Now you see it...now you don't.

It is very difficult to get a good picture of Connor if he knows you are trying to take his picture. He doesn't stay still for more than a second, and even though he is a very happy little guy and does a lot of smiling and laughing, when it comes to try to capture that in a good picture, especially a family picture, well it just doesn't happen very often.

A few months ago on a Sunday afternoon we were at Mary and Ricks for Sunday dinner. I asked Mary to try to take a good family picture of us. Because Connor loves to swing on the backporch swing and he also happens to love his Aunt Mary and anytime you tell him to say Mary, he gives a great grin, we decided to try to take our family picture on the swing, with Mary taking the picture. She snapped this picture at the perfect moment and it was a great picture of all of us.

The only thing I didn't care for was the background of red chairs, etc, etc. I knew there was a thing called photo shopping where people can do amazing things with it, and I tried to fiddle around with it for a little while, but got absolutely no where.

I have known Jennifer Byler since she was a little girl, (she used to play with "my little girl", Shemila Ebanks all the time when they were both young and lived on campus) and she is one of the most artistic people I know. She can do anything and everything when it comes to being artistic and creative. Paint, draw, sew(you ought to see what she can do to a jean skirt, etc), she takes incredible pictures, and much more. So I thought I would send her our picture and see what she could do with it.

Here is the original.

And amazingly, this is what she sent back. It looks like we are sitting on a black couch, against a white wall. I was just blown away!!
We cropped Connor out of the picture to get a picture of just him since it is impossible to get a good picture of him like this.

And here is what she did. I just think it is absolutely incredible that you can do things like this.

I know this took quite a bit of time, and wanted to send Jen a gift card or something for all her time, but she just insisted that she did it for a friend. Thanks Jen!! I love checking out your page all the time for all the creative and artistic pictures you have. I just think you are simply amazing. I really apprecite you doing this for me!