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When friends and guests first enter your home, what is the first room they see? Most likely it's a foyer or front entryway. Making your foyer friendly and inviting will give your guests a pleasant welcome, and be a refreshing room for your to enter when returning home. Since foyers are generally a small area, it is best to keep your decorations to one theme. My personal favorite is to decorate the foyer in your home with personal family photos.
Types of Foyers
If your foyer has several doorways, or windows, try decorating the space with small, slender tables, topped with a variety of family photos.
If your foyer has at least one wall that is wider than the doorways, try making a photo collage arrangement on that wall. Then, accent that main wall with a small arrangement of photos on the other smaller spaces between doorways.
What Photos Do I Choose?
When selecting the photos to put on display, you have several options.
You could choose to decorate your foyer with all candid photos of family, friends and children being active. This would be a great time to display babies destroying birthday cakes, dad showing off the big catch or your puppy playfully discovering the backyard.
Or, you could opt for all the professional family portraits that you have gathered over the years. People love to stop and gaze at how people have changed through the years, and we all have spare school pictures in a drawer somewhere! This is also a great opportunity to display those old photographs of great-great grandparents.
If you have a lot of photographs, you may want to make a seasonal display. How fun is it to look back at old Christmas pictures while the holiday is approaching? As we anticipate Spring, fill your foyer with pictures of bright flowers and lush landscapes. If you're planning a birthday party, fill your foyer with pictures of the birthday person!
If you have just been on a vacation, show off the highlights of your trip by decorating your foyer with enlargements of your vacation photos. Sunsets, scenery, landscapes and candid moments will allow you to re-live the trip each time you enter your home.
Another fun way to decorate your foyer with family photographs is to have your favorite photos reprinted in black and white or sepia brown-tone, and just display monochromatic photographs!
If you have a home photo printer and some basic photo editing software on your computer, you can easily reprint your favorite digital photographs in black and white or sepia brown-tone. Most photo editing programs have a one button option for these fun features.
What Type of Picture Frames Should I Use?
When decorating your foyer, plan to use frames that will accentuate your wall color and floor covering. When in doubt, wooden frames that accent furniture that is visible nearby will look great. Solid black frames are always classic, and match most decor, too. If you choose to go with a holiday theme, you may want to choose decorative frames that accentuate the holiday season.
No matter what theme, frame or design style you choose for your foyer, you will surely be welcomed each time you step into your home and see warm inviting memories staring back at you.
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So we met our wonderful couple Giselle and Mike at the Hard Rock in Hollywood!! A little nervous and unsure how things would go, Favio and I assured them they would do great. They did not disappoint… Oh my… first of all, love just oozes from both of them. I felt like a spectator to a love story unfolding before my eyes and my main concern was to capture their love!!! Nervousness obviously went out the window and they just enjoyed each other. We had an AMAZING time getting to know you guys and just laughing with you!!!
We are sooooo excited for your wedding in October!! I know it will be a blast!
Thank you guys for an amazing evening and for the present you sent us (last photo). You had me at chocolate covered strawberries, YUM!!!
Here are just a few of about 250!! I LOVE my couples!!!
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Today, we're highlighting Todd Van Fleet – an outstanding photographer who is participating in The Big Picture – where great agencies and great photographers connect.
In Lander, Wyoming , a small town nestled in the middle of the Wind River Mountains there is no shortage of awe inspiring vistas and breathtakingly beautiful scenery to capture and entice an artist's eye. However, back in the 1980s, there was a shortage of art programs and support for a young Todd Van Fleet, who, even at the age of 8 or 9 knew he wanted to be an artist. But, that shortage did not stop Todd. Nor did that stop his parents from encouraging and supporting him. Whether it was drawing, painting or taking really bad pictures with his dad's old Pentax camera, Todd was driven to express his artistic impulses.
By the time Todd was a teenager, he was satisfying his artistic spirit by taking every elective art class available in his high school. He even appointed himself the sports photographer for the school newspaper. “Because there weren't any classes available, I literally taught myself how to use a 35mm camera on the field and even how to use the darkroom,” he remembers.
Todd was ambitious and serious enough about art that he decided to enter his paintings and drawings in Wyoming's annual State Art Symposium, an event that showcased the best of the state's young art talent. From there he was offered three portfolio scholarships to art schools. He chose the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and moved to Denver in 1994. “Everything was my passion,” he says. Airbrush, drawing, painting in oils, illustration, photography.”
Since getting his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in 1998 Todd has been a freelance artist, creative director and photographer. Today he focuses on his “vintage bicycle portraits” based out of Denver, CO. Todd's work is a direct reflection of his love for everything that he sees a bicycle is; freedom, innovation, ingenuity, simplicity and the wind in your face feeling like a young kid again.
Todd's favorite thing to do is spend time with his wife and two daughters. Quite often they organize cruiser bike rides with their friends and community.
As of October 2009, Todd has been asked to serve as the photo editor for Kickstand Magazine. As you can imagine it is quite the appropriate fit.
As part of The Big Picture, Todd will shoot complimentary headshots of your agency's principals or workspace – allowing you to get to know him and how he works. The trade-off is that if you like his style, you'll use him for upcoming paid work.
To see more of Todd's work, or to contact him about an assignment for The Big Picture, check out his websites here or here.
If you're a photographer who would like to participate in The Big Picture, simply drop us a line and let us know.
