My Girl

This is a shot I captured today at my daughter's riding lesson. I just couldn't resist posting it. It's true love.

Check out our new ad in Austin Monthly HOME Magazine

On newsstands now is the latest addition of Austin Monthly's HOME magazine and we are running a full page ad to highlight how photography can be used as fine art in your home. I'm often amazed and delighted to see how retailers use portraiture in stores to personalize their environment. Have you ever noticed the multi generational photographs used in the J.Jill stores? Pottery Barn also shows a great deal of photographic imagery on the walls to give their rooms warmth. There are countless other stores, Nordstom & GAP, being another couple of great examples, of how artistic photography adds something that fabrics and furniture alone just can't. Often times it's the simple black and white photographs, with clean lines, textures and beautiful expressions that can take our breath away!

How do they make those displays work so well? In order to create a beautiful artistic expression with photographs, it's often best to follow a few basic rules. Size Matters! The size of the subjects within the different frames has to be proportionate to one another. A beautiful close up of a child's face displayed next to a equal sized landscape of two children in a field will not be as strong a presentation as two close ups next to each other. I also believe every image has a perfect size, you never want to enlarge a portrait beyond its correct size. Imagine a baby's face three times larger than it is in real life. That just doesn't work! Also, you wouldn't want to place a small image on a wall that's too large. It just might look like a postage stamp!

Once a session is complete, I enjoy working with my clients during the presentation of their portraits on all aspect of making a beautiful display. I have the coolest software program that allow us to see just how the images will look when they are printed and on your walls.

The next time you're out shopping around town, or browsing in a magazine, take a look at the imagery they use. It's amazing how much you can learn about what works well together and what type of photography you love. And then let me know!