One Sweet Shot - May 2008

 

When I came across this image, it took my breath away. In her work, Crystal consistently brings together impeccable imagery and heavenly processing and I find myself astounded and inspired by the images she creates. This one is a particular favorite as the creamy warm tones of the shot overwhelm me with sweet melancholy and the mirrored gesture of the wind blown tree and wispy cherub curls makes me swoon. As I have studied every detail of this photo I realized that this little girl reminds me of what my oldest daughter looked like at that age. I'm certain that only makes me love it more. Heavy sigh.

I could go on and on but there are so many other Sweet Shots to share, I will leave you with a list of links. What could be better than to spend your day getting inspired by your fellow sisters of the shutter?

Beebee Mod is honoring this shot from camera shy momma.

Leah G. is honoring this shot from Laundry Girl Photo.

Sheri at Today is Pretty is honoring this Polaroid by haeshu.

Giggletwig is honoring this shot by homeshade photography.

Strawberry Goldie is honoring this shot from Hippy Happy Hay.

Bridge at Rides the Waves of Life couldn’t decide between this shot from Shalet at Peculiar Momma and the bottom image from this post at Five Flowers so she is honoring both.

Equilibrium is honoring shots from Laura’s Mommy Journal (I'm not sure which one so you can choose!)

Melissa is honoring this shot from Laywer Mama.

Mary Calissa is honoring this shot from Strawberry Goldie.

granica monotremata is honoring her mother’s shot at Studio Kaleta.

Maile is honoring this shot by Bee Bee Mod.

Camera shy momma is honoring this shot by Laundry Girl Photo.

Emily Quinton is honoring this shot from Leigh Taylor.

Paige is honoring this shot by Westart Photography.

Hippy Happy Hay is honoring this shot from Mommymac.

Stephanie is honoring this shot by Ink on my Fingers.

Shutterbugschink is honoring this shot from yesimkaleimages.

Sarah Ji is honoring this shot by amonick.

 & Dr. Lyn is honoring this shot from Molly A Certain Slant of Light.

Thanks to everyone who honored these fab images. If you would like to honor something for One Sweet Shot, we’ll be doing this whole thing again next month! Yay.

And we’ll end with a little something else you’ve been looking forward to…

Congratulations to Anna of the blog Hank and Willie. She is the lucky winner of the Blue Poppy Motherhood necklace. Hooray for Anna! Thanks to all of you who commented. It was nice to get your Mother’s Day wishes. We hope yours was wonderful.

Comments

[Lawyer Mama]

Oh wow! I do feel so honored. And guilty. Because I always FORGET to send y'all my 1 sweet shot nominee!

[Carol]

Such a beautiful photo!!

[hippyhappyhay]

Wow, I have just paid them all a visit....an impressive collection. I can't believe I was included amoungst them, thanks Heather for the nomination :)

[Marcie]

Great photos!!!
Truly an inspiration to all of us.

[Anna at Hank and Willie]

Oooohh! I am SO lucky. Thank you so much, Tracey and Blue Poppy! Can't wait to wear my new necklace.

And what a visual treat that was to explore all the sweet shots! I know just who I am going to honor next time.

Anna

[kristin]

congrats to all those great shots and great sisters! look forward to next month. xo kristin

[Ashley]

wow. that shot is incredible. just stunning.

congrats to anna!

[Debbie Schinker]

I haven't done much "processing" as shown in the winning photo, aside from trying to "correct" colors in what my eye perceives to be a flawed photo. But I'm starting to get interested in these types of techniques!

I recently played around with some of the advanced color tools in my Memory Manager software. My first real go at it is here: http://shutterbugschink.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/color-crazy/. I'd love to get some colorization ideas/suggestions/examples in the comments at my blog, if you care to hop over!

[psumommy]

These photos are all beautiful! Congrats to all!

[fiveflowers]

thank you for the shout out, and all the cool links to all the beautiful photographers! talk about inspiring!

[Christina]

Such beautiful images, all of them! Truly inspiring.

and big congrats to Anna!!!

[Connie]

How pretty!

[melody]

*sigh* I am mesmerized by Crystal's work. Breathtaking.

What a treat of photo links to explore.

[Tony]

Do I have to be a sister....?

[LaundryGirlPhotog]

I'm a little slow getting around to this with the new baby and all, but I feel so honored and blown away to have two photos on here this month. thank you leah and camera shy momma! what a fantastic collection of photos i am lucky to be a part of.