This is after editing.  I added a small vignette and tweaked the colors and exposure.

This is before lightroom editing.

 

 All of these pictures are the first attempts at light painting.  Really cool, but need a lot of work.

 

My 8th graders were helping me work with light. As you can see in this picture, the boy looks like his head is spinning.  We actually figured out how to take the shot without making it look that way - however, considering the message we were trying to communicate the spinning head is perfect!

 I took the "Red" topic and Valentine's Day and combined  them.  So when I think of Valentine's day I think of love and my heart immediately goes to the one who taught me how to love and loved me even when I was pretty unlovable - my mother.  The jewelry box was my inspiration - it was my mothers.  When I was a little girl and even as a young adult I would always get in mom's jewelry box and try everything on.  She loved diamond and I do too.  The dress is her wedding dress.  The sheet music is the original copy that she used to sing at my wedding as well as a multitude of other weddings.  The figurine is the angel of remembrance which actually belonged to her. Even the red material in the background was material she purchased to have my bridesmaid's dresses made for my wedding.

 

 

 

Rain, rain, brings a smile anyway!

 

 

 My 8th grade class was given the task of creating a human smile.  I put 2 girls in charge.  I think I had more fun watching them try to get everyone to do what they wanted than I had taking the pics!!!!

 

 

 

 

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This was a picture created from the table decorations at my uncle's 70th birthday party. I took the decorations out of the vase to create the "smile".