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Monday, December 7, 2015

Funky Shoe Font Put to Good Use!


Recently, Zsuzsi Mcdonald, an elementary teacher in Livonia, Michigan who works at a Leader in Me school with students who do community service projects, contacted me to see if her students could use my Funky Shoe Font (posted on my blog last year http://autreyart.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-funky-shoes-font-alphabets.html#links)  for one of their projects.  Of course, I said yes.  I love it when my art is used for educational purposes. 

Here are the details of Zsuzsi's request:  "A group of 30 students collected gently used shoes during the months of October and November. The shoes were sent to Funds2Orgs, they ship the shoes to developing countries, where they repair and sell the shoes.  Monies from Funds2Orgs are donated to the local Kiwanis of Livonia, who will donate 50% of what they raise to Child Life Services at four Michigan children’s hospitals and 50% to the Eliminate Project, a joint project between Kiwanis International and UNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus worldwide."

Once I sent my font to her, Zsuzsi sent me the above photo showing a picture of the students with one load of shoes ready to go.  She said their leaders will be using my font for their title for their Youth Making A Difference board.  I'm thrilled!

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Fireplace Selfie

Added Photoshop CC to my laptop, so now I can play with it nearly everywhere.  This might not be a good thing if I want to get anything else done.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

So Many Photo Options. Which Would You Choose?



Photography used to be a lot simpler.  You had to worry about what ASA film to buy, whether B&W or color, slide or print, and a few other things when shooting the picture.  Usually a lab took it from there.  Now there are an explosion of options from what you select on your DSL camera, when taking the picture, to a thousand things you can do in post production.  Above is one picture as shot (top), slightly manipulated in Lightroom (middle photo) and more manipulated in Photoshop (bottom).   But which one is best?

Monday, October 26, 2015

Lucy With Lantana Flowers

Throw back Monday with flowers!  New photo composite of fallen lantana flowers in my backyard with a high school photo taken of me by my father, the late, great, E.A. Autrey, around 1966.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Lucy's Photos Now Available on Shutterstock

One of seven photos now available on Shutterstock.com.  My portfolio address there is http://shutterstock.com/g/Lucy+Autrey+Wilson

Photo was taken at the gardens of the Jardines de San Juan restaurant in beautiful San Juan Bautista, California.