Showing posts with label bows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bows. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Dude, mount your pictures!

Dude! Just because you're not using ribbons and bows doesn't mean you just glue your pix on the paper like you did in kindergarten. Mount them on another piece of paper first.



Mounting the pix in this page helps them stand out. Plus, since the pix are of all different sizes and of a variety of things the mounting provides some unity to all the shots.

Clean lines. Strong colors. Pix of hiking the kids up steep cliffs. And a lizard that would scare any cat.

Dude! You're on your way!

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Dude, where's the men's aisle?

So I like to take pictures and respect my family's adventures enough that I think their memories deserve something better than a shoebox. Yet, when I went into the local store to find a nice way to capture the essence of our life, I discovered that the stores assumed several things:

1. That I like flowers and ribbons and buttons and bows.
2. That gardening and grandchildren are my two greatest passions.
3. That when I look at a scrapbook I think it's fun to play "Where's Waldo?" trying to find my photos through all the garbage glued on the page.
4. That I own and photograph several cats.

Clearly, none of these things are true.

I figured that there must be a way for a man to plow through this stuff and make something worth the memories. The Scrappy Dude is a blog of that ongoing quest. Are you be man enough to join me?