Interesting & highly relevant article from Seth Godins blog post
You don’t have the power
A friend is building a skating rink. Unfortunately, he started with uneven ground and the water keeps ending up on one side of the rink. Water’s like that, and you need a lot of time and power and money if you want to change it. One person, working as hard as he can, has little chance of persuading water to change.
Consider this quote from a high-ranking book publisher who should know better, “We must do everything in our power to uphold the value of our content against the downward pressures exerted by the marketplace and the perception that ‘digital’ means ‘cheap.’ …read the whole article
Ten Ways To Save Money This Holiday Season
As the holidays approach and the economy continues to suffer, everyone is looking for ways to cut back. But what can you cut out? Your hard-to-please mother-in-law will have something to say if the table doesn’t look like a picture in a magazine. Your old college roommate will be offended if she doesn’t get a card this year. The kids can’t wait to trim the tree. And you can’t exchange gifts wrapped in the funny papers! Fear not, frugal friend—flowery feasts and festivities are in your future!
With www.botanicphotos.com, you can create beautiful handmade versions of some of the things you typically buy for the holidays, without spending a lot of money. The site has over 1,000 flower, plant, and landscape images to choose from, and botanic photos featuring red, green, and white plants, trees, and flowers make the ideal images for using on holiday decorations and other items.
Season’s Greetings:
- Use the site’s flower, plant, and landscape images to design and print your own holiday cards, envelopes, return address labels, and stationary.
- Design your own photo cards with a floral background from an image at www.botanicphotos.com, add your message and print them at home.
Wrap It Up!:
- Print botanic images on lightweight paper and use it to wrap gifts.
- Mount the images on heavy stock and trim to gift tag -size. Punch a hole on one end and tie a ribbon to attach to gifts.
- Glue printed images onto small paper bags to create goodie bags. Line the bags with tissue paper and fill with treats.
- Shred or crumple printed images from www.botanicphotos.com and use them to pack fragile gifts. This is also a great way to use scraps left from other projects.
Deck the Halls:
- Glue printed botanic images onto scraps of sanded wood, cardboard, or other material. Punch or drill a hole through the top, and add a ribbon or ornament hanger. Add beads, sequins, or other embellishments, and then seal with a layer of decoupage medium for unique handmade ornaments .
- Transfer the images onto cloth napkins using iron-on paper: an eco-friendly and inexpensive alternative to throwaway paper napkins.
- Using iron-on paper, transfer the images onto smooth-textured guest towels .
- Print the images on heavy stock and trim around leaves and petals. Use these botanic beauties instead of doilies under plates, dishes, and bowls.
Try searching for terms like “pine,” and “green,” to find the perfect image at www.botanicphotos.com, or simply browse the photo categories for your favorite plant or flower. Get the whole family involved in some of these projects and you’ll save time too!
Flower pictures are a wonderful hobby
Flower pictures are popular with both amateur and professional photographers, and it’s easy to see why. Articles such as this resource for flower pictures are but the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the free resources available on my main site BotanicPhotos.com which include free newsletters, E-Courses, Photos of Landscaping and more.
Flower pictures and flower images can be used for the home and office. The images on this page are here to show you what can be done, but no two pictures are ever alike since they are reflective of the beauty of the flowers and memories of your event. For more flower images visit our gallery at BotanicPhotos.com
Photography is a wonderful hobby and with a little practice, you will be able to produce spectacular photographs. Photography is a wonderful way to document a moment in time, and I think you would agree that some of the best moments happen in a garden. For publishing images and information about our stock photography use the following link Stock photography. Be sure and check out this article for some great photography tips. The gallery above contains many fine art flowers photography and is an ongoing project.
Flower pictures also provide an opportunity to be creative, through the imaginative use of lighting, angle and composition. The best flower pictures updated daily, Daily so be sure to check back often.
Flowers Online
Flowers say a thousand words just as pictures do. Flowers available online offer convenience to people who need them. Flowers have a variety of uses, whether it be for celebrations, decorative purposes, mourning or gardening. Online galleries offer images of flowers for use in branding, marketing and other business purposes while online stores offer flower ordering services which allows the delivery of flowers all over the world. The beauty of flowers available online is its easy accessibility and convenience all at your fingertips. Whatever the purpose is, flowers can easily be accessed online just as they have been traditionally accessed offline for years.
