“It was during the virus of 2020 that I made your Photo Stories Gift Boxes.” – Grandma- Do you think there will be a time when we will refer to today in that way? Beats me but it sounds like a good opening for this post which is about the …
At first there was Photoshop. It was and continues to be expensive and challenging to learn. Some people think it is cheating to touch-up a photograph and I admit that I hesitated when I started thinking about “touching up” because I didn’t yet know that I didn’t always agree. Then, …
What is a girl to do? That is what I want to know. Within a few seconds I took several funny photographs of one of my favorite people involved in something quite serious while in the background her cousins were rolling around and laughing about things she had no desire …
I feel something wonderful when the sun is going down. You can tell beautiful photo stories when the sun is going down. As long as you don’t point the camera right into the sun, you can watch activities and people in an ever-changing world just by moving around a bit …
Mortal Life Comes Once I love photos stories as a way to preserve Family History and the answer to the question posed in the title is “because we have one shot at the World and it is now”. (By that I mean living here as mortals.) That is why I …
You have to train your brain to “see” photo stories. You must never say “look at me and smile” or “scrunch together” or any other combination of words which force people to stop what they are doing and do something that is unnatural. Let’s use the photograph above as an …
I sat on the grass, quite far away. When she picked it up I raised my camera. She asked what it was while knitting her brow with concern and confusion. I said it was a sprinkler like it should be obvious to everyone and proceeded to tell her more than …
Dollar Store Water Bottles This was several years ago. The green jeep has long since quit working, the bottles from The Dollar Store are long gone and these two 14-year-olds of today still enjoy each other’s company but like to do very different things. I love this photograph because of …
Personalities When you are growing up and you are the oldest, it is sometimes all you can do to put up with the silliness of siblings and cousins. Perhaps you remember. If you were one of the children in this photograph, you would be able to use this and other …
