My first edit:

Dirty Pictured (Dirtied Picture? What’s the appropriate verb?:

Original (clean and lovely but kind of austere):

Dirtied (I really love how this one warmed up):

I have to say, I really enjoyed the layout and interface of the plugin, and I loved that I could make it render previews of all the textures using the actual image I was working on. It made it super easy to decide right away which textures I was interested in using and which ones I might have to delete from my computer entirely.

Here’s my fun news: my canvas provider is having an incredibly awesome sale!! Which means that I, too, can have an incredibly awesome sale!! Doesn’t matter if we did your pictures last week, last month, or last year, if you have been wanting a canvas, you should buy one now! Here’s the details:

• 16×20 gallery wrap canvas is $105 (add to cart).
• 16×24 gallery wrap canvas is $125 (add to cart).
• 20×24 gallery wrap canvas is $145 (add to cart).

These prices even include shipping! This is an awesome sale, because normally the 16×20 is $250. You do the math, and then shoot me an email (or click the “add to cart” links)! You don’t even have to pick the image out first, and if you’re not sure, it might be safest not to, because the sale price for me only goes through Sunday. To reserve your canvas at the sale price, I need to your order in to me by 3pm on Sunday (that would be August 1), so that I can get my order in to them.

For those on the fence about buying this theme, go ahead and jump.

This is more than a theme, or just another template. Jared has put together a “theme management system”, for lack of a better phrase. Even if you consider yourself “not a computer person”, if you can click a mouse button, you can take this and make it completely your own. What you see on my blog is just the surface of what this theme is all about. Where it really stands head and shoulders above the crowd is on the back end.

If you are a photographer and are interested in learning more about this template, please visit Jared’s site (you can use code RCORNETT232 for an extra $10 off… that code would be all capital letters, which of course doesn’t show here!).

So, hit your gallery, add a brag book to your cart (there is a link with all the cover samples so you can pick one out), and have your selection to me by 5pm on Sunday, December 7. As always, feel free to contact me with any questions!

I really liked how the presentation turned out–very clean and elegant, a lot like Karen’s work.  I won’t show you the whole thing, but I thought I’d share the first and last slides, just because I liked them.  The first one uses an image which is actually from Karen’s store (no, I did not take this picture–a very talented local photographer does the interior shots for Karen and his images are stunning), along with a blown up version of the store’s logo.

We wanted to keep the last slide simple, so we took the Inspire logo and recreated Karen’s fun business card (yes, they are square!).

If you want to see more of Karen’s work, visit her design site. The store site is here.

I’m glad you asked. First, because I like big pictures. With this fun new blog setup, there’s only one column, which gives me more room to put up bigger pictures. The sidebar with links and the search button and everything is way down at the bottom of the page–hasn’t disappeared, just moved. The other big reason for moving everything was because I really don’t need a huge site with tons of pages–actually, there were only three or four pages over there. I can put that information up just as easily (more easily, actually) on my blog. (See the menu labeled “about”.)

There’s some kinks to work out still, and I’ll keep tweaking (because I like to tweak!), but I am thrilled to be here. Because the blog address is changed, those of you using feed readers will probably need to update your subscription–not hard to do; just do it!

Thanks for stopping by and I’ll have some new fun pictures up in the next day or so!

I don’t know. It’s interesting, anyway… go check it out for yourself.

My first big issue was that I was supposed to come up with a name for the blog??? I hadn’t even thought that far ahead, was just thinking this was a nice place to put recent pictures that I enjoyed.

Pictures made me think of the old saying (come on, you know the one I mean), but I thought calling this “a thousand words” was a little presumptuous. But I thought it was an idea worth exploring, especially from someone who thinks that photography is like writing stories, right? If the images I share with you are supposed to tell a little bit of someone else’s story, then that’s what I’ll go with. So here are just a few words from me.