Have you ever asked a friend "Does this dress make me look fat?"  Are you insane enough to think that you will get an honest answer with this no win question? Consider all the bad singers on American Idol.  They have lived in complete denial their whole lives with no one telling them the honest truth.  On ...

As a Photoshop retouching expert, customers often ask me to change reality.  I have erased ex-husbands and added a person to a group photo.  My clients have lost 20 lbs without going on a diet.  Years of aging, eye bags,  double chins, and crows feet are removed without plastic surgery.  Too bad life doesn't imitate art.  The virtual world of Photoshop is a ...

Have you ever wondered if you were given a camera as a child, what would you have chosen to photograph? How would your world look like from a child's perspective? What would you have chosen to photograph? What photos would you have treasured? As the daughter of a photographer with Hasselblad and Leica cameras, we didn't have ...

Mario Co is a nationally recognized photo journalist and my father.  Many photographers would love to apprentice with my father but he has only taken me under his wing. Back in college, my father made me his assistant taking care of the equipment, fixing his files, and eventually taking pictures under his tutelage. Some of our work ...

A picture says a thousand words!!! Photos create emotion and draw you into a story. I wanted to create a story in my living room. A story that my family could enjoy and would be an inspiration each and everyday. Plus I wanted a way to share a piece of our lives with friends and family ...

Since most of us don't live in the wild, we need to find creative ways to photograph nature. Insects make excellent subjects since they are small and have interesting features. With insects, you get to use the macro feature on your digital camera to get all the interesting details. Butterflies are fluttery but intriguing creatures as ...

Ignorance is bliss. As an amateur photographer who needs to take professional looking digital photos for websites, I thought that my inexpensive Olympus digital camera was perfect. Then my stone mason brought over his Nikon D40 digital camera to take pictures of his stone work and my world changed. His Nikon D40 photos were stunning.   About that ...

Anne Geddes has elevated baby portraits to an artistic expression of the wonder and joy of new life. Whether she is photographing a baby being held in the palm of a loving hand or dozens of babies in flower pots, you can’t miss her love for her subject matter. My sister introduced me to Anne Geddes greeting ...

Sometimes the best things in life are free.  Google's Picasa is amazing free software to organize your photos.  You will wonder how Google can provide so much for free.  Picasa is one of the first programs that you will want to load on any new computer.  It has simple editing features to crop, brighten, add text, fix red eye, retouch, create collages and enhance ...

Alligator reserves do not make it easy for photo opportunities. Since alligators can’t really roam with the public, they are surrounded with wire fencing which gets in the way of shooting perfect photos. With my Canon s5IS digital camera in hand, I had to get up close and personal with a 12 year old male alligator ...