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{ FRIDAY Fair } Health, Wealth and Wisdom

Arise Shine Kids & Company — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:21:53 +0000

WISDOM: I found this post on the MCP Actions blog and think this lens would be a great addition to my camera bag:

{ FRIDAY Fair } Health, Wealth and Wisdom

Arise Shine Kids & Company — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:11:31 +0000

Health: Taking care of family is very important. Children keep you on your toes, and really and truly, they should keep you going with all their activities and fun! Have a wonder filled Independence Day weekend.

{ FRIDAY Fair } Health, Wealth and Wisdom

Arise Shine Kids & Company — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:41:23 +0000

Wisdom: I need a recommendation for a softbox type diffuser that actually fits on a 580 EXII. I tested the LumiQuest Softbox II. I didn’t use the velcro to permanently stick it to the flash because I wasn’t sure it’d fit properly—and it didn’t! I like the look of the images–got nice soft light (pinlights are not as harsh as an onboard diffuser), but the plastic sides are too big and just doesn’t fit well on this flash. Are there any good ones out there?

Here’s a collage of some of the images I took at about 7:30 p.m.:

{ FRESH FACES } Casting Call: Miami Baby, Toddler and Children Photographer

Arise Shine Kids & Company — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:14:45 +0000

{ Who’s Spotted? } Babies to tweens between the ages of 6 mos. to 10 yrs.
{ The Session } Is free of charge and you will receive a complimentary 8×10 for you and your kiddo’s time (no substitutions please).

{ Contact Me } Click here to send an e-mail to find out more. If you want to leave a comment instead, that’s ok too (comments are moderated so your personal info will not be posted on the blog). Please include the following:
- your name, e-mail and telephone/cell #
- your location in Miami, South Broward or the Upper Keys
- the name of your child (boy/girl) and age – let me know if you are interested in booking a session for more than one child

I will get back to you if you have questions and to schedule a session. Other than your complimentary 8×10, other images are available for purchase at portfolio building prices. I’m looking forward to working with both of you! Thank you. Have a wonder filled week.

Casting Call ends, June 15, 2009.

{ FRIDAY Fair } Health, Wealth and Wisdom

Arise Shine Kids & Company — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:27:37 +0000

Wisdom: Why was Soloman recognized as the wisest man in the world?

While looking for articles on Soloman, I found a post here to an article on storytelling that is extremely applicable to today as it definitely applies to Disney. Here are some highlights from the article:

Alan Kay, now vice president at Walt Disney, has said:
- Solomon was recognized as the wisest man in the world because he knew more stories (proverbs) than anyone else.
- Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
Stories are evocative systems of patterns. They provide a map charting the way to the future. They include travel hints in the form of viewpoints and links to archetypal story structures and themes that inspire and motivate people.
“Stories are marvelous means of summarizing experiences, of capturing an event and the surrounding context that seems essential. Stories are important cognitive events, for they encapsulate, into one compact package, information, knowledge, context, and emotion.”
Stories represent a basic and powerful universal form through which people make sense of the world and their experiences.
Great stories provide us with a road map or treasure map, which outlines all of the actions and tasks we have to accomplish in order to complete the journey successfully.
“Narrative is a complex, powerful, and mysterious tool, certainly one of the oldest technologies on the planet. Deep in the psyche, the world itself is a tale. Every story partakes of this mystery, every telling renews some recognition of this fundamental delight. At a practical level, stories provide us with given ways to organize, test, and simulate in the mind universal patterns of thought and behavior.”
Stories are much more compelling than information. Stories differ from information in that they have a start and a finish; they talk about events, not conditions; they imply a deep relationship among the events; stories are about particular humans; and stories are told in a human voice. As markets once again become conversations, marketers need to excel at telling compelling stories.

Photographs tell stories too, don’t they? Have a wonder filled weekend.