Week 17 ~ Special Guest Star Linda and Love

Hello all, I could not be more excited this week. Know why? My sweetest friend Linda is our guest here! Like most crafty friends out there, I met Linda online. I was looking for a DT for City Crafter Challenge Blog while living in New York City. As you have guessed, soon after we moved to Las Vegas 3 and a half years ago, we met in person! It was a fun meeting and I am so glad to know her. We then meet up regularly, sometimes with our husbands for dinner and sometimes just Linda and I for lunch. Linda and her husband started her new journal few months ago, they have been traveling in their camper and visited some beautiful places in the country, you can check out Linda's blog and follow her journey.
If you know Linda, you should already know that she is a talent, not only she makes pretty cards and fun journal pages, she is also great at photography and editing, well, we are lucky to have Linda with us today don't you think? She picks the word prompt for today as well as sharing with us some useful tips.
Ladies (and gentlemen, if we have any here), please welcome my sweet friend -

Linda Robinson

Hello, it’s so exciting to be a guest here at OBW.  It’s so wonderful to see all the beautiful photos from all over the world.  I choose the word “LOVE” for this week.  If you’re wondering why I chose this word it’s because I am loving my life right now. 

So if you would like to know one of my favorite tricks on my Camera it would have to be when I learned how to use “exposure compensation”.  Most of you probably already know about this but if you don’t it can help you save a photo when the light is not right. I use it all the time.  Almost all cameras have this capability, including your point and shoot cameras.  The trick is you cannot be in Auto mode.  If you are little bit shy about using the other Modes just put it in “P” mode. It’s the next best thing to the auto mode.  If you want to learn about “exposure compensation” just do a search on your computer and you will find all kinds of tutorials on how to use this feature on your camera. I am pretty sure you will use it as much as I do.

I am looking forward to seeing what photos you all have for the word.......

LOVE

I've added the link to the DT's personal blog, click on the names and it will take you there to read about the story behind each photo.

Linda (somewhere in United States, in Big Bertha - her camper)

Kirsty (Las Vegas, USA)

Wendy (The Netherlands)

Ros (United Kingdom)

Shahrul (Malaysia)

Milagros (Puerto Rico)

Bonita (Florida, USA)

Thank you to all who joined us last week, wonderful share there.

Shahrul especially love the shot of dripping snow linked up by Mandy!

brrrr....... it does look chilly!

We love to have more people join in the fun, please feel free to grab our button (on top of the side bar), and use it on your blog post and have a link back to our blog when you mentioned Our Beautiful World on your post, thanks so much!

When you link up your project, don't forget to tell us which part of the world were those photos taken from, you know sometimes it is hard to tell from the picture. Type in your name using the linking system, simply put your country (or city) in bracket after your name, e.g. Alice Watson (Canada).

We encourage you to hop around and read about the story behind each photo, make friends or you can mingle here at the comment section, this is what Our Beautiful World is all about!

Week 11 ~ Special Guest Star Liz and Bubbles

This week is a special week as we have our very first guest star here with us.

Welcome Liz........ before we reveal the word prompt set by Liz, she also have a little tips to share with us!

I use a Nikon D40 on automatic, because manual doesn't work on my poor old thing, grrrrr. So I am no good with fstops and all that stuff. One thing, which I am sure everybody knows about anyway - don't shoot pics outdoors in the middle of a sunny day, the light is too harsh and washes out the colours. Early morning or late afternoon when the light is soft and gentle is much better for landscape photography or anything outdoors. 

I photograph a lot of things for my etsy shop and found out that even photographing in the shade outside is not very good on a bright day, because all the whites turn very blue and that is very difficult to edit. I try and photograph my items just indoors, by an open door or window out of the bright light or inside one of those little white cubes you can get so cheaply on the internet. Our cottage is very dark because of the small windows, so it is difficult for me, but most of you will have wonderfully light rooms to photograph in, lol, so its not an issue really.

I use picmonkey to edit photos. It is a doddle to use. Features I like best are Rotate for straightening out those wonky horizons and drunk vases, Crop, to get rid of all the stuff you didn't notice when you were taking the pic, like the dog hairs in the corner of the pic, or way too much background making the main feature of your pic totally insignificant. I also use Brightness and Sharpen, but thats it, I don't bother with any of the fancy stuff. But then my pics are mostly for the shop or of crafty things for the blog. If you want to do arty pics, there are a not of really neat features on picmonkey.

Thank you Liz!!!!!
Be sure to hop over to Lululiz in Lalaland and check out her wonderful posts as well as the neat etsy shop.
And here's the word prompt chosen by Liz!

Bubbles

Liz (France)

Kirsty (Las Vegas, USA)

Ros (United Kingdom)

Shahrul (Malaysia)

Milagros (Puerto Rico)

Bonita (Florida, USA)

Thanks to all who joined us last week, and I really really love that sunflower photo from Laydee, what do think?

Isn't that gorgeous? Hop over to Laydee's blog to say hello!

Thanks once again Laydee, for sharing the beauty around you with us! : )

We love to have more people join in the fun, please feel free to grab our button (on top of the side bar), and use it on your blog post and have a link back to our blog when you mentioned Our Beautiful World on your post, thanks so much!

When you link up your project, don't forget to tell us which part of the world were those photos taken from, you know sometimes it is hard to tell from the picture. Type in your name using the linking system, simply put your country (or city) in bracket after your name, e.g. Alice Watson (Canada).

We encourage you to hop around and read about the story behind each photo, make friends or you can mingle here at the comment section, this is what Our Beautiful World is all about!