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Crescendoh Photography 101 Workshop

Last weekend my friend Natalie and I attended a full day photography workshop at Studio Crescendoh in Santa Ana by ...
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Food Photography and Styling Workshop

I attended a Food Photography and Styling Workshop recently (during BlogHer) that was hosted by Hillshire Farm.   So if you ...
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Evo Conference: A Food Workshop

One of the highlights of the EVO Conference was the fantastic 4 hour food workshop held on the Friday over lunch at Lookout Cabin.

During this workshop, we enjoyed a fabulous lunch outdoors with the most spectacular view, we then participated in a hands-on cooking class with award-winning Executive Chef John Murcko and a food photography class with amazing food photographer Helene Dujardin of Tartelette.

To get to Lookout Cabin, you need to take the orange bubble express.  It's about a 20 minute ride to the top of the mountain, but on the way back down, the view is breathtaking.

Orange Bubble Express

Can you see the large building in the center of the shot?  That is The Canyons resort where the conference was being held.

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Tips: Photographing and storing kids artwork

 

As a crafty parent of three children, our garage could quickly become over-run with craft projects, artwork and clay sculptures. Here’s my trick though. I photograph it. We have dedicated one wall in the kids’ play room; it has two ropes and large clothes pegs on it. Artwork is rotated as it comes home from school. The artwork that comes off is photographed and recycled or used as gift wrap or gift tags. Some larger creations and craft projects are used to decorate their bedroom or play room. For example, the butterfly below is currently clipped to the blind cord in the play room.

Bi-fold boards for photography
At the end of the year I make a book of artwork for each of the kids. I choose photographs of a variety of craft projects created using different mediums – paint, clay, beading, and craft kits to name just a few.

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REI: Photography Class

I absolutely love to take photographs.  I'm very rarely seen without a camera.  Except for the time I saw a ...
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New York City

photo taken using a Kodak EasyShare M580 – edited with Picnik Whilst I was in New York for the BlogHer ...
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Tutorial: Camera Strap Cover

One of those things that has been on the never ending TO DO list. I absolutely love it.  Now to ...
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Day 3 BlogHer Recap

Saturday was the last official day of the conference and a very busy one for BlogHer attendees.  Both Paula Deen ...
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