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It's a semi-happy Thanksgiving!

It's a semi-happy Thanksgiving!

While I don’t have my children today for Thanksgiving, I am looking forward to reuniting with them in less than two weeks!  This is the first “family” holiday for me since probably 2011.  It just never was the same after my grandmother died, and then my mom dying in 2014.  My ex has stolen from me my children since September 2017 and i’ve missed birthdays and holidays.

It’s such a good feeling to have two sides to a family that actually like me.  I was so paranoid for so long meet Jason’s parents and extended family because since 2000 my ex-husbands snotty British family hated me from day 1 just because I didn’t meet their appearance standard and then of course I brought him to the USA.  They never should have hated me, since I was the one doing all the thinking and remembering of them and not my ex.  I shopped for them, thought about and remembered all their birthdays and he could care less. I have this one video clip post-divorce having my ex speak honestly about who I am, and my personality without being held captive, lol.  He really had nothing bad to say, except when he stares into the camera and says “She always gets what she wants.”  Of course that can sound bad, but it truly means I am passionate about making sure things are done the way I think they should be.  Of course, marriage was over, and I got what I wanted out of the divorce.

Jason’s family actually thinks about me. I’ve been joined in hospital ER by his step-mom Eldona, and Jason has been with me every step of the way.  It’s nice to have someone by your side.  I literally have to make him tell me no to a lot of things, but I wouldn’t be where I am at today without him.

Yesterday, I chose to apply and enroll in the Graphics Technology program at Eastern Florida State College, then eventually transfer to University of Central Florida or Embry Riddle Aeronautical for a more science backed program.  I love to aerospace industry.  I’m still in the process of requesting transcripts from high school and college, but look forward to the Spring 2019 semester.

Yesterday I also got my FitBit Charge 3 special edition in the mail.  It measures everything about me including my sleep patterns, which as anyone who reads back in my blog would see I’ve been struggling with sleep for about 12 years.  This breaks down my sleep stages (i.e. REM, deep sleep, light sleep, wake), so it was interesting to see how I slept last night.  Last night I had 2 stages of REM which helps memory and brain function.  I’ve suffered from a lot of memory loss since nearly dying in 2016 at the hands and blame of my now 16yo son.

Today we are having dinner at Jason’s aunt and uncle’s house in Viera… it will be my first time there.  The menu is prime rib and turkey, and I’m cooking the turkey!  I always have great turkey’s but there’s always a nervous factor when you cook for others for the first time.

I held father’s day here at the house, and while my homemade honey baked ham and food was good, it was too good for me so I made sure we all started eating, and about 5 minutes in, I had to excuse myself from the table and they never saw me the rest of the evening because I got so sick of my very delicious meal.  I’m usually careful about what I eat when it’s just Jason and I, but I cook like I know how to cook when it comes to serving others.

I have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and I am hoping for a completely positive holiday season after December 5th… which is when I will surely be reunited with my children.

My birthday was completely ruined by my ex and his she-devil from Asia (who is in total control, as if I couldn’t tell)… so I plan on having a very merry Christmas with 3 of my children!

That’s all for this Thanksgiving!

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Filed under: Beyond 2018, Florida Life, Missing You, New Life

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The Happenings of Holidays

The Happenings of Holidays

In just 2.5 weeks, my ex-husband will likely be held in contempt of court again, and better yet, my team of attorneys will bring back to me the joy of motherhood and make my holiday season the best one ever. I filed this contempt motion in October (redacted because it’s public), yes I am a good legal writer, and with 55+ additional pages of damaging evidence, a lot of which have come from my friends here on Facebook, including that video, my attorney will see to it that my motion will make them regret every minute they stole from my life. They are using my children and everyone knows it. Shortly thereafter I hope to regain full custody of my girls at the very least. There is no reason not too, they will be fully loved and never once have ever been mistreated.

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Filed under: Beyond 2018, Brevard County, Fighting Rights

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3 Years Later - We still have OUR fight song!

3 Years Later - We still have OUR fight song!

My sweet children, we will be together again soon.  I’m thankful I have a respectable attorney now.  But this fight never had to be a fight. It was a fight created for show by others.  I want this fight over, now.  I’ve put everything on the table, but you can’t really make mentally unsound adults see clearly.  The courts will see very soon.

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8 Tips to Help Find the Subject for Your Composition

8 Tips to Help Find the Subject for Your Composition

Do you find it difficult to take photos which hold people’s attention? In our digital societies where image sharing is prolific, it is challenging to have people really take time to look at your prized photos. Image composition is key here.

So I want to give you eight tips on how to create pictures that will grab hold your viewer’s attention. People will want to stop and look rather than keep scrolling past your images.

A good composition should have a clear main subject. It might be as plain as a landscape or a person’s face, or it might be something very small in the frame. If the composition is good the main subject will stand out like a sore thumb.

We all have a unique view of the world. Each of us takes in the world around us in different ways. If you have ever been on a group photo walk and taken part in a shared image review afterward, you will know this. Each photographer will have walked the same street, and the number of photographers that participated, there will be that same variety of pictures.

1. Choose a subject you can relate to

What catches your eye? Why does it appeal to you? You should be asking yourself these things when you are taking pictures. If you choose subjects that you feel a connection with you will create more interesting photos. This is simply because you are interested in the subject yourself.

So your initial choice of subject should be something that you can connect with. My subject of the portrait below is a woman my wife and I chat with at the local market. We connect with her. I wrote about her and her late husband in a recent article.

Because I have this lovely friendship with her it is easier for me to make lovely pictures of her. I know she will happily pose for me. I also know I will get a more interesting photo of her when she is that bit more relaxed and not looking directly at me. In this photo, she was chatting with my wife who was standing beside me.

2. Isolate the subject

About the most obvious way to have your main subject stand out in your photos is to isolate it.

My favorite two ways to isolate my subject is to use a narrow depth of field or a dark background. By using either of these techniques your main subject will be unmistakable.

Choosing a wide enough aperture and having your subject far enough from the background will allow you to have your background blurred and your subject sharp. If you are using a camera with a small sensor or a smartphone with only one lens, this may not be possible.

When you have a dark background your subject will stand out, especially when there is more light on the subject than the background. To achieve this look find a spot where the background is in the shade and your subject has more light on it/them.

