For Photographers looking for their own Gallery

Hi Everyone,

As you may already know, I have been using Zenfolio hosting service for organizing and presenting my photos online. You can view my home page at http://barcia.zenfolio.com/

I think Zenfolio is a great service, and I recommend you open an account as well.

Some of the features Zenfolio offers are:
- Unlimited storage
- Elegant pages with a choice of layouts and theme designs
- Highest quality presentation of photos online
- Easy to use intuitive interface
- Full screen Slideshow
- Links from auctions, blogs, and forums to seven different image sizes

You can use my referral code DGV-WDR-WNC during sign up to save $5.00 off your own subscription. Once subscribed, you'll get your own code, and if you get enough referrals, you may never need to pay for the service again.

Zenfolio offers a Free Trial account for two weeks so you can see if you like it.

http://www.zenfolio.com

Regards,

- Marie
http://barcia.zenfolio.com/

TIME TO VOTE

Reminder, VOTING TIME for our FLOWER challenge, Click here for the challenge.

Community Photo Challenge-Our Personal Challenge

Our Personal Challenge

Michael Staley said it perfectly....."There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself"

This next challenge will be ANYTHING that you want it to be, but it must be something new to you. I have decided to work on a few different types of photography this summer. I am concentrating on HDR & digital Infrared photography. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. You use bracketing on your camera & Photomatix to transform your images into HDR. Visit Trey Ratcliff @ Stuck In Customs & scroll down to his video at Google.

Infrared Photography has always been an interest for me since the late 1970s, but now with digital, it is done a lot differently...
These are my personal challenges.... What are yours??

With the summer approaching & a low participation anticipated.....we will make this a 2 1/2 month challenge. You have 2 1/2 months to challenge yourself.....& post here. On your blog, post as many images as you want with an explanation of your goal, & what you've accomplished. You can go into detail, if you want. When you post here, it can only be of one image.

Your challenge could be very simple, does not have to be difficult. If your new to photography you can concentrate on "composition", or "Black & White Photography" OR even RAW images
The idea it to select something that you will learn from. Youtube.com has many tutorials. Google anything that you might want to improve on & see what comes up.

Here are some suggestions.....Macro, Bokeh, Color, Black & White, Infrared, HDR, Composition, Textures, Portraits, Still Lifes, Nature, Underwater photography, Night photography, RAW images.....the list is endless. Just select something that is new to you.
Have fun!!! Ü

This link may give you some ideas
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-photography.html

This challenge starts on Wednesday, June 15 & ends August 30th.

If you have any questions, email me. Enjoy this challenge!

To enter, click on Blue Button below, which will appear when the challenge starts.

Community Photo Challenge-Flowers

There will be two challenges this week that will be posted....THIS one will only last a week & the following week you will have the opportunity to vote on your favorite image. This week's, challenge is "Flowers". You can do a flower garden, a macro, landscape image with flowers. It can be any kind of photo as long as it has a flower in it.
Post your images on your Blog. Come back here & click on the blue button below & follow the easy instructions. This challenge starts today & ends on Monday, June 21, the voting starts on the 21st, ends on the Monday the 28th.

Community Photo Challenge-COLOR

This month's subject is color...but NOT just color. We want to see you create something special color-wise. Something your camera did not see. Something you saw in the photo and created in post processing.

There are a lot of ways color can be used:

1. Selective color...create a black and white or other monochrome photo with just a touch of color...blue eyes, a child's red jacket, whatever you choose, but make most of the image monochrome.

2. Play with the different color modes in your photo editing software. Create a duotone, or make a monochrome using something other than black & white or sepia.

You can post a colorful image... Can be of one color, 2 colors or MANY colors. You do not need any photo editing programs to join in.

This challenge is limited only by your imagination so get out there and IMAGINE COLOR!

So come & join in the challenge, if you haven't joined in yet, this is a great challenge to start!!

Remember to post your images on your blog, come back here & click on the blue button on the bottom, left side of this post. Follow the easy directions. You can only post one image here, but as many as you want on your blog.

Sorry it started late, I was sick the past week. This challenge usually starts on the 15th of every month, It begins today & ends on June 15th.

Here are a few links on color that I found.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/colour_theory.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_color
http://www.selectivecolors.com/
http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2010/03/50-outstanding-examples-of-selective-color-photography/

Community Photo Challenge-Gardens

Our new photo challenge is "GARDENS". You can photograph your own garden, or a local garden. It can be a detailed shot or a wide angle view. My image for the banner above was taken at Old Westbury Gardens in Old Westbury NY. If you choose to photograph a public garden, PLEASE include the name & location of the garden. (Optional-a small paragraph of info on the history of your garden or link to info)
What I am looking for is a display of beautiful gardens through out the world. So where ever you may live, find some beautiful gardens(private or open to the public) & show off your photography. Only one can be posted on our challenge blog, but you can add as many as you would like to your blog entry.
Follow the easy instructions by clicking on the blue button at the bottom of this entry. Select the image you would like to display on here. The Challenge starts on Thursday April 15th & ends on Saturday May 15th. The inlinkz button will appear when the challenge starts.

Community Photo Challenge-WINDOWS

This month's photo challenge is "WINDOWS"....or "Window". The main focus is "window". You can use your imagination & be creative. You can use the window as a framing tool, but it must have a window in it. You can have one window, or many windows, but remember the focus is on windows.
Starts today & ends April 15th.
Post your windows on your blog, come back here, click the blue button, follow easy directions, post your image on here.

At the bottom of the post you will see "ADD YOUR LINK" CLICK on that button....Fill in & lets see everyone's images on this blog.

When you click on ADD YOUR LINK you will enter the URL of your post, your name and your email. After that you will click "next" which will show images available on your post. Just select the image & your done!