In the first incident last March, he was actually tackled by an officer who supposedly was later disciplined.
You can hear that incident in the audio recording he made that demonstrates that although he is an aspiring pilot, he would make one hell of a lawyer.
The assault takes place in the first clip. The second clip captures the aftermath, including a moment when a cop tells Vorus he needs to “stop hiding behind the Constitution.”
In the latest incident earlier this month – which was covered by NBC Washington and might be covered by The Washington Post - he came across a few cop cars making a traffic stop and snapped a few photos.
A male cop demanded to know what he was doing. He asked if he was being detained. The cop hemmed and hawed and told him no, he was not being detained. That he was free to go.
“As I was walking away, two other units pulled up,” he said in a phone interview with Photography is Not a Crime.
A female officer then stepped out and demanded his identification. He asked again if he was being detained. He also started recording the conversation.
“I notified her that I was only required to provide her with ID if I was suspected of a crime,” he said.
“She said, ‘yes, you’re being detained.’ I said, ‘now that we’ve established I’m being detained, here is my ID,’.”
The officer, who was under the impression that it was illegal to photograph police in public, then checked to see if he had any warrants against him. She also said it was illegal for him to audio record her, which he was doing openly.
Neither is illegal in Washington DC.
Meanwhile, the first cop was telling him that he was free to leave. Both officers were of equal rank.
Vorus asked for a supervisor, which only complicated matters.
“A sergeant arrived and told me I could not take pictures without permission,” he said.
A friend of his then arrived at the scene and tried correcting the officers by informing them that he, in fact, did not need permission to take their photos.
“Then they started asking for her ID,” he said.
But she knew better than to provide her identification.
He was eventually released after almost 30 minutes.
A few days later, Vorus spoke to a Sgt. Mercer at the police department to file a complaint.
“He said those officers were incorrect and that anyone can take pictures on public property,” he said. “He also told me he would speak to the officers to get their side of the story.
“It was Tuesday and he told me to call him back on Wednesday.”
Vorus called back on Thursday and surprise, surprise, the sergeant was no longer so cooperative.
“He now had an attitude. He said the officers told him I was taking pictures of inside the police cars. I told him all the pictures I took are posted on my blog.”
Not that it should have made a difference. As long as he is not physically entering the police cars, he has every right to photograph whatever can be seen from the outside. If the cops don’t like it, let them tint their windows.
The First Incident
Vorus was hoping to take photos of airplanes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va.
It was March 1st and Vorus contacted the airport’s media relations department to inquire about its photo policy. He spoke to a Tara Hamilton.
We talked about me taking photos at the airport check-in kiosk for the airlines since that was private property leased by the airport, she notified me that I would need to ask their station managers. She also told me that she would notify TSA and Airport Police of my presence.
It wasn’t long before he was approached by Transportation Security Administration officials inquiring about his photography. The first two times, the TSA officials were in uniform. He told them he had permission and they did not push the matter further.
But then he was approached by two men in suits who told him he was not allowed to photograph “TSA checkpoints or TSA personnel.”
“They said they were in law enforcement. I asked them to show me a badge,” he said.
One of the men told him, “we ain’t going to show you shit.”
They eventually pulled out Homeland Security credentials.
Vorus began recording the conversation. He then snapped some photos of the men.
Then he walked away after being informed he wasn’t being detained.
But then one of the Homeland Security officers beckoned a uniformed Metropolitan Washington Airport Police officer who was on a bicycle, telling him him that Vorus was being “combative.”
In cop talk, combative is anytime you question their authority. It’s the equivalent of contempt of cop. The only difference is, the word “combative” written on a police report gives them the justification of beating your head in.
So Vorus got into a discussion with the police officer, whose name turned out to be Corporal King.
I asked him “was I being detained” after 2 minutes of his hostility, and he did not respond. I then asked a couple more times. He stated no, I then asked him was I free to leave he also said no, I then followed up with well then I am being detained. He asked me for identification. I asked one more time was I being detained. NOTE: “By this point I am extremely frustrated. I was verbally abused by two TSA employees and accosted by an Airport Police Officer.” Officer King stated that if I did not provide proper Identification, I would need to leave the airport. I decided at this point I would depart from the airport.
As he was walking away, Vorus turned around and snapped a photo of King and another officer who had joined him.
This caused King to become combative, to say the least.
I was told by other officers that I was being detained as a suspicious person. When it was confirmed that I had been detained, relinquished a VA Driver License. I then was told that I would be taken to jail at least for disorderly conduct.
Officers came, examined the images that were stored on my camera’s memory card. I was told to delete the images of TSA personnel and airport personnel. I was released twenty minutes later. I was told that I was being detained for suspicious behavior, but I was never searched.
When I took a picture of Officer King he jumped off of his bicycle and said “your ass ain’t gonna take a picture of me” and tackled me. I yelled “ that is assault, get off of me”. He grabbed the camera that was around my neck and walked away. The female officer yelled and motioned for me to sit on stairs that were to our left, two more officers came and yelled for me to sit down. One officer had a M-4 assault rifle.
The cops ended up deleting his images, which he was unable to recover, before sending him on his way.
He ended up filing a complaint against King and learned that the officer had “violated departmental policy” and “appropriate action has been taken” but wasn’t told any details, which probably means King was simply told not to tackle anybody when it was obvious he was being recorded.
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