3. Choose your lens carefully

Your choice of lens can affect how you compose the image and how your main subject will be seen. Sometimes a wide-angle lens is better than a telephoto. Other times you will need a longer lens.

Getting close to your subject with a wide lens has a different effect than if you use a long lens and position yourself further away. If you are not sure about how this works the best way to learn is to experiment.

Try taking a series of photos of the same subject with various lenses or zoom settings and see in which photos your main subject looks the best.

4. Frame your subject

Set up your subject how you want to see them. Move around your subject and study them from different angles. Watch closely how the background changes in relation to what’s behind them. Find an angle where your subject looks best.

Limit what you include in your frame. Fill your frame only with what is relevant to the photo you are making. If you can see anything in the frame which does not balance with or enhance your subject keep making changes until you can no longer see those things.

5. Exploit the foreground

Make use of something in the foreground of your composition to draw the viewer’s eye to your subject. This technique will add depth to your composition.

Use an object which is in front of your main subject, either in focus or out of focus. This can help bring the viewer’s eye to concentrate more on your subject.

6. Use leading lines and diagonals

Composing your photo so there are strong lines leading to your main subject will enhance it. The viewer’s eye will be lead along the lines to rest on your chosen subject. This is a very simple, very effective technique.

Diagonal lines used well in a composition can also be used to draw the viewer’s eye to the main subject.

7. Time it well

Choosing the right time to take your photo can help to bring attention to your main subject. When you are photographing in a busy location good timing is imperative. Having someone walk in front or behind your main subject just as you take your photo would detract from your main subject.

Watch carefully. When I am in a busy place I usually have both eyes open, rather than closing one. This way I can see more of what is happening around me and my subject and it helps me time my photos better.

8. Crop imaginatively

Don’t always stick to the rules of composition. Stepping outside the box can help highlight your main subject in unusual ways.

In this photo of the gold elephant statue against the gold wall of the chedi, everything tended to blend together. The harsh light was not helpful. Cropping tight to the elephant and only including half of it draws your attention there. The negative space balances the composition.

Conclusion

Try these tips sometimes. Be mindful of your main subject and whatever else is in your frame. If there are distractions, use one or more of these techniques to draw attention to your main subject and have it tell the story you want.

Having your primary subject stand out will make your photo easy for people to look at and relate to. But more than just having your subject stand out, you need to frame it so that it lets viewers see the subject and scene how you see it.

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Another GIF I made - Deadpool Collection

Another GIF I made - Deadpool Collection

Try and compel yourself not to steal it… but it will be on Google images in no time, lol.

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Filed under: Deadpool, Gif's, Youtube

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I'm living to 102. And then dying. Like the city of Detroit.

I'm living to 102. And then dying. Like the city of Detroit.

Things are improving.  I’ve never been dead, but I have been close.  If anything, i’m better than ever, which is funny because my ex thinks by trying to strip me of everything, stealing my children to please a psycho he married at random… that i’m laying dead somewhere unable to do anything.

I should hope by now that he understands that I am and always have been one step ahead of him.  I think he’s been trained to believe i’m completely stupid or something but he should know way better.  I have always been legal smart.  That is half the reason I have kept my mouth shut for 2 years.   Sometimes if I rant I say too much.  He’s done so much now that people are telling me I have to speak.  I mean, the stuff they’ve posted on Facebook and their antics at trying to hurt me or keep my kids from me for no reason are hilarious.  It’s clear the outside sees these two trainwrecks with my kids and sees how they behave and all they’ve done wrong and this won’t end well for them.

I get stalked so much by them and I pay no attention to them. I focus on my kids.  My friends focus too much on them and send me screenshots but I for the most part ignore it except when they’ve gone overboard on some posts.  Let me tell you, the posts they have made recently have been seen by law, psychiatrists, ph.d’s, and all have agreed that what they are doing to my children’s minds is awful.  “Mindfucking babies” to quote one doc.

On top of that, they are just really bad at lying.  So bad, it’s being tracked, planned out, and i’ve had Roselou Warren’s family come to me and tell me to get my children away from her.  I knew in 2017 this wicked Filipino woman who has self-image and fat issues (like everyone deals with except some of us don’t go psycho about it)… and in 2017 I had no problem with her when they first met.  One night of the many when he left my children home alone to drive 110 miles to visit her and didn’t return home for my kids… I called my ex and asked him where he was to get them, they had school.  Instead of him answering the phone, this fucked up girl answers the phone and confronts me out of nowhere and I could hear him leading her on in the background. Before this, I had no issues and was happy for him.  Matt and I had a civil relationship despite the fact that I should have had him killed for what went down to cause me to file for divorce.  He had helped me a lot.  However, since he met this woman and took my children away from me, filed court action to strip me of my custody and money, and tried to fake threats against her, both of them posting radical thoughts and accusations that I’m going to hurt these to weirdos, he has turned into a human, not even human, that has no conscious, evil, and well, to put it bluntly… the point I hope he fucking drops dead tomorrow from a stroke or heart attack or gets hit by a truck driven by a cow, thrown, and impaled with a fence post.  It took a lot to bring me to the point that I wish him ill will.

It’s not coming from me though.  It’s going to happen because it’s time for karma to come along and fuck him in the ass.  Just don’t let my kids be around him.  He already lost a court battle in the approx. amount of $8000 in May.  Not from my doing.  Now, they are just perjuring the Florida court system repeatedly.  I know what him and this messed up psycho are doing to throw me off their trail, and it’s not going to work.  I fell for their lies initially because I know my ex better than his own hand, and how he acts and behaves and I had to learn that this was not my ex’s mind running the show.  He is being controlled by this woman, who is way more screwed up than I ever was.  I never came close to the antics she does.  I’d outline my exact strategy here, but i’ve already won phase 1, and he’s not unemployed and poor so i’m going to go to phase 2.  Goal 1 is get my children in my life – which is what law is there for because I have the right to unlimited time with my kids legally.  Goal 2 though is to break him of his will and his bank account.  He can’t fight me when he’s poor.  Either he is in contempt of court, or he’s unemployed and can’t take care of my children.  Fact 1… he’s highly employable and never been without a job longer than 12 days in his life in the USA of 18 years.  He’s only ever lost a job once.  That was the 12 days wayyyy back in like 2006.

What is funny is they started a business first week of June or something called 907 Technology.  September 7, 2017 is when these two fuckups got married and is when they stole my kids from me.  Either way, the documentation provided to the courts in their mandatory disclosures was true, but it wasn’t everything. This will be their strategy. Throw me off, make me think he’s either unemployed or working for his old company. I do believe he got fired.  That’s been a long time coming.  He’s actually a shit hole employee that lies about his resume and lies about what he has done.  He’s just a plain old liar now.  His company’s page and about me at first listed all his former employers as his previous clients.  If that wasn’t funny enough, his IT security consulting business page had a stolen copyrighted image as their logo from a website that specialized in catching people stealing information security. Lol.  For someone as experienced, at least used to be, in coding and web security, was designed using blogger and a very pathetic user interface with Google. At least I do everything fairly genuine and i’m not nearly on paper as experienced.  I have 2 LLC’s and well, frankly, knowing the tax business, I know exactly what he is attempting to do to try and hide income.

He has filed to be of indigent status in Brevard County as of June, stating he is poor. However, at the same time they claimed to be buying a house, or having cars.  All I have to do is have that application challenged.  He is already in contempt of court in Lake County. That’s where I got a judgement of $8k.  This is all a dangerous smoke screen he is putting up that I think like everything else, borders with screwing with me and screwing with the justice system as well.  See he claimed he lost his job in the beginning of June 2018.  Well going from 10K a month in income to $300 a week in unemployment just won’t pay his bills.  He would be so miserable and so far gone and lost everything that just knowing this, I can tell you he’s not unemployed, nor is he actually earning money with a business at this moment here at the end of July 2018.  He was paycheck to paycheck. But he is highly employable nonetheless, resume lies or not.  He’s totally fucked in the mind and stupider than shit, but he knows how to get and hold onto a job.  He’s also desperate.

So desperate for love he found this woman, and both of them were sooo desperate they clinged to each other immediately.  She is young and has no kids, ugly as fuck — more ugly than my fattest ugliest moments, and he’s old and fearful of dying alone.  Old for him is whatever like 45.  He’s so desperate for this love that he’s doing whatever it takes and is by everyone’s account (not mine until more recently) gone off his rocker with the crazies.  His appearance at our May court date was disgusting.  But, like the smoke screen they are putting up, I believe it was planned.  My ex has never seen a scruffy face except once in our marriage many many years ago, where I wanted to see what he looked like with a goatee.  That lasted like a week.  He’s anal about shaving and he showed up to court this one time looking like a homeless unemployed man and not even dressed up hoping that the judge will be tricked into thinking he is just as his appearance was.

When he lost the case, I got images sent to me by my facebook friends showing their crazy posts, which I’m going to share soon, that say, “no matter what, we are so happy, and she will never find love like ours and we always win no matter what just because of that” – not to quote but in the jist of it along with pictures of them eating at a foreign food restaurant crossing their hands with new wedding bands they just bought that day or prior.  It’s like they think i’m watching them so they go out of their way to make sure they say the stupidest shit nobody actually believes.

When her family contacted me after that, it was made known that she is shaming them.  They never cared until she moved close they said. But now her actions are shaming them. They encouraged me to tell my lawyer this… tell my lawyer that, make sure I show him this and that…. etc.  If her family thinks she’s a fucked up crazy and by family, I mean her brother… then in reality it’s way worse because as a 34 year old adult you aren’t showing your family the full picture. They see a sliver of the picture, and it’s bad. The full damage and omg it drives me insane.

Ok well — yeah already spoke too much.  My next actions will be to file a couple of motions now that I fired my lawyer for taking too long.  I was my own lawyer for the last 3 years and got shit done, I hire a lawyer because i’m going through a period of “regaining my strength” and the douchetool spends all of his time on vacation.

I’ll go back to being me. Legally smart and a mother devoted to her children.

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Filed under: Beyond 2018, Brevard County, Fighting Rights, General, Matt, The Ex Files

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I can't possibly outline how bad and great the last 6 months has been!

I can't possibly outline how bad and great the last 6 months has been!

If a human can only imagine going from nothing to everything, that’s sorta how it’s been for me.  At the same time, my ex-husband has stolen my children from me and is hiding with them and I have not seen them in 3 months and it’s devastating.  It’s 4:23a.m. but i’ll make sure to come fill in some blanks.

Afterall it’s been a couple years since i’ve had a truly complex post. Lol.

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9 Ways to Create Balance in Your Photography

9 Ways to Create Balance in Your Photography

Sometimes it feels like getting the right composition is an endlessly moving target, with this technique and that idea and many other considerations. Balance is one of the more complicated concepts but is also a really powerful tool that is worth investing some time learning. To help you out, here are 9 ways and elements you can use to help you create balance in your images.

What is balance?

Balance is a way of composing an image so that all elements complement each other equally. Visual tension or harmony are created which results in a pleasing image.

Many different elements can be involved with incorporating balance into your image composition:

Color

Light versus shadow

Texture

Visual weight

Subject placement

Relation of elements to each other

Symmetry

Depth of field

Negative space

How do you achieve balance?

When you compose your scene you need to think about the different elements and how they interact and relate to each other. What is the story you want to tell or frame up? What is the emotion you are trying to convey?

Balance can be harmonious, where all elements are equally present and form an aesthetically pleasing whole – symmetry is a good example. A landscape scene perfectly mirrored in a still pond or lake is very harmonious.

An image can have visual tension due to unbalance. It may seem counterintuitive to say that this also creates balance but think about negative space or a small spot of bright red in an otherwise dull image.

Often several different factors come into play in considering balance, it’s not necessarily just one problem to solve for each image. Every image has color, a subject, tone, contrast and so on, which are all involved in producing your final image.

Some of these concepts have to do with the mechanics of how you take the photo (light/shadow/contrast/tone) and some are more compositional (symmetry/negative space/subject placement). So there are many different things to consider at once within each image.

Let’s look at each in more detail:

#1 – COLOR

Even though this is a very dark image with a lot of blacks, the rich intense color of the cherries is not lost in the background – the color, quantity and placement balance out against the black shadows

Color has a great impact on your images.  When color film finally emerged it had a huge impact on photography. Being able to see bright colors instead of monochrome was very different. It lead to many different styles and techniques in photography and is still the dominant way images are processed today.

It allows you to evoke emotion, create tension, highlight a specific element, catch our attention and tell the story of the image in different ways.

Take this garden shot with all the different foliage shades of green and yellow – yet the eye goes immediately to the small but prominent red flowers. This image has balance because the red has a lot of visual weight but physically is only a small part of the overall image.

If it was much bigger it would overwhelm, instead, it gives somewhere to start the journey looking at all the different textures and colors contained in the garden.

Using color to evoke a mood, a feeling, or a period of time

This old bicycle turned into a Welcome sign at a historic homestead. By opting for a slightly sepia tone it picks up all the textures in the shot and evens out all the different competing colors.  The focus becomes the bicycle and not the bright green of the grass or the red of the chicken in the background. Changing the colors balances out all the other elements and allows the subject you want to be the focus.

#2 – LIGHT VERSUS SHADOW

Light and shadow are the opposite elements necessary for photography. If you have light, in general, you will have shadows. When you have both present it gives your subjects added dimension, they become physical rounded elements, not flat even though they are being viewed in a flat 2D medium (either printed or on a screen).

Contrast and tonal difference make an image more dynamic and interesting. Contrast comes from the difference between the amount of light and shadow in an image.  More contrast also widens out the tonal range of the image, when it is too similar it will look very flat (like the seaside landscape below).

This image taken on a heavily overcast day has very little contrast, it’s quite flat and tonally similar and as a result, lacks punch and impact. It is not balanced in the light/shadow equation and it shows up visually as a result.

So learning to use both light and shadow together can create balance in your images. The horseshoe image below was specifically shot to use the harsh midday sun to generate the shadows and capture the patterns and how they hang on the nails. It would be a much less interesting image without the shadows.

#3 – TEXTURE

Texture can be present in different ways – in the image of the spoons with spices (below) there are three layers of texture – the background surface, the spices in the spoons, and some scattered spices.  While there is a lot of texture in the image, it balances due to the scale and the blending layer in between which softens the difference between the spices and the industrial background.

If the extra scattered spices were not there it would not work as well as they help transition the eye around the image.

This blueberry shot uses texture in a different way, where the subjects themselves become the textural element, with some added interest in the form of water droplets. Without the droplets, it was a much less interesting image, and the fine detail of the droplets help balance out the size of the berries, giving the eye more elements to engage with.

Think tree bark, patterns on the water, brick walls, cracks in the pavement, clouds in the sky, foliage in a garden, shiny reflective metal, stones in a pond, sand at the beach. Think long exposure to produce soft foamy waterfalls or interesting cloud patterns. Consider ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) for soft blurred effect or pretty light trails.

Texture is all around you and in everything you see, but it is often taken for granted. Texture can be highlighted and become a key element in your image if you take the time to see it and take advantage of it.

#4 – VISUAL WEIGHT

This is a tricky concept to come to grips with as it sometimes seems a bit contradictory. How can a small element overwhelm a bigger image? How can one color dominate another one?

In the butterfly image below, the tones are all very similar, even the colors are shades of yellow and brown. Yet the visual weight is actually held by the fuzzy green leaf in the bottom corner.  If you crop the bottom section off it completely changes the feel of the image, and the butterfly becomes more prominent.

One of my personal favourite images is of a fresh new bright limestone headstone in a cemetary of very old and weathered stones (below). The light was at the perfect angle to highlight the one stone which carries the visual weight yet is only a very small element physically within the image.

The central placement works well in balancing the other elements around it and allows more of the story to be told – if the focus was tight on the headstone it would have had a very different feel to the image.

5. SUBJECT PLACEMENT

Where you place the subject in the frame is important in many ways. It can be used to show scale, the relationship between elements, to highlight tension, or to create a specific feel or stylistic tone to an image.

A classic example is the Rule of Thirds – where it is taught that a center placed subject lacks drama and impact – place the subject on the third lines to make it more dynamic within the frame. When the subject is looking in a particular direction, where you place them affects the feeling of the image. If they are looking out of the frame, placing them close to the edge is quite a different image than if you compose the image so that they are looking more into/across the frame.

In the cave image below the people add balance by providing scale. Without them there we would be unable to appreciate the true size of the cave as we have no context to apply. The bright colors of their clothes also offer some visual weight in contrast to the textured details of the rock walls. The positioning at the bottom of the frame grounds the image and helps tell the story.

The placement of this bellbird on the branch is an appealing balance of angles and lines. The line of the main branch is echoed by the blurred ones in the background – this gives some depth and scale to the image.

The bird is a nice size within the image, large enough to see the details, but not cramped within the frame and his crimson eye holds a lot of visual weight as well. If the bird was angled the other way it would be less pleasing as it would not be balanced the same way, as the X is symmetrical.

#6 – RELATIONSHIP OF ELEMENTS

Similar to #5 above, this takes the placement concept a step further. You need to consider the specific relationship between elements and how can you use that in composing your image.

In this landscape shot below, it’s a pretty simple land/sea/sky shot – not really very interesting at all.  But the inclusion of the sign right next to the edge of the cliff changes everything. The bright red of the letters catches our attention (as it should) and even though the sign is small it has large impact.

Had the sign not been so close to the edge, it may have been a less compelling image. In composing this, the Rule of Thirds was also used to provide scale and context with the cliff edge off to the right, showing that the cliff continued (it was actually a whole headland of several hundred meters with just this one sign).

Below is a wide-angle landscape shot of some fossilized totara tree trunks at Curio Bay, The Catlins, NZ. Landscapes when taken with a wide angle often lose context if they don’t have a foreground element to anchor them.

The person also helps tell more of the story, while providing a color pop of bright blue visual interest and weight against the sand and rock. His presence in the front of the frame balances out the large wider angle landscape behind him and gives scale to appreciate how big it is.

#7 – SYMMETRY

When done well and with thought, symmetry can be a useful tool. Putting your subject dead center in the frame can be a risk too. While a mirror image in a lake or puddle can be pretty, it can also be quite static and uninteresting. An odd situation where the image is perfectly balanced and yet it doesn’t actually work compositionally!

Below, the autumn tree reflection is a mirror image but the angle at which it has been shot puts the focus on the landscape. So the reflection is not necessarily the point of the image. Instead, it is more of an added bonus. Also, the way the trees are arranged creates balance across the image, the two golden willows are rounded and slightly shadowed.

They are counterbalanced by the taller golden poplar, with similarly toned grass behind, and the green of the reeds in the water. There is enough contrast in the image with the light and shadow elements to add depth and interest while the gold/blue color combination is an aesthetically pleasing one.  The reflection softens the colors and tones enough that they allow the actual landscape to take prominence.

This image was specifically composed with all those things in mind.

#8 – DEPTH OF FIELD

Does everything in your image have to be 100% sharp? My answer to that is no. You can use Depth of Field creatively, balancing the subject against the softer background, allowing the subject to be prominent and the strong focal element.

Imagine the shot of the larch cones below if the aperture was more like f/11. If all the foliage and trees in the background were in focus then the cones would be lost against it. Portrait photographers use this concept to their advantage, shooting their subject in a similar way to get them to stand out from a sometimes messy or distracting background.

#9 – NEGATIVE SPACE

Negative space is an interesting composition element that works for some shots. Remembering to keep it in the back of your mind for the rare occasion it might suit can be difficult. Also being brave enough to try a different approach than you normally use is challenging.

When used carefully, negative space adds value to an image by providing a lot of empty space to create balance for a particular subject. It is often used successfully in travel photos, where brightly coloured walls or buildings offer a great canvas for a person to be posed against, often as they walk past.

This gerbera shot has a lot of negative space on the left and underneath the flower. Because of the curving stem and the dynamic angle of the flower, this image has a lot of movement for the eye. The negative space offers a calming balance to that energy.

The smooth soft water of this long exposure offers some negative space to balance out the visual weight of the rocks and the busy sky. The light tones of the water also create balance with the darker tones of the sand.

CONCLUSION

Sometimes an image can feel just subtly off even though the subject might be good, the light is good and the composition seems to be alright. It is worth taking a look at those images with fresh eyes and considering the balance of the different elements discussed here. Perhaps you will begin to see some opportunities to compose your images in a different way?

Composition often seems to be a never-ending quest to find the holy grail of elements.  Do you have perfect lighting? Is your subject awesome? Are they doing something cool or interesting? Are the colors fresh and vibrant? Is it exotic? Does it have a wow factor?

Yet your image might have all of those things and still not seem quite right. So take a look at how the different elements relate to each other from a balance point of view.

Maybe instead of trying to remember all the complicated rules of composition – let’s keep it much simpler and start with balance. Or maybe you want your work to be really edgy and challenging and you aim for the tension in a deliberately unbalanced work – that is also a viable creative choice too.

But if you feel that your images lack a certain something, try looking at them from a balance point of view and see what you get. Like everything in photography, there is no one single right way to do it. Instead, there are many different ways, and hopefully one will resonate with you to help you learn something new.

If you are someone who considers balance when composing your images, what other ways do you think about? This is merely a summary of the many possible options that I keep in mind when shooting. Please share any others I haven’t mentioned in the comment area below.

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Composition Checklist for Beginners

Composition Checklist for Beginners

At a recent meetup with several photographers, during a discussion on composition, one of the beginners commented: “Why isn’t there a composition checklist for all the things we need to think about?” It was a good question and was the inspiration that prompted this article.

It’s not about the gear

You can have the most expensive camera gear and the most amazing light. You could be in a fabulous scenic location, or shooting a stunning model. There are many situations that might provide you with the opportunity to shoot breathtaking images, but if the composition is not spot on, then it doesn’t matter how fancy or expensive your gear is.

The reverse is true also, you can craft amazing images with beginner grade gear (even your cell phone) if your understanding of composition is good. When you know the rules and guidelines, can work them to your advantage, and even push the barriers and be really creative. No one will care what gear you used to get the shot, they will go “Wow, you must have an amazing camera!”

Learn the composition basics

Even though there are many different kinds of photography, whether you do street, landscapes, macro, studio or anything else, there are a lot of basic composition concepts that apply. Not every concept will need to be considered for every image but having a good understanding of the basics will get you a long way.

Truly understanding composition was one of the major steps in my photography making a big step up in improvement. Like every new idea, you have to put some effort into learning the idea, practicing, learning from your mistakes and practicing again and again. When you can frame up a well-composed shot without consciously thinking about what you are doing and why then you can really start to think about new ways to frame and shape your images.

First, you have to master the basics.

Getting Started

First of all, these are not rules. While there are some guidelines you should consider when creating an aesthetically pleasing image, it is entirely possible to ignore them all and still make a stunning image. It is, however, a lot easier to do that when you know what the guidelines are first. So this is a list of concepts you should consider for each image, not rules you absolutely have to follow.

Some things are easy and obvious, or so you might think. Yet the number of images with noticeably crooked horizons you see posted online is a testament to the fact that this stuff is not always obvious, and is hard to learn. Be kind to yourself and take it in stages. Maybe even write your list down and carry it in your camera bag as a handy reminder.

Also, every image will have different elements in it, and different concepts will apply. So pick and choose the ones that work for you and the scene in front of you. As an example, there are things you would do when framing up a landscape that won’t apply when shooting street photography shots.

So be sensible, pick a few that make sense to you or that apply to the way you shoot. Then practice them until it’s like breathing – it just happens automatically when you pick up the camera and frame a shot. When you get to that stage, add some more concepts to your process, and absorb those the same way.

Composition Checklist

So here is the checklist of things to look for in your composition as a starting point.

Is the horizon straight?

Is the subject strong and obvious within the image?

Are the edges of the frame clean? Is anything poking into the frame that distract the viewer? Are there elements of the image that lead the eye out of the frame that could be positioned better?

Is the background clean – are there distracting elements like a car parked in the background, or a fence or a house that doesn’t fit? Can you move or change the angle to remove that element?

Is the foreground tidy? Are you shooting a landscape or natural scene where there might be branches or leaves or twigs in the foreground that could be tidied away?

The position of people in the shot. Do they have a lamp post or a tree growing out of the top of their head? Have you chopped heads, feet, arms, or legs off?

Eye contact – when shooting a group of people, do we have eye contact with all your subjects?

Camera position – are you at the right height/angle for the best composition?

Point of focus – when taking photos of people/creatures/animals have you focused on the eye? Do you have a catchlight in the eye?

Is the Rule of Thirds being used effectively?

Do you have a sense of scale – particularly valid for large landscape scenes?

How does the eye travel around the image? Where does it go first? Where does it end up? Is that the story you want to tell the viewer?

Lens choice – does the lens you are using affect the composition in a positive or negative way? Would a different lens be worth considering?

Less is more – what truly needs to be in the frame? What can you leave out?

Is it sharp? Do you want it to be?

Considering Composition in More Detail

#1 – Is the horizon straight?

It would seem fairly easy to notice if the horizon is straight when you are taking a shot. It is also extremely easy to fix in post-processing, yet so many images are posted online that have crooked horizons, varying from a little bit to quite a lot. Our brains automatically hiccup when they encounter it, so it is a genuine composition issue that needs to be resolved.

You can take the time to set the camera up so it is completely level. When shooting a panorama, timelapse, video and similar things, it is worth the extra effort. For general purpose use, it can be easily edited in post-production.

The horizon is about 3 degrees tilted down to the left – just enough to make your brain twitch.

#2 – Is the subject strong and obvious within the image?

There are some composition concepts that are fairly straightforward and obvious, like point #1 above. Then there are some that are more open to interpretation.

This point could be considered one of those things. However, I then propose this question to you. If the subject is not strong or obvious then how do we know what the point of your image is?

There are a lot of competing elements in this image, where do we start?

#3 – Are the edges of the frame clean?

Are there things poking into the frame that distract the viewer? Look for elements in the image which lead your eye out of the frame. Could they be positioned better?

Running your eye around the edge of the frame when composing your shot is a valuable step that can save you a lot of time. This is one lesson I personally had to learn the hard way and it applies to most general styles of photography.

Are there things poking into the frame from outside it that impose themselves on the image and distract the viewer? Are there blurry elements in the foreground that you could move or change your point of view to reduce their impact? Is there half a car or a building partially visible in the background perhaps?

Quite often when you are framing a shot, you are focused so intently on the subject, that you may neglect to see the whole image. So you may miss these extra details that can make or break the shot.

The extra leaf and bud in the top left corner are distracting.

#4 – Is the background clean?

Are there distracting elements like a car parked in the background, or a fence or a house that doesn’t fit? Can you move or change the camera angle to eliminate that element from the image?

This is an extra step on top of point #3 above – putting more effort into assessing the background.

Are you taking a nice landscape and there is a farm shed clearly visible? Perhaps there is a truck parked in the distance or a vehicle on the road you need to wait to move out of frame. Are the colors harmonious? Is the sky doing nice things? Is the sun a bit too bright in the clouds?

This lovely colonial mansion had a very modern hospital and school behind it and was difficult to frame it up to reduce those jarring elements.

#5 – Is the foreground tidy?

Are you shooting a landscape or natural scene? Are there branches, leaves, or twigs in the foreground that could be tidied away?

This is particularly relevant in nature and landscape photography, but still worth remembering in general.

Is what you have in the foreground adding to the image or distracting from the subject? Is there rubbish or stuff on the ground that looks messy? Are there twigs too close to the lens so they are blurry? Can you move any branches or things out of the way or do you need to change the angle of shooting instead?

Look at all the mess of cones and twigs in the foreground, all blurry and untidy.

#6 – The position of people or the subject

Do any people in your image have lamp posts or a tree growing out of the top of their heads? Have you chopped heads, feet, arms, or legs off awkwardly?

Often a problem for posed outdoor shots, this is essentially a specific element of point #3 above – checking the background in relation to your subjects.

Is the camera straight, is the angle flattering? Are people squinting into the sun? Is the lighting good? Do you have all their body parts within the frame? Is everyone looking in the same direction or interacting in the desired manner?

His eyes are sharp but I cut his front paws off, not good.

#7 – Eye contact

When shooting a group of people, do we have eye contact with all the subjects?

Quite often when shooting people they will generally be looking at the camera. However, if some are and some are not, it has a weird kind of dissonance to the viewer. So make sure you have some way of engaging the people so they look at you and take several shots.

If worst comes to worst you can work some Photoshop magic to blend a few frames together if it’s a critical image.

Notice they are not all looking at the camera.

#8 – Camera position

Are you at the right height and camera angle for the best composition?

Being at eye level with your subject makes a big difference to the feel of an image. When photographing people, the camera angle does have an effect on how flattering the shot might be to the subject.

You may want to push some creative boundaries and do something different for a particular scene. Street photography is one genre where the height and angle can directly impact the story you are telling.

On average most people tend to stand and shoot from that position, but what if you get down really low?  What if you find some stairs or some way to get higher up?  What if you shoot straight down on top of your subject rather than side on?

Start to think more creatively about how you use composition to evoke a mood or tell a story about a scene.

This image works because I was flat on the shore at a similar height to the swan. Had I been standing you would not have seen the wonderful curve in the bird’s neck.

#9 – Point of focus

When taking photos of people, creatures or animals have you focused on their eyes? Do you have catchlight in the eyes?

If you have a subject with eyes in the image that is looking at the camera it is important to have the focus point on the eye. Faces of people, birds, and animals are very dimensional and it can be easy to get the focus point on the tip of the nose or forehead or somewhere else. So if you have a living creature looking at your camera, focus on their eye.

Another trick to make them look alive and engaged is to angle your shot so that there is some light reflected off the dark iris. This is called a catchlight and is important especially for animals and birds that have large dark eyes. Fashion photographers use fancy round beauty dish lights to give a distinctive ring effect in their shots.

The nose is sharp but the eyes are just a bit out of focus which is not desirable.

#10 – Is the Rule of Thirds being used?

While the Rule of Thirds is more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule, it is a good one for a beginner to take on board. It is easy to remember and does help you create a more dynamic and interesting image when used well.

So if you intend on using it, add it to your mental checklist.

The subject in this image is more or less in the middle, but if you crop it to use Rule of Thirds the image doesn’t work as well.

#11 – Do you have a sense of scale in your landscape scenes?

Big mountain vistas are lovely. But sometimes they can become bland and uninteresting because they lack a sense of scale to truly appreciate them.

One recommendation is that a foreground element can be used to both ground the image and provide scale for the big vista behind it. Some photographers like to use themselves as a prop to help add scale as well.

#12 – How does the eye travel around the image?

Where does your eye go first? Where does it end up? Is that the story you want to tell the viewer?

What do you have in the image to engage the eye? Are there different elements or points the eye can travel around? Does it have contrast? Are there elements that lead the eye out of the image? Are there elements that lead the eye into or around an image?

#13 – Lens choice

Does the lens you are using affect the composition in a positive or negative way? Would a different lens be worth considering?

This can cross the boundary between a technical consideration and a creative one. Sometimes there may be a valid reason to use a specific lens, a faraway subject likely to fly away demands the use of a long lens. A tiny flower might be better shot with a macro lens. Telephoto lenses compress the elements in an image, making them seem closer together. Wide angle lenses create a lot of distortion around the edges, especially at minimal focal lengths.

Beyond that are the creative choices. Yes, you could shoot the front of this house with a wide focal length, but what if you put a zoom on and highlighted the fancy door knocker or handle? Is the lens you are using giving a flattering look to the person you are shooting?

A different lens would have allowed me to zoom out far enough to get this entire bird in the frame *sigh*.

#14 – Less is more

What truly needs to be in the frame? What can you leave out?

A mistake a lot of beginners make is to include too many elements in an image. It can be cluttered, messy, and confusing as to the point of the image.

Sometimes that can be used to advantage in things like street photography, but usually, less is more. A strong obvious subject and minimal distraction around it is a very aesthetically pleasing combination but it can be difficult to learn how to frame images up this way.

So much going on here, its a bit overwhelming with no clear subject. It’s a pretty scene but is the composition effective?

#15 – Is the image sharp?

Do you want it to be? Not every image need to be 100% sharp. You can use aperture to creative effect by selecting a narrow depth of field. ICM or Intentional Camera Movement adds blur and movement as well. Use of specialty lenses like those from Lensbaby gives you many different ways to add soft focus or special effects to enhance your image.

Many street shots have blurred movement and creative focus elements, either the photographer or the subject (or both) may be moving.

Some people insist that images be absolutely as sharp as they can be, but that is a creative choice up to you, the photographer.

A bit of slow shutter speed on the waves for a soft creative swirl effect.

Summary

Some of the items on the checklist are basic sensible things that apply to most images. Some are more advanced technical considerations. Others may only apply if you are considering trying some more creative approaches to your composition

There are many other specific technical concepts that are not covered in this composition checklist. When you are ready for them, you can find plenty of information here on dPS to guide you.

This list is designed to cover the most basic ideas and thoughts that a beginner might need to keep in mind when first starting to think about properly composing and framing up their images. Good news, if you have made the step to start making your images with deliberate intention, that means you already have your feet on the path to becoming a better photographer.

Pick a few key items from this composition checklist that apply to your style of photography and try to remember them deliberately everytime you shoot. Eventually, it will become so automatic, you adjust for them without thinking, your mental muscle memory will have kicked in.

Are there any key concepts you feel should be included in this list?  By all means, let me know in the comments below.

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Step by Step, Heart to Heart, We All Fall Down...

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left, we all fall down… like toy soldiers. I used to be that soldier that never blew their composure, til the whole weight of the world sat on my shoulders. Yes, those lyrics and that song/video say a lot.  They almost say exactly as life has been for 6 weeks.  If I have to blame 2 humans, we have Matt who is responsible for destroying me emotionally, financially, and my health.  Though divorced just over a year, he has recently done some shameless things to destroy his kids and I, all while knowing he can sit back in my chair at his “flat” and wait til it\’s over.  The 2nd person to blame is just nasty and disgusting and I\’ll wish him death til he dies, really… someone who joked about what he did to me, ultimately contributing to my condition. As far as blaming institutions, well, the old standards Wyandotte and Southshore get it this time, for misdiagnosing me and then causing my body to go into sepsis because of it.  Their deliberate inability to perform sterile procedures contributed. This is just a very small part 1 of god knows how many parts. I am still in the hospital.  I was in critical condition for 3 of my 4 days in the ICU. I’m still very bad off, and will be potentially released with a death sentence or just a depressing few days of figuring it out before I succumb to it all.  I’ve lost an insane amount of memory, precious memories.  I’ve retained some bad ones though. I need to start a GoFundMe page for what Matt has done to me financially.  I’m just done for.  Just keep reading, that’s all I need from anyone. I have nobody, not a soul to visit, not a soul  to care, no advocate, and nothing but loneliness.  To grasp any concept of clinging to life in an ICU and nobody there to say it’ll be ok is devastating. This is a temporary stop so I can see the nurse here, I’ll call this part 1 of __.

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I'm done. I'm going home.

I'm done. I'm going home.

It’s time for me to go home where I belong.  Michigan.  I may not have anything left there except friends, brother and niece, but it’s so much better than being alone in Florida.  I can’t take it anymore.  I’m sorry, I do not like the people in Florida in general.

When I moved to Florida that choice was made on a whim, just like this choice was.  I thought life would be great, I thought the weather was great year round so my mood would be great year round.  I was bringing my mom with me for a better life and have her close.  We were moving near Disney so it had to be a happy place.

I don’t know what happened. Florida has robbed me of everything I have known as “life” and actually robbed me of my mother’s life due to their poor healthcare system.  All my pets have died in strange ways, and I’m just tired of having nobody by my side or care about these things. I am legitimately a nice, sweet, honest, caring person.  The ex-husband apparently felt the need to rob me of my trust factor and i’m having a hard time building that ability back up.  He made me an angry person because of his behavior. I don’t have the issue of being mad all the time now.  It’s miraculous my mental health is so much better now that I don’t have the stress of him in my life.  To be convinced your delusional for thinking something is up with his behavior, to seek help because you are willing to fix that, only to find out you were not delusional whatsoever and it was all real is quite a mentally damaging thing to recover from.

