I have a love for photography.  I am not a professional, but love to take pictures of family and friends.  At my favorite forum ClickinMoms they have several contests, one of my favorite is the Best of the year photos.  We have to choose our favorite of the year – here is my entry:

I am not a professional photographer – but I try to take pictures to record the memories of my family. This particular photo is the result of a memorable day – My cousin Linsey was married to her mate Shannon. The detail in Shannon’s face says it all. I had not attended a same sex marriage before this one and I have to say it was lovely and left me feeling at peace!

 Clickin Moms is an awesome forum for photographers!  They are offering a discount of 20% off of their monthly or yearly membership – use the code FRIEND to get the discount!  Try it out for a month – you won’t be dissappointed!

This is truly my favorite picture I’ve taken with my camera – I got my camera in June and this was one of my first pictures.  This is so special because the love between my daughter and her horse is totally captured.  She had a horrible accident on this horse in February of last year, she was bucked off and required surgery on her face, very scary for everyone, but she recovered and got right back on.

Anyone that is interested in joining ClickinMoms – now’s the time – 20% off with coupon code TREAT – click on picture to check it out! Please follow my link then you can post to win the camera and other great prizes!

and, they are giving away a Canon 5D Mark II camera – after you join you can post a comment on their blog to win the camera – ends on Halloween!

I have a FAVORITE camera bag, and they are turning ONE!  Check out their fabulous bags, they look like purses!  You can visit the store HERE or click on the picture!

Here is a picture of me that my daughter took with my beloved camera and me living life the way I picture it

You can get free prints! I love shutterfly – the quality is great and you get your prints so fast, I don’t know how they do it.  Check them out!

Bloom workshop is having a Birthday Bash on their blog and giving away great prizes.  Today is the last day to enter, but look at the prizes:

LOT #5 prize package:

1. One year membership to the Clickin Moms Forum
2. Wordsmith Senior Pricing Menu
3. Florabella The BW Set of Actions
4. Volume 25’s Lovey Dovey Overlays
5. The Compositor from Moirai Tools
6. A Template of your choice (includes the commerical license too) from Danielle Thompson
7. Your choice of any template from Phreckles Photography Design and Templates
8. Actions by Brenda’s full action set and texture set
9. Eyecandy’s full set of actions and presets
10. A spot in the June 2010 BLOOM WORKSHOP

You MUST check it out now! Click HERE!

I heart faces is having another challenge – it’s Valentines Day and kisses are everywhere – My daughter is actually kissing her horse Cairo in this pic, although it looks a bit like she is staring her down lol – In case you don’t know what I heart faces is about, check out the challenge here:

Here is the pic:

and just for fun cat kisses taken with my cell tonight!

Awesome news for all of your photographers and, like me a wanna be photographer!  Kendra over at clickinmoms is letting me give away 1 full year subscription (worth $50) to her member only site (you can’t already be a member, it’s for new members only).  The site is AMAZING.  All you have to do is post here and I’ll enter you into the contest.  If you want extra chances, you can buy something from my shop at Sunshine Studio Scraps (worth an extra entry) or blog about this giveaway and link back to me (then post here your blog link worth an extra entry).  This contest will go until November 29th and the winner announced on December 1st  – Here’s a link to the site for those interested: