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Happy Mother's Day

Joy — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:53:00 GMT

Happy Mother's Day from Camelot Portraits!
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"Today's moments with family and friends, the hugs, the kisses, the tears, become tomorrow's memories."

Ethanol Fact and Fiction Or, How the RFA Distorts Facts

Joy — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:56:43 GMT

http://farmecon.com/ethanolfacts.aspx

FarmEcon LLC

A source of information on global farming and food systems

Ethanol Fact and Fiction

Or, How the RFA Distorts Facts

The U.S. ethanol industry would have us believe that fuel ethanol can replace fossil fuels, significanlty reduce our dependence on imported oil, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the cost of gasoline. They also state that ethanol production does not take away from food production and does not contribute significantly to food price inflation. None of these statements are true.

The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA, http://www.ethanolrfa.org/) is the self-proclaimed voice of the U.S. ethanol industry. The membership of the association is made up entirely of companies who either produce ethanol or have an interest in high corn prices. The membership of the RFA has a strong vested interest in promoting ethanol production and the government subsidies that make it more profitable. The motives of the RFA are to promote ethanol production, not the public interest.

Below are statements from the RFA Web site and some facts that contradict those statements.

Statement #1, Objective of the RFA: "Promote federal, state and local government policies, programs and initiatives that encourage expanded ethanol use." (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/about/philosophy/)

What is wrong with this statement? The RFA only promotes policies that promote the interests of its U.S. ethanol producer members. The RFA has strongly supported the $0.54 tariff on imported ethanol that acts a barrier to wider U.S. use of fuel ethanol. (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/objects/documents/1121/2007_rfa_legislative_priorities.pdf)

Bottom line: The RFA supports wider use of ethanol only when it benefits its members. The RFA has does not want Americans to have access to less expensive ethanol from Brazil.

Statement #2, Increasing U.S. Ethanol production does not increase food prices: "Corn demand for ethanol has no noticeable impact on retail food prices. A central theme in the “food versus fuel” myth is the false assertion that moderately higher corn prices, spurred by ethanol demand, are leading to higher retail food prices for consumers." (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/facts/food/)

What is wrong with this statement? Corn prices are not "moderately" higher, they have almost tripled over the last three years. As a side effect of higher corn prices farmers planted more corn and reduced acreage of soybeans and rice. Now prices of those basic commodites have gone up too. Effects on retail food prices are starting to show up. The Consumer Price Index for Food increased by about 2.5% per year in 2005 and 2006. The food inflation rate from September, 2006 to September, 2007 was 4.4%. This increase coincides with a sharp increase in corn prices that is solely due to increased demand for ethanol production.

In fact, corn prices are almost triple their historic level in spite of a record 2007 corn crop and declining amounts of corn used to produce the U.S. food supply. The increased cost of corn alone in 2007 is close to $20 billion. Food producers cannot absorb that cost increase, food prices must rise.

In fact, the RFA Web site itself even claims that ethanol production raises corn prices! Quote "By increasing the demand for corn, and thus raising corn prices...." (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/facts/economy/).

Bottom line: The RFA does not acknowledge the strategic importance of corn in the U.S. and world food supply, even in the face of a near-doubling in the food price inflation rate.

Statement #3, We can produce ethanol without reducing food supplies: "Ethanol production does not reduce the amount of food available for human consumption." ( http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/facts/agriculture/)

What is wrong with this statement? Ethanol from grain is an extremely inefficient way to produce energy. To replace the U.S. gasoline supply with E85 ethanol would require essentially the entire 2007 world grain crop. All of the world's corn , wheat, rice and other grains produced in 2007 can only satisfy the energy needs of U.S. automobiles. Never mind our trucks, ships, trains, airliners and other transporation needs, or the energy needs of other countries.

As a direct result of more corn planted for ethanol, U.S. soybean production declined by 22% in 2007. Prices for soybean oil used for cooking and soybean meal used for animal feeds have increased sharply as a result.

