Digital Darkroom Works and Photography

Announcing New Website! Woo Hoo!! Yippee!!

sarasilver.com

November, 2009

I know, pretty crazy, right? I can hardly believe it. I have never had a domain or website. Lots of blogs, fledgling things for the most part, but no _my name dot com_ – until now. Who cares if I’m the last person to do it, I’m excited about it.

What You’ll Find There Photos? Well, yes, lots of visual content in the form of slideshows. It was designed from “scratch”, all backgrounds, icons, logos, favicons, etc are my creations. I didn’t really have a design I wanted to copy or emulate in mind when I started. This resulted in a site not exactly like any other site out there. Definitely not a cookie-cutter template website for photographers_. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that., it’s just not what I wanted.)

Short answer: I just made it up, and filled it with photos.

My goal was to keep it simple, easy to navigate, fun to visit, free of distracting ads… _and filled with photos.

Did I mention photos? Please check it out for yourself. Bring a crowd if you like. Stay as long as you want and come back often.

Fine-Art Digital Reproductions from Skylark Images 101

Skylark Images and Color

• Skylark workflow includes a comprehensive Color  Management system
• A custom color profile is created for each scan
• all equipment and media are individually profiled in-house
• All profiles are made using a spectrophotometer and specialized software-no “canned” maufacturers profiles

The Staff of Skylark Images…

• The people who make up Skylark Images have the combined experience of  over 50 years in printmaking
• A small friendly group with your satisfaction as their goal
• Each member of the Skylark Team is the best in his/her field
• There is no shortage of creative personalities  as the staff is made up of photographers, artists and writers
• New information and training keep the knowledgeable Skylarkians at the forefront of  digital imaging

Location Location Location- so many ways to print at Skylark Images

• Located in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California
• Cotati is just south of Santa Rosa on Hwy 101
• Their well- planned and easily navigated web site gives you all the information you need
• With the staff happy to help you on the phone or via email if you prefer

Skylark Images Sonoma County’s Best Giclée Printing Company

It never hurts to spotlight a great business, and Skylark Images, located in Northern California, is an great digital fine-art printing business. Serving artists, photographers, designers and everyone in-between, Skylark Images is a walk-in print shop which is just as easily accessed via the internet. Even better, Skylark has one-stop-shopping for people purchasing canvas prints-custom stretching on kiln-dried poplar frames at very competitive prices.
High quality large format printers,  indeed, they can reproduce up to 60” x any length. They only use the industry’s top of the line canvas and papers to print on, and now use green environmentally friendly coatings to protect your prints. As beta testers for their suppliers they know their materials and only use the best.
Unlike the competition, high-resolution scanning of your image with a depth of 16 bits and a custom color profile is standard at Skylark Images, and it is the only way to ensure a beautifully clear, detailed, color-accurate print.

Skylark Images Home Page

Established over 15 years ago, Skylark Images enjoys word-of mouth success with thousands of satisfied customers from all over the globe.

How do I know all of this? I am on the inside-a happy employee of Skylark for almost 10 years.

Meet the Newest Member of Skylark Images

When I got to work on Monday morning, I was distracted by personal thoughts and didn’t notice
the new Skylarkian. I did see strange happy smiles on everyone’s face as they looked at me expectantly.
“What now?”  I wondered,  ”and why is everyone staring at me with goofy looks on their faces?”
Moments later, I saw our new crew member, all 14 pounds of jet-colored curls, his poodle face almost completely obscured by a mop of black corkscrews.
“You got a puppy!!” I exclaimed, ran to check out his cuter-than-cute face.

Welcome  to Skylark Images, Ori,  and as a senior Skylarkian I say to you: “Get crackin’ on those print orders!!”

BTW I think Sydney likes him enough to eat him, and she certainly watches his every wiggle very closely.

We like the new boy, Erin and Darren. Congratulations!

*a Hebrew word meaning My Light and coincidentally my brother-in-law’s name

Wine Country Painter in Northern California, Barbara Greensweig

Greeting Cards, Limited Edition Prints and Sought-After Original Paintings of Vineyards, Fields of Flowers, and Wine Country Views now available through her website.

Award-winning artist Barbara Greensweig paints “captured moments in time”. Her work is characterized by bold and brilliant color compositions of vineyards by old barns, flowers cascading from windows and doorways, and porches with sleeping dogs. Greensweig has resided over 20 years in the wine country of Northern California, a favorite subject in her work. The artist also enjoys painting on location “en plein aire”.

Barbara Greensweig Wine-Country Painter

Art trips to Southern France early in her career led Greensweig to start painting sunflowers and fields of lavender before each became trendy. Her favorite spots abroad are the hilltop villages of Provence as well as San Miguel de Allende in Colonial Mexico with its rich adobe colors.

Greensweig’s work has been featured on event posters, for promotion at Northern California wineries, on telephone directory covers, and used in products by a variety of companies. Her paintings are part of private and corporate collections in the U.S. and internationally. Greensweig paints on commission for private clients and businesses.

Visit her work and meet the artist on her website.

Click here to go to Barbara's website

Extreme Sheep Herding-The Power of the Border Collie!

Don’t forget to visit my crazy photo creations on PHOTO METAMORPHOSIS and for color inspiration, try TRICYCLE!

Giveaway:1000 Free Business Cards

Not only did I find some truly one-of-a kind beautiful wordpress themes today, but the blog that offers them is also teaming  up with AllBusinessCards.com to give away 1000 of them. Upstart Blogger is the site not to be missed if you like clean, fresh web design.

WOW OF THE WEEK

Meet atto, a “Think then Do Tank” in Belfast. Now, help them go bankrupt for a good cause.

Check out The Beard Workshop

Help real people in developing countries by sticking a fake beard on your real face.

( About $500 raised so far, all going to KIVA.org.)

20 Beautiful Pictures of Dogs

When I came across this post featuring great dog photos, I figured I had to share. Enjoy!

Bent Out of Shape Over Copyright Thievery?

You should be!

This is a subject  similar to one I  wrote about a few months ago -losing your intellectual property rights by signing them away online. It’s a  different side of the same cube – having your written content, designs, photos, (“stuff”) stolen and used without attribution or remuneration.

It happens all of the time, not in a small way due in part to the internet’s vast and unrestricted frontier atmosphere. That, and some people are

• unaware of intellectual property rights. or
• pretty sure no one will ever find out, or
• thieves

To read a very clear and concise article on this subject, please visit Freelance Switch . A really informative website and well worth a visit.