I cannot be alone anymore here in FL with no support system at all.  That hit me real hard the last couple weeks since I broke my back and had other things happen.  The school system is great, they have helped us out a lot, but I can’t rely on them. The school social worker came to my house to check on me yesterday, making sure I have everything I need.

At the very least my brother is in Michigan.  Beyond that, there are my friends.  People i’ve known for a long time. I cannot trust anybody here in FL.  It seems like everyone here is here because they are also running from their problems in their home states too.  It’s weird.

That said, I will go up to MI on the 15th of January, scope out places to live for a few days, come home with my brother, pack up, and be back up north by February 1st. That’s my spontaneous plan anyway.  I told Matt that as long as he pays his bill, he does not have to follow. He don’t want anything to do with the kids anyway so he don’t care if I move 1400 miles away.  I could enforce the 50 mile rule anytime though.  Florida has no state income taxes though, so I told him if I need child care, he is legally required to foot the bill, but I will keep it out of the court system if he can be trusted.  Child care would be less than him moving here and paying state taxes on his income.  In all honesty he cannot be trusted, he screwed over our health insurance on the sly to pocket more money each month… which could hurt his own kids more.  So, we’ll see in time.

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My Fun NYE 2015 Despite it all....

Despite as broken as a person gets, and as much in pain as I was… I had fun with the two crazy Italian ladies straight from Staten Island, NY 🙂  Just like me, a kid at heart. You won’t see me in it, just hearing me laughing out loud. I couldn’t really move too much, it sucked. Hell, i’d d this just for a play date lol.

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Some tough choices ahead...

Some tough choices ahead...

Do I stay in FL or do I leave for MI?  Worse yet do I leave FL and move to a completely different part of the country?  I do miss home and the connections I have.  Why did I ever bring a lifeless nobody like Matt who can’t even make eye contact with his own kids to a strange place?  I think it was my mom who was with me. I wanted it better for her.  Look where that got me.

I’ve made some great new friends here, but is it enough?  I’m not feeling the tug from my new connections enough I suppose. Not everyone knows how conflicted I am.  My friends in Detroit do, very much.  I’m almost expected to move home.

I have to weigh the pro’s and cons of all of it.  I won’t be returning the person I left as. In fact I plan on ditching most everything I own for it’s connections to others I want nothing to do with.  I suppose maybe I’m waiting for the possibility that the man off my dreams will show up.  All that person has to be is thoughtful, caring, and giving towards others. Not selfish, not influenced by others’ opinions and someone who can tolerate my crazy quirks.  Someone who won’t ignore me.  Someone to travel the globe with.  Someone to be a role model for the kids.

I have no problem getting dates with guys age 21-25… however, I have four kids, and being I’m fixed I can’t promise anybody that young they’d ever have a family.  The types attracted to me down here are very much italian men.  Why? I dunno maybe my cooking reminds me of their mamma’s… lol.

I just have a lot of thinking to do. I don’t trust Matt and his intentions. I gotta keep my legal eye out on him, though i’m pretty certain my counsel backed settlment is rock solid.  It’s not that i’m worried about, it’s that nasty part of every brit’s genes that likes to go abroad a lot without any worry.  But, he knows I would chase him down to the ends of the earth til the he or I dies, at any cost, just for my kids.  He has had my warnings and I have people who would help me do that.  Once you lose my trust, I will have my damn eye on everything you do.  He still lies.

However, I’ll give Matt some credit recently.  Yes brit family, how about that, read on… he did help me out with the  kids when I broke my back and got them food and took me to the docs and get my scripts filled. He also came here so I could go via ambulance since I couldn’t move.   So yes, I am capable of giving credit where credit is actually deserved. He didn’t have too.  Well, guilt would have made him but whatever.

I can walk now again, mostly painless. Strangely, it’s driving that sucks.  My body cast thing I have made it so much worse to drive.  I can’t quite bend over to get the girls shoes on either or pick up much off the floor and the kids aren’t so helpful there.

Ok… back to pondering my life choices.

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Why does God hurt me?

Why does God hurt me?

I’ve had a month of life, death, tragedy, and now I have ended 2015 and December with a broken back 🙁  I don’t know what to do, I’m so alone.  The events unfolding since Christmas are too much for most to handle.  But now, a broken back.  I can’t believe it. I can’t walk, i’m in extreme pain, and I don’t know how to take care of my kids.  I was assured that it will be a very long painful road, maybe more painful if I have to have surgery to remove bone shards from around my spine.

I have been in the hospital a lot.  I lost a huge part of me on Christmas, and it took it’s toll on my general health until it happened.  I’m scared for 2016.  I’m petrified.

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Kids Nominated to "Shop With a Cop"

So my kids were nominated for a few good reasons.  Reason one, they are good kids.  Reason two, their absentee father doesn’t care about them and they know it.  Even if I got no money from him, it wouldn’t make a difference. I hope his family is proud because man, his behavior was unexpected.  But anyway, kids got nominated last month.  Oh, what was great was I got a phone call from the school last week saying that Caitlyn would sit in the hall and start crying that “she wants a new dad”.  Yeah, I don’t blame her.  I was in Michigan last week, I left because someone close in my life growing up was dying and I had a chance to visit him while in hospice at home. I had 3 kids with me, I asked Matt if he’d check on his own son 13 who wanted to stay home because he desperately needed to not miss his last test, and initially he refused stating the cable man appointment was more important.  Eventually after reminding him it was his time with him anyway since it was a Saturday, and some foul language by text, he got his way over there. Problem was, we were all sick, I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it home quick enough… just needed him to check on his welfare.

So here were are, holidays 2015. Kids have essentially no father. LIke his family handed over money for me to buy them something without regard to the fact that they are kids they’d want something physical from him.  He didn’t see or ask about them on Thanksgiving, I expect the same this year.  So all in all – our charity is from MY good kids and people feeling sorry for them. Whatever they know comes from the kids’ mouths, I refuse to speak of the situation to anybody because i’m so highly embarrassed.

Here is the video…

Here are the pictures!

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Portfolio Images

Portfolio Images

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Detroit - Decmeber 2015 - Fun & Death combined... :(

Detroit - Decmeber 2015 - Fun & Death combined... :(

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