My life as I know it...

5:57am - I wake up and my entire body is stretched out along my headboard, barely under the covers. Why, you ask?
Well, I looked down and my mother's 14lb shi'tzu is paws up dead center of my bed. She's cute.
I love the little dog, bad teeth and all, but she needs to start sleeping with her owner!

Working at it

The following 2 pictures are of Belinda, a local Gospel singer with an amazing voice and a very pretty face that I know I will be working with sometime in the near future, I hope. Again, this is me playing with PS Actions and learning to retouch photographs...I'm just having fun.

Belinda - 2012

Belinda - 2012

Better pt. 2

Along the same lines, I did a shoot with this lovely lady, Tina Corrado, many years ago. The shoot was perfect in every way. Tina was a dream to work with. Completely self-deprecating, patient, charming and quite simply one of the most beautiful women I have ever had the pleasure to know. Now I am able to run this through my own sort of post production and I have come up with these startling results.

Tinamarie - 2009-ish

Better

In April of 2012, I had the pleasure of doing a shoot for Accessories by Halo (www.accessoriesbyhalo.com). Natalie W., the owner, was also the model, wonderful person.
I am learning, this year about how not to beat up my images in Adobe Photoshop and here is the result. Still learning, but I am totally getting there.

Accessories provided by Halo Accessories and worn by the owner of Accessories by Halo, Natalie W.

Random nuggets from people I love...

I have maybe 3 friends who's emails I crave and cherish, I mean I honestly go to my inbox several times a day hoping they have sent me bits of their thoughts, and then I save them and go back to them later for a laugh.     
Here is one such email, sent to me this morning:

Vernee Watson pic from medialunch.com

"I opened my eyes this morning and the second thought after, 'Shit, I'm still here,' was 'How many times has Vernee Watson's hilarious character appeared on The Big Bang Theory?'  I guessed three.  I was close.  I have to go flush out my eyes."

I love my friends.