With all that changes, some things still remain the same:
A couple decides that their two will become one (and added little ones, too!)
And the energy of their precious private moment
becomes an artistic testament to their love.
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Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
is relaxing the eyes’ focus (letting the eyes ‘go fuzzy’)
when waiting or resting.
It rests more than your eye muscles:
it also gives the ever-spinning wheels of mind a rest, too,
and lets your intuition come through
to show you how to see something new.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
Today on The Easel, I have a contemplative photograph with subtle and elemental symbols that show something different each time you look at it. This ballet of shape and pattern occurred during a moment teaching photography on a snowy day on the far side of Chicago:
In the photo above, it is the photograph behind my head.
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Sometimes candids need to look a little less candid-y.
The photo is from a snow filled time in Chicago when my daughter had come from Seattle for a holiday visit. We went to The French Market, my favorite place in the city to have lunch at a place that had Freitkoten: a way of making french fries my son really liked.
It was a rare and precious meeting with my kids that I tried to record on my phone, but my photos had resulted in the ‘selfie stretch’, enlarging the head of the person on the outside. Not only was it enlarged, but tilted as well.
I looked at it every day on my fridge, but when I considered making it a little nicer…I looked at it like a project I was making for a client I wanted to thrill.
What could help improve it, while changing it as little as needed?
Just what is needed.
Perhaps you have photos that have a quirk or two that keep you from enjoying them fully. There is no harm at all in gentle changes to do what improves them for you.
The truth, made a little bit better (smile!)
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Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
I don’t usually correct people’s images when I see them online in media – it is my observation that people upload what they choose to, and adjusting them is sometimes a second thought.
But I really like seeing the joy of people who have good images of their loved ones. Like an art restorer uncovering years of age and grime, I love to see the sparkle that’s been there all the time.
Sophie has devoted her life to creating extraordinary products that aid with spiritual development.
In this post she published an image of her younger self, an open smile under the flat yellow-sepia tone of film photographs of our past.
I really like the intimacy of looking at faces closely, and bringing the details back into awareness. Like a remastered record from your past, you can finally enjoy these images with refreshed beauty and memory.
I don’t consider it only restoring. It is a loving ‘digital caress’ from someone who is aware of the positive energy a good portrait of a loved one can have.
I sent Sophie the new image, with the apology of taking the liberty of changing it. And I am honored to say that she loves it!
My family has several beloved prints of my parents that have cracks in them so severe that the surface has disappeared and it will have to be reconstructed. I look forward to creating a renewed set of these favorite photos for my sisters and family to enjoy again.
Do you have older and damaged images? My digital ‘caress’ can take old family and favorite images and make them bright and beautiful again. Contact me here to look to see what I can do for yours!
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Some kids will be in need of others adult help to manage their lives all their lives. Some will need to have coaches, practicing, extra encouragement to try something in unfamiliar situations, using social skills others take for granted.
Love makes everything grow!
And in my life, it was 100% worth it. Seeing my guy Artist with his graduating class is abundance in presence, representing years of adapting to continual change and independence in my life and his with optimism, patience, and gratitude.
I speak for all good things for the tremendous special ed teachers we have encountered in critical times through the educational system, helping me ask the questions and meet other parents traversing their children’s futures.
I say Thank You to finding these stellar souls in his journey into adulthood.
Dorothy Perry photographs warm moments in family life. Contact her here.
