Thursday, February 18, 2010
I should have come up with a more creative name, but I panicked! If you don’t name your treasury within 10 seconds, you LOSE your spot! Curating treasuries on Etsy is like a competitive sport. The number of people WANTING to create one, and the number of spaces available is 2:1. But it’s fun...
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Posted in Uncategorized, willowdawn photography on Etsy | Tags: birdcage, blossoms, cake topper, candles, custom, decor, decorations, dogwood, engagement, etsy, feather boutonniere, flowers, Fredericksburg, garter, gown, invitation, necklace, numbers, paper flowers, photography, pillow, rings, stone, table markers, titanium, treasury, virginia, Washington, wedding, Whidbey Island, white, willowdawn photography
Monday, November 23, 2009
Of course photography is an art and therefore has a level of subjectiveness to it, and every photographer has different areas of strength/weakness. BUT some qualities of photography are NOT subjective, and SHOULD be present in all photos that clients are paying for. Qualities such as COMPOSITION, CLARITY, COLOUR and EXPOSURE. These...
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: black and white, child, children, clarity, composition, criteria, custom, exposure, family, focus, good portraits, grey scale, photographer, photography, portraits, wedding, willowdawn photography
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Ok, so most of the people reading this are probably too young to get the reference, lol – but you’re vision is fine, your computer is fine and you’re not going crazy! I’m mixing it up a bit on my blog is all! Let me know what you think. Don’t worry, I...
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So if you tried to visit the blog over the weekend, you may have gotten an error message. Somehow the theme I use for all three of my blogs “broke” – according the the CS rep at my server hosting company. It took this not so tech savvy girl most of the weekend...
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March certainly did make it’s entrance with a roar! Somewhere around 10 inches of snow fell… which of course means I MUST drag my children out for photos. The youngest was less than co-operative, shall we say. And with the GLARINGLY bright sun, wind gusts of up to 30 miles per hour and temperatures in...
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Friday, February 13, 2009
My husband and I have been wanting iPhones for a LONG time, but unfortunately we were ineligible for the discounted upgrade rate as we had just upgraded our cell phones (of course!). So we’ve been not so patiently awaiting our upgrade date to arrive and today was my iPhone Friday. Why should you care? Well,...
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I’ve been discussing music on websites with many of my colleagues and we seem to be pretty evenly split into two camps regarding music on websites. So who better than to ask than the folks who go to and read our websites. For purposes of this poll, I would greatly appreciate if you would visit my website willowdawnphotography.com, listen...
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Posted in Acting, Modeling, Uncategorized, engagement, family, head shots, senior | Tags: detract, enhance, music, opinion, poll, websites
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I learned to today that my blog and my facebook will talk to one another… they’re friendly like that! So now when I update my blog (ha!) it will notify all the people who I call “friend” on facebook. So if we are not yet friend… RUSH, right now over to facebook and put in...
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I have moved my blog to my server to simplify (yeah right!) my life. But it’s a work in progress… so please bear with me as I figure out all the new features. In the process, though I’ve discovered some cool new features, including a survey feature… so please indulge me as I try this...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Go to the snow! Yesterday we surprised the kids with a trip out to Wintergreen for some snow tubing. Neither girl had ever done it and we all had a great time. The temperature was COLD and the wind was HOWLING!
It was fun, if still very cold day!
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