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pinewood derby #5?

Alicia Cerva — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:52:21 +0000

I've lost count at how many pinewood derby cars we've made, but Canyon had a blast last night at his second one! He had a fast car and took second place over all! Actually, I shouldn't say "we made", but should give special thanks to our secret pinewood derby expert for the success!!

meet grant...

Alicia Cerva — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:30:49 +0000

Congratulations Mike and Kira!

fall celebration

Alicia Cerva — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:56:15 +0000

I'm not sure what is considered "too old" to jump in the leaves, but apparently the 9's and up because Megan was the only taker (at least today - that could change at any moment). Unless of course your a dog, then the sky's the limit!!

fall beauty

Alicia Cerva — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:08:58 +0000

taking advantage

Alicia Cerva — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:25:06 +0000

This is my absolute favorite time of the year! I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I am definitely taking advantage of this beautiful weather!

This was a fun session out at the Great Salt Lake. Unfortunately while I was there, I found out that the property has been purchased and will soon be "cleaned up" with no more train car or graffiti!! What a bummer! Anyway, these guys were great! Thanks Melinda!

just couldn't resist

Alicia Cerva — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:13:44 +0000

I hope you all had as much fun on Halloween as we did! Thanks to all of you who voted for our costumes!

And we just couldn't resist...

"It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown"

Alicia Cerva — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:37:32 +0000

Okay, I just can't keep it a surprise any longer! Canyon inspired our costume idea this year because he really wanted to be Charlie Brown. He had Ian on his side, because he was thinking snoopy all the way! Aryn was in too, but it took some convincing to get Megan to give up her "vampiress" plans!

We entered a contest at KUTV, you can vote for us here - our entry is on page 6.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

"i'm done"

Alicia Cerva — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:23:17 +0000

Last week when I took the pictures of my two nephews, we had spent about an hour, and these shots were taken at the very end. Needless to say, we were all getting a little tired, and Nicholas wasn't the only one thinking "i'm done." (He was just the only one saying it). Anyway, the last few pictures we took were terrible!! I was struggling with the light, getting terrible shadows, I hated the set up, Nick was having hard time holding the baby up, and Chance was getting fussy! When I pulled these images up on the computer, I thought "what in the world am I going to do now!"

Anyway, I really do hate sharing some of my sooc images, but I wanted to show you the before and after on these, because they ended up being some of my favorite shots! Although I don't claim to be a photoshop expert, in fact I'm far from it, I am so glad I was able to save these!

chance

Alicia Cerva — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:37:35 +0000

Here are some "official" pictures of my newest nephew, Chance. He has a very proud big brother too! Congratulations Kyle and Kristy - we love you!! The girls are waiting for you to plan your date night so we can have the boys for a few hours!!

morning greeting...

Alicia Cerva — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:36:10 +0000

Every morning when I wake up, one of the first things I do is open my front blinds. These past few days I have been greeted with these beautiful colors brightened up by the morning sun. I've been wanting to get out to take some fall pictures, but haven't had a chance yet! Maybe next week! So today I captured what I see every morning and thought I'd share it with you.

For you photographers out there, here is an experiment I did this morning to get the image above. First I took an image exposing the trees, which completely blew out the sky. Then I took another image exposing the sky which took all of the light off the trees. I loved the sky and loved the light on the trees, so I opened both images to combine them. I moved the sky image on top of the tree image as a new layer. Then I added a mask and painted back the trees so I wouldn't have to sacrifice the beautiful blue sky. I love getting the correct exposure on my subject, but sometimes don't like having my sky blown out. Something to think about when you don't want to lose your sky - take two exposures and combine them!! Here are the two shots and then the combined one.