Floral Pictures
Floral pictures can have that instant emotive effect on people. Whilst fresh flowers fade away eventually, floral pictures have the ability to continuously reflect its beauty onto its surroundings for years to come. Floral pictures capture the beauty of real flowers and let them live on in our lives for as long as we wish. Although floral pictures fail to capture the smell or feel of flowers, they make up for it through their visual beauties which are brought about through the added effects applied by the photographer. Floral pictures serve as great reminders of flowers that were once seen elsewhere and also as a preservation method of floral beauties that once may have existed.
Flower Photography
Flowers and flower photography are guaranteed to brighten someone’s day. Flowers play an important role in our lives and we need flowers in our day to day lives because flowers speak the language of heart. Flower photography can represent so many different emotions and it will make your special someone so very happy. Flower photography expresses a feeling of life and beauty and offer much comfort to the family. Flowers have always been seen as a symbol of love and beauty. Our pictures are nature’s beauty at its best. Discover breathtaking pictures in our gallery that will enhance your branding, marketing, publishing, media or design project or just to personalize the beauty of your home decor.
Rose Photography
Rose photography has been known to inspire poems, sonnets, music, paintings, and perfumes. Roses and rose photography have also inspired the lover within everyone and this sheer love drives people to actually become the gardener, and grow roses at home or buy them from florists. Rose photography is for everyone who loves roses and is often considered to be some of the most sensual, charming, lovely of all floral images – filled with lust, and decadence.
Since roses inspire feelings of romance in most people, these flowers are often displayed on counters and tables in many restaurants and, furthermore, are usually placed next to a lamp stand or small evening light to create a romantic atmosphere in dining areas – their portraits are hung on the walls to enjoy long term.
Rose photography is the most popular when compared to other flower photos, followed by lotuses, orchids, tulips, irises, violets, lilies, orange flowers, pansies and sun flowers. Although roses come in many colors and sizes, rosebuds may be the most popular form of a rose. Roses are boundless in their variety, beauty and meaning in our lives. Roses can be said to be a synonym of love. Roses have been the first choice of many artists depicting not only the beauty of nature but the beauty of women and beauty of minds as well.
Roses were considered special by the Romans and they were grown for pleasure and for use at wedding celebrations, as medicine, and to make perfumes and fragrant oils. Roses were in such high demand during the seventeenth century that royalty considered roses or rose water as legal tender, and they were often used as barter and for payments. Is it any wonder that rose photography continues to be so popular?
General Tips For Flower Photography
There is nothing more bedazzling than an open field of flowers reaching out from the ground to caress the sun. As any amateur or professional photographer would claim, flowers have always been a staple subject in photography classes, being delivered by the bulk to the studio or having hobbyists going out to various flower markets.
If your conditions for shooting flowers are fixed by a studio, checking the fresh batch of delivery helps you segregate the worn flora from those that can be used. Damaged petals, impurities in the color and how the stems curve are a few things you can look at.
The general guidelines for shooting flowers are really a reflection of the basics of photography. In sum, a photographer should first of all, identify the subject: are you shooting the entire flower arrangement, or are you just highlighting a portion of your subject. Determining your subject will depend on the context of your shoot. Usually, straight out product shots involves having to shoot the entire flower arrangement plus the vase to see the subject in its entirety. Lifestyle shots do not require having to show the entire subject from bud to stem to vase and would rather settle for a creative execution.
Determining the subject also entails the use of some photography tips. The use of patterns or “abstracting” flowers is a common tip that you can never go wrong with. Rather than highlighting the flower as well, a flower it would be interesting to see the flower as a mere shape. This means highlighting the flower’s petal outline, going up close and focusing on the structure of the veins, or going wide and taking a row of flowers as they shoot towards the sky.
A tip when shooting veins is to have a natural backlight behind the flower (an artificial light source like candles or house lights or best of all – natural, but not direct sunlight) to highlight the lines and patterns The end result is a play with shapes and lines that “lead” your eyes to a certain part of the photo. An example of the leading lines technique would be to highlight petal veins that lead your eyes towards the center of the flower bud, which is your main subject. Another example would be to shoot the flower from its side with the stem leading up to the flower bud.
Using leading lines and abstraction techniques are two simple ways to identify and style your subject, specifically with flowers.
This article was written by Timothy Spencer for Island Rose – Flower Shop Philippines We hope you enjoyed this article and encourage you to visit our website. Through Island Rose, you can send Gifts to Philippines or simply browse through our blog for more informative articles.
