2003 Holiday Card

[Roger Ele]

Hi,

Just wanted to share our holiday card for this year, I thought it came out cool ...

The first photo is the front of the card, the second photo is on the back side of the front (left side when you open the card). The people in the photo are myself (sitting on the ground) with Joan, my wife behind me. Then my daughter Ginjenea, studio assistant Chantel, wedding photographer Calvin, and granddaughter Alessandra with our dog Riley...

Roger

[Roger Ele]

... and the back of the front ...

[LightWriter6208]

Roger...very beautiful and creative...I love it!

[deMille]

Now, that's outstanding! Great job.

[Linda G]

Nice! What's with you sneakin' a peek?

I had a freind who did 'angel' photography until she had one of the children she had photographed die. She couldn't detach herself from seeing children as angels and deceased children. Really too bad as her work was the best I'd seen. Now she makes them fairies!

[Roger Ele]

Thanks!

Me sneakin a peak is my sense of humor - It is hard to put into words because there are so many potential layers of meaning, and so many different ways that people will see it, but that is what makes it fun ... these are a few we could pick from, I am sure others could come up with ones I had never thought of ...

-that would be me proudly (hey, it's my family and studio and granddaughter and dog - I have a right to be proud) looking back aknowledging the viewer.
-I'm a smartass, everyone else goes along with the program ...
-The visual pun of looking back from the behinds ...
-Just another element of surprise - on top of the behind the front of the card photo from behind surprise ...

I love a certain ambiguity that lets people form their own conclusions.

I just have to point out that when I flipped the image and brought in the new behind elements that I remembered to reverse the direction of the shadows from the letters...

I got the angel wings thinking I would use them, but I never could get myself to be too excited by them. Everytime I would use them it would nag in the back of my mind that this would be not fun if the child died and, unless the child loved to dress up as an angel, not a reflection of the childs personality but a kind of unnatural contrivince to make money. So many gush over this stuff that I feel wierd saying this, but it is how I feel. I have done a few of the sessions and not said anything. Everyone loved the photos, but I don't push the sessions.

Everyone now has my permission to spill their guts in this thread;)

Thanks, Roger

[Linda G]

Nice answer, to both! :)

BTW, I would be the one sneakin' a peek and it'd be because I can't seem to do what I'm supposed to do.

[Roger Ele]

I was at a seminar for photographers where the photographer teaching asked the group how many had played a musical instrument, half of us raised our hands (I played the trumpet).

I wonder if another common denominator of photographers is the tendency to be a smart ass ... does the right side make suggestions that the left side interpretes and then back and forth and back and forth and forth and back ...

or it might be the right brain teasing the left brain (or the other way around?)

Seriously, photographers need to be both technical and creative, or be able to shift back and forth. Does that ability align with these other traits? Music is definantly both right and left brain ...

What other things do photographers tend to be?

Roger

[LightWriter6208]

BROKE!!!!!