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    Holiday Gift Guide featuring the Etsy Treasury Troupe

    by Naomi Morgan on 11/15/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    Etsy Team: Etsy Treasury Troupe
    “The Etsy Treasury Troupe is a small group of shop owners with the sole goal of supporting each other and helping promote each other to the masses.  We  love making treasuries and not only do we create collections, our group also discusses shop …

    Holiday Gift Guide featuring the Melange Team

    by Naomi Morgan on 11/14/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    Etsy Team:  Melange Team
    “We are a team for artists on Etsy who work their art by using several different media in each piece they create; mixed media, collage, paper arts, sculpture, assemblage, digital media, and more.” ~ dharmakarmaarts (Indira), team leader

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    Photography Spark – Autumn Shades

    by Naomi Morgan on 10/26/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    I find great joy experiencing the season of Fall, from the trees changing the colors of their leaves to the drop in temperatures that some of us face towards the onset of Winter.  It’s is actually my favorite season because it reminds me of feeling grounded and settled in myself. …

    Finding your Spark : Product Photography – Handmade Spark’s Finest Examples Of A Handmade Portrait

    by Naomi Morgan on 10/25/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    *Photograph by Nay of Moonangelnay on Etsy*
    The Handmade Portrait: It’s amazing just how many handmade artists and crafters could consider this as a potential for showing off their work in their product photos, yet so many daren’t give the human “display” a try for a whole host of reasons.  Mostly …

    Finding your Spark : Product Photography – Handmade Spark’s Finest Examples Of Good Focus

    by Naomi Morgan on 10/25/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    *Photograph by Nay of Moonangelnay on Etsy*
    Importance of Good Focus: There are quite a few reasons a photograph can look out of focus or generally not as crisp as you’d like, which in a few of my previous posts I cited a some reasons for why this could happen.  Here …

    Photography Spark – Bokeh Beauty

    by Naomi Morgan on 9/30/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    Photo by Nay of Moonangelnay on Etsy

    I thought it would be lovely to post some of my favourite Bokeh photos from various photographers that I admire on Etsy for their work.  Like I mentioned in my previous Creative Bokeh Tips post on Handmade Spark, the word Bokeh literally …

    Finding your Spark : Product Photography – Handmade Spark’s Finest Examples Of Good Lighting

    by Naomi Morgan on 9/02/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    *Photograph by Nay of Moonangelnay on Etsy*
    Importance of Light: I would like to have a recap waaaay back to when I started writing these Spark posts, to one of my first i had written that focused on lighting, and also give some great examples of sellers that use good …

    Photography Spark: Sunset Inspiration

    by Naomi Morgan on 8/20/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

    Photo by Nay of Moonangelnay on Etsy
    I have been one sleepy head recently, imagining the shades of a beautiful sunset and looking forward to when I could grab a good snooze! Today for Photography Spark I have just the colors that take me into that relaxed frame of mind …