Use them as a gift for family and friends who helped you achieve this great new achievement. Retouched images are available along with wall display portraits. Celebrate your hard work with a portrait your family, friends, and especially your children, will cherish for years to come.
"We love your portraits of our daughter, I became very emotional when we opened them up together." Cookie H.A formal portrait is the perfect way to celebrate this right of passage few people experience more than once in life.
For 24 hours, this kelp remained tightly wrapped around the mooring line. In the morning light I saw it differently than I'd seen it the day before and I retrieved my camera. I saw beauty in its form, the way light caressed it amidst the colorful waters in one of Catalina's hidden coves. Slowly, when it had my attention, it started unraveling itself from the mooring line and I photographed it with new interest. Not satisfied with these images, I waited. Slowly but surely the kelp completely unwound itself and began drifting away. For a brief few moments it unfolded itself, showing the beauty of an underwater world that came to the surface for a few brief hours.]]>
If you're interested in looking at these fine art 11x14 prints, give me a call and we'll schedule a studio visit for you to preview the images.]]>
Give them a legacy of portrait memories with an image of you two that will last for all their tomorrows. Call us now at 562-596-8999 and schedule a portrait. We’re right here locally awaiting you and a portrait with your beautiful grandchildren. It’s a great gift for birthdays or the holidays! And, grandfathers, you can get in on the action too! ]]>
For 24 hours, this kelp remained tightly wrapped around the mooring line. In the morning light I saw it differently than I'd seen it the day before and I retrieved my camera. I saw beauty in its form, the way light caressed it amidst the colorful waters in one of Catalina's hidden coves. Slowly, when it had my attention, it started unraveling itself from the mooring line and I photographed it with new interest. Not satisfied with these images, I waited. Slowly but surely the kelp completely unwound itself and began drifting away. For a brief few moments it unfolded itself, showing the beauty of an underwater world that came to the surface for a few brief hours.
If you're interested in looking at these fine art 11x14 prints, give me a call and we'll schedule a studio visit for you to preview the images.]]>
If you cannot wait until this date, you may come to the studio by making an on-line reservation at our Portrait Fridays.That's right, you may take your home & gift collections home the same day. Payment is due at time of delivery. View Our 90 Second Tribute to 2009 Gold Awardees
2010 Dates at the West Garden Grove studio are: Saturday, April 17, 9am-12pm Saturday, July 24, 9am-1pm Saturday, November 6, 9am-1pm
A limited number of appointments are available, so make your reservations early. Reservations may be arranged by following this link. If you cannot wait until this date, you may come to the studio by making a reservation. Please be advised that you must attend with a parent to 'live edit' and purchse your portrait. Regular studio pricing will be applied to the 1/2 hour session (we will give a 15% discount as a Girl Scout.) We look forward to seeing you and celebrating this special achievement.]]>Spending a week with Arthur Rainville and Jennifer Hudson was meant to push my orbit out of place just a little bit. In fact, I wanted them to push my orbit out far enough that I wouldn't drift back to the same orbit I followed at the beginning of June. To some this may seem mystic and overly artistic. To some of us who go through these weeks, we are born anew. It's not that I don't like my work, I do. I cherish the portraits and make for Eagle Scouts, university graduates, law school graduates and their families. It's important work creating portraits of America's future leaders.
"I want you to get off the garden path you are traveling, I want you to go to the side of the trail amongst the leaves, the logs, the fogs, the rocks and stub your toe, and grow as an artist." Arthur RainvilleMy goal was to let them push me further down the creative road to create better portraits, more passionate portraits, more interesting portrait studies. This way I can make better images about these future leaders, and, have the opportunity of creating portraits of them as they achieve their goals. Over the five days much was discussed of posing, lighting, reality, creativity and the business side of portraiture and the pictures we provide. The one thing that sticks out in my mind as I write this is Rainville's message about following the creative ruts on which we sometimes travel. He defined what he calls, "Garden Pathing." It's the thought that all of us continue to follow the first successful path we take with our careers. We forget that there are other directions we can take to success, and we should not stop on the first and only path were we find successful. It's corrallary is, "taking the path of least resistance." To nudge us off the path, he said, "I want you to get off the garden path you are traveling, I want you to go to the side of the trail amongst the leaves, the logs, the fogs, the rocks and stub your toe, and grow as an artist. You'll fail occasionally, but you'll grow as an artisit. Get off the damn trail!" It's a simple thought putting words to the constant growth we all go through as portrait photographers. We take chances to try something new, oftentimes, creativity that might fail, or, might create a better portrait. This brings another Rainville thought to the forefront, "How do you carry this forward after our week?" Keep in tune with these pages and you'll see. ]]>
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