I Heart Faces ~ People's Choice ~ January Faces

This week the challenge is a "People's Choice" and you can entry a picture of a face that was taken in January.  Here is one of my littlest guy.  This is one of my favorites that I have taken this month.  He loves playing in the snow just like his big brother.

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I am entry #436!  Thanks!!!

I Heart Faces ~ Fix It Friday #84

Here is my I Heart Faces Fix It Friday post.  This was fun to do.  I hope you like it.
Here is the before:

Here is my after:

Here is a recap of my edits:
I opened it up in LR3 and cropped it.
I used the Coffeshop Scorched Honey preset.
I adjusted the fill light, the highlights and the blacks.
I sharpened it and reduced some noise.
I sharpened and brightened the eyes.  (There is a good tutorial on the Coffeshop blog for this)
I removed the drool and bubbles from the chin.  (Although I do love baby drool - I just wanted to see how it would look w/o.)
Then I took it over to PSE 8 and added a texture to the background.  I used the Grungy Overlay from Sassy Designs.
I think that's it!!

I kept playing a little after that too just for more fun.  Here a couple more "afters" cropped with a square and tilted a bit one way and then the other.

I am curious what everyone thinks of the different crops!

Have a great weekend everyone!

I Heart Faces ~ Innocent Wonder

This weeks photo challenge over at I Heart Faces is "Innocent Wonder".  This can be seen in so many different wonderful ways!  This shot immediately popped into my head when I saw the topic.  So I did a little editing and here it is!  This is my baby boy last spring when he was about 7 months old.  Being a fall baby he hadn't spent a whole lot of time outside exploring.  So come spring since he was crawling about he got to explore the outdoors.  I am sure there is a lot more exploring for him to do.  It is so fun to watch the little ones see things for the first time.  It adds a whole new dimension to life.  And it reminds us to take a step back from the craziness and take it all in!

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I Heart Faces ~ Smile ~ :)

As I was looking for my entry this week I realized I have a lot of smile photographs but I think I have even more smirk ones!  This was tough cause I have sooooo many that I like and naturally we are always looking for smiles so we tend to catch them often!  Well I finally settled on this one of my little brown eyed boy.  I hope you like it!

Here are plenty more wonderful entries! And this weeks judge is Jasmine Star who is just plain AWESOME!!!