Say Cheese!

Hello All,

Someone said, I like the swooshing sound deadlines makes when they zoom past! Ah well, that's the sound I dread the most and avoid like plague! But right now, looks like all projects have decided to sneak upon me and the swoosh is getting closer to my ear! In the middle of this mania, there does come one project which leaves me happy, which gets over in time and which allows me to write a post for it :)

This project was particularly challenging because it is meant for a professional photographer. I don't know if this is a more universal phenomenon but I get 10 times more self-conscious when my pieces are gifted to people who are in some creative field. It's almost as if I imagine them with a magnifying glass in their hand, looking for that tiny gap in paper strip measurement or that dried glue dollop which ought not to be there. You might call me crazy but when this one came to me, I was not sure what to make. The recipient profile: Professional photographer, Introvert, Fiercely private, Simple................ooh la la. Makes my job tougher. After breaking my head with the concept for a few days, it finally struck, make a photographer for a photographer :)

Simple and oh so obvious (now that I think back)..........So, here goes from my client to a photographer. I hope the recipient likes it :)

The photographer girl image is from Microsoft Clipart gallery, it is not my creation. I have merely used it as a template for quilling (with my own brand of modifications, of course) :)

The font used in this project (Adine Kirnberg) was a specially tricky one to handle. It thins down so much in places that I had difficulty sticking beehive coils into it. But then, what is the fun if everything comes easy? :) The little tulips were almost an afterthought as there has to be a feminine graceful touch to a lady photographer who does magic with her fingers and eyes :)

Minus the frame, the project is 9.5" x 18.5". With frame, it is 11" x 20"
:-) I can never seem to lay my hands on small projects :-D

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)