Family Portraits

Since I started acting on this hobby of mine the word continues to be spread and friends and family are starting to call on special projects. A dear friend of mine had three portrait pictures that she had had for a while and just didn't know how to display them.

I asked her to bring them to me so I could look at them and to give her some ideas, she just said I'll bring them and you frame them. I truly believe that beautiful portraits like these need to be framed and displayed.

Here is the end result. Nothing really fancy, just three simple but pretty frames and a couple of custom mats. I really liked the way they came out.


The love of a family is life's greatest blessing.


Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children. ~Rosaleen Dickson




Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ~Anthony Brandt

Flying with the Pope.

This is a friend of ours that spent many years flying for a well known Mexican airline as a flying attendant. It was in one of his many flights that the Pope and his court happened to be the passengers. Obviously he was not going to pass up the opportunity to take a picture with the Pope. This image, definitely one worth displaying. I really enjoyed putting this one together.


My sister took a picture of believe it or not another picture that was already in a frame, she had the jpeg for a while and really didn't know what to do with it. She wanted to get it cleaned a little to maybe have a print done so she could keep it. When she mentioned this to me I asked her to email me the image and that I would have my associates take a look at it and to perhaps have something done to it.

I sent the jpeg to Nikki and asked her if she could clean it up. She looked at it and told me that since the resolution wasn't the best there was only so much she could do with it but since she was about to graduate I would have to wait.

Well, she now has graduated and as promised as soon as she had a chance she got to work on it. She cropped it to completely eliminate the pieces of frame showing, then she brighten it a little but the real magic was in the way she almost made the flash glare disappear. If you look where the hands are touching that's the only reflection left of the flash. The final result is the illusion of electricity being passed from one hand to the other. After all he was the Pope and him possibly a pauper.

I called her and told her the picture was ready so I took it down for her to see, then I asked her if she wanted to keep it she could, she said to please finish it up by putting it in a frame. I was up to the challenge so off I went to our local arts and crafts store after a few minutes I found the perfect frame for it and after trying every mat color in the racks I decided for the one you see here. I think the final result is outstanding, possibly one of the best frames I've done to date.

I have a friend at work that after seeing the frames has asked me if I can frame a picture for her too. And so the services we provide expand. I am just thrilled to see that what we are doing is so well received.

Vector Artwork

A cool framed custom portrait done in Vector Art by my daughter.
This is going to be on the next exhibition but eventually will find a place on one of my walls at home.


Without a doubt Vector Artwork is pretty cool. This is a vector portrait of my daughter,when she first showed it to me I thought it was the coolest thing and I just had to have it so she sent me the file and I had it developed. I love the cartoonish effect that the image has. The neat thing about this is that you can increase it in size and it does not get distorted, as bitmap and jpeg images which are based in pixels do. As you can see, the end result is pretty awesome. See the following illustration for more on vector artwork.



Example showing effect of vector graphics versus raster graphics. The original vector-based illustration is at the left. The upper-right image illustrates magnification of 7x as a vector image. The lower-right image illustrates the same magnification as a bitmap image. Raster images are based on pixels and thus scale with loss of clarity, while vector-based images can be scaled indefinitely without degrading.

Text borrowed from Wikipedia

.

An Aunts Love

During my niece's first birthday party Michelle was commissioned to take pictures of the event. If you know Michelle then you know that there will be plenty of great pictures.

One of the many images captured that day was this one of Maryita lifting and kissing Fernanda. I can't think of anything other than the great love that aunt and niece have for each other. I think the name "An Aunts Love" is very appropriate.

We did this frame at the request of Maryita as she wants to remember this particular moment for Many years to come.


An aunt is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love.

Image captured by Michelle at Fernanda's first birthday party.

*CORRECTION -- Image captured during Juan and Jen's housewarming party.