Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Welcome to the CS Hands On! Photography Blog Hop!

Welcome to my blog and thanks for participating in our Hands On! photography blog hop!  I'm excited to have you here!

I'm proud to be the first host on your blog hop!  If you want to read more about the hop, or see a list of your blog destinations, please visit the blog HERE.


We are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Canadian Scrapbooker Hands On! Photography blog (also referred to as the HOP blog!)  Last September, we launched the HOP blog as an added feature to the Hands On! Photography article in each issue, to offer more in-depth tutorials for the topics that I discussed in my articles.

Each month, I post a new tutorial on the HOP blog, with photo examples and helpful links. Our magazine and blog readers are encouraged to submit their photos, which are then shared on the HOP blog and entitle them to a chance to win a randomly drawn prize each month!

I'm excited to announce that the blog hop prize I have to give away to one lucky commenter is this lovely bunch of goodies:

Want a chance to win this yummy prize?  In celebrating our one-year anniversary, we'd like to invite you to review one of our past tutorials.  My choice is the August 2010 tutorial on natural lightingJust visit this tutorial and leave a comment THERE, and then come back and leave me a comment HERE with your favourite summer memory!  It's as easy as that!

Thanks for participating in our blog hop!! Now, onto the next blog... You'll be visiting none other than the Co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of Canadian Scrapbooker magazine, Jackie Ludlage!

83 comments:

  1. I posted a comment on August 2010's blog.

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  2. My favourite summer memory would be camping with my family.s

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  3. I have no idea how to leave a comment on the tutorial. I can get to the page, and there is a box to type in, but nothing happens when I click on the submit button. I cannot see any comments either. My favourite summer memory has to be boating with the kids.

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  4. This summer we were in Winthrop, WA when the meteor shower began. My favorite memory of this summer would have to be cuddled up in blankets outside with my youngest daughter watching for "shooting stars" that night.

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  5. Going to our cabin in Idaho and hanging out by the lake with the kids. So relaxing!!!

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  6. would love some new goodies. my fave summer memory was travelling with my family out West.

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  7. Fave summer memory - seeing High School friends at my 25th reunion...that I literally haven't seen in 25 years.

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  8. Miss SUE, I have been a blog hopping and see that there is SOOOOO much I need to learn from your fabulous site. Thanks for this hop, you ROCK! I hope the ladies LOVe the prizes they can win. THEY are AMAZING!!!!!!! Good luck everyone. It gave me such smiles reading everyone's today that I have also left my favourite memories with everyone. Thanks for making my day!

    My fave summer memory is when my husband wanted to sleep under the stars. We had no kids yet, so we were still wild and crazy. HE put a mattress in the back of our truck we drove to the middle of a random field and it was GREAT. However, being in Saskatchewan, we froze. But still makes me smile ear to ear.

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  9. My favorite summer memory is working on my backpack mini that I am auctioning off at my sorority meeting in one week! I just have a little more to finish off, but it is looking soooooo cute!

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  10. Great job with the blog HOP and all your fabulous tutorials!

    Favorite summer memories- real actual camping in a tent for the first time this summer in the amazing forests of Tofino, BC:0)

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  11. thanks for the chance to win!! I left a comment on your tutorial as well! great tips thanks!!

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  12. thanks for the chance to win...I left comment of the tutorial and here

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  13. My favortite memorie from this summer was attending Image Explorations at Shwnigan Lake B.C. It is a photography getaway with courses. I was fortuanate to take a five day course by Kevin Kubota. I was also able to see my best friend since junior high. I have not seen her since my wedding almost 11 years ago.

    This was me time which does not happen often.

    And I always love spending time with my family. We enjoyed our time a the lake this summer.

    Also, I read you whole blog and loved it. I can relate to your story about your mom.

    Sharon Barnes

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  14. The best part of this summer was when we went camping for the first time with our kids. K, well we rented a cabin but none the less the kids had a blast and it was nice to relive the camping experience through them.

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  15. I've just had a wonderful summer with the kids this summer!Hanging out at local parks and visiting family with no bed time!

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  16. My favourite summer memory was everyday that Eric and I were able to spend together! We both work, and usually opposite days, so when we could spend time together, it was great!

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  17. My favorite summer memory was sitting in the hot tub on top of the houseboat star gazing with my mom and dad, husband and kids!

