I know that one of Nora’s eyes is out of focus, but I love this photo anyway.

Be sure to check out I ♡ Faces to see all the amazing photos that were entered in this week’s contest.

I got a new portrait lens last week–the 85mm 1.8. I finally had some time to play around with it yesterday. I got some shots of Nora that I ADORE! I haven’t gotten any great photos of her lately so I was really happy with these. Enjoy!

And thanks to the amazing women at ClickinMoms, I finally got my color to look the same on my blog. Woo hoo!!

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Traveling to Shanghai from Salt Lake City takes A LONG time! We left Salt Lake City at 11:00am on Monday on a 12 hour non-stop flight to Tokyo, Japan. We arrived in Tokyo and had about a 2 hour layover. Next we took another 4 hour flight to Shanghai, China. We arrived in Shanghai at 9:55pm on Tuesday night. Needless to say, we were all very anxious to get off the plane get to our hotel rooms so we could go to sleep.

After the plane landed, we pulled up to the gate and we started getting all of our things together. We start unbuckling our seat belts and anticipate the plane doors opening. As we were doing that the captain of the plane made an announcement that Chinese Health Officials would be boarding the plane to take every passengers temperature as a screening measure against the H1N1 virus.

This is what we saw:

Some people we laughing and others were taking photos. But when we found out that the entire plane could be quarantined for up to 7 days, most people stopped laughing.

Apparently, if anyone had a fever or flu symptoms, all passengers and crew members would be immediately detained. Officials would then decide whether to give physical exams at the airport or to take everyone to a hospital or hotel, where they may quarantine them for up to seven days.

At this point, we were all crossing out fingers that everyone on our plane would pass the initial screening. As soon as they said our cabin was cleared, we got off the plane as quickly as we could, before they decided to change their minds. Not a very warm welcome, but we were so relieved to finally be on the ground and on our way to the hotel!

Today we added a border and word art to a photo. Here is what I did:

I think it turned out cute and it was a fun lesson!

For now, I wanted to tell you all about a new site I joined that has been taking up way too much of my time It is an awesome community for women who are passionate about photography. There are amateurs and professionals alike. There are so many wonderful tutorials. I have learned SO MUCH since I joined.

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My photo placed 4th this week. I am so excited I can hardly contain myself!

I have been faithfully entering the I ♥ Faces contests every week. There are always so many wonderful photographs. Each week I enter I hope that it will be my week. I can’t tell you how many weeks I have spent hours on my photo, and then been disappointed when I didn’t win. I just kept entering hoping that soon it would be my turn–and this week it was!

Last week I took the kids out in the backyard one evening to snap a few photos with a lens I haven’t used in a while. Everyone else I know who has it just raves about it, so I wanted to play with it a little more. Ian was in his PJs and I just started taking a few photos of him. I got one that I really liked.

I have been so busy lately I hadn’t had a chance to check to see what the I ♥ Faces theme was. I was so happy when I saw that it was “Let’s Hear it For the Boys” I knew which photo I wanted to enter.

Unfortunately, I am having some trouble getting the colors in this photo to show up the same way on my blog as they do on my monitor. I have been having this problem lately with many of my photos. I think I know how to fix it, I just need to do a little reading up on it to figure out how to fix it.

Anyway, I was thrilled to place in the top ten this week! It just gives my confidence such a boost.

Thanks to everyone for their nice comments, too

I don’t really have any winners this week I was so busy I never even got out my camera!

Would you believe this is the only photo I took all week??? My sweet husband loves to make faces in photos. I have very few photos of him without silly faces.

Scott and I rode in the Bike MSroad bike ride in Logan, Utah this weekend. We rode 100 miles on Saturday and 75 miles on Sunday. It was the best century I have done so far, It felt surprisingly easy compared to the other century rides have done. It was a lot of fun and it was for a great cause.

This week I would definitely go visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom to view all the Weekly Winners participants. I’m sure there are many better photos than mine

I don’t know how I missed last week’s Fix-it Friday, but I am back this week I really liked this photo–it was a fun one to work on.

Here is my edit:

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Be sure to check out I ♡ Faces to see all the amazing photos that were entered in this week’s contest.