[via DIYPhotography.net]

I downloaded the trial version of Portrait Professional, and it’s super simple to use and produces pretty cool results.

Here are my contest submissions:
My B&W submision:

My color submission:

my tip:
I like to capture kids (but it works the same for adults) at really natural moments for personally meaningful images. So, I join them in their environment where they are most comfortable and take tons of photos of them playing with their favorite toy, making their typical cute faces, capturing the look of wonder when investigating…

Thanks for the cool opportunity, Udi!

And now I’d like to spread the love to my other blogosphere friends:

Jim, my husband, with Change Happens, Addictive Happiness & The New Thin Me

My Dad with New England Waterfalls. Hopefully he’ll begin posting soon…

Matt with Beyond Conventional Wisdom – Thinking deeply about spirituality, suffering & contentment.

Tony with Acceptable and Proper

Sarah with her photos

And, of course, Emila for creating the award – thanks! It seems to making the rounds. Well done.

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Should you choose to participate, please make sure you pass the rules to the blogs you are tagging. I thought it would be appropriate to include them with the meme. You can just copy the award and paste it in your editor box or you can download it into your computer and later upload in your blog.

The participation rules are simple:
1. If you get tagged (and want to play along), write a post with links to blogs that you love,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
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