{oh baby}

it's not what you're thinking. this is not another post of baby pictures... well i guess it sort of is. This weekend i got a lensbaby. Photo junkies probably know what these are, but for everyone else it's a kind of lense, and yes that's what they're actually called.  basically it's made of flexible plastic that allows you to manipulate the focal point. Here are a few shots i took while experimenting this weekend. fun!

revived

I realized this week I can't remember the last time i printed a photo. I have hundreds, perhaps even a thousand files neatly stored away, organized by year and month, on this little black box. In this digital world, people don't print pictures anymore. we watch slide shows on our computers and tv's, we post them on facebook, we blog,  we may even set them to our desktops, hell there are even digital picture frames, but we don't print photos anymore. I think it is sad. 

I remember my very first camera. it was bright pink and my brother had a matching blue one. I think they were gifts from our aunt. I remember taking it on summer vacation, taking what i was sure would be a perfect role of film. I thought about my pictures before i took them. each one of those 17 shots had to be perfect. I was so excited to take that roll of film in. Now we can take a hundred pictures and delete all but 3. I'm going to start printing photos again, I think it will push me to take better photos. 

Here are a few shots I've been reworking - photoshop is a big playground, and so far I've only mastered the sandbox. 

Coming up next: Revisiting "the list". 

Dear friends. It has been a week since the birth of Beloved Photography and I have been busy. First off was creating a plan. I am a list maker. Whenever I have something coming up or I need to make a decision I make a list. Alas, the Beloved List was born:
1. Name of adventure. check.
2. Start blog. check.
3. Get photoshop. check.
4. Learn photoshop. hmm. bought a book. check.
5. Get a camera... I know this probably should be number one, but it's not, and step 5 has a list all of it's own!
6. Take pictures. lots and lots of pictures. Well, number 5 is crucial to this step so.. I'm working on it.
Now I know this seems fairly simple, but it's a start and at this point that's all I need.
So in this post I thought I'd share my first attempts with "photo art". Enjoy!