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  18. My favourite summer memory will have to be all the camping we did with family and friends!

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  19. One of my favorite summer memories was going to the wading pool and practicing some photography with my kids playing in the water. A good memory and some great pics to go with it!

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  20. Kids at the beach is my favorit - this is fun as srapbooker my photo's are not always the best so this will be good for me.

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  21. Great tutorial Sue! My favourite summer memory was our trip this summer to Tofino on Vancouver Island! I can't wait to go back!

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  22. have to be this summer spending the time with my dad during his last days. More heart breaks, but I was glad to be there with my girls and we got to say goodbye

    I can't comment on the tutorials though - won't let me!!

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  23. I'm wondering if I left a comment on the right tutorial. Followed the link to it as posted, but I was the only one to leave a comment from today. Don't know where everyone else above is leaving comments.....

    My favourite summer memory - helping my daughter get settled into University life!

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  24. My favourite summer memory was our week up at Camp Kawkawa, LOVE that place!!!

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  25. Spending time at the lake with my family is one of my favorate memories of this summer :)

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  26. One of my favorite summer memories was spending time in Osoyoos B.C. and picking fruit in the orchards with my son and husband.

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  27. My favorite summer memory is hanging out on the beach in Oregon with my familyand searching tide pools! We don't se much of that here on the prairies ;)

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  28. Oh I wish I could rewind time to our vacation in the Okanagan...it is so beautiful out there with an abundance of summer fruit and wine...

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  29. favorite summer memory is watching my Dad ride his bike into the lake to spray his granddaughters.

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  30. One of my favorite summer memory is when we went camping at Long Sault, Ontario with family and friends, we were 4 family and had so much fun last year. We are going again this next week-end, youhouuu!!!

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  31. Thanks so much for the tutorial. Will have to try some differnt lighting shots.

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  32. From a photography standpoint, my best memory was when another baseball mom, Robin and I figured out how to shoot through the chain link fence at the baseball games!

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  33. My favourite memory is buying our first camper this year and spending as many weekends as we could camping with the kids at the lake :)

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  34. My favourite memory is spending time with my grandchildren at the farm during the summer. They free, from the city life. mblahey@mts.net

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  35. I took my two 15 year old cousins from overseas ALL over the place and showed them the best holiday I possibly could... and we scrapbooked it all while they were here... can't beat that!!

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  36. Well Sue, my favorite summer memory would have to be the quad rides at my mom's farm just before dusk. Fresh country air is the best!

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  37. Mine would have to be our trip to the east coast. I can't wait to go back again!!

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  38. I posted a comment on the tutorial blog, but don't know if it worked...my favourtie memory this summer was our camping trip to Cyprus Lake

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  39. My favorite memory this summer is of my grranddaughters having fun in the rain at my son's outdoor stag.

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  40. We bought a boat this summer so my fav. memories revolve around that. I don't want to see the summer end.

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  41. My favorite memory of the summer was our cross-Canada camping trip...for the second year in a row!! Canada is such a beautiful country...

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  42. I'm so glad I found your blog and blog hop! I plan to add Hands On Photography to my regular reading list so I can finally learn how to take my camera off Auto!
    My favourite summer memory is watching my girls play in our backyard in the sprinkler/slip 'n' slide/whatever water toy they have out. Hearing the squeals of joy warmed my heart!

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  43. My favourite summer memory is taking my girls & my nephews swimming and tubing at our neighbours on the lake

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  44. My favourite summer memory would be sitting at my brother's place enjoying smores around the campfire with my family.

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  45. Great natural lighting tips. I have been enjoying the summer with my girls. My favorite memories are of singing campfire songs with our friends and family.

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  46. Favorite memory of this summer: going kayaking on a small lake in Alberta. So much fun!

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  47. Favourite summer memory...hanging out with the cousins at Grandma's farm. Wish my boy could experience the same thing but no cousins makes that difficult.

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  48. I love the Natural lighting tutorial! Less afraid of natural lighting in photography now!
    My favorite memory is family camping @ Star Lake, Wells Grey Park B.C. My kids had a lot of "1st experiences" canoeing, fishing, leeches :-)

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  49. Favorite summer memory would besides just enjoying time with family on days off, our house was moved onto our farm last August and that is a pretty cool memory!! :)

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  50. My favourite summer memory is the relaxing time we spend at our cabin jumping on the trampoline, catching frogs, boating, fishing and just hanging out as a family. Treasured times.

