Uniquely Me Photography

Photoshoot at the Park!

2010-09-04T17:47:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone!

This was quite a while ago, but I want to share some pictures I took of my sister at our local park! I took them when I Heart Faces was doing the "Sunglasses" category. It was my first time doing a photoshoot at somewhere other than my house! So, this is a milestone in my photography! hehe I also edited them in Photoshop Elements 8-we bought it! Yay! :)

Here are the pictures...

I LOVED this bridge-it was such a pretty location!

I love my sister's smile! :)

This tree was really cool and very out of the ordinary-the perfect place for a picture! :)

I hope you enjoyed them! Which one's your favorite picture? I hope to get some new pictures on here soon-we recently went to our State Fair! :)

Have a Great Day!

I Heart Faces: Got To Wear Shades

2010-08-17T13:28:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! I am sorry about my lack of pictures lately, we are getting a new computer hard-drive soon!

Anyway, I am here today to enter the new I Heart Faces Challenge! This weeks category is "Got To Wear Shades."

Here is my entry...

We went to the park, and this was such a pretty setting! It was my first time doing a photoshoot somewhere other than my own backyard! It was SO much fun! :)

Be sure to check out more sunglasses at I Heart Faces!! :)

In Speech, In Life, In Love, In Faith and In Purity.

2010-08-05T10:55:00.000-07:00

For my 16th Birthday and my sister's 13th this year we planned on getting Purity Rings from our parents. It seemed so special to get it on my 16th! I am staying pure to God and my Future Husband, and I wanted to show it. My birthday was in March, so it's taken awhile for us to get my ring. Though, I finally picked it up last Saturday at Kay's Jewelers! It is SO beautiful, and totally called for a ring photo-shoot! haha :)

Here are a few pictures of my Purity Ring...

Isn't it pretty? When I saw it I knew it was the one I wanted! It had everything-A heart, a sign of staying pure to God with the cross, and two diamonds! :)

I tried to be art-sy with this one! :)

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in Purity." -1 Timothy 4:12

I hope you enjoyed the pictures! Also, I have some good news-today is our first day of Photoshop 8 Classes at our local library! Yay! :)

Have a great day! :)

Newsy Picture Post!

2010-07-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone!

This is going to be a newsy-picture post! haha

First off, I am sorry that I haven't posted new pictures in a while. One of our computers died, and it had a lot of my pictures on it. Don't worry, my pictures were saved-but we have to get a new computer. The computer I am typing on now is our laptop, but it can be really slow. I still want to try to post, but posts might be scarce until we get a new computer. :(

Also, in August my local library is having three classes on how to use Photoshop Elements 8! It going to be taught by a professional photographer in our area. My dad, sister, and I are signed up for all the classes! I can't wait! :D

Now, here are a few pictures! They are of some bleeding hearts at my Grandma's house! They were taken during Mother's Day this year, and they were SO beautiful! :)

Hope you enjoyed the newsy-picture post! :D

Flowers To Brighten Your Day...

2010-07-11T16:28:00.000-07:00

Here are some Flower pictures to brighten your day! I took them at our local Zoo when we went with my cousins!

Hope you like them! Which one is your favorite? :)

Fourth of July Fun!

2010-07-09T09:50:00.000-07:00

I know this post is a bit overdue, but I took so many pictures for the Fourth of July-it was hard to go through them all! lol

I had an AWESOME Independence Day! We went to my Grandad's cabin again, he lives on a lake community. My cousins came, and we swam in the lake for almost 3 hours! It was so much fun! Then we dried off and did pop-its, sparklers, and got on my Grandad's boat to watch the annual Fireworks at Lake Lorelei!

Here are some pictures...

I LOVE this picture of my sister and cousins. The thing my sister is holding up is a pop-it. :D

Pop-its were FUN! :D

Here's my sister on the left, and me on the right on a raft in the lake! :)

We had a lot of fun jumping off of the dock...

Messing around with a different effect, here...

We were really hungry after swimming, good thing my Uncle was grilling! :)

After dinner my cousin posed for some fun pictures with me! :)

When the sun started to set, that meant sparkler time!

We did a few fountains too! (this one my family actually did in our yard, but it's prettier than the pictures of the ones we did at my Grandad's.)

After the firework appetizers (hehe), we went to go see the big fireworks! :D

Aren't they pretty?! I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July! What did you do for the Holiday? :)

I Heart Faces: Teens Only

2010-07-06T17:47:00.000-07:00

This week for I Heart Faces is special! Only Teens can enter the Photo Challenge to end the celebration of Teens at IHF! Also, your entry only has to have a human face in it! Since I am a teen, at 16, I can enter! Yay! :)

Here's my entry:

Last week we went to the zoo with my cousins, and at our zoo they have a place where you can feed and hold Lorikeet birds! These birds are seriously crazy! When one landed on my sister's head-it made for a cute picture! :D

Be sure to head on over to I Heart Faces, to see other photography by Teens!

I Heart Faces: Pets

2010-06-28T11:00:00.000-07:00

This week's of I Heart Faces, is Pets!! I LOVE Pets, in fact my family has 11 of them! Two parakeets, two guinea pigs, 1 hamster, 2 cats, and 4 chickens! We are pet crazy! lol

Here is the picture I am entering:

This is my cat Maggie, and it's one of the best pictures of her I have took since she is a black cat. I have shown it here on my blog before, but I couldn't pass up entering it! hehe :)

Be sure to check out all the cute pet photos at I Heart Faces this week!

A Day at the Lake...

