There wasn’t any treasury* recently included on the blog- so there you go! Something pretty to see here!
This one is lovely- isn’t it?
And it features my print showing the love for coffee!

So while quietly singing The Beatles -click on the screen shot below to view it live- and be able to select each item included:

All You Need Is Love

Treasuries are collections on Etsy.com, created by users and made to promote other users. They can be great tool, when discovering handmade crafts and arts.

Recently I have been playing with some alternative ways of photographing. And my alternative comes more from device being different than usual, rather than process.
Photos you can see below were taken with my android based cell phone- and processed through application called Retro Camera.
I like the effect so much that I have decided to add testing group to my shop with photographic prints on Etsy.com

morning beans

Morning Beans- 5″x5″ print

we need cuts

We Need Cuts- 5″x5″ print

the shot

The Shot- 5″x5″ print

Last night, while browsing through Etsy forum I have come across this promotional thread for the Item of The Day.

The idea is very simple- The Item of The Day is selected and announced as such at 11pm EST.  The sale lasts for 24hrs, until the next day 11pm EST.
Item of the day has to be listed in shop announcements and also added to the forum thread, where admins create a list with all items being promoted on certain date.

I think it’s really nice idea! So I decided to join!
My promos might be different from day to day. And I will keep updated information about current item of the day in the right hand side menu, including the preview of print on sale, as well as detailed information, what is the special for that specific photograph.

Stay tuned!

Current item of the day: The Guardian Angel.
8×12 print
Regularly: $28.00
Currently: $14.00 (until 11pm EST 7.11.2010)

Guardian Angel

Fine Print:
This promotion is valid only in my Etsy store.
All prices will adjusted for correct, discounted rate the moment of announcement of the sale.
Please, contact me in case of any questions: joannasphotography[!at]gmail.com

After long consideration and choosing and picking I finally posted few photographs from the Imaginary Florals series in my Etsy store.

The series was created a bit randomly.
Well, I had purchased a little bouquet with variety of different flowers. Sometimes I just like to add a little bit of spring to my kitchen decor and use fresh flowers to do so. I hardly ever go with specific type of flowers, the more casual the bouquet looks- the more I seem to like it.

Looking at these flowers, sitting on my kitchen table I got the idea of some very, very soft and photographed at the macro distance arrangements. And since the bouquet was aging and soon it would be it’s time to be thrown away- I decided to play a little bit with it and see what will come out!
So I set up my light tent, lights, reflector… got my macro lens…
And had fun! And I like the final look of them. It was exactly what I had in mind when I came up with the idea in the first place!
What do you think about these photographs?

All photographs from this series are formatted into square sizes. I feel, this way the perspective is more attracted to the flower itself and in some cases the flowers being almost perfectly round- it gives nice feeling of symmetry!

Hardly There

Siblings

Trio

Another week of Miss & Match from Female Photographers!
I admit- I skipped couple of weeks, but they are all posted on the main website for the project, which can be always visited and all great submission are posted there weekly!

Last week the theme I was chosen for was Comedy.
And I got the pleasure of working on our diptych with Laura Evans again!
Her work is so inspiring!

It was a little bit challenging theme for me. I had few ideas, but it seemed hard to get them to the point where I can capture it for the project.
At first I was thinking about some kind of theatrical representation. And than consider something lighter and more casual.
Each photo submitted into Miss & Match should be new, not published before- which of course makes us work harder and wake up the creative process!

Comedy

top Laura, bottom- moi

Friday just started great for me- and I wanted to share this with all of you!

My print from Long Grass Series is included in Etsy treasury, which was chosen for Front Page this morning!

The lucky print:

Long Grass Series, No 10