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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
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
Christmas Gifts That Hunters and Fishermen Will Love!
So you’ve got some outdoor sporting enthusiasts in your family. 
Wondering what kind of unique — yet personal — gift you can give them this Christmas?
How about using one of the photos of their proud conquest to make a sportsman photo gift for them?
Personal Poster. Here I’ve used a deer hunter with his buck to make a 12″x18″ poster that can be easily framed. Just $2.75 for the poster print.
Other Hunter and Fisherman Photo Gift Ideas:
I occasionally read Photography Bay and found two tips in a recent post I’d like to pass along to you about taking great pictures. Many of us take a broad photo of a scene — the subject we want and all the scenery around that subject. Sometimes just zooming in tight on the subject creates a better photo. Here are two points from Chris Gampat’s post, “7 tips for shooting sports and action.” I think these tips are valuable for most any kind of photo subject. continue reading
