Our Newest Fotographer Is L. Randall, From Virginia

Below, she will tell us a bit about herself, and her fotography: 

My name is Linda, I have a store at Zazzle called Observation Creations. I was born and raised in New York, now residing in rural Virginia. My father was a photo journalist in his younger years and he's been a great inspiration to me. I received my first camera when I was around 8 years old and have been in love with photography ever since. I made the change to digital photography about 6 years ago and although I was leery about it at first, I love it and now only shoot in digital. My main camera is a Nikon, I feel there is no comparison to the quality of a Nikon lens. Nature and landscape photography are my main areas of interest, I also love pet photography and will occasionally do portraits.
Recently I have been learning more about graphic artistry and digital manipulation. I am enjoying playing around with my photos and creating "new" things with them. Although I admit my taste in manipulation may be a bit odd to some. I hope there are some that will enjoy my edited photos as well as the ones that are left to their own natural beauty, of course.
Photography is my passion. Mostly I enjoy shooting nature, wildlife and abandoned places. Trying to capture the beauty of things we often observe everyday,but don't always take the time to notice.

Below will be Fotos, with an embedded link to her product in her Zazzle Store:

 

Our Newest Fotographer is Paula, from Saline, MI

Below she will tell us a bit about herself, and her Photography:

I started in photography with my deceased brothers Nikon FG camera around 1990. My husband and I were going to Hawaii on our honeymoon and I wanted to have nice photos. The FG is a manual camera and I had to take it to a camera store and get someone to show me how to use it. I used the FG until about 2007 when I switched to digital an purchased a Fuji S5200 which I still use today. I especially enjoy travel photography and photographing my beautiful peony flowers that I grow.


Following are some Fotos of her products with embedded links to her Zazzle Store:

Our Latest Fotographer is Gill, (Rural France) From: Limousin, France

Below, she will tell us about herself and her fotography:

I've been a photographer for many years, but only recently discovered "print on demand" via Zazzle. Since moving to France, my interest in photography has been renewed, and the hard winters have given me time to go through my large collection of 35mm transparencies and to copy a select few.  
I'm a keen photographer, ex-graphic artist, gardener and love all things natural and wild. I have a few animals of my own – horses, chickens, goats – some of which you will find in these pages. Although British, I have lived in this beautiful part of France for eight years, and love the countryside, the people, and slow pace of life.

I enjoy, photographing animals, flowers, landscapes and anything that moves or doesn't move.


Following are some examples of her beautiful fotos, with embedded links to her Zazzle Products:

Our Newest Fotographer is Liora Hess From Atlanta, GA

This is a first for our blogs (Fly-Fotos and Fly-Designers). The featured Fotographer and Designer are the same person, and Liora is featured in both Blogs today.  Below she will tell us a bit about herself and her work (do check out Fly-Designers to see her creativity there as well) :   

I'm an artist living in Atlanta with my black-and-white tuxedo cat (look for him in my artwork!). I'm Jewish and a breast cancer survivor (diagnosed just after turning 39). Currently my creative work is my "second living," but I'm working toward making it my primary income. I can't imagine ever wanting to retire from creating art!

I enjoy creating art with bold, clear colors, folk and whimsical themes, and art that uplifts with a message of hope and healing. Art to me is about the love of freedom to create anything and splash a blank canvas with whatever story I want to tell. I enjoy art that is clear and not fussy, but with a quirky edge -- which is who I am. I have two stores here on Zazzle: liorahess and greenbirdcreative. You'll see some overlap in art on both sites, but this store (liorahess) is the one I'm primarily building. I plan to fill it with mostly illustration, but a few photographs thrown in for fun.

Below are a few of her fotographs with links to her Zazzle Store, and to the individual products there:

                                                                                 

Our Latest Fotographer Is Jasmine From Metro Detroit

Below she will tell us a bit about herself, and her fotography:

My name is Jasmine and I'm from the metro Detroit area of Michigan. I've loved photography ever since I was young. I played around with some disposable cameras, but never took it seriously at that age. I had always enjoyed looking at photos from other people. I received my first digital camera as a gift from my boyfriend, who is now my fiance, in 2006 when I was 16 years old. I played around with that for fun, but didn't get into selling my photos until 2008 after I bought my second digital, a Kodak Z885, which I have been using since. The only place I've ever sold my photography at was Zazzle and I have been with them since the beginning of 2008. The main thing I photograph is nature. I like to shoot my photos as natural as possible. I don't set scenes up, and editing is rare. I just really enjoy capturing existing beauty. My next goal is to save up for a basic DSLR and teach myself how to use that.  I also enjoy fishing, when I can, movies and music.


