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.