Greeting Card Photos
These images are my Greeting Card images. Images which were shot for greeting cards or are actually alredy being used as cards. Most of them are available at Santa Barbara Greetings.

Saturday, October 21, 2006
Californian Forest
This is the image in the seagull's glasses from
yesterday's photo of the day.
Now before you go sending me hate mail, this is supposed to be FUNNY!
The back of the card has information about our beautiful redwood forests...
"Californian Forest - Of course, Californian forests also include
some of the tallest trees in the world at Redwood National and State Parks.
These trees can grow to over 300 feet tall and reach ages in excess of 2,000
years. Only about 4% of the Redwoods remain since logging became an industry
in California in the mid 1800s. Fortunately, most of the remaining old growth
Redwoods are protected in state parks or in public land reserves."

Friday, October 20, 2006
Attitude Gull
I liked this photo when I took it. But I had no
idea what I could possibly do with it. Then,
when I was getting ready for a show one evening
I started playing in Photoshop. I decided that
the space above the bird was perfect for a little
creativity. The way he was walking made him
seem very determined, but there was just a little
something missing. The reflection in the glasses
is the palm trees from another one of my cards.
I was actually able to convince many of the kids
at various art shows that I had to bribe the seagull
with fish to get him to wear the glasses. :-D

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Foggy Gull
This is actually an older shot. I was surprised when I looked and found that I had never used it on the photo of the day. The poles in the background are masts of small catamarans that are on the beach for rent. They were not far from where I was standing to take the picture, that gives you an idea how fast and heavy the evening fog was rolling in.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Thinking of You
I was looking through some of my images and this one was just crying out to be a greeting card. That is how many of my cards are created.

Monday, November 7, 2005
Hovering Bee
If you have been watching the
site for a while you know that I like
to chase bees. So far this has turned out
well for me. I assume my luck will
run out eventually, but for now
it's making for some really nice shots.
This one even made it to
one
of my greeting cards.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Mission Lily
There are a million photos of the Mission Santa Barbara out there. Which is all the more reason to look around while you are there to see if there might be something you would miss with the standard "Visitors Bureau" shot.

Thursday, October 6, 2005
Icelandic Poppy Closeup
I've had some fun with this image, somehow it seemed like it just wanted to be an Easter card.

Sunday, May 8, 2005
Happy Mom's Day!!
This is a particularly fitting place for
this greeting. The images on this site
would not exist if it were not for the
support of my parents. They were crazy
enough to let a little kid play with their
cameras, and look at the results!
In particular, I remember looking through
photos of a recent vacation with my Mom and Dad.
I couldn't have been more than about 10 years old.
As they were pulling out the photos that were
particularly interesting, my mom pointed out that
a lot of them were mine. She half-jokingly
said that in the future they were going to have
to let me take all of the pictures on our vacations.
You never know what is going to stick with someone
a couple of decades later.
Thanks MOM... for everything!

Monday, February 14, 2005
Valentine's Day Card
Happy Valentine's Day!!
After many years of taking pictures
I have finally started to do some things
with them. This is one of my greeting cards
you can see more of them at SantaBarbaraGreetings.com.