November Drive to Faire

The fog glistens on the window in the morning sunlight...

on an early drive to the Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville.

A Smile Happens...

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Memories...

It's hard to understand the mind of a photographer. We're always searching for that perfect angle and the best lighting. Always be ready, it means more than you know. That moment when you're driving down the road and it's a beautiful sunset, but you weren't ready and you can't turn back the clock and make it perfect again.

When I was a child I spent hours looking through boxes of family photos. Mostly people I had never met, old black and white photos. Smiling children, happy families, and hard working men documented through out my family history. My imagination would run wild looking through those old photos.

In the boxes were also newspaper clippings. Most were announcing engagements, births, and weddings, but some were obituaries. Often a they had a photo and an explaination of how a loved one lived and was lost, sometimes it was just a name. Some lived long full lives but many were taken too young, from sickness or war. Someone always documenting the good and the bad.

Even when I was a teenager I almost always had a disposable camera. They're definatly not the best pictures, but they are my memories. In this digital age of photography the true art is being lost. Photos are being stored on hard drives and disks. What's going to happen when your going through the attic with your grandchildren and they ask "What is this shiny thing?" It could be a disk of your wedding photos, a day full of memories, and there's no way to share them with your grandchildren.

So what is the point in all my ramblings you ask? Take a moment to think about someone you've lost. Someone who means so much, someone you wish you could hug right now. Now think about the present, the future, good times, smiling, laughing, and glowing with happieness! It can last forever. I promise when you hold that photo it will trigger a memory so strong you can almost feel the breeze!

This is why I do what I do. I know, I wear my heart on my sleeve. I feel so lucky to have been given the gift of sight, and the ability to capture the true soul of a moment through the art of photography. There's so much I can not change, but maybe others will slow down and open their eyes. You never know what the future holds my friends!

I Heart Faces- Fix it Friday #78

It's been so long since I blogged on here! So lets get it started up and going again as a place for me to really show off my talents! Not just my normal kind of business stuff, but some fun stuff too!

So there's this site called "I Heart Faces" that I've been watching for a while. So I finally decided to enter their Fix It Friday contest and this is what I've come up with :-)

Before, dark and drab-

And after a lil majic-

For those of you wondering I use Corel Paint Shop Pro x2. I did a few different things to thing one and really like the dreamy rainbow of colors. On the edit above I fixed the contrast, ran it through the cross processor, fixed contrast again, turned the saturation down 5% and added my new Raspberry Tea Filter.

I decided to play around a lil more and added my Blueberry Pie to bring out the highlights, then I added a rainbow gradient with a linen texture.

After Rainbow Gradient Texture-

On another note- I NEVER crop images! A photo should be cropped in the photographers artistic vision when it is taken, that's part of being a photographer! This image above is correct thirds proportion. I will occasionally crop an image for a specific print size but other than that it's SOC (straight off cam). If you think an image needs a different crop shoot it a few different styles and decide which one you like best. Besides, it ruins the resolution and pixel count!

Photo by I Heart Faces contributer Susan Keller.

Here's a link for "I Heart Faces" edits for other photogs!

http://www.iheartfaces.com/2010/11/photo-editing-fun-fix-it-friday-78/

This & That

A lil bit of this and that marked with our new logo design!

Announcing our new logo!

To announce our new logo we are starting a new blog! We're just so excited we can't wait any longer! We're ready to reveal our brand spankin' new logo by Kismet Designs! We asked for something simple that incorporated our name, our initials, and something descriptive about what we do. They made us a versatile logo in quite a few different formats! From proofs to online watermarking, their design is exactly what we we're looking for!

We will definitely recommend Kismet Designs for others in need of some creative design work!
http://www.kismet-designs.com/