Nashi & Judy = Happy People 🙂

I cannot believe I let so much time go without blogging.  I’ve been traveling a lot.  I’ll be updating you over the next couple of days.

These images are from my trip to San Francisco in January.  My husband had to be there for business and so he invited me to keep him company.  It also allowed us to celebrate his birthday,  a very special milestone.  We got to see San Francisco under very grey cloudy skies, it drizzled most of the time but not enough to ruin the trip.  It was my first visit to the San Fran and it is a terrific city.  We stayed in Nob Hill and got to use the cable cars and walked a lot.  We also made it up to Napa Valley and visited the Hagafen vineyards.

All these were taken by my new handy pocket camera – I don’t like to be burdened by heavy equipment when traveling for pleasure.

Hagafen vineyards, Napa Valley

The view from outside.

At the San Francisco, MOMA.  This is from a brochure the Red Cross Arts & Skill Program.

“Please solve me”, I love this… I’m a work in progress myself 🙂

Seeing the whole ‘picture’.

I go to museums for inspiration, this is by Beatriz Milhaze, a colorful Brazilian artist.

I truly wish I knew who did this, I usually take a snapshot of the artist info and I didn’t.  This is 2 photographs woven together, creating this gorgeous, complicated montage.

It rained most of the time.

In this post I am featuring repeat kids – each of these adorable kids have been photographed by me before.  All of them before they were 1 month.

UPDATE: The Big Giveaway was a great success.  There were a lot of very worthy submissions, some were heart retching and others were heart warming.  I’m looking forward to the session and to next year’s big giveaway.

Last year I gave away a free session to someone that was nominated by YOU.  I’m doing it again.  I need your help!

I want to give a gift to someone YOU know.

You know someone that could really use custom portraits but wouldn’t or couldn’t do it on their own.  Is it your child’s teacher that goes above and beyond, a neighbor that is overwhelmed or depressed, a friend that is always there for everyone else and it’s time they got a break?  Let me know about it by nominating them.

The best part?  If your nomination wins you will get a free session and an 11×14 print.

The RULES:

-Send your nomination to dini@dinigroner.com.

-You cannot nominate yourself.

-The winner must be able to come to Rockland County for the session.

-The deadline is 12/31/09 at midnight.

It’s that simple.

Winner will be announced January 15th, 2010.

HINT: Last year I received many worthy nominations.  When it came time to choosing a well written ‘story’ or ‘essay’ helped the decision.  In other words, a 2 line submission saying “Sara is a great friend to everyone and would love photos” doesn’t carry as much weight at “Sara was there when my newborn was sick and she brought dinner to us for 2 weeks.  I don’t know what I would have done without her, etc…”.