Recognition

My wife Veronica "Ronnie" is a very talented and gifted artist who loves painting and photography, she is able to express herself through her painting and she has a wonderful eye for photography.

Back in the days of film we both started with 'Box Brownie's' (thankfully the digital age has arrived) when you had 12, 24 or 36 shots per reel this was an expensive pastime and there were a limited number of people interested in the hobby or profession. Ronnie would always be out there with our trusty Pentax clicking away, and she became pretty good with the camera. One thing that was handy for Ronnie was the processing of film, whilst it did cost, someone else took care of the finished product although at times the suspense while waiting could be quite frustrating. 

Fortunately she has me to take care of the post processing today but she is starting to get a bit of a handle on Lightroom and wants to start exhibiting some of her work. Whilst all of her work has been copyrighted and watermarked she hasn't found a logo or signature that works for her till now. Ronnie was a great help to me in finding my own personal logo which I wanted to keep very simple but colourful. We eventually settled on the colours of our heraldic coat of arms Red Gold and Black (interestingly RGB, because this is the acronym for the digital display pallet Red Green and Black). As for the strokes, my initials are PSL so we figured that we could incorporate both the 'S' and the 'L' in the style of the letter 'L' in black, which is the most dominant colour in our coat of arms. Next we would use a splash of red in a semicircular motion to represent the head of the 'P'. 

Ronnie has decided that this simple two strokes in different colours is the way to go and we are a team so we would keep the same 'L' but replace the  semicircular stroke representing the head of the 'P' with a red stroke representing the 'V' in her name. 

So please keep your eye out for this logo, and support it wherever you can for my Bonnie Ronnie. A little recognition goes a long way in this ever changing fast paced world.

As for the word 'Art' in gold we thought that we would leave it out for now. At some point in the future Ronnie may want her own 'Art' page or web site but we will cross that bridge if and when we come to it.

Till next time, "Capturing Inspiration".

March Madness

The madness I speak of is my own of course. The course that I'm undertaking with Grenadi School of Design, started the first semester in earnest yesterday and I have barely had time to look at the welcome email let alone start anything.

I'm writing this as I wait for records and files to be collected as I close off past ventures which have been far too time consuming of late. As with everything that comes to an end, there are a lot of loose ends that need to be tidied up so I'm hoping that we can move forward relatively soon. 

I'm hoping that I can get stuck into the garden this evening, the lawn has gone nuts over the last 2 weeks of almost non stop rain... ah our record collectors have arrived.

Well that went rather well, the guys will go through 50 odd lever arch files and contact me if they need any further infor etc etc. I also have a cardio vascular checkup scheduled for this afternoon and it's a full workup so that will take several hours.... good job I don't have much on my plate (sarcasm). Better take off for that right now.

Have a look at my Facebook page to see new photo's. especially 'Eagle Eye' which has had no reviews at all.

Till next time, take care.

New Blog

Now that we have a web page for Lombard Design, the next step is to create a blog for the business. I've mentioned on one of my other blogs that I need to reduce the number of blogs that I'm producing and link them so that instead of a dozen blogs I have only one with a category list, which will be much more manageable.

So I'm not going to get carried away here today but rather just post this as the first 'setting up' blog as it were. I really don't like many of the other blog applications out there and am quite happy with Blogger.com so I'll be keeping my blogging here and simply create a link to it from the main LD web page.

I really want to try and engage the reader so I'll be looking for a bit of feedback on the blog site, I'll make subscription much easier to encourage this. I'll make a point of posting some photoshop tips as well, possibly set a day each week whereby I'll share something from the many tutorials I take. It will be something that is not very obvious and so could be helpful to those who are interested.

Capturing inspiration till next time.