Below are some of her Fotos with embedded links to that product:

Our Newest Photographer Is Chris Cafferkey,From: Loughbrough, United Kingdom

Below she will tell us a bit about herself, and her fotography:

I'm a photographer with a passion for nature and wildlife, but interested in other forms of photography as well. I love designing these products, and hope you like my store.
The fire art is very special. The photos are of a man using kevlar rope which is dipped in paraffin and set alight, then whirled around while I take long exposure shots. You won't find these anywhere else! If you know someone who loves fire these are the gifts for you.
You can mix and match products, and if designing your room, think about matching your office mug, mouse mat, and even ipad case. Interior designing could take on a whole new look! Check out the various departments for matching products, but if you see a design you want and can't find the product just contact me and I'll see what I can do for you.
All my designs are based on my own photography. I use them sometimes as they are, but others are digitally manipulated to produce original art I hope you love!
You can customize any of my designs to suit your needs. Change or add text, change the picture, it's up to you how you want your product to look. If you're happy with my design, ordering couldn't be easier. Discounts are available for multiple orders. Please enjoy looking around my store and tell all your friends about where they can get a unique gift for themselves.


Below Are Fotos of her work, that are click able to her Zazzle store:

Our Latest Fotographer Is BeBops From Upstate New York

Below We Will Learn More About Bebop's Work:

My name is Bebops. I have been taking pictures all my life. My father and grandfather were both professional photographers and I worked in their darkrooms as a teenager. I think that is how I came to love digital post-production. Here are three of my favorite photos but I have to admit, I love everything I have posted!
My favorite Pastimes are gardening, reading, photography, cinema, music and exploring the wild natural world.

Below are Fotos that when clicked will take you to the product on Zazzle:

Our Newest Photographer Is Steve Crompton From: Staffordshire, United Kingdom

A bit about himself and his work, along with clickable fotos below, that will link to products on his Zazzle Store:

I've been a 'serious' photographer now for over 30 years, and in that time I've owned and/or used all sorts of equipment from 35mm to 5"x4" format. Now I use Canon digital SLR's almost exclusively, although many of the images I use in my Zazzle products were shot on film as long ago as 1979. Digital is responsible even for the film shots being in my store - thanks to a film scanner.
Favourite subjects to photograph are probably anything in nature; stormy skies, landscapes and the creatures which inhabit those landscapes. Having said that though, I'll photograph pretty much anything which I think will make a good image.
I like to do as much as possible 'in camera' when taking photographs, however because I shoot in RAW and don't use any auto adjustments, styles etc. the images tend to look extremely bland on first viewing; they then need to be processed to get them to match what I was seeing and thinking when I pressed the shutter button. Some images can be very difficult when it comes to the processing stage, it's almost as though the image you want to finish up with is trapped inside the one you're looking at - you've just got to figure out how to release it.
The image processing part is largely no different than how it was in the darkroom, except we can now do things which we could only really dream of in a darkroom - and without all the mess and those expensive wasted prints.

Fotos with links to Steve's Zazzle products:

  

Today, Our Newest Fotographer Is MLeWallpapers

Below, they will describe their work, followed by "Clickable Fotos", that will take you to their Zazzle Store:

At MLeWallpapers.com we're a husband and wife team that started out just wanting to share our photography with the world. I (Emily) consider myself the creative director - I take most of the pictures and pick out which ones we're going to use for the website and for products.

My philosophy about photography isn't about the perfect camera and lens - it's about capturing the beauty of nature as you see it. I like to take a nice portable camera on hikes. We do a lot of traveling, mostly to national parks and other scenic places, and I just can't keep from taking pictures!I like to "shoot quick" and then adjust the fotos later, if need be.  Panasonic is the camera that I currently use.

Our Newest Photographer Is Mike Of Mountain View, California

Below he will tell us about his work, and following will be some of his Fotos, that you can click on to go to his Zazzle Store to see the actual products:

I stuck a toe in the water in 2007 when I bought a nice P&S digital camera. I soon caught the bug, and upgraded to a full DSLR setup 1.5 years later.

I enjoy the ability to use the camera capture and enhance something of visual interest, like a sunrise or a bird in flight. Recently I've started experimenting with HDR processing for even more control over the images I take.

Last year I started a zazzle store to show off my images.

Our Newest Photographer Is Francisco Moreno

Below he will tell us about himself, his photography, and we will have links to his work, as well as to his store on Zazzle:

My name is Francisco. I have unique and original photographs and artwork from plants like cacti and succulents. I travel to various regions and photograph interesting subjects of nature, landscape, plants and places of interest.

I enjoy capturing the natural beauty of plants and places in photographs. I particularly love the wide variety of colors and shapes of succulent plants, these little plants are a passion to me and I have a good collection of them.

Also I’m interested in other topics like extreme sports, rock climbing and falconry.

Traveling into many places has given me the opportunity to capture places, and moments plentiful of life.

Below are three of his fotos, showing these plants:

Our Newest Photographer Is Mark Tisdale of Atlanta

The following is what he has to say about himself, and his work:


Photography has gradually become my life. I first got interested in photography after traveling abroad for the first time in 2004. I got a lot of nice feedback on my travel snaps. Whether it was warranted or not, it got me interested in photography as more than just point and shoot happy snaps. I started trying to learn more and pretty soon advanced to my first d SLR. I've taken one class, an intro for the basics, but everything else has been self taught.

A year ago, I left a stable job that had passed unfulfilling and was headed into parts unknown on the scale of human dissatisfaction. Insane to do in this economy,but I sold my house and have gotten a little additional traveling in and continue to work at making photography and to some degree travel my life.