We have so far avoided some of the impact of ethanol on food prices because two years ago we had large buffer stocks of corn and soybeans. Those stocks are gone now. From late 2008 we will start to see the full impact of ethanol production on the U.S. food system.

Bottom line: Increased ethanol production is taking essential agricultural raw materials away from the U.S. food industry to line the pockets of the membership of the RFA.

Statement #4, Ethanol does not cause significant declines in fuel economy: "FFVs are not optimized to E-85, so they experience a 10% to 15% drop in fuel economy." (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/facts/engine/)

What is wrong with this statement? E85 has a significantly lower energy density than gasoline. A gallon of pure ethanol has about 66% of the usable energy of a gallon of pure gasoline. E85 therefore has about 71% of the energy content of gasoline. A car that gets 30 mpg on gasoline should get about 21-22 mpg on E85. That 29% (not 10-15%) decline in fuel efficiency is close to the official mileage ratings for flex-fuel vehicles (http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/byfuel/FFV2000.shtml).

Statement #5, Increased U.S. ethanol production is having a significant effect on U.S. dependence on foreign oil. "In 2006, the production and use of ethanol in the U.S. reduced oil imports by 170 million barrels, saving $11 billion from being sent to foreign and often hostile countries." (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/facts/energy/)

What is wrong with this statement? According to the RFA Web site, in 2006 the U.S. produced 4.855 billion gallons of ethanol (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/industry/statistics/). On a gasoline basis, and ignoring that it takes significant amounts of petroleum to produce ethanol, we produced an energy equivalent of 3.2 billion gallons of gasoline. At 42 gallons in a barrel, that translates to 72 million barrels, not 170 million. Taking into account the petroleum used in the production of ethanol only about 60 million barrels of net oil imports were saved, about 0.7% of our total petroleum imports.

A second error in this statement is that the top 3 suppliers of U.S. petroleum imports are Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. These are generally not considered to be "hostile" countries.

Bottom line: RFA statistics cannot be relied upon to paint a realistic picture of the role of ethanol in the U.S. energy economy.

Statement #6, The $0.51 per gallon ethanol tax credit (the VEETC subsidy) is needed for a viable ethanol production industry in the U.S. "Permanency of the VEETC and its structure is an effective risk reducing instrument for investors and the financial community, necessary to further expansion of the domestic ethanol industry." (http://www.ethanolrfa.org/objects/documents/1121/2007_rfa_legislative_priorities.pdf)

Several years ago, with oil prices of $30 per barrel and $1.25 gasoline, it was not possible to produce grain-based ethanol without subsidies. Today, with oil over $100 per barrel, the energy value of corn is high enough, without a subsidy, to support a viable U.S. ethanol industry. Abolishment of the VEETC would lower the price of corn for both food and ethanol producers.

Bottom line: Subsidies are no longer required for U.S. ethanol production, but the RFA continues its support because the subsidies benefit its members.

Disclosure Statement: Dr. Thomas E. Elam, President of FarmEcon.com, has no direct financial interest in energy companies, food production, farming or farm land. Dr. Elam owns shares in several mutual funds and a highly diversified portfolio of common stocks and bonds managed by a brokerage company. Managers of those funds may from time to time invest in companies engaged in energy production, food and agriculture.

Using Your Yard Improvements As Background For Your Portrait

Joy — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:19:37 GMT

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The Value of Memories

Joy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:06:00 GMT

The price of photographic prints today are, in many cases,
no more expensive than they were in the last 15 to 20 years.

Your Photographs represent your memories. In 10 to 20 years,
how valuable will your memories be to you?

Relation of Increased Number of Megapixels to Quality of Resulting Photo

Joy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:28:34 GMT

Note of Interest:
Just because there are an increased number of megapixels on those small point and shoot cameras, does not mean that the quality of the photos will be any higher!

