Vacation

     I went on vacation with my sister and her family! We went to Myrtle Beach, Sc. for 5 days. My favorite part was when we took a ride on the Skywheel. It was amazing at the view. The Skywheel is basically a ferris wheel ride where you can see around you 360 degree view of every thing in site! The Skywheel even lights up at night in different colors.

Cookies

   This post is in memory of Paula Mae. She lived with use for over two and half years and she called me her friend, some times girl. I remember her saying come here girl! She passed away from alzheimer's disease on June 11. 

   It is interesting how some foods reminds you of certain people and how you can pick up eating habits from hanging around someone. I picked up this cookies habit for hang with Paula Mae. She love to eat chocolate Chips Ahoy Chunky chocolate chunk cookies, chunky white fudge cookies and M and M cookies. She got me into the M and M cookies and then it went to Oreos! I use to eat Oreos when I was a kid. My top favorite cookie is Oreo Fudge Creames original cookie. Both of the cookies you can not just eat one kind of cookie. It is like a potato chip. You can not just have one.  You should try them they are really great.


   Below are some of my favorite cookies: Oreo sandwich cookie, Oreo sandwich cookies golden original, Oreo fudge Creams original cookies and popsicle Oreo filled cookie.

    

 What is your favorite cookie?

SEEK and PEAK: Lightroom and Pool

This weeks highlights!

SEEKS are......

• There is not enough time in the day to do what I want to accomplish.
• Four event notes to type from CreativeLIVE workshops.
• I am so behind in uploading images in Lightroom!

PEAKS are.......

• The pool is open, clean and the cover so the water can get warm.
• Skip Cohen on creativeLIVE for 2 nights was really great!
• A t.v. show I enjoy watching is Think You Can Dance show, it fun to watch this week.
• 6 more days till I go on vacation with my nephews. It is going to be fun.

Where do you find your inspiration?

Where do you find  your inspiration?

I think inspiration is anything that helps you generate artist ideas for a photograph. You can find inspiration from many places. I like getting inspiration from Pinterest, magazines, advertisements, music videos and other photographers work. You can get inspiration form a photograph. It can be one little think you like about the photo like the posing, lighting, arrangement of the composition or the emotion in conveys. You do not have to copy the photograph, but you can take a piece of the photograph and make it you own style.

Where to you keep your inspirational images?

I keep mine in a binder and on Pinterest. I am think of storing the photos on my computer in an inspirational fold with keywords. So if I think of an idea, I can type the keywords in and photographs will pop up. It would be faster for me to locate my inspirational images.

Get inspired from what ever you are passionate about or what ever inspires you!

NOTES: Post-Wedding Workflow with Zack and Jody Gray

         This Friday I watch another CreativeLIVE workshop that was a one day event. It was all about  Zack and Jody  Gray's Post-wedding workflow, here are some highlights from the day.

• "Acquiring knowledge is the thing I want to spend a lot of my time doing."
• "Strive for greatness not perfection."
• "The future of the economy is not based on how goo  your photographs are, its based on how much knowledge you have."
• "Half of our success within us believing that we can do it." 
• "Know where your money is going, so you can make your money behave."
• "Money good for 3 things: spending, saving, giving."
• Don't make decisions when you are emotional charge."
• "Routine and schedules keep you sane, everyone need habit"
• "If you schedule it, it will happen."-Jody
• "Our business is part of what we do, not our identity."-Jody
• When building schedule: "More structure and routine is your day the more effective and better your business will be."
• Delegate out much as can as business grows, that don't require unique voices. For example: uploading blog images, linking in blogs, packing/shipping items, placing product order, edit.
• To find some great books he recommending in the workshop chick on book recommendations.
• "Business don't maintain, they either grow or die."

NOTES: CreativeLIVe Fundamentals of Digital Photography with John Greengo

This week I watched the Fundamentals of Digital Photography, It was a 5 day workshop with John Greengo!  The course was amazing with some really great graphics that make the process of  understanding photography very clear. I took 94 pages of notes and some screen shots.

• 10 thing every photographer need to know from  Wednesday.

1. Photography is not cheap
2. The best camera of tomorrow can't shoot a picture today
3. Quality is important...  up to an point
4. Nobody makes a living being just a photographer
5. An average photographer with great business skills beat a great photographer with average business skills.
6. Opinions matter, yours most of all.
7. Three years to three stars (Year 1 & 2: trash most photos and one and two only, Year 3: three stars)
8. The hardest part of photography is being in the right place at the right time
9. Good photographers are good problem solvers
10. The learning never stops

             Look, Shoot, Edit, Repeat!

• Here's John Greengo's formal for taking great photo from the creativeLIVE workshop on Thursday.
1.  You need a camera (least important)
2.  You need time, available light (to scout and be available)
3.  You need effort ( photography is not easy)
4. Your need knowledge (the more you know, the better you'll do)

• The Formula for what makes a great photo from John Greengo on Friday.
• Beautiful Light
• Beautiful Composition
• Beautiful Moment
• New Interesting Subject
• New Perspective
• A Little Mystery ( not tell whole story in a photo)
• Also
• Bring the camera
• Pack light/Pack smart
• Stand steady, shoot steady
• Bring a tripod
• Get closer, get closer, get closer
• Watch your foreground and background
• Get out there and shoot, shoot, shot

• Go through your images and critique yourself
• Back up your photos 

• Fill the frame
• If you're giving nothing to shoot just shoot nothingness

• Get down on your belly and get up in the tree
• Keep your balance and wait for the decisive moment
• Shoot what you know
• Shoot what don't know

• To be a great photographer.. you need to see what others do not, you need to know the fundamentals of photography, you need the ability to portray your subject in a way that is bold beautiful and simple.

Easter Snack!

What snack do you look forward to eating at Easter time?

Easter is the only time I can get my hands on Starburst jelly beans. They are so good!  I can eat the whole bag in one day! No joke they are delicious and you can not just have two. One of my nephews received some starburst jelly beans in is Easter Basket and I told him I will give him a dollar if be give me  the small bag of Starburst jelly beans. He was not having it, but he ended up giving me one jelly bean. I said, " How kind of you to sharing and thanks!