My take on Creative Sunday's "raw"...

Raw: adj 1.Not cooked 2. Changed little from the original form; not processed 3. Having the surface abraded or irritated 4. Not trained or experienced 5. Vulgar; coarse 6. Disagreeably cold and damp 7. Unfair

Raw is the one-word prompt over at

http://madelinebea.com/blog/

for Creative Sunday!

Here is RAW BEAUTY...We love Rusty!

(Thanks to Elaina for letting me capture his beauty!)

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Here is the original that we get to edit! So cute!

And here is my take on it. I lightened up the shadows in lightroom and did a few spot removals on his face and lint from his sweatshirt. (I am a little OCD) I added a tad fill light and bumped up blue and purple saturation for his sweatshirt and eyes!

Then I opened it in photoshop to warm it up a bit, then did a few surface blurs for the grain and then sharpened and cropped.

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Winston does not like the camera today...

Or was it the raincoat I was making him wear? It is a tad small...
I think we will give a hand-me-down to his friend Pearl!

the itaaaalian peeeople...

My father-in-law is another one of the million things
I gained the day I married my husband!

When he cooks Italian food in his kitchen, or in a kitchen at a cabin, or wherever, he turns into THE ITALIAN PEOPLE!

I typed the title out attempting to show the Italian accent that he speaks with throughout the WHOLE preparation and cooking process. The Italian people normally leave as soon as the food is ready, and we get Boyd back!

So...as you can expect, we have athe Itaaaaaliana peeeeople over to our house now when we cook Itaaaaaliana fooda! LOL


They were here tonight!

Amarillo Pet Portraits

Love these puppies!

The beginning...

Do these look like tomatoes to you?

Winston [Amarillo Pet Photographer]

Winston is a great model...when he wants to be! I finally caught him sleeping! It took me about 10 minutes of acting like I was just standing there...


I wanted to catch him doing homework with Josh...I believe he lays on his feet to sleep so he will know when Josh gets up! Winston doesn't want to miss a THING!

We continued our photo shoot after the shutter sound woke him up! These are all shot with the light from our front, east-facing window. He was about 5 feet from the window under Josh's feet and then came to where I was...about 2 feet from the window. Would like for him to stay further away from me, but when I am sitting on the floor, this is an exciting thing! (i guess?) :P