And this is Ana Livia, the Goddess of Happiness. She is a captivating and sweet kid.
I captured her beautiful smile 3 weeks ago, while she played with her girlfriend.
This was my way to start the week on a good and positive note, and to wish you all the same.
Goddess of Happiness indeed! What an angel! Immediately a huge smile came across my face! Thank you for sharing with us!
I think your smile belongs to the same league….
Have a great week!
Awwww thanks! You too!
❤️
Is this the same beautiful little one who posed a few weeks ago? I think so. Infectious smile!
No, this is her younger friend. Infectious indeed!
What a beautiful child.
Thank you for sharing Jasmine, the Goddess of Happiness! 🙂
~Carl~
You are welcome, Carl. It is a pleasure to share good vibes here.
Gorgeous! It’s all about that connection, you are a master at it! I love these shots, so beautiful. X
Isn’t she adorable? It is a two way process and if the connection with the person is good, they and I rekax, abd that is when I get their best.
Your comment is much appreciated and means a lot to me. Thanks. Xxx
It’s my pleasure x.
She really is adorable, such a sweetie 🙂
Beautiful child! You photograph people so well! Well done. Hugs to Jasmine. ❤
She is indeed a gorgeous kid. Hugs will be delivered virtually as she is in Brazil. Thanks for the compliment. Means so much. ❤️
You really are damn good at shooting portraits!
Thank you so much. Means a lot. I do love shooting portraits.
The best about your portraits is that it looks like you do not only enjoy yourself while taking them but somehow you also seem to get your subjects to enjoy being photographed.
I confess that as much as I love photography of others, I don’t like to be photographed. But being a corporate executive requires – amongs other silly things – to have your professional portraits for the company website and magazine.
One day there was a photographer who spent time talking to me first about this and much more, before I heard any click. We connected first.
And I never forgot him and the photos he made. The best photos I ever had. Smiling all over. Because I focused on him and trusted him. He taught me a lot that day.
I try to do the same and it is working so far.
I can imagine it really makes a difference – I always look very selfconscious on pictures and I either have my eyes closed or my mouth distorted as if I didn’t know how to smile.
I feel like you and my nervous reaction is to never smile…
Awe what stunning photos i bet her parents were thrilled with them. So so happy looking xx
Thanks. They haven’t seen it yet and I will send a complete set of 20 pics to them this week. Xxx
wow how will you pick the 20? The most popular voted for? I didn’t actually vote, always hate that kind of thing but also if honest I forgot also hehe x
Lol everyone did just like you. There wasn’t any possibility to pick the top 10! Will never put that again. Xxx
haha funny! I think it’s good not to because everyone makes an effort and its a bit of a downer when it gets competitive on something fun, thas just my humble opinion, it was a great experience hehe x
Very right. And I’m reopening without votes. Which I had disabled by the way, otherwise links were no longer accepted.
I created the new link today. Subscribed to them and can use it for unlimited time. I couldn’t create my own widget though. Does it have to do with WP restrictions? Do you self host your blog?
Any tips?
you have to create your own image, which i think you did, then insert it in to coding at the back of the page within the Inlinkz script, if you want to email me your Inlinkz script and http thingy for your image on your blog I can try and work it out xx
Omg you’re a pro! Yes I will, thank you so much. Xxxxx
a pleasure, note the word ‘try’ lol haha. xxx
i have a question for you, my blog, i have a lot of photographs now, more than writing but i still intend to write. I notice however, that most photographic blogs have one or no sidebars for better display and their backgrounds are usually white.
I was thinking, pondering of having a set front page, like a web page with all my info that i might have down the side bar and then the blog with one sidebar or none, not sure though as that is a big change. Plus a paler background but not sure, what do you think? x
The great thing about this is that we have been thinking about the same.
I asked around and heard that as readers are lazy in general , they don’t like to have to go through many steps to get to your post or photo. A front page creates exactly this experience. Unfortunately, although it would offer what we are looking for.
Mara uses a front page and we could ask her views on this.
Regarding the color, I learned that white is a no- go for photos and paintings. Most museums are changing to 50 tons of gray…lol. They read the book. I guess they wanted to jazz up and bring sex appeal to the look of boring museums. Lol.
Now serious, there is research behind this finding. It does bring forward the image in a splendid form.
Why don’t you create a test blog to see how you would make it and see if you like it? I’m going to do that as I want to make some visual changes too.
What do you think? And let’s knock at Mara’s door for consulting.
Xxx
Hah, well interesting you say that, I spoke to Mara a while back about her front page, when she asked for opinions, as I found it annoying to have to go through her static page all the time, esp when looking from my phone, from the computer it is easier and if i didn’t love maras blog and her so much it might put me off, so i wonder why i was wondering on a static page in the first place lol. It is fine for your existing readers but for new ones it might put them off.
So you are saying grey is the colour to have for backgrounds? Only grey? This is the to be colour? Do you have an example of how it looks?
Re trial blog, how does one do that, maybe I am being stupid lol. I have other blogs I dont use but not the upgrades on them, so not sure how I would test this out without testing it on Eclectic?
Hrrrm the only solution then would be to cut down my sidebars, not sure that would be a good idea though, hrmmm, more pondering.
Do you think I should cut down to one sidebar? x
“Goddess of happiness”, she indeed deserves the title 🙂 Beautiful pictures and such a cute model! WIshing you two a lovely week ❤
Thank you, Estelea. Same for you. ❤️
Wow!! Great portrait! Look at the reflection on her eyes! A picture inside a picture!
Thank you! And am so happy you noticed that.
Lovely shots, Lucile. Jasmine is gorgeous. ‘Goddess of Happiness’ is apt 😀
Thanks, gfshopstix. 😀
So lovely Lucile!
Thanks! 😀
Beautiful smile, lovely portraits.
Indeed. It’s a gorgeous smile.
Thanks.
Such a sweetie. Great photos.
Thank you Deborah. And she is adorable.
beautiful eyes
Can’t agree more. Thanks on her behalf..:)
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