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©Vargas Thank you M. for spending time to photograph you this last weekend. You are a truly great model. I hope the best for you and your family. Keep up the good work! High Key Portrait.

Jay is a very happy kid. He has a great personality and I had the pleasure of take some photos of him the other day. Old filter was applied.

While being in an elevator with my daughter I asked her to look up. After a few minutes of postprocessing I came up with a concept that reflected the mood of the day. Most of the time you make photos and not just take them. Make your imagination add to the vision of the photos at hand. Good luck!

Picture I took of my daughter this weekend. She wasn't in the mood for this kind of picture, but I like to make her show herself in other ways. This way her character can experince new ways of seeing herself. This is also a good technique for your customer, you need to push the envelope with your customers and make them go to areas they never been at but they would like to try. Communication is the key to your success and theirs.

Now, go and get me some business.

"IT IS EASIER TO PHOTOGRAPH SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL BAD, THAN PHOTOGRAPH SOMETHING BAD BEAUTIFUL."

©Vargas Creating art is not only defined in my book as a pretty photograph. Sometimes objects photographed scream for other mediums in which they can flourish. I tried this British Art Software to get the look I wanted from these colorful objects. Artistic? You be the judge, but I'll keep my opinion.

Usually when something that you do is important to you, you try to prepare yourself to be a good representative of such as skill, trade or craft. I set myself to do just that in my photography. The photographers that I admire usually come from such groups and institutions. These people live and sleep their profession. There is a lot to learn from them and I hope one day to be one of them. It is a goal to look forward. It is a goal to work for. I got my price of admission the other day by getting CERTIFIED. Now what?....world, here I go...

©Vargas It is always a good idea to carry a camera with you. Recently, I had the opportunity to photograph this nice lady. She was so happy to show me her engagement ring that I asked her to take a picture of her so she could send it to her friends and announce her recent engagement. She accepted right away. Fortunately, I had my Canon G9 and snapped a few shots. I got some nice pictures for my portfolio and maybe a wedding portrait session. Networking thru a point and shoot camera....

click to enlarge Creativity challenges are just a matter of stepping out of confort zone and create something out of nothing. Your skills are challenged by new vision and new situations not encountered before. For example, go to your backyard and take a picture of any object that interest you. Nothing that interest you? great!! find something that doesn't interest you and create something. I did it, I took a picture of this rusty grill vent and made something out of it. Know you potential even though it is not there yet, but you know how to find it.

click to enlarge I have a vast amount of photo magazines and I love to read them constantly, even the old ones. They are a great source of ideas. For example, I did this project after seeing a master photographer do it. Obviously, I tried to improve upon the idea and run with it. This picture won a prize after hours of research and planning on my part. Just because it looks simple, doesn't mean it is.

click to enlarge If you like to photograph people, you should not let go the opportunity to photograph couples who are engaged. They are very willing to be photograph and it is a lot of fun and you get to create lots of memories for these people.

click to enlarge One of the photos I took of this beautiful lady. I want to thank her for being my model for the day. Filtered to create and old look.

Our mortality is defined by time. Time is constant and it cannot be stopped. Our Mortality is innevitable.

Howard Hughes resting place. One of the most famous people in this place. It is a great experience to visit this site. I had the pleasure to visit with a great bunch of great photo enthusiasts, people from the Houston Photobloggers . Laurie the captain of the bunch organized this field trip, she couldn't have picked a better place and day to go visit. Thank you Laurie!!!

©Vargas I recently took some pictures of some friends and after I had delivered the pictures the first thing it came to their minds was "You have a great camera." First, it made me feel bad because they thought that the camera is the reason for their great photos. Come to think of it, it is part of my high quality optics equipment that make me take great photos, but the other reason is the skills, experience, etc. I have but you cannot argue with a person who does not know about your profession otherwise. So, rather than arguing with them and delivered my pictures and let them believe the MY camera was making the great images...maybe next time they will hire my camera again and I will go along for the ride...