Below are some of his photos with links to those products in Zazzle:

Follow him on his blog for up to date information, and very beautiful photos!

Our Newest Photographer Is Catherine Lilbit Devine From Rincon Creek Studios

Below she will tells us about herself and her work:

I started my love affair with image capturing when I was a sophomore in High School.  I was given a small 35mm camera and black & white film by the photography teacher.  My assignment was to go about my daily routine for the next two weeks and capture photos as I went.  At the end of the two weeks, I had to develop the photos in the darkroom and create a portfolio of my images.  My photography teacher used my portfolio as an example of "creative, professional" work and submitted them into a photography competition.

That was 32 years ago . I have since moved on to digital photography.  I use an Olympus EV500 currently, as my Nikon D300 and all of its lenses were stolen.  I also have a Nikon Coolpix 8800, which I use as a back-up.  Its old but it does quite well in a pinch.

I have traveled extensively throughout Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and the Southwestern United States capturing slices of time, landscape, people, culture and traditions. I also do location photography for Family portraits and special events.

I consider myself to be a semi-professional photographer, as it isn't my main source of income...yet.
 

Below are three of her photographs with embedded links to  product in her Zazzle Store:

             

Our Newest Photographer Is Shannon, From Washington

 Below she wil tell us about herself, and her work:

I am a beginning photographer, and a very fun loving person.  I really appreciate beauty in nature around me, especially flowers.  I started to really take time in pictures whenever I would be less motivated to work on my Graphic Designs for my Zazzle store. 
To me, photography is another outlet for my artistic side when I want to use a different medium.  For about 3 years, I have been experimenting with photography and editing my photos. I absolutely love to capture nature at its finest and, sometimes, most random.  I also enjoy getting the detail and color of the subject at its most vibrant.
I also like to take  photos of animals, landscapes and various still life subjects.  I shoot with a Nikon D3000, and sometimes "Digitally Manipulate" my photos, so that they look completely different.


Below are 3 of her photos, with embedded links to her product:

          

                                                                         

       

Our Next Photographer Is Shari Britt, Little Wing Design in North Carolina

Below she will tell us about her work, and herself:

I'm an avid newbie photographer from North Carolina who began taking photos in the garden and still do take most of my pictures there.  I use a Nikon d70s mostly with an occasional shoot using my hubbies d90. Having been an obsessed gardener for many years prior to picking up photography has afforded me the luxury of a wide variety of subjects outside my backdoor from flora to fauna.

I go back and forth between photography and learning how to use graphics software to create designs for my Zazzle store.

My biggest interest in recent years has been gardening.  I became active in both Garden Web's regional forum and Dave's Garden which was responsible for a love affair with day lilies.  I haven't had much time for those lately though.

I have a full time desk job at an auto dealership, a husband and 2 very spoiled Pomeranian’s.

Below are 3 of her favorite photos, with embedded links to her Zazzle product page:

Our Newest Photographer Is Cheri From Texas

Below she will tell us about herself, Zazzle, and her Photography:




My name is Cheri and I'm originally from northeastern Washington. I've lived in Oregon., California,Kansas.,and now live in Texas. I have been married for almost 29 yrs. I have 4 children and 4 grandchildren. We've done a lot of traveling, so I've really enjoyed using my camera in many different places.
I don't have a very fancy camera, but it's been my buddy for about 7 yrs. now. It's a Nikon Cool Pix 8700.
I enjoy photographing scenery, people, flowers and anything eccentric or interesting. I have only been on Zazzle for about 4 months. What I love most about it is the fact that I can create and not have the has
sle of buying materials and packaging. I also enjoy browsing other peoples artwork. There's a lot of great talent on Zazzle.
Scenery photography is my 1st hobby,and my other hobby would have to be hiking. Love hiking the Sierra Nevada’s,and Palo Duro Canyon.

Below are 3 of her favorite photos:

Our Next Photographer Is Jodi Scyphers From Idaho

Below she will tell us about herself and her photography:

My name is Jodi Scyphers, I am married, a graphic designer and photograper in the daytime and I live in Lewiston Idaho. I am new to Zazzle and am still in the process of setting up my store, but please take a look, and let me know what you think.

I have lived in Idaho my entire life. For the past 15 years I have worked as a whitewater rafting guide during the summer. Besides being able to take action and scenery shots, I found that I really enjoyed taking candid photos of my guests when they had no idea that the moment was being captured. They enjoyed the pictures that were true to the experience and not staged to make the 'perfect portrait.

As my new found interest grew, so did my bill at the local store specializing in cameras and custom developing. To help support my hobby I took a part time position in their photo lab. For 10 years I printed photos on a Konica Nice Print system, and did custom enlargements {which I loved doing} in the darkroom. I loved being able to see the wide variety of images that came through the lab each day. During that time I developed a strong opinion of what I believe makes a good image and what does not. So many of the pictures that I printed over the years seemed so busy and full of clutter, I think there is an art to knowing when less is more.

Below are three of her photos with links to bigger photos: