Thursday I took some shots of a horse and horses in a pasture. I’m posting the original photograph and a watercolor impression print I made from it. These are. small file sizes for the blog, of course, so the load quickly. This photograph print could be reproduced to at least 24 x 20 inches. I added a poster like mat in green around it. The watercolor rendering is sized to about 15×17 inches and then has the matting added around it. You can click on the images to enlarge them a little bit but not to their true size. As always Blog photographs are copyrighted. Enjoy! Comments welcome. RuthEllen

Original Photograph:

The Watercolor Poster Print is to your left.

A week ago we attended the Southeastern Professional Photographers Association Bi-annual conference for four and one-half days. We heard world known speakers in photography and PhotoShop, Painter,and collegues from the South specializing in different facets of portraiture. We shopped the trade show, and came home really excited to get back to work building our Portrait Business. We’ve added SnapTotes to our line of products. Great well made purses, totes, and diaper bags, etc., which are personalized with your portraits. We brought home frams, and many samples of products from professional labs.

I am trying to decide what photographs to place on my two SnapTote sample bags I purchased a diaper bag that will feature grandson Peterson and cosmetic bag/clutch. We also need to decide what to order as Gallery Wraps and/or Canvas prints.

Here is a sample of the Classic Bag image from SnapTotes: This sells for $90.00 You can visit the site at www.snaptotes.com

to see the full line we will representing.

Our prized possession is an autographed copy of a book by Louise and Joseph Simone of Quebec, Canada, world reknown portrait photographers. The book contains full color plates of their stunning artistic portraits. It is such an inspiration to leaf through. Anyone visiting us can look through it. A client, Julie N, yesterday took some time to look at the Simones children’s portrait and rave about them.

The simones presented for four fantastic hours the last day and had many of their large 40×30 art portraits on canvas. They also demonstrated their techniques with a beautiful live model. This the direction we want to take our portraiture.

I belong to a group of photographers who give weekly challenges in photography and digital art. This week Angie Barrett in the Atlanta, GA area challenged us to take her beautiful photograph of a Dahlia and convert it to a painting. I’m posting the original by Angie and my interpretation. There is a link to Angie in case you are in the Atlanta area and need a photographer. She does portraits, weddings, and sports photography as well as headed up kids’ school yearbook this year.

The framed and cropped photograph is my artistic rendering of the photograph.
Thank you Angie for permission to post your photograph.

The first photograph is the Original by Angie Barrett and the 2nd is my “Painterly” image.  You can add comments at the end of this post.

Today we had the opportunity to photograph Ryan and Skye. They are recently engaged and will be married in Hawaii in September where it is warm! Here in Augusta the temperatures have dropped to nearly freezing at night after a warm just a few days ago of 85 degrees. We were all so COLD at the 6:30 pm session at Woodbridge. They were a lot of fun to photograph and get to know better. We especially liked the poses by the tree with the wooden bridge in the distant background.

Our logo is Remember Today Tomorrow with Custom Portraits. We hope Ryan and Skye will have many times to remember this time in their life and these portraits will add to those memories.

I’ve added a short slide show of some of the previews from the session here.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to photograph this sweet little 2 month old. Her 2 year old brother was so quick we only captured a quick kiss for his new sister and a few other shots. This is my first slide show on the Blog. I’m using RockYou.com to create it. Let me know if shows up for you.
Thanks. Ruth