Overlay: Telling Stories With Symbolism

  Making Favorite Photographs Into Keepsakes Over the years I have chosen some favorite photographs of people I love and enhanced the moment by using “overlay”. There is nothing difficult or magical about the process except that one has to prowl around the Internet for images that are suitable for …

Still More Dress-Ups and Funky Stuff

After the photo booth experience, I am afraid that there are several headless snakes slithering around the yard. Other snakes were likely shot right through with “plunger arrows”. This young lady has never seen a dinosaur in person. Ouch. I do love her “grandma kitchen smock”. It makes her look …

What I Learned: Family Gathering 2018

You Can Learn So Many Things Through a Camera Lens Poke’man is a foreign language and children are fluent. If left unsupervised, children will let the water out of any rubber pool. Most Poppers never pop. Grown-ups cry when they see F-35 jets fly overhead. Water is more fun when …

More Of “What Else Did I See?” Family Gathering 2018

WHAT ELSE DID I SEE ? I saw a wonderful grandson  who visited with everyone and put his phone in his pocket most of the time. I saw kindness and love among siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles.  I saw careful driving although the pirate scarf kept inching down dangerously low over his …

What Else Did I See ? Family Gathering 2018

What Else Did I See ? I saw Tucker ride his favorite trike down the hill without crashing. I saw Tucker comfort his cousin Holden when HE crashed. I saw mommy super-heroes have conversations with junior super-heroes. I saw Maya voluntarily take a break to study a real compass. I …

A Pirate’s Life For Me

I put the pirate costumes into Ziploc bags and waited for the gathering. Nothing needed explaining, for when each child opened his or her bag the game was clear and there were only squeals of delight and a scramble to get dressed. They knew all about PIRATES ! Each pirate …

More Dress-Ups and Photo Booth Fun 2018

Be anything you want to be. These girls have their own version of the new Sonic girls. Oh, I love this background ! They were very attracted to it and used it in many shots. In a world of mixing and matching prints and colors, there was no end to …

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