Scraps and Snaps

Hi Everyone! Colleen here! How ya doin?

Piggybacking onto Trish's post on photos...I have to admit that I've been thinking a lot lately about pictures too. I'm no photographer, by any means. I have a Nikon d40 that I still leave on auto. Sad, but true. But what I've noticed lately is that until recently, I hardly appear in my photographs.

I think that most of us scrap our families and/or those special events that happen in our lives, those places we go and the people we see, but we rarely show up in the pictures. If you are me, you don't like to have your picture taken. Not no way, not no how. You'd rather be sitting safely behind the camera where no one will see you except when you tell them to say cheese. But what happens years from now, when people look at your albums and don't see you...will they know who you are? That's why I'm starting to put myself more in the pictures I'm taking.

Here's how...

First, you can be in the shot without being in the shot. If you look at the reflection in her sunglasses...that's me!
Of course, you can do it the old fashioned way and schedule a photo shoot in your bathroom studio. Just be sure and have those special things that your inner diva demands. My inner diva demands twizzlers and Apple Raspberry Vitamin Water, and you better have them on hand when she's ready or else!
You can photograph you in action
or chillaxin (feet shots are my absolute fave. I love them.)
you can hide in the shadows
and then there's you out in the open with the people you love the most...
The important thing is to snap and scrap you too!