2010-06-23T15:30:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we went to my Grandad's cabin at a lake community. In his backyard is Lake Lorelei, a lake where we like to go fishing and go out on his boat to enjoy the scenery. The perfect place for pictures! Good thing I had my camera! My cousins were there too, and we had a lot of fun! :)

Here are some pictures of our day!

Here is part of the Lake, it is really pretty with the sun shines on it! :)

This girl Water Skiing looked like she was having fun! I would love to try that sometime!

Here's my dad driving my Grandad's boat! :)

These Geese were in someone's yard! lol :)

My dad drove the boat to the Lake's "Clubhouse" and next to it is a small beach. The water is shallow there too, and roped off so you can swim! :)

My sister and cousin had fun drawing in the sand! hehe :)

After our trip to the small beach, we went back to the cabin and did some more fishing! One of my cousins caught a really nice Croppy!

My sister and cousin's also posed for some pictures. They were great models! :)

Here is one of them all together-I love this picture! :)

I hope you enjoyed the pictures of our day at the lake! Which picture was your favorite? :)

I Heart Faces: Celebrating Teens

2010-06-22T17:13:00.000-07:00

I just Loved the I Heart Faces challenge last week, so here is my entry this week for the theme Celebrating Teens! My lovely sister modeled for me! :)

My sister is 13, and I think she portrays the Teen look! hehe Be sure to check out all the awesome Teen pictures at I Heart Faces this week! :)

Fun at the Zoo!

2010-06-18T11:10:00.000-07:00

Zoo trips are always so much fun! Here are my pictures of our local Zoo, when we went a few weekends ago! :)

I am not a huge fan of Apes or monkeys, but these turned out great! (I love my Zoom! :)

Feeding the Lorikeet Birds was funny! Those birds were crazy! The picture above is of me feeding one of the Lorikeets. My dad took it, and it's so cool that you can see the motion of the feather flapping. Though, guess where it was headed to?

Yep, right on my head! It was pretty funny! :D

Here's my mom with a Lorikeet! They loved her earrings! :)

There was small nature scenes at the Zoo, like this waterfall and flower too! Things people walk by, but are very beautiful!

Also, we went to a new attraction at the Zoo-A Cheetah Run! We saw the fastest mammal run, it was really neat!!

Then we went to one of the Bird Shows!

A few days after we went to the Zoo, we heard that this Falcon above accidentally flew away during one of the Bird Shows! Poor little guy. :(

This is a beautiful Bald Eagle that was in the show! His name is Sam, how cute is that? I can see why this is the National Bird of the U.S.A.

I hope you enjoyed the picures of our Zoo Trip! Which one is your favorite? :)

I Heart Faces: All About Babies!

2010-06-14T15:45:00.000-07:00

I am sorry for not posting in a while! To get back into the groove of posting, I am going to do my first ever I Heart Faces entry! :)

This week's theme is "All About Babies"! My entry is of my baby cousin with my mom holding him. Everytime we visit my cousin, my mom can't put him down-and I think we can see why! :)

Be sure to go check out all the sweet, precious, and beautiful baby pictures over at I Heart Faces this week!

Excalibur: The Story of Young King Arthur Play!

2010-05-31T17:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to see my cousin perform in a play at her town's Community theater! The play was Excalibur, the story of young King Arthur! My cousin played Lynette one of the friends of the noble girl Elaine. I was so excited for her! I took tons of pictures! It was a bit difficult to take them, because of no flash photography. Also, there were heads in the way, but I tried to crop them out! lol Here are my pictures of Excalibur:

Here you can see my cousin, she is the one in the green shirt and skirt.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures! The play was so much fun to watch, and they did an awesome job! :)

Pretty Kitty!

2010-05-26T16:06:00.001-07:00

Here are a few pictures I took of my cat Maggie! I usually can't get very good pictures of her since she is all black! Though, when I was playing with her she did some really cute poses! :)

Hope you enjoyed them! Do you have any pets?

Interesting Purple Flower

2010-05-25T17:44:00.000-07:00

Since I LOVE taking pictures of flowers, I am very happy we have some in our backyard! A few days ago I came across these beautiful purple flowers (I think they are Iris) we have growing. They had a really interesting design on them!

Aren't they a gorgeous purple?

I have never seen a design like this before! I am happy that I can show it to all of you! :)

Four Bright Blue Eggs

2010-05-22T09:34:00.000-07:00

Look what we found a few days ago...

We have had several robin's lay eggs in our fruit trees over the past years, and every time I love watching the baby birds grow up! My dad took this picture for me with my camera. I tried to take some, but I was too short! lol :)

Whenever I think of baby birds I think of this Bible Verse...

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" -Matthew 6:26

Have a great weekend! :)

The Beginning of the Journey!

2010-05-20T11:33:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to Uniquely Me Photography, my new Photography blog! I have always admired other people's photography blogs, so I decided to create my own!

My name is Jessica, and I am a 16 year old Christian homeschooled girl. I love photography, and being behind my camera is my favorite place in the world! I have loved photography ever since I got my first digital camera when I was 12 years old. The camera I have now is a Point and Shoot Canon Powershot SX120 IS, and I love it!! :) Though, even before I had a camera, I loved posing in front of one! :)

I love Nature Photography, especially taking pictures of flowers! I am trying my best to expand my photography to take pictures of people. I am just not too good at people photography yet. lol

I cannot wait to get started posting! For now, here are nature pictures I took recently. Don't worry there will be plenty more! :)

Have a wonderful day!