Let 'Em Take Your Picture

I was directed to this blog via my Move More, Eat Well class at Big Picture Classes. As one who NEVER wants to be photographed, or at least photographed only from the neck up, this post is a very STRONG reminder of how important it is to allow ourselves to move from behind the camera, and appear in front of it, not just from time to time, but regularly! It is the first time I've visited this blog but I was so moved by her post, that I wanted to share it here. The name of the blog is My Friend Teresa Photography and the title of the post is "So You're Feeling Too Fat to Be Photographed."

So the short and sweet lesson for today is this: When someone wants to take your picture, let 'em!

And so to this post, I am going to add a picture of my heretofore unseen WHOLE self, taken by me (for the above-mentioned class), that includes ALL of me, including my flat feet and lumpy bumpy parts! And when my honey, or anybody else for that matter, wants to take my picture, I'm going to quit complaining or demanding to be photographed only from the neck up.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful week!

Turn Your Camera!

So...I realize that it has been SOME time since I've blogged. My intentions are really good, but life seems to really get in the way sometimes. The good news is, I HAVE been creating and continuing to learn by trial and error; the bad news is, I haven't posted anything here in a long time, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a blog, don't cha think?

I have 21 days until [in my best rock & roll voice] SCHOOL'S OUT FOR THE SUMMER! In the meantime, I'm going to leave you with a short little lesson today.

Turn your camera!!!! What do I mean "turn your camera?" I mean, make sure you take pictures both in landscape (horizontal) AND portrait (vertical) orientation.

I am taking a great online class over at My Creative Classroom on using sketches (if you've been following me, you know how I feel about those!). Lots and lots of the sketches contain lots and lots of 4 x 6 photos that have a portrait orientation. In looking for groups of photos to use with the sketches, I had trouble finding good photos that were portrait-oriented. That's when it hit me...I hardly ever TURN MY CAMERA!

In this day and age of digital photography, most of us have abandoned film cameras which are quickly going the way of the dinosaur and 8-track tape. So...there's no excuse not to take lots and lots of pictures of your subjects with the camera turned both vertically and horizontally. You can always save and print the very best one, and delete the bad ones. Why save all fifty of the shots you took [trying to get the perfect picture] of the same statue or flower pot? Upload the pics to your computer, be ruthless in narrowing the collection down to a very select few (in both orientations of course!) and delete the rest!

So..our lesson for today people is this...(repeat after me)...TURN YOUR CAMERA!
And... for all you digital camera people, purge, purge, purge and keep only the very best pictures.

Thanks for stopping by!