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Feelin' Frisky on a FiveSibes Flashback Friday!

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Our FiveSibes "twins" siblings Chloe and Wolf having some Siberific fun flashing back to when they were just two years old! They loved wrestling matches on the floor (sofa, bed, deck, yard, etc)! It's fun to see that still to this day, all FiveSibes love to engage in some frisky business! "Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. " ~Nina Dobrev Flashback Fridays are brought to you by us - the FiveSibes - and our invited co-hosts, Love is being owned by a Husky , each Friday. We hope you'll find a photo or video from your Memory Lane, post it, and link up to our blog hop each week! If you don't catch it on Friday, you can link up any time during the week!

Shades of Beauty

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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. " ~Walt Whitman As a photography student (some 40 years ago!), I learned my craft shooting black and white photos and developing them in a dark room in the basement of my school. Seeing the images first briefly under the enlarger, and then slowly come to life in the developing tray as the chemicals worked their magic, was what fed my creative spirit! Today, my Huskies are one of my favorite subjects to photograph. I especially love to do natural lighting portraits, freestyle. No lamps. No tripods. No fancy photo gimmicks. Just pure natural light, my dog, may camera, and me. That's why I love this portrait I shot of Gibson as he was sitting in the living room glancing out of the window as the sun beamed in, flooding him in beautiful light and shadows. These candid moments steal my breath away as I quickly and quietly reach for one of my cameras before the moment passes. These are som...