RELIVING MEMORIES OF THAILAND

Its been awhile since I have posted and I can honestly say I have not had enough time in my day to take pictures on top of all the crazy amounts of yoga I have been doing. Without any new pictures to show I thought why not touch up a few pictures from our trip to Thailand. Crazy how at the time I thought they were great quality (using a Canon Powershot) but then I opened them up and I was shocked when I didnt see the crisp pictures that I am now used to with the d90. Regardless I love these memories and would die of happiness if someone would ever pay me to travel the world and take pictures of all the amazing scenes and people. Whoever gets to do that for a living should consider themselves very blessed!

This little monkey was just precious. It was crazy to watch him and see how many human characteristics monkeys really do have, and the eyes!

We headed out on the scooter to the outskirts of Chiang Mai to Wat Doi Suthep. At the base of the stairs heading up to the temple there were natives selling their crafts. This little girl was so colorful, posing for me to take a photo

Muai Thai fighting is intense, those guys are tough as nails! They are bleeding and still continue to smile and laugh like getting beat up and losing a fight is the greatest feeling?!?!

We went out on a day trip to play with the elephants and visit the Padaung Hill Tribe women. It was an amazing experience, they are all such beautiful women. I love this picture of Steve with the young girl, they both look a little timid


I loved this little pointy hat, it was so silly looking but totally adorable at the same time!

Our gorgeous breakfast view in Tonsai, a little bit nicer than when we arrived in torrential rain! I want to go back

TEXTURES

I was playing around with some textures since I can't seem to get my textures actions to work anymore so this was by hand. I think its an interesting concept but I def. need to work on it. Let me know what you think. Oh and apparently the rounded corners only look good against a white background so I may have to scrap that idea.

FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY

I know you have all seen this little cutie before! I did a family photo shoot at my cousins over the weekend (it was more of a Sylvie posing then anything, she was loving the camera) and it was challenging as I do not want to really direct people to pose, I prefer more natural shots. Needless to say fitting two grownups (one with quite the baby belly) and a toddler on the go was not really happening but I am very happy with the results nonetheless!

Also exciting I decided I should start taking credit for my pictures so I am introducing a temporary watermark until I figure out a business name I love. Thoughts on the watermark or business name are much appreciated :) Thanks to Heather for the update my watermark is now spelled right on all of my pictures

PLAYING WITH THE SUN

loved this effect, originally uploaded by kohsberg.

I was out taking some pictures of my family this weekend and lamenting that there was no nice sun to play with sun flare so I jumped back in time a few months to this magical moment