Calendars 2013 -- another good gift idea!

2013 Calendars  -- another good gift idea!

Calendars

Photographic Calendars make everyone’s year more enjoyable.

Product Highlights
• Available in 8x10” with vertical or horizontal orientation
• Actual image size: 5.3x8” for horizontal, 8x5.3” for vertical
• 12 month preview

Horse Fine Art

What a great time to be involved in photography, creativity abounds in camera and in post-processing.

Check out the transformation of this image, thanks to a workshop by Susan and Betty

Luxe Frames make great gifts!

Luxe Frames

Elevate your framed prints to a class all their own. In four shapes and five colors, our chic, stylish Luxe Frames let you have your print and frame it too all in one step.

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  Product Highlights• Price includes print and mounting with the frame $75 5x7, $100 8x10, $110 10x10 • Frame shapes and sizes include 5x7 Ornate (8.5x10.25 overall size), 8x10 Ornate (15.5x15 overall size), 8x10 Bombay (15x16 overall size), 10x10 Tuscan (15.5x15 overall size) and 10x10 Hampton (15.5x15.5 overall size)• Colors include Black, White, Baby Blue, Pink or Espresso•  Vertical or horizontal orientation available on 5x7 and 8x10• Lustre Coating is automatically applied to print for protection (no glass is available). The coated print is then mounted to Styrene before framing • 5x7 size delivered with wooden pegs for convenient desktop display; 8x10 and 10x10 come ready to hang with saw tooth hangers on back of frame
  
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Make your own Stamps Custom Postage

Order a JPG of your favorite photograph and use it for tshirts, mugs, stamps, etc. 

Make your own Custom Postage

Starting at $19.95

• 3 different sizes
• 13 denominations
• Easy to design
• Perfect for every occasion
• 100% satisfaction guaranteed

Zazzle Custom Stamps, Custom Postage

Make every letter a special delivery with your own customized postage! Add your own photos, designs, business logos, and text to design your own custom postage that can be sent through standard U.S. Mail. Perfect for wedding announcements, birthday invitations, holiday cards, and promotional advertising. Make a unique and useful gift for friends and family. http://www.zazzle.com/custom/stamps

Add That Special Touch

Whether it’s a bill or a birth announcement, what you mail is personal. Add your individual style to your postage to make it even more unique! Adding your own special touch will make an impression and complete those extra-special mailings, such as wedding invitations or graduation announcements.

Approved US Postal Vendor

Zazzle custom stamps might look like works of art, but they are real stamps. Since Zazzle is an approved vendor of the U.S. Post Office, you can mail your postage with peace-of-mind knowing your stamps are official.

3 Sizes, 13 Denominations

Available in 3 sizes and 13 denominations, Zazzle custom stamps can help anyone with their postage needs. The different sizes work well with all types of cards and envelopes. The amount of denominations we offer enables you to use Zazzle custom stamps on a wide variety of mailings.

Trash the Dress

Trash the Dress photo sessions have become VERY popular!

It usually does not mean actually trashing the dress, but it means doing this in the dress that you might not want to do on your wedding day -- going to the beach, walking on the street, lying on the ground, getting on a  horse, -- or in this case getting on tractor and getting in a bucket loader. The dress might get a little dirty during the "Trash the Dress" photo session, but you are going to dry clean your dress and store it away anyway, perhaps for a lifetime, perhaps for decades if your daughter or niece wears your gown when they get married.

The Trash the Dress photo session is a way of expressing your personality and hobbies, a way of breaking away from the more traditional images captured on the actual wedding day. Some brides get dressed back up the next day, some do it when they return from their honeymoon. Grooms often wear a nice suit, or even something casual, or something fitting to the scene like our groom did here.

Here are some of our favorite images from Ashley and Mike's After the wedding session, you can view and/or purchase images from their session here

Flowers by Tom

Birding at Chincoteague

Birding at Chincoteague

We had to walk out to the end because Hurricane Sandy destroyed the road out to Tom's Cove and the  beach. Tom got down low and some of the birds walked right up to him, so close that he could not focus at times (and there was no adding an extension tube because it was very very windy with sand blowing everywhere...

Fun with my light tent

I have been having a lot of fun with my light tent -- flowers, critters, etc. 

     

 I raised this Monarch caterpillar and photographed him along the way during his transformation.

HDR by Tom

HDR by Tom

Hummingbird

When we vacation we often stop along the way and buy some flowers. This hummingbird was appreciative of our efforts...

Canon EOS 40D

Lens: EF500mm f/4L IS USM

Shutter speed: 1/800 sec

Aperture: 6.3

ISO: 500

Subject distance: 4.4 m

Longwood Gardens by day and by Night

Longwood Gardens by day and by Night

We photographed the water lilies (and dragonflies on the water lilies) all morning and then the grounds during the afternoon and then the light installation until they closed. LOVED it all!

The dragonfly has obviously been creatively edited but the water bottles by night was a zoom blur done while taking the photograph, so it is straight out of the camera (SOOC)

Shawn and her Cats, Bald IS Beautiful

We had been talking to Shawn about photographing her three (bald) cats for months. Then a friend called us and said that this woman with the fabulous smile and positive attitude called us was diagnosed with cancer and we should schedule the photo shoot now because she was going to shave her head bald before the chemo did it for her. So Edie and Shawn arrived at our Studio with two calm and one stressed cats. We had a blast photographing the cats in the cubelite, and then all three cats with Shawn. What a role model this woman is, I am blessed to have met her.

The photo above was her favorite from the session, the headpiece and her expression make it a great choice

The photo below was my favorite from the session. 

Tom asked her to think of a memory and I just love the expression that he captured.

You can tell a LOT about her spirit, as it definitely came through in her images. 

Below is the composite that she had us create. 

It was printed large and the woman at the print lab commented on the cats!

Sadly, Bobbee passed away not long after this photo session :-( 

So sad, our pets are such an important part of our lives.

Tikki had a great personality when she was with us, we took oodles of photographs of her in the cubelite.