Tag: Photography

  • Relatives and neighbor kids have volunteered for portraits…so CUTE!! Please check out Front Porch Studio on Facebook and ‘like’ it, if you feel so inclined. 🙂 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Front-Porch-Studio/152591434891562#!/pages/Front-Porch-Studio/152591434891562

  • I am trying something out and am looking for opinions… Starting with a photo like this one (pretty non-descript) I am looking for a specific detail, then crop and tinker…comments?!

  • A friend of mine has a French Bull Dog: Johnny Cash. She agreed to let me photograph JC, ‘studio style’-

  • The nieces and nephews are volunteering as portrait subjects. The three season porch has a portable heater and is now ‘the studio’. (I rearranged a bit-the kitties are miffed!) My first ‘client’ was Tom. I asked that he bring a few props- hats, etc. He brought his departed grandpa’s hat…really like those shots. We also took some…

  • I am watching Episode 2 of the Swedish series, Mankells-Wallander. This is a bit of a problem because I am also writing- and editing photographs- and I have to keep glancing up at the screen to read captions. I am starting to pick up a few words (love Swedish movies…) but the occasional ‘yes’ and ‘thank you’…

  • What happens when an ordinary tree transforms? As I continue to explore, I look at photos I may have dismissed and wonder what they would look like with more cropping, visualizing, editing. Not for the purist I suppose…but an interesting exercise! I also looked at a couple of shots that were complete mistakes- the camera…

  • I suppose my primary resolve is to continue to work at improving my photography- wherever that takes me. My current project? Where I live.

  • Ah! The wonder of antibiotics and love… Bagheera is his usual self this morning after enjoying a sleeping bag slumber party in the living room last night. The medicine is working and he has managed to swipe ornaments and insert himself into the picture framing process- and it is barely 11 a.m. here! We are SO…