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  51. My favourite summer memory is spending time at the beach. I just love seeing the kids have so much fun and relaxing at the same time.

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  52. My favourite summer memory would have to be the countless road trips I've taken througout my life all over our gorgeous country. I wish I was independantly wealthy so I could do it full time!

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  53. I really love your blog Hands On Photography because it helps me to improve my skills.

    My favorite summer memory is the birth of my son Arnaud on June 11.

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  54. My favorite summer memory is being on a beach in Nova Scotia playing with my kids. It was our first day there and we arrived sometime after supper. The sunset cast everything in this beautiful orange-pink light.

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  55. My favourite summer memory is a warm summer night spent with family and friends just hanging out in good company :)

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  56. On to the next BLOG! Jackie...here I come! I'm putting my e-mail here cuz I don't see where else it should go!

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  57. My absolute favorite part of the summer was spending 5 days in the Shuswap with friends. We havent' been there in many years, since our kids were small, so to go back now when they are all teenagers (one heading off to University) was so much fun.

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  58. The best summer memory for me, is camping with all my kids and my grandson at Old MacDonald's farm in Stettler, AB. My grandson is 3 and I don't see him often, to watch him run, play, talk and fish was just amazing. I won't forget it....it will be scrapped!

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  59. My favourite summer memories are the days we spent together as a family at the beach! I love the sun, sand and water! It makes me happy!

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  60. Love the photography tutorial (but I can't post on it...)

    My favorite summer memory is watching my kids play in the lake and on the beach!

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  61. I love nothing better than to sit on my front veranda with my hubby and watching our kids run around, enjoying themselves in the summer sun!

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  62. my favorite memory is camping in Acadia and waking up in the middle of night to watch the northern lights and meteor showers. The stillness of this beautiful display. It's own symphony!
    spelsue1@maine.rr.com

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  63. this year, the favorite summer memory is teaching hte dog to swim. It was just wrong to have a golden retriever that had never been in the water.

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  64. My favourite summer memory was being able to show parts of my lovely province to friends who have never been here before, lots of memories were made

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  65. My favorite summer memory was taking my kids to fiddle & Banjo camp and watching them achieve their goals in their choosen instuments

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  66. I almost missed yours! Thanks for posting that people were having trouble...
    My favorite summer memory involved finding Big Red lighthouse during our summer vacation to Michigan!
    Thanks for a chance to win some goodies!

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  67. I have a lot of favourite memories. My hubby took parental leave and my daughter is nearly one, so we had a lot of memorable moments. Perhaps my fave, Gracie eating fistfuls of sand at the beach, and loving it!

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  69. oh and my favorite childhood memory would be when my grandparents would come and visit us from Ontario. i loved seeing them each summer

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  70. My favourite summer memory (from this year) was our picnic along a beautiful lake in Glacier National Park.

    Annette

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  71. my favorite memorY so far is going to the grand canyon with my kids!

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  72. My fave memory from this summer is going to South Dakota with our three kids in a pop up trailer.

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  73. My favourite summer memory was my cousin Julie telling me she was expecting her first child. Very exciting for our family and something to look forward to next summer!!

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  74. The first of my many reads today! Glad I found this blog hop and I'm sure to learn more!

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  75. Opps, favorite summer memory: Watching my daugther having the time of her life at the beach! The joys of childhood!

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  76. My fave summer memory is watching my girls learn how to catch a fish:-) My oldest was SO proud!!

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  77. My favorite summer memory would be setting around the campfire with the family having smores and spider hotdogs.

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  78. Spenfing time with the family at the beach/pool and enjoying the warm sun!

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  79. When the kids were young, we ALWAYS went camping for the last week in August...it was a wonderful way to end off the summer and brought many happy moments and great adventures. They still talk about those times!

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  80. Favorite memory this year - was our BIG family reunions. 3 of them. And they were all GREAT!!! (the tenting with a 2 year old and my foot in a cast was adventurous)

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  81. my favorite memory of this summer is having my little girl help me water the flowers all the time. I couldnt do it without her! She loves water!

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  82. Taking my kids to see my sisters kids for the first time and meeting them in Disneyland!!!

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