Spring is no time to be lazing around indoors binging on TV. The outdoors is alive bursting with colourful blooms, scents filling the air, wildlife adjusting to the brighter mornings, and the weather warming up, even if only slightly.
Your smartphone is your on-the-go computer. Regardless of the operating system (Windows, Android, or iOS), it will have a camera. The quality of photos taken is not as good as those taken with a DSLR, but with a little know-how, photos can be taken that are of a much similar quality.
The walls in any room are a blank canvas awaiting design. How you decorate them is a preference. It can be photos, paintings, sculptures, or shelves to display multiple ornamental items.
Art is and will continue to be, subjective. What one person views as evocative, imaginative, dramatic, or creative, another person could see the same thing and call it blatant vandalism.
Digital art is accessible and affordable. You can buy art online, have it delivered as a media file to your inbox, and print it out to frame in a matter of minutes.
There is no shortage of places to a buy a picture frame. Making a quality purchase that holds its value is another matter. Moreover, when you have items of sentimental or monetary value that needs framing for preservation, you absolutely need to be certain that the frame is up to the job intended.
Historically, the tradition for Mother’s Day gifts has long been a bouquet of flowers. The symbol started way back in the 1900s when children would pick wild flowers on their way to church. Over the years, traditions have faded, the traditional fruit cake (simnel cake) has fallen out of favour being replaced with more modern practices of breakfast in bed, or special Mother’s Day meals and recipes.
Caricatures are like the cartoon version of a photo. A rise in photo personalisation services is giving way to a fun and creative way to display ordinary photos in much more vivid detail. Caricature prints, similar to portraits, are only imitations of them with exaggerated aspects incorporated into the drawing. The end result can be funny with a striking resemblance. Much like ‘Spitting Image’, only in stills.
Ever wondered how motion can be captured in still photography? Or how sunset and sunrise photos always seem to come out over or underexposed?
Funerals and cremations are taboo topics. The problem with them is that nobody really has to research into what can be done with ashes until you have to. When you find yourself going through the grieving process of losing a loved one, then having the ashes but unsure what best to do with them, moving on can be tougher for longer.
