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Frame a Great Photo for Your Wall
A 12″x18″ photo poster makes a great gift, too!
Have a few terrific photos you’d like to have blown up and framed? 
Maybe for your own wall. Maybe for gifts? It’s easy to do and relatively inexpensive.
Upload Your Pictures to Lifephoto.com
It will only take you a minute or two to upload your photo, select the poster size you want and order. Add a caption if you like as I did in this photo of a Great Blue Heron that I took last year in my backyard. Read my original post about creating this personalized-sized poster.
Add an inexpensive mat that brings out one of the subtle colors in your photo. Then an inexpensive frame and you’ve got a beautiful framed photo.
Start thinking about photos you’d like to see blown up and framed. Then upload them to lifephoto.com for high quality, value and personalized service.
Keep enjoying your vacation long after the trip — Six ideas for using your photos
Don’t leave them on the camera. Don’t put them away 
in a drawer or deep inside your computer’s hard drive. Upload your vacation photos to Lifephoto.com and make great photo gifts that will keep the vacation memories alive all year long.
- Prints. Of course you can have prints made. Lifephoto gives you three photo paper options — professional photo paper, eco-friendly photo paper and metallic paper. Each gives you a great look — in a wide range of sizes.
- Wall Calendars. Choose from two calendar sizes, spiral bound. Put your special dates right on the calendar before printing. Make a photo calendar for everyone with whom you shared your vacation!
- Playing Cards. Choose one great photo and make a 52-card deck for your family or friends.
- Posters. Photo posters start at just $6.99. You can make one for each child with a photo special to them. Or make a poster of your vacation for framing. Four poster sizes available.
- Photo Books. Upload your photos to easily and quickly create a photo memory book of your vacation. Softcover books (20 pages) start at $6.95. Make one for each destination on your trip. Or make one for each child.
- Day Planner. Choose from two day planner sizes, containing 13-54 photos. Add notes, reminders or messages on special dates. Make one for yourself, your spouse, your in-laws!
Outdoor Nanny Cam Yields Fun Wildlife Photos
With my outdoor scouting camera set up across the pond from our home, we were able to capture a goose family near their nest. I’ll be adding this to the other photos I capture out in the woods — with the intention of making a nice woodland photo memory — a photo poster or even a dry erase board for my refrigerator with the photos on it. Just one other fun way to use a camera!
Geese with fluffy brown goslings in the grassy foreground from a woodland nanny cam
Make a Coffee Table Book That Mom Will Treasure
Photo books don’t have to be about family. 
They can be about any topic that moves you — or Mom, in this case. What does she like? What would she appreciate? Make her a coffee table book that she’ll show to everyone.
Suggestions for Photo Book Subjects
Here are a few ideas to get you thinking about the possiblities:
- Favorite Dogs or Cats
- Grandchildren
- Cookbook or Recipe Book
- Travel Destinations — Vacations
- Family History
- Favorite Poems (today I have Haiku poems featured on photo book pages)
- Favorite quotations with photos
- Flower Gardens
- Mom & Child photo moments
Get started on a special coffee table book for this Mother’s Day. She’ll just love it!
Make a Mother’s Day Gift Mom Will Enjoy Forever
So she’s got a favorite pup or two. 
Why not make Mom a special photo book for Mother’s Day all about her dog (or cat). She must have tons of photos she’s taken over the years. Or just snap some yourself. Here’s a sample of a pet-focused photo book that begins when Daisy was just a pup — back at the mythical Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.
Background on these pages of the pet photo book was created on Photoshop from a picture of Milkbone. I just copied/pasted the small graphic a number of times. Uploaded it to my Lifephoto folder and used 50% opacity for the faded look.
Use as many photos as you like. Maybe add a story about the dog. Wouldn’t Mom just love that! Give it a try! If Mom is a cat lover, check out my post on a cat photo book.
Taking Photos of Wild Game and Other Woodland Critters Outside Your Window
We live on a pond with a marshy woodland shore right out our window. 
I was curious as to who came to visit us when we weren’t looking. Went to Bass Pro and bought a stealth camera — ideal for the sneaky photography I wanted to do — kind of like a “nanny cam” for the outdoors. For under $100, it’s proving to be a fun purchase.
Occasionally we see critters fishing, diving and swimming. Birds, ducks, geese, herons, raccoons, coyotes, woodchucks, turtles and who-knows-what after dark. I’ve captured some daytime photos out my window, but was curious about who showed up at dusk, at night and when we’re not looking out during the day. So I purchased a Wildgame Digital Game Scouting Camera. Here are the first pix we’ve taken off of it: continue reading
Submit Digital Photos by March 15 — Extended Deadline April 5
You’ve got to have a few terrific digital photos on your hard drive or in your camera that you could enter in the PDN Faces Portrait photo contest.
Who is PDN:
Photo District News (PDN), the award-winning monthly magazine for the professional photographer, has been covering the professional photographic industry for over two decades.
Who Can Enter: Amateur and professional photographers
Entry Categories: continue reading
ImageWraps Canvas Photo Printing
Create an heirloom portrait in minutes from your digital photo on 
lifephoto.com. Make one for your home or to give as a gift to someone special. Your photo image takes on the look of a fine oil painting and actually wraps around the frame — viewable from the sides as well as the front of the frame. Here are a few ideas for photo subjects:
- Family portrait
- Children
- Grandchildren
- Beloved pet
- Once-in-a-lifetime car or motorcycle — a Harley? muscle car? vintage car?
- Family home or farmstead
- Your flowering garden? (Imagine the blossoms wrapping around the frame!)
- Wedding or engagement photo continue reading
