Every year graduation season begins around the end of March and it’s normally a festive and proud time for teachers, parents, and students – a busy season for Senior and Graduation photographers. In 2020, however, things changed. Covid19 changed our history in a way that nobody could have expected and humanity had to rethink how […]
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Covid19 porch portraits
2020 should have come with a reset button according to a lot of people – it’s just not been a great one so far… however, it has given rise to Covid19 porch portraits which will become memorabilia for generations to come. Life as we know it, globally, is over and it feels like a weirdness […]
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Brooke McKenzie Amador contacted us at Blue Mermaid Photography for a family portrait shoot. What tugged at my heartstrings was the fact that her lovely dad had been diagnosed with a recurring bout of cancer so they wanted the photographs before his treatment started. This blog is my way of reiterating how important family portrait […]
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My friend KB and I have been talking about doing a roadtrip to Taos for the longest time. She told me about this place when we first met, which goes back over 20 years! Her parents lived there and she knows the place and it’s people intimately. My interest was piqued particularly by the Taos […]
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A genre of my art which is very close to my heart is Black & White photography. A monotone photograph seems, in my opinion, to stand the test of time so much better than colour. Where colour is a fashion, whether it’s an HDR hyper realistic colour or a faded retro colour tone, it eventually […]
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The heat of a Florida calls for easy-to-wear but elegant clothing which is what Off the Grid boutique owner and designer, Nicola Mastin, has gone for in her new resort wear range: Out of the Blue. The clothes are clean and crisp, comfortable and flattering to all ages and sizes of women. For a woman, […]
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As a ‘newby’ here, I have only been through one full summer and that was an interesting experience. I come from an area in South Africa called Zululand and although the heat is comparable, the humidity is a bit less daunting which I found hard to believe before arriving in Florida. An aside: the portrait […]
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