Tavares Area Photographer- M family

iheartfaces Pets Challenge

I know, the title of the Challenge is "pets" and these critters are anything BUT pets...more like PESTS to be honest. But any critter qualifies, so I present an Eastern Lubber Grasshopper. These suckers are HUGE, hiss when provoked, and give off an acid too. Oh, and they are voracious eaters of my tropical plants... come on...you know you want one ;-).

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Eustis Area Photographer- D Family

What cuties! These boys were each amazing in their own ways. Enjoy!

Eustis Area Photographer- C Family

Usually, I'm an outdoors, natural light photographer, but all the cold fronts lately prompted us to move this shoot indoors. Enjoy this sneak peek!

Eustis Area Photographer- Simpson Family

Tavares Area Photographer-C family

Soooo many cute pictures of these boys, but the photos are to be gifts and I don't want to ruin any surprise, so I'll just post these two for now...

Edited (after Christmas) to add:

Why edit?

I used to be a "straight out of camera (sooc)" purist. I love taking a good picture with the camera, not editing a mediocre picture into a good picture. But I've learned that I was a little elitist in thinking that way, and that there really are very few pictures out there that don't benefit from a little bit of editing. Editing also allows you to turn lemons into lemonade in cases when you HAVE to capture a shot right then and there, even if conditions are not ideal.

I went to pick up my daughter from her friend's house last weekend. Two weeks ago, I had done the same thing, and lamented not having my camera with me to take pictures of these amazing old oak trees that I drive by on my journey there and back. The sunset that night was gorgeous, and I watched it, only able to record it in my mind. So this time, I had my camera with me, and we were driving home at the perfect time for sunset...but the sunset did not cooperate. It was a very lackluster sky, and the cloud cover meant it got too dim too quickly for any good shots...so I'm going to use them for a short editing demo (but please don't think I'm implying these are good at all-they just have redeeming value in being a good object lesson ;-).

So here are several pictures I took that night, all of the same tree, and all within a few moments of each other. The only difference is the slight change in where I took the picture as I walked along and the orientation of the camera vertical or horizontal. The other changes are all in the editing...
The top picture is straight out of camera-not one pixel changed.






One of these days, I'll have GOOD pictures to show you from these pastures with their grand old oaks!