This past summer we did Linda’s bridal portrait. She a good friend from work. Warren and I do not do wedding photography, but we do engagement and bridal portraits. Linda ordered a 24×30 print that she displayed at her wedding of the portrait we did. It turned out beautifully and was elegantly framed to compliment the beautiful girl and high quality print. I attended her wedding as a guest and stayed “out of the way” of the photographer she hired to do her wedding photographs along with video photographers and friends her wedding was very well documented. Since my camera is attached to my right hand much of the time, I took it to the wedding and did take pictures that the photographer who was working solo did not venture to or have time to take. I also took a few pictures of the ceremony from the back of the patio where the ceremony took place overlooking Lake Olmstead. One of the biggest challenges in taking pictures was there were so many folks taking pictures and in the pictures and a guy with a big white hat was in my view much of the time!

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None the less, I took some pictures she just loves and I plan to post some of them here in the blog. However, since I’ve been posting my grandson’s birth announcements (and we still have not decided which one will become the official one) I decided to add some variety to my blog and post this montage I did from Linda’s Wedding. This is the second one I did. We are deciding on a card for her to send out to her guests with her thank you notes. I designed this one in size 12×12. I like the square format. I add a black boarder with a white key light to most of my wedding photographs to frame them. This can be sized down to say 4×4 or 5×5 or 6×6. Linda could also make a 12×12 print or even 24 x 24 if she wished of the montage. The file posted here is a smaller file for viewing purposes so it will load quickly. As I have mentioned before, files for my blog do not reflect the quality of a print file. If you have a question or comment, please post it.

Ruth Ellen

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I am posting yet another Custom Birth Announcement for Peterson I have done. Soon I will have a whole line of these cards! Click on the thumbnail to enlarge it.

That will be one of our offerings. Some of my photographer friends charge $49.00 for custom designed cards. It does take quite awhile to put these together. I’m still learning the ins and out of posting on my Blog. For instance when I started this post I had my entry underscored. I don’t see where to change that. After I added the photograph it changed to regular type. I’ve sent out e-mails to friends announcing my blog. I hope they are will visit it soon and post a comment or two. It is kind of “lonesome” in blog land without comments.

Until later. RuthEllen

We are tinkering around with Birth Announcements. Julie wanted multiple photographs on a small card for economy, now she is thinking of only having one larger photograph and just printing an information card. I’ve still enjoyed designing the cards and, as always learning more PhotoShop as I go. PhotoShop is a never ending learning process. There is always a zillion more things one can learn and do in PS. This post of the card is a much much smaller file than the blue in the previous post, so I did not do the thumbnail link. H’mmm not sure I like posting this small file, it does down grade the image quite a bit. Well, I may edit it out later for a bit larger one. What do you as a blog reader recommend. Please do post a comment.

Thanks for visiting my blog! RuthEllen

This the first one of several layouts I did for our first grandchild’s birth announcement. We have still not decided which layout to use! I’ll post some more later and would like to see your comments. For the Blog and Internet posting we are not including his exact birth date and last names to limit identify theft that can occur even to even the youngest folks.

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This card was actually sized to be only 4×6 inches. The blog file is actually a fairly small one not suitable for printing, just viewing and quick loading. It does not represent the better jprint quality actually available.

Thanks for visiting my blog.
When you visit the blog, please do feel welcome to add comments. RuthEllen

I signed up for this blog and wasn’t sure how it was going to work. I could not figure out how to add posts and pictures, etc. Today when I logged in, I saw the information right off the bat. Was I blind or just on the wrong place on the blog to do that? The important element is that I now can do it. I also what I believe is the place to click to add photographs. So I am going to add some photographs Warren and I have taken of our grandson, Peterson. It has been so much fun to become grandparents!

Well, it looks like I have to “put the pictures” somewhere I can link them to, no a browse and upload them to WordPress. So now I am off to find out where I will do that as I remember seeing a blip on that when I signed up.

See you later. RuthEllen