I get asked a lot about taking pictures, my camera and some of the pictures I show on my blog so I thought I’d do a post about it and some of the questions I am asked. The first thing I always tell people is that I am not a professional photographer. You can call me a shutterbug if you’d like but I just call myself a woman who enjoys taking pictures. I’m also a really creative person who worked in design and layout for years, so I believe my eye is trained to see how an image would be cropped and how I would lay it all out before I even snap a single picture. But really, I’m just having fun.
With that out of the way I thought I’d answer a few of the questions I get emailed/tweeted a lot and hopefully it will help. I’ll also share some of my favorite photos that I’ve snapped.
The weather is dreadful. We’re in full on winter and I hate it. Iciness, a little bit of snow and just bitter cold – so what do I do? I dress in lots and lots of layers. I do not really like to wear pants, I think I get that from my grandmother. In order to stay warm while still wearing a skirt or dress I tend to layer it up.
This morning I finally pulled this Loft dress my friend gave me for Christmas out of the closet. It’s a dark olive green, almost brown dress so for me it’s a blank canvas. It’s a basic that you can do a lot with depending on your mood. It fits me slightly oddly in the midsection so I decided I needed to replace the wrap belt it came with and use my snakeskin belt. And what goes with a snakeskin belt? A cream and gold striped cardigan of course.
I decided to keep my tights dark and neutral today (chocolate brown) and wear my slouchy olive suede boots even in the yucky weather. And for just a little bit of color I added my favorite bird’s nest necklace for fun. I haven’t worn this one in a while. I’m also playing around with places in my house to take pictures in the morning now. So I apologize for the single photo and it’s a bit too dark for my taste. I’ve been moving things around and with the new full tripod it’s hard to find a good space for pictures that’s not too cluttered looking. So what do you wear to keep warm?
Welcome! If you’ve typed in the Art of Accessories old web address you’ve already been directed here to the new site. I thought it would take me a few weeks but it didn’t, just a few days to import in all of my old posts.
At the top of the site you’ll notice there’s a link to take you to the Art of Accessories archive and the Crumbs and Creativity archive – I was able to import all of my posts and comments to the new site. Some of the images will be missing when I turn off the Art of Accessories completely but I’m working on updating that as well. Please keep your fingers crossed for me on that, with over 1,400 posts it’s a lot to update manually.The Tumblr posts should be fine though, so you’ll get all of my food goodness. I’ve also added new categories to the drop down menu and they start with an * so that you can get to them first.
I’m still working out all of the kinks and adding in plugins here but I kind of like it. It’s a fresh start. If you previously subscribed to the Art of Accessories via email and want to do so on this site you can subscribe via this link. If you’d like to update your RSS feed reader, you can do so via this link. If you’d like to send me an email to give me a suggestion, feedback or just to say hello you can email me now at dwj at iamdwj.com.
Again, thanks for your patience while I get this off the ground and everything all nice and tidy for you. Hopefully by next week I’ll be back to a semi-normal posting schedule.
