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So easy to make a canvas art print from your own photo on lifephoto.com
Why not enjoy your garden flowers throughout the year? Upload several of your best floral photos and create exquisite canvas art prints for your home.
Just select the photos you’d like to enjoy and upload them to lifephoto.com. Select from 12 canvas sizes.
Printing on canvas makes your photo resemble a painting. Canvas prints are wrapped around a 1-½” thick box frame. A hanging wire is included for immediate hanging.
Don’t let your prized garden flowers slip away without capturing them for year-long enjoyment.
Upload your garden photos now and you can see how quickly you can create your own multi-dimensional wall decor.
Garden Photo Art Prints on Canvas.
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!
6 Ideas for Creative Photo Book Covers for Mother’s Day Gifts
You say you’re really not creative? No problem. Making a photo book for Mom is easy and fun. Lifephoto’s site guides you along step by step. It gives you options for arranging photos, adding captions and text. It will even auto-fill your book with your photos — yet allowing you the ability to change them later.
The Cover Sets the Stage for Your Book
Mother's Day Flower Garden Photo Book with single image on front and deep green textured background front and back.
Let’s look at the cover possibilities for a Mother’s Day Photo Book about her floral garden: continue reading
Pick One Topic Mom Loves and Build a Photo Memory Book Around It
There’s no doubt, Mom is special. 
You want to give her something special, too. A photo memory book about something she loves would be perfect — and very personal. Easy to do and it can be inexpensive, too. But all the love you put into it will make it her most memorable gift this Mother’s Day. Here are tips, ideas and samples of books others have made.
Choose Mom’s Favorite Topic
What is she passionate about? Then start digging up photos and other scannable items from her and other family members that you can include in her topical memory book. Think about some of mom’s favorite things to do, to play with, to visit, to see: continue reading
Thank You Notes. Get Well Notes. Thinking of You Notecards.
Looking for something special to give a Mom, aunt or close friend for Mother’s
Day? How about a set of notecards, personalized with a photo they love!
You can make a set of cards in just minutes — simply upload the photo and you’re ready to go! Photo subjects you might consider:
- Lake cabin photo
- Bird or flower
- Nature photo — maybe an underwater shot!
- Garden photos
- Favorite pet
- Children or grandchildren
- Anything the recipient might love!
Two Notecard sizes. Background Optional.
Notecards are available horizontal or vertical, 4.25″ x 5.5″ or 5″x7″. A wide selection of backgrounds are available or you can have your photo cover the front of the card. Inside you can add a caption if you wish — maybe a description of what photo appears on the card. 
If it’s a lake photo, the caption might be: “Lake Emily, Amherst, WI.”
Start looking for good photos now and order your notecards as a wonderful Mother’s Day surprise.
8 Tips for Taking Great Digital Photos of Wildflowers
If you love snapping nature photos, especially of beautiful and unusual wildflowers, you’ll pick up a few tips from this post. Written by a Photo Naturalist, the post is from the Digital Photography School site — and I’d recommend it. And, of course, the photos are fabulous! And don’t forget, you can find great ways to print and share those wildflower photos you take when you upload them to lifephoto.com.
8 Tips for Photographing Wildflowers
In this post, Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist discusses eight tips for photographing wildflowers.To get the softly diffused light in this photo, I waited for an overcast sky. (Photo by Steve Berardi)With spring on the horizon in some parts of the world, you may be thinking about photographing some beautiful wildflowers soon. So, here are 8 tips to get you started:
1. Use a tripod
Using a tripod will help you get sharper photos by ensuring your camera doesn?t move. But, the tripod helps in another way too: it forces you to be more careful about your composition.
When you handhold your camera, there?s a tendency to just snap away, but when you add the tripod, you?ll spend more time thinking about your composition and ensuring your camera is in a very precise position.
2. Wait for an overcast or cloudy day
Make Your Garden Photogenic
Yes, it’s winter — and maybe you have snow and temps far too cold to think about gardening.
But this is the time to plan what to put in your garden to make it a good photo spot and attractive to insects and wildlife that would make great photo subjects.
Here’s a post from Digital-Photography-School.com that offers some tips on mastering simple backyard photography. Put these ideas into action and you can develop a terrific array of garden settings for snapping those digital pictures.
Don’t Forget Winter Garden Photos continue reading
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
