Absence!
Hey all! It’s been probably over two months since i uploaded anything new. I have been busy getting engaged and starting premarriage counseling and going to school and working and….my poor camera has sat in a case in my closet, probably angry at me for giving it so much attention for so long, and then deserting it except when I need to take the occasional snapshot. I haven’t even cleaned ou…
Announcement: Etsy!
Does anyone here use Etsy? I’ve recently become interested…ok, obsessed….ok, addicted…to the site and trying to promote myself on there. there are relatively few photographers and I made a sale within a week and a half.
I decided to sell my art printed on halide paper – a metallic/pearlescent look. So far I’ve concentrated my theme (with one exception) to my closeups of nature. F…
Calendars - in time for Christmas, even!
Hey all!
Just wanted to let you know that my calendars are done and ready for your Christmas gifting! I really, really wanted to make an IR one – but not this year. :) There are seven options:
Images of Entropy. This one features macros of rust…
My First Paid Photography Job!
I am so excited. I was recently asked to be the photographer for my university’s music department. This will involve building up a significant library of images for use in brochures and web sites, as well as many other recruiting and promoting materials. I’m also asked to run some of the older ones through some work in Photoshop to make them useful and attractive for these same purposes. I …
Cleaning House - Again
I’m realizing the importance of continually evaluating my gallery to make sure what’s there is my current best. Perhaps photos were my best 8 months ago, but boy have I learned a LOT since then! I thought it was wonderful when I first took it; now I hardly want to look at it. So why should I make anyone else undergo the same suffering? :) I’m sure I’ll say the same thing in a year about the…
From Good to Great (hopefully) using Photoshop CS2 Basics
By Nikki Trexel
I was in North Carolina’s Outer Banks for ten days, a summer paradise for one Midwestern girl who’s never been to the ocean. Many photos were captured, such as A Sandy Stairway to Heaven, and the ocean was lapping at our ankles...
Equipment
i’m sorry for writing so many journals lately…i don’t like to hog your activity monitors but i enjoy feedback, and it’s great to share photography-related stuff with someone who doesn’t look at me like i’m speaking another language when i talk about camera equipment. :)
oh, first of all, i have a picture up for a little contest: would you terribly mind going and voting for it? the websi…
The Gift of Art
Hey friends,
Many of you have heard about the group called The Gift of Art, the charity fundraiser run by the folks in A Photographer’s Craft. All benefits from artwork purchased from that group (and not from the artist’s portfolio) goes to the National Cancer Institute. I know many of us are starving artists, but if you are looking for gift…
10,000!
Hooray, today I logged on to RB and saw that I have 10007 views! :) This is great news as most of you know because now I can start clearing out images that aren’t doing my gallery any good.
So I apologize if your favorite image is taken down. I’m doing the selections MOSTLY based on fewest views and favoritings.
So thanks very much to all who have viewed my art. I’ll stop posting brag…
Candidates for Early Retirement
Hey friends.
For a while I’ve known I needed to “clean house” and remove some images in my folio that weren’t really gaining me any credit in the photography realm. It is a hard thing…a very hard thing. It is strange that many (not all) of the shots that I love the most are the ones with the fewest views, but it makes house cleaning tough.
Right now I’m pretty close to hitting 10,000…