Pepsi up close!

I have been slacking on photo challenges recently, so when I saw that Allie's theme for the week was "pets/animals" I was pretty excited- I have LOTS of animal shots!

This is one of the first shots I took with my pretty macro lens, and I adore it!

I did decide it needed some tweaking, so I ended up putting it in PS and running the Pioneer Woman Boost (about 70%) and Bring on the Eyes (about 50%) actions to give it more pop. The original version is below.

I really like how the edit turned out- it definitely draws even more attention to Pepsi's gorgeous eyes!

P.S.- check out my poll over to the right- I'm finally deciding what to call the camera {other than "the camera"} and I'd love your input! 

I win!!

If you stop by Allie's Happy Monday photo challenge, you'll notice that I won my very firstest photo challenge {insert squee here}!!! This is the first time I've ever been nominated for a photo challenge award, which made me happy, but then so many people came and voted for my image, and I actually won, and I'm ridiculously pleased about this! Thanks to Allie and all who voted for my photo!!

This is the image, by the way:).

Also, Allie was kind enough to mention an awesome giveaway at (life is too short not to) wear red shoes. Lots of fun and fashionable freebies!

Must get working on images for this week's photo challenges! Happy new week!