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New Studio is Finished
By · October 9, 2012 · CommentsI’m ready to show you the interior of the finished studio! It is so open, spacious, and a totally new look!
Continue reading »Barb Gordon earns Photographic Business Degree
By · March 27, 2012 · CommentsBarb is one of eleven professional photographers who earned the Business Impact Zone Degree (BIZ) from Professional Photographers of Iowa (PPI) at this year’s PPI Winter Convention. Earning the BIZ degree involves four days of core competence of business management classes and the submission of a detailed business plan for a photographic studio. PPI is [...]
Continue reading »Photographing Cats
By · March 16, 2012 · CommentsFun Photo Friday-A Cat’s Healing Touch I have never seen my cats sleep like this. Nelix, on the bottom, had hurt his leg and has been limping. It looks like Spot is giving him touch therapy. I moved slowly and was able to climb onto the hay bales to get a good angle.
Continue reading »Kids Say the Funniest Things
By · February 1, 2012 · CommentsWhile I was setting up a background, chair, and accessories for a three month portrait, I was chatting with her six and ten year sisters. Well, they were chatting at me, I was in work mode. I couldn’t find my small white baby fabrics and wondered out loud if I sold them at my yard [...]
Continue reading »Getting or Giving a Camera for Christmas?
By · December 13, 2011 · CommentsTreat yourself, or loved one, to some extra info to go with the new camera at Christmas. If you have ever taken a picture that didn’t turn out, help is here. Are you having trouble getting the right exposure while photographing in the snow? Can’t get the photo of the spider web glistening with dew [...]
Continue reading »Soft Landing
By · October 14, 2011 · CommentsFun Photo Friday This is one of those great imags that the background color can be changed to coordinate with a theme or decor. For this one, I just matched the stripe on the butterfly wing. This would be a nice kitchen image, or little girl’s room!
Continue reading »Rainbow Eucalyptus tree
By · October 7, 2011 · CommentsFun Photo Friday The Rainbow Eucalyptus tree in Hawaii was certainly a surprise to an Iowan.
Continue reading »Images of My First Vineyard
By · September 30, 2011 · CommentsFun Photo Friday My first grape harvest is also the beginning of a vineyard series of photographic art images. Enjoying the outdoors, cutting grapes, and photographing on my back deck was a perfect morning. If only this was a scratch and sniff! The aroma from these wine grapes (concord I think) was so amazing I wish [...]
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