Can you help a girl out?!?!! - Contest

There is alot to catch up on and alot of photos i want to share, but life just got in the way! I have taken alot of pictures and playing around with LR3 presets (free trail till the end of june). Im really liking it and cant wait to purchase it when it finally comes out. Look at these photos......

In my eyes they were so good i had to put "blossoming shutterbug" on them.. lol 

I realize that i havent put myself out there, you know, market myself....  Yes im scared and have been pushing it off but i do have one thing in place. I found a site to use to upload my photos and the clients can view. I can password protect the photos so only the clients can view. Clients can purchase the photos through this site. AND i can actually make up my own packages and Clients can purchase..  ive only put one package together..LOL Its still under construction. 

I need to do more and get my @ss moving already!!!   One of the things i need to do is get a web address.  The obvious name would be Christina Barsoum Photography BUT I love this blog and how i came up with the name, blossoming shutterbug, i would like to some how make that the web address. I realize that Blossoming Shutterbug Photography is very long, altho i love how it looks in these photos =)  I thought of BS photography but some one pointed out its like saying "bull sh!t photgraphy. UG!! I dont know what to do, how can i get this name to work into a web address?? Im at a stand still............

Ive seen other Photographers have contest on their sites for different things so I thought i would give it a try.   My very first Contest =O  

The person who comes up with the best web address will receive a free mini session by yours truely =D  1/2 hr session at a location of your choice, out of the photos i take you would receive 10. Also put on CD. 

Im looking for a web address name that is some what short using Blossoming Shutterbug Photography (ex: BSPhotography. com/org,  im not using but good exp.)  easy to remember. 

This will possibly be the name of my new blog also. You can view my website that ill be using blossomingshutterbug.zenfolio.com. remember this is still under construction and a lot more changes to be made so don't be passing it out just yet =P 

Sooo whatta ya say!?!!?  Can you help a girl out!?!?!
(write your idea in the comment section)

Ill announce the winner on Monday March 29th.

so much to blog, so little time......

Been a busy girl with playdates and crafts.ect. Havnt had time to blog.  Hopefully will post about that soon. 

Need to share this.  At the park for a playdate and saw this cute fella

The owner was nice enough to let me take a few photos of him. I would like to get into Pet photography so this was good practice.  Not that im too happy with what i got but I loved how i edit them. First, here are the original photos

I was playing around with the presets in Light room and trying to create my own and still figuring it all out!!

Here are the edited photos

What ya think????

Request for Spring Craft

Gia requested a spring craft this past Wednesday! I was very excited and had soo many ideas. I had found a finger play called Five Pretty Flowers   and thought we could make Flowers and then act out the poem =)  Now what kind of flower craft could we do and easy for Nadia to do too?  I searched the internet and didn really liking what i finding. Then on FB activities pops up No Time for Flash Cards and her Pop out flower craft. PERFECT just what i was looking for!! I tweeked it a bit to go with what i was doing. I made 5 flowers before hand to match the "five pretty flowers"  I used Construction paper, cup cake wrap, and double sided tape (gia's idea for the cup cake wraps..lol)  The girls flowers were a little bit different.

Then i took it a little further =P   I was at the dollar store a few days before and picked up cute cookie cutters. not that i was going to use it for cookies but figured they would be great for some type of craft.  Well the way they were shaped i thought they were perfect for this....................

Could not believe it worked!! The girls Loved it!! 

Here is the craft.

For Nadia, I wanted to come up with something that was easy and quick! Also were we didnt have to wait for the glue to dry.  I came up with putting double sided tape on each peddle on Toilet paper (pre cut)

and then had her pick up the red peddles and stick them on the TP.

Double sided tape was also on the stick & for the green leaf!  Look at that face!!! she was so proud of herself..lol

Gia colored the peddles

Gia loves to glue things so i thought it would be better for her then using the double sided tap. So we glued that on to a cup cake wrapper, glued them to the stick and added leaves. put aside to dry

Gia loves to pretend to sell stuff.. lol. So this was perfect and told her that she would be selling the flowers and we say the poem as we go. She set herself up in her little house.. LOL we used the flowers that i had already made and nadias (since there was no glue involved)

Here is Nadia buying her flower =)  This was so cute and fun but the girls lost interest in the poem fast.. lol 

Every time i bought a flower i would put it underneath the window. when there was nothing left Gia had to go flower picking. She really got a kick out of this....

Not sure why gia put her leaves on like that but hey, what ever works =P

66 - 72 of 365 / Daily Challenge

Day 66

Gia showing Nadia how to use the computer

Daily Challenge DO YOUR OWN THING

check out the background..LOL

Day 67

Daily Challenge SOMETHING BLUE OR PURPLE

tried to make the blue jeans to stand out using light room

Day 68

Daily Challenge SOMETHING SWEET

helping nadia close the lid.. how sweet is that!??!

Day 69

Day 70

Daily Challenge SOMETHING PAINFUL TO LOOK AT

pooper scooper

Day 71

rearranging play room

Day 72

Nadia stacking blocks

Daily Challenge SOMETHING REPRESENTING SPRING WHERE YOU LIVE

Just because

Maternity Session

Had my FIRST Maternity session about 2 weeks ago. This was with my friend Amy, so i didnt feel too much like a fool not knowing what i was doing..  LOL the both of us kept going back and forth to the computer looking at poses and trying to mimic the pose.  All in all i think we did a pretty good job =D  I feel im getting better with the processing! Ive been trying to get to know Adobe light room and it really is beginning to grow on me!  especially after going through these photos.  

Amy found these tiny blue blocks (can you guess what she is having??)  that spells "baby" and guess where she bought them.... The dollar store!!!!  how freekin cute!!!

 

I love photos were the background is blasted out. Well i got a chance to try it out.  We were by a sliding glass door and by blasting the background out you cant see the back yard =D 

These i tried to change the color of the blocks.. still figuring out how to do it in LR

These are my Favs from the session

The Big Sister =) 

I think this session was a success!!  Oh! and i got to try out my new website so now the client can choose what photos they want. Usually i choose my favorites for them to pick from.  

Thank you Amy for this opportunity!! I greatly appreciate you letting me capture this special moment!! I had a great time from beginning to end! AND thank you for testing out my new site!!

When my website is ready to go live ill be sure to share =D 

(still a little nervous about it so may be a bit before im comfy to go live..lol)