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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...

Photo by Tony Comer Art by Cesar Vargas In this time of lights and colorful scenes, I would like to wish you the best of celebrations with your families and friends.

Photograph by unkonwn, art by ©Cesar Vargas Yes, we are photographers and if we are not careful we are put in a category next to aunt Susie and Uncle Bob. When our clients ask us for pricing they immediately get second thoughts about hiring us and many decide to go with somebody who will do it for next to nothing. That is OK, potential customers have the right to do whatever they please, but the quality of your work cannot be compromised and given for free. Word of mouth is the key to grow your business be professional and charge accordingly. Do not cheapen your services if you want to photograph someone who cannot pay you enough, do it for free but do not do it cheap. This hurts the profession.

After a long period of trying to make my website reflect a more professional look I think I found it. I you get the time please let me know what you think about it.

©Vargas click to enlarge I took this beautiful portrait recently and I had a ball. I took the session mostly with a white background. In post production I added the background. Notice the veil projects the scene in a semi transparent process.

click to enlarge - ©Vargas Using filters is great way to enhance to mood of your pictures. Next time you take a pictures try those filters in your photo editor software, you will be surprised with the results!!

click to enlarge I like photography and I take every opportunity to take just one more photo. Here is a typical example of what a point and shoot can do. I took this picture at the office, one of the employee had gotten these flowers from her boyfriend. Always carry your camera you never know what you are missing until you carry your point and shoot everywhere.

click to enlarge I had the pleasure to spend some time, around 30 minutes, with Anthony Comer, an up and coming photographer with a lot of desire to learn. I snapped a few shots with my point and shoot and here it is one of them Enjoy!

©Vargas - Click to enlarge When taking pictures try to include a nice foreground into the mix. This will make your pictures stand out and create a look than not everyone take the time to do it. COMPOSITION is the word....GO OUT AND TAKE PICTURES!!!!

click to enlarge Macro lenses are really good to capture even the most shy creatures. This spider was in my office and I just grabbed the camera with the 60mm and started to shoot. I also used the camera flash to enhance the detail.

Click to enlarge I like macro lenses. They allow to get close to the action. Pcitures like these can only be achieve by a macro such as 60mm Nikon. Do youhave one? well, used it and have fun!

click to enlarge I found this dragon fly laying on the grass after a rainy day. Obviously is dead, but I took it and took some macros. After a few modification in PSCS3 I was able to make it look it was flying. Keep on shooting!

©Vargas When travelling make sure your pictures reflect the area where you visited. You can get an idea by looking at this picture where I was. The beach was great. I visited Puerto Rico recently and I made sure my pictures reflected the mood and feeling of my trip.

click to enlarge Sometimes we need to look up and look at the sky. In this case I saw the sky and saw it was good, but I went a little further and waited for and object to complement the sky and make it look to scale. It could have been a bird or an airplane. I took this picture and I liked the sky exploding behind the airplane. The sky created a chaotic background behind the airplane. Look up, look down, look everywhere and everything.

Have you ever tried to put one of your relatives in a photo cover? Well, I do this once in a while. It is a lot of fun and good practice for those who want to further the PhotoShop's skills.