Dinea, yeah, I never got your card, wonder why in the world it got sent back??! Jeez, thanks for sending me a card!

I went into SUPER-depth on my blog, expanding on Me Ra’s great questions. I didn’t know I had so much to share, honestly, until I was asked! I KNOW you ALL have something you could teach somebody else…

love, love, LOVE all that you are!!To know from just a few hours of our lives connecting what you created with your artistic talent behind the camera is truly a WORK OF ART!! Yes, you are a “COOL CAT”…and more than that, a woman with a HEART OF GOLD who impacted my life..
THANK YOU,Me Ra for recognizing art at its finest~

I love that shot girl! I sent you a card and it was sent back. Thanks for being you and having such a fun style and inspiration.

Dinea

Drew, my almost-9 year old who is tender and smart. He feels great responsibility for his 5 year old wild child sister, Gwen. He’s like a miniature Dr. Phil, setting her straight about everything from squeezing the cat, or cleaning up her messes.

I’ll blog about them and post pictures!

Malia actually brought in an image she had found on the internet that had a similar sillouette effect. “Can you do this?” She asked. Hmm, not until I talk to Marion Cain (www.marioncain.com), the photog I share my studio space with who is a STUDIO LIGHT Whiz! We have been talking about him giving studio lighting classes. He’s one of those people that is right at home with studio lighting and full of ideas. If you check out his website, just brace yourself, he shoots a lot of models in bikinis on motorcycles!!
So Marion explained to use a strobe light with a “gel”, or colored cellophane plastic, clamped across the light. The backdrop is plain blue, but the “flashlight” effect the strobe has with the pink gel looks SO exotic when you add Malia. And how great is the light reflecting off of the…oh what are those pieces of fabric called…jeez..well you know. Anyhow, this was a huge challenge and a big experiment, to try what turned out to be this ultra simple lighting effect. This is something you could do a mini-model of with your kids’ action figures and a flashlight and some sheets. I mean now that you know it’s just one light…make the shutter speed fast, maybe 1/200th. Everything else, just experiment! I know I kept a ISO 200 which is probably where the deep colors originated. Also very important–we were in my studio where there are NO windows. So you know what that means. Now you’re gonna have to take your mini-model of this lighting setup in your bathroom and where it’s dark and take a picture and send it in to Me Ra and me, and of course Malia would get a big kick out of seeing that, too. Lol! I’ll leave the explaining of your odd behavior to your hubbie up to you! But it would be really fun and a great lesson in the basics of light in a goofy, i’m-playing-with-toys kind of way. But you know you miss that…

This is soo long, Me Ra. Is that okay?! I don’t want to break any blog comment rules. Can I finish the rest of the questions on my blog?

Thanks so much for the awesome vibes you guys are sending this way! I feel them!