Bloggers Block

Every time I think about my blog, which happens to be EVERY day when I catch up on all of the wonderful blogs I follow, I want to post. However, it all seems good in theory, but when I sit down to write, I've got nothing. Part of my problem is that I come up with ideas, but usually decide people will think they are stupid posts, so I ditch the idea, thinking I will come up with something better later. Well, I've decided that I have to stop being so judgemental of myself and just post when/what I want to without worrying whether people will find it interesting or not. I realize that not every post will appeal to all people, but you can't live to please everyone, everyday.

While I don't post on my own blog very often, I read a number of blogs on a daily (well, almost daily...) basis. One of my FAVORITE blogs is The Pioneer Woman. Ree Drummond, the woman behind the fantastic blog is probably the epitome of who I hope to be someday. She is a witty and well-composed writer who is also a fantastic cook, AWESOME photographer and creative. I am so lucky to have been pointed in the direction of her blog because she often posts photography and Photoshop tips. One of the GREATEST things she has done was to create different Photoshop actions and post them on her blog....FOR FREE! It makes it so easy to take your photos and quickly apply different affects to them.

I've been doing a little playing around with the actions on some of the billions of pictures I took while in Houston a little over a month ago. I had some shots from the Houston Zoo that I was really proud of and although I liked them straight out of the camera, I wanted to see what Ree's actions could do for them.

Here is just a sampling of what I've been up to.

ORIGINAL: Straight out of the Camera

ACTION: Fresh and Colorful

What do you think??? Pretty sweet, huh?!?!?!?!?