I Heart Faces - Blurb Book Contest

This photo is my amateur entry into this week's I ♥ Faces contest where the theme is "favorite photo." This photo was taken in front of the National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, a few days after we met our daughter Hannah Claire.

She looks like such a baby here. Oh how much she's changed in four and a half months!

I get very emotional when I look at our photo set from this day. They feel like "bye bye, Taiwan" photos to me. Of course we'll go back to visit, hopefully many times, but to me this photograph symbolizes the end of one chapter of my daughter's life and the beginning of another.

I edited the photo first in Adobe Lightroom and used the preset "aged photo" that comes with the software. I turned the exposure way down, leaving pink in Hannah Claire's hat and on her kissable lips. Then I opened the photo into Adobe Photoshop, rotating it to make the ground level, cropping it square, then used the "sharpen this" action from Pioneer Woman's free actions to sharpen her eyes up.

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I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites.