauled by a professional (because life is too short for the casual adult to deal with CSS code and flash) All of this has made for limited computer time for blogging.

So while this is not the perfect entry for PhoTuesday, it is all about photography. I have had the privilege of bouncing ideas off of some wonderful photographers here online as well as some superb photographers here at the local level. I was concerned about approaching other photographers about their lighting secrets or equipment, but I have to say that I have hooked up with some great people who are just aching to share what they know.

Tomorrow I will be guest posting (I think it is tomorrow) over at MomGotBlog. She has named me "Blogger of the Month" and I am honored to have that title (although I feel undeserved considering my lack of posting lately) I will be chatting about "Parenting With Humor" and why it is so crucial for us as parents and why we should never wait 20 years to laugh.

I have missed you all in the blog world and hope to be posting more real soon. I have received a whole slew of awards lately and appreciate each one of them and will attempt to do the meme's (hate that word!) this week!