VERIFICATION:

Sensor Sizes in relation to photo quality:

Sensor Sizes
www.dpreview.com/learn/?/key=Sensor_Sizes

The Laws of Physics

Luminous-Landscape
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/sensor-design.shtml

Visible light is found in the wavelengths between a 400-750nm (.4 to .75 micron). Obviously, an individual pixel (photo site) can't be anywhere near this small and still record photons. Today's smaller digicams feature sensors down to about 2.2 microns in size, and as we all know can be quite noisy. At this small size they simply can't capture enough photons as compared with their inherent noise level. DSLRs offering 8-12 Megapixel on APS sized sensors seem, therefore, to have settled in the 5-6 micron level and offer an optimum combination of resolution, low noise and moderate cost.
In summary, if you try for ever higher resolution in a small chip – something's gotta give. The smaller the pixels, the lower the quality as compared to a similar sensor with larger pixels. Very small pixels (sub 5 micron) start to run into the laws of physics, where signal to noise ratio, and the simple ability to capture enough photons limits their ability to sustain significant improvements given known technologies.

Making Sense of Sizes

So now we have enough information to try and make some sense of the entire issue of relative sensor size, image quality, and costs. Put simply – bigger is better, and costs more. That's the core of any discussion about digital image sensors.
The statement that bigger is better has implications for the competitive marketplace. In the days of film no one argued with the fact that large format produced superior image quality to medium format, and that medium format offered higher image quality than 35mm, and so on down the food chain. (Issue of features, convenience, and size aside.)...

This example holds true in much the same way today with digital. When enlarging medium format film, the fact that it required only a 4X enlargement to 35mm's 8X to make a roughly similarly sized print ...

Like Falling off a Logarithm

Every photographer is familiar with the F stop scale, the ratio expressed logarithmically of a lens' focal length to aperture. Each stop represents a doubling or halving of the amount of light reaching the sensor or film.
... F/2.8 – F/4 – F/5.6 – F/8 – F/11 – F16 – F/22 – F/32 – F/45 ...
Similarly, going from a 6 Megapixel chip to a 11 Megapixel one doubles the number of pixels, and the F stop ratios are a convenient way of thinking about this. Is it any coincidence that standard F stop increments are very close to the Megapixel counts on chips? F/5.6 (6MP) to F/8 (8MP) is one stop – a doubling. F/11 (11MP) to f/16 (16MP) is another doubling.
But, as we all known from our personal experience, such an increase, a doubling of pixel count, doesn't produce a doubling of apparent resolution. Subjectively what is seen is that such a doubling produces a noticeable increase, but not a dramatic one. It isn't until one increases pixel count by about two "stops" that an obvious advantage is shown by the larger chip. This is seen when going from a 6MP to an 11MP camera, or from a 16MP back to a 33MP or 39MP model. Simply put, it takes a quadrupling of area to produce a meaningful visible difference between sensors, even when both are being reproduced at the limits of the reproduction technology (say, 300 PPI on a print).
As to what these differences may be, we are now in the realm where bar room and discussion forum brawls break out. Some claim not to be able to see any significant differences under these circumstances. If so, fine, simply carry on as before. No one is trying to twist your arm. But, I can see the difference, and so can many other photographers.
What it is that we're seeing is another matter. I describe it as micro-contrast; very fine tonal transitions that seems to get lost with smaller sizes. This could well be caused by the relative lack of strain on the camera's lens when lower magnifications are called for. It is also something that we've always seen when comparing larger formats to smaller ones in the film world. Few would argue that a contact print from 8X10" film, or a 2X blow-up from 4X5" film, shows appreciably higher image quality than 35mm, even when both are printed well within the resolution limits of their optical train and the printing paper itself.

Having more MP doesn't give you better shots
Ipernity Blog
http://www.ipernity.com/blog/robertoballerini/28881

Tuesday November 13, 2007 at 09:44AM

... Vegitill's post:
www.ipernity.com/blog/14831/28793

Take a look to the 6mpixel.org site.
A more correct statement of this post title would be: having more MP doesn't give you better shots if the sensor size remains the same!
To have a more precise digitalization of a scene, having more pixels isn't sufficient; you have to have a corresponding increase of the sensor size or a better quality of the sensor sensibility; without those conditions, you will only capture more thermal noise: this is what I can understand from their site and what I can subscribe.
http://www.ipernity.com/blog/robertoballerini/28881

Puff! (disappeared) pro replies:
The problem seems to be mainly on compact P&S cameras; in the DSLR world they're increasing the size of sensors; the latest sensors have a surface greater than a 35 mm film.

Don Andre pro says:
You're right about noise, but there's also diffraction that is important to know about.

Diffraction occurs when a wave passes a small gap. The wave will magically expand behind that gap, reaching places that had no direct line to the center of the wave. (see this picture for example:
Wave Diffraction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wave_Diffraction_4Lambda_Slit.png
or take a look at this video:
Wave Diffraction Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4570787435193654614

As light is also just a wave this also happens in photography, the gap there is also there and called aperture. The smaller this aperture gets the more the light will expand anew at the position of the aperture reaching much more places on the sensor. Usually this concentrates around the centre of the pixel it would normally hit creating what is called an airy disk. The smaller the aperture gets the larger these disks become and obviously the closer the pixel density the more overlapping you'll experience.
Naturally the overlapping of the airy disks leads to a drop of sharpness and resolution. Typical DSLRs currently are diffraction limited at about f/11, after which sharpness drops. At f/16 for example you'd have more in focus, but it will be less sharp than at f/11. Now don't search for f/16 in a compact camera, you wouldn't find it! Because of their small sensors and their small pixel gaps, these cameras never go beyond f/8 really and as the article says some are limited by f/5.6 already. That's also why resolution doesn't always increase if you just add more pixels.
Sensor Size Comments
http://www.ipernity.com/blog/14433/28881/comment/826576#comment826576

Yahoo Answers on 12MP point and shoot:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080124034141AAflgrR

3) There are other reasons not to get a 12MP imager though--including noise and interference between closely-packed photosites so that a 12MP camera actually delivers a worse image than a lower MP camera on a point and shoot sensor of the same physical size. So, as you increase megapixels, at a certain point, you get diminishing returns.

4) On an SLR with a huge sensor (height x width), the difference between 7MP and 12MP is big--with a lot more apparent resolution. On a point and shoot, with their smaller sensors, the 7MP camera may actually deliver the better image.

For most reasonable print sizes, most people don't need more than 5 or 6 megapixels, even on a point and shoot.

From Bookmark To Movie

Joy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:50:04 GMT

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Joy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:07:41 GMT

Excellent Ideas For Color Choices For Your Bridesmaids Dresses

Joy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:13:02 GMT

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Please Take A Moment To Ponder This Very Important Message

~ ~ ~ When you are conversing with your photographer what you may like for your photography style for your wedding, ask him or her to please show as many faces of the wedding couple, and the guests as possible.
As people age, especially parents, it is more important for them to see the faces of their young daughter, and young son as they enter the sacrament of matrimony. Even though some may think that showing the backs of the heads is the style, as the years pass, and you look upon these treasured wedding moments of your own son, and daughter, and all you see is the back of someone's head, it could be anybody's head. The faces of their growing son, and daughter is what they treasure the most. This can never be re-captured. Once the wedding event has taken place, it is quite difficult to try to re-capture it.

So, this is the message to for you all to ponder ~ ~ ~

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Happy Easter

Joy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:18:44 GMT

Many Easter Blessings to you and yours!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day This March 17, 2008; Happy St. Patrick's Day

Joy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:06:48 GMT

St. Pats Day Music

St. Patrick’s Day

A Day When Everyone is Irish

St.Patricks day parade in CONTINENTAL EUROPE and features not only Irish/Scots/English, but also German clubs and societies, with an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 participants and spectators in 2007. Following the 2 km-parade, which usually takes place the Sunday preceding 17 March, is an open air party with live music and dance performances. Subject to it's recent growth, the D.I.F. Bayern e.V. ("Deutsch-Irischer Freundeskreis" - German-Irish Circle of Friends) now claims that it organises the second largest parade in the whole of Europe. Patron of the parade is Munich's mayor Christian Ude and the celebration is attended by the ambassador and the honorary consul of the Republic of Ireland.

In the United States

Irish colonists brought Saint Patrick's Day to what is now the United States of America. The first civic and public celebration of Saint Patrick's Day in the 13 colonies took place in Boston, Massachusetts in 1737. During this first celebration The Charitable Irish Society of Boston organized what was the first Saint Patrick's Day Parade in the colonies on 17 March 1737. The first celebration of Saint Patrick's Day in New York City was held at the Crown and Thistle Tavern in 1756, and New York's first Saint Patrick's Day Parade was held on 17 March 1762 by Irish soldiers in the British Army. In 1780, General George Washington, who commanded soldiers of Irish descent in the Continental Army, allowed his troops a holiday on 17 March. This event became known as The St. Patrick's Day Encampment of 1780. Today, Saint Patrick's Day is widely celebrated in America by Irish and non-Irish alike.

Postcard mailed in the United States in 1912

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Spring Sale For 2008 Wedding Photography Booked From Now Until March 31, 2008.

Joy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:57:22 GMT

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Celebrate Leap Year Day 29Friday2008

Joy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:40:11 GMT

Happy Leap Day

Julius Caesar established the Julian calendar in 46 BC and in 8 AD, leap years were inserted in order to bring the calendar year in line with the length of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Because the length of time of an actual year is 365.25 days, an additional day is inserted in years which are divisible by 4 except in the case of the last year of the century, then it is a leap year if it's divisible by 400. That formula was added by Pope Gregory XIII when he adopted the Gregorian calendar we use today.

Important Happenings on this day
1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
1940 "Gone with the Wind," wins 8 Oscars
1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar
1972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year
1980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
Every four years we have a Leap Year, which means we have a year
with 366 days rather than the typical 365. That extra day is always February 29.

This change in the calendar was created to maintain a balance with
the natural cycle of the universe. A 365-day year is actually a bit
shy of the natural course of a year, with its four seasons.

If we did not have an extra day every year, eventually those of us in
the Northern hemisphere, would be celebrating Christmas in 90 degree
weather and wearing parkas during our summer vacation months. It wouldn’t
stay that way though. The Summer months would be cold for a while, then
warmer again, then cold again, and so on.

In ancient times, a month was considered a month by calculating the intervals from
new moon to new moon. It was called a synodic month, or lunar month. With that
method, a month was 29.53 days.

A solar year - the length of time required for the Earth to revolve around the sun - is
365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and about 45 seconds. The lunar months were not
equal to the solar year, so the weather conditions during a given month would slowly
change over the years.
For example, think about the kind of weather you had in your hometown September 1.
If not for Leap Day, 50 years from now you would have the kind of weather you'd expect
in mid-October on September 1. In many places on earth that is a significant
difference.

In order to eliminate the extra 3 Leap Years occurring, years ending in
00 must be divisible by 400 to be designated a Leap Year. So the years 1700,
1800 and 1900 were not Leap Years, but the years 1600 and 2000 were.
February 29 is not officially named Leap Day. Because of this, dictionaries do
not capitalize the words Leap Year Day or Leap Day. In addition to that, calendar
companies do not recognize it as a day of importance by putting the words Leap
Year Day in print on February 29. It's a day that celebrates the calendar, and yet,
most calendar companies miss that point.
With that extra day performing such a balancing act for the sake of the calendar
I had hoped calendar companies would include the words LEAP YEAR DAY on
on February 29, 2008, but alas, the majority did not. My hope continues to 2012.
That extra day, February 29, has a valid reason for being there, and it has a name:
Leap Year Day.

It was put in place for one reason only. It's a little day with a lot of responsibility.
Leap Year Day does not receive the recognition it deserves. February 29 must be officially
named Leap Year Day so the calendar companies will recognize it and put it in print!
Leap Year Day is not a holiday. It is Leap Year Day. It doesn't need to be a holiday really.

CELEBRATE THE SPIN!
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HAPPY LEAP YEAR'S DAY
29February2008

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Congratulations Giants 2008 Super Bowl Champs

Joy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:22:54 GMT

Congratulations Giants 2008 Super Bowl Champs!

Congratulations on a GREAT GAME!

Remember everyone to celebrate these sporting events by being photographed with your favorite little leaguer, high school sports star, your favorite college sports team celebrity, and perhaps for that once in a lifetime portrait with your favorite professional sports VIP!

What memories these will bring in the future! Be sure to share these photographs with your friends, relatives, business associates, and partners by giving them each a photo of the highlights of your favorite sports teams, because everyone savors being remembered!

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Happy Valentine's Day

Joy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:24:58 GMT

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Remember to give portraits for that gift of a life time of memories!

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Love's Mighty Touch

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love,

I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge;

and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,

but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned,

but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous;

love does not brag and is not arrogant,

does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own,

is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails;

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away;

if there are tongues, they will cease;

if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child;

when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face;

now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.

But now abide faith, hope, love, these three;

but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13

http://www.foundationsforfreedom.net/Topics/Love/Love015.html

Send your loved one a portrait of yourself this Valentine's Day

BETTER YET

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

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Joy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:37:15 GMT

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Grand Opening of your Business, Business Staff Portraits, and Promotional Portraits

Joy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:51:17 GMT

Grand Opening of your Business, and Promotional Portraits

50 Designer Wedding Dresses
Over 50 photos of beautiful designer wedding dresses, made into an entertaining movie!
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Don’t forget to work with your local photographer to photograph your grand opening, your business staff as it changes, and those important promotional photos that you will need to market your business. These will enable you to inform the general populace so they will know what you are doing!

CALLING ALL SEAMSTRESSES, BAKERS, AND ARTISTS OF ALL CATEGORIES: YOU CAN USE THOSE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR WORK FOR DISPLAY AT RESTAURANTS, FOOD COURTS, SPORTS EVENTS, YOUR LOCAL CHURCH GATHERING HALL, AND MUSEUMS WITH PERMISSION TO PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS.

REMEMBER YOUR LOCAL PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER FOR ALL YOUR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY NEEDS!FOR EXAMPLE THE PHOTOS ON THIS PARTICULAR SITE:

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY PATTERN SHOW AND TELL
http://www.sensibility.com/pattern/showandtell/index.htm

IMAGINE THESE PHOTOS DISPLAYED ON A NICE DISPLAY STAND THAT WOULD HOLD SEVERAL PHOTOS SO PEOPLE MAY SEE THIS PARTICULAR SEAMSTRESS’ WORK OF ART!

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Christmas Portrait Wreath

Joy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:15:07 GMT

NEW TREND FOR CHRISTMAS WREATHS

NEW TREND FOR CHRISTMAS WREATHS

For all the stars in your family, you may wish to select some of your old family photos to display creatively on your favorite Christmas wreath indoors. For all you genealogy enthusiasts, this would go along with your current work in family history. What a time to remember family of years gone by, to bring them into the present!
Isn't this a part of what Christmas is about - Creating Memories?

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!

MAY THE GIFT AND WONDER OF THE CHRIST CHILD
BRING YOU MARVELOUS GIFTS WAY BEYOND YOUR DREAMS.

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