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Life gives you a bowl of lemons and your parents tell you to make lemonade. Others tell you to pitch those lemons right back where they came from. To keep myself entertained, I came up with a few other ideas for those nasty lemons.
1. Clean your elbows… remove the dark spots for your next photo shoot
2. Squeeze the lemon juice on your hair and sit in the sun for natural highlights.
3. Use the lemon juice as ink and write out all your tormented thoughts and feelings… it’ll dry and become invisible… if you ever want to reread it, simply put it under a light and viola – there it is again.
4. Slice one up and stab cloves in it to make an air freshener (this is also therapeutic like a voodoo doll)
5. Try this and sit contemplating why… drop a same sized lemon and lime into a bucket of water and determine why the lemon floats and the lime sinks…
We’re very fortunate to be able to do a lot of traveling and know many people that enjoy the same thing. We’ve learned a few tips to help make you money and lower your stress level during your travels.
1. With most airlines charging per checked bag and penalties of up to $50 for overweight bags, it becomes all the more necessary to pack efficiently. With our camera/computer equipment weighing in at approx 65 pounds, we’ve learned a few tricks along the way. The airlines allow you to bring on 1 personal item, 1 overhead bin suitcase without a charge – if you don’t need both of those headed into your trip, pack a collapsible bag in your checked luggage in case your original suitcase becomes overweight. You can quickly remove some of your heavier items into the unused carry-on and away you go. Potential to earn: $50.
2. A second way to earn money while you travel is by booking an earlier flight near holiday travel times. This gives you the opportunity to be bumped to the next later flight and still reach your destination at the originally desired time. Often during the holiday seasons the airlines will overbook their flights. Being the first to volunteer to be bumped to the next flight rewards you greatly. The standard payment for bumping a traveler is a roundtrip ticket anywhere that airline flies, good for up to a year after your travel and sometimes cash as well. This can mean hundreds of dollars in your pocket for a few extra hours of your time. Potential to earn: $100-500.
3. If you end up missing your flight and see there’s just barely time to catch another flight, go straight to that departure gate instead of going to the ticket counter – most airlines will honor the ticket from the missed flight.
4. Airlines usually update their computers at midnight. Checking available fares just after midnight is the best time to find the lowest priced seats that open up from previous travelers that had booked but not paid for those seats.
5. Using a hotel safe – and keeping your money/valuables safe. It is becoming more and more common for hotel staff to dust the numbers of the in-room safes with a light coating of oil or powder on the buttons. When you key in your code, only the numbers you’ve selected will be residue-free. This makes it easy for staff to come in behind you and determine the numbers you’ve selected. By touching all the keys after locking your safe, it then becomes impossible for anyone to determine which keys were actually used in your secret combination.
We enjoy traveling and hope that you do too. If you have any tips to share, we’d love to learn about them.
If you’re looking for a realtor that is really on top of their game, we’ve met the perfect team. Meet “The Orbino Group” of Bellevue, Washington. Not only are they charming and perfectly in sync with each other and the market, but also they are reliable, dependable and a true pleasure to work with.
We spent some time with them yesterday on the 25th floor at the Harbor Club in Bellevue capturing their images while they conducted a business meeting. Not only were the views fantastic, but the staff at the Harbor Club was impeccable in their service.
We know the importance to having a team that works well together. Not only do we get more done with less confusion, but also we bring different qualities to the group which offers you, the client, more choices. Thank you for selecting Palmer Photography to be your photographers of choice. We appreciate our growing family.
Yesterday we set off to go do a photo shoot with our youngest model to date – 4 days old. We showed up at their house with more luggage than the baby’s new Mommy. As we set up the studio in their living room, we had to laugh that the 80 pounds of gear was all to capture the essence of a 6-7 pound spirit. What a doll! (Literally)
Seeing as how she was born so close to Halloween, we thought we’d carve out a pumpkin and do some holiday shots for the new Mom and Dad. Incredibly, she found the most comfort in the womb of that great big pumpkin…
Working with newborns is an entirely different ballgame than working with older infants or toddlers.
Infants are not used to being out of their frog-like comfort position. They also get cold very fast. Most of the shoot time is spent comforting or warming the precious one. Patience is key.
After a long afternoon of socializing, cooing and a fantastic meal (thank you so much!) we ended up with a number of precious memories for the first time parents.
Many thanks to our wonderful new friends for letting us be your family photographers. We look forward to working with you again in the near future!
Believe it or not, we all have a creative side that helps us express ourselves. You may be thinking that you don’t, but it’s true. You may not be a freelance photographer but maybe you enjoy scrapbooking, needlepoint or painting. Those are obvious creative outlets. But how about some others: gardening, baking, or blogging? Or some that are a bit more far-stretched: bar fights, creative use of profanity or even office doodles?
We enjoy working with a client or model and bringing out their story through the image. Everyone has a story and being able to portray that story in a single picture is how we express our creativity. Getting to know the client as more than a client adds to the composition that otherwise would only be a picture.
We especially enjoyed photographing the beautiful girl that has grown into a beautiful young woman even though she spent her entire life moving from one place to another, never benefiting from the generational roots in a suburban home. We shot her pictures with a symbolic suitcase with the world continuing to pass behind her as she sat strong and confident as a beautiful strong woman.
Another shoot that was fun was the young man with his skateboard. His board goes everywhere with him and as such, is truly a part of him. Or the Live Off Groupon Winner that is spending 1 year of his life touring the world on Groupons – we shot him with his computer because that is his lifeline to the world, the only way he is able to stay connected and find places to sleep or eat.
Spending time to think of the best way to tell someone’s story is important and to us, it makes photography more of an art and less of a career. We love what we do and hope that your family will partake in this adventure with us.
