I'm Janet Whalen and this is my photoblog. Here you'll find news about Janet Whalen Photography and any specials or new products I may offer through my Etsy shop or elsewhere. I also share some favourite finds (whether at Etsy or elsewhere) every now and then so keep checking back.
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I belong to a group called the “Photographers of Etsy” or POE for short, whose goals are to promote the wonderfully talented Etsy photographers, and also “to inform the public about methods, styles and types of printing available so that they will have tools to make educated buying decisions.”
The POE team has a blog here where they feature new work and host interviews with various Etsy photographers.
I was fortunate enough to have Purple featured this week! What a thrill to see one of my images there!
Nathalie, from “Canadian Rockies Art” on Etsy, was kind enough to include my print “Purple” in her first Wordless Wednesdays blog post here featuring a few etsy photographers. Thanks again Nathalie….your blog is looking great and I love your idea of doing your own personal Etsy treasuries.
Please hop over to Nathalie’s etsy shop at www.CanadianRockies.etsy.com and have a look at her gorgeous creations. Here are a few of my favourite earrings for sale in her shop right now:
My art print, “Daisy Dream”, available on my Etsy site, is featured today on Indie Spotting! Click on the actual photo on the Indie Spotting site and it will take you right to my Etsy shop. How cool!
Hop over and check it out along with the other great finds they’re featuring from some really creative people.
Now that I have an up-and-running Etsy shop I’m spending even MORE time there than I ever did searching for beautiful, one-of-a-kind gifts for upcoming birthdays, or just admiring the creativity of so many of the sellers there.
The other day, I marked Carmen Bowe to my favourites and received a great convo back from her not only thanking me for the “heart” but also to let me know that my business card had crossed her desk at her day-job. It turns out we have some friends in common and I have photographed people in her office for their business head shots.
What a small world!
Anwyay, because I love her site and would love one of these pendants (pictured) for Mother’s Day (hint to my boys!), I thought I would share some eye candy from her shop here. Beautiful stuff Carmen!
I have a few prints listed already and am adding more daily. Future listings will include Art/Greeting cards printed by me on Crane Museo art card stock which is a beautiful, velvety card stock that really shows off the colours and textures in my images.
One image I’ve already listed is of a beautiful summer day in Deep Cove which is in North Vancouver, BC. The scene just reminds me so much of everything Vancouver has to offer….the water, the mountains, the active lifestyle. I manipulated this one a bit in Photoshop to give it the look of a watercolour painting. I’m printing this as an 8×10 on Epson Velvet Fine Art paper and the colours look just as rich and vibrant as I remember on the day I shot the photograph.
I’m posting today to give some love to my friend Roslyn who has created this fantastic product (pictured below) called the greenschool tote.
She created greenschoolbecause she wanted an alternative to sending plastic Ziploc baggies to school with her kids’ field trip money/milk order forms etc. What a great idea! I can’t even imagine how many of those bags schools throw away after just that one use.
For the low price of $4.99 (plus a low shipping fee), you can purchase a greenschool tote that is washable, durable and reusable. Using the totes not only helps prevent all those plastic baggies from going to landfills, it sets a great example for your kids on the importance of reducing waste in our communities.
Can you tell I love my greenschool totes?
There’s a new greenschool blog too so be sure to check it out!
….I wanted to take a minute to thank all of my clients for their business in 2008. I’ve been ignoring this blog for a few months now, but am ready to start posting here again starting with something new.
This photo was shot on film in 1998 during a trip my husband and I took to the west coast. I believe this totem pole is in Victoria, BC but I’m not sure my memory is quite that accurate!
Anyway, I finally bought a scanner this year and am working on scanning some of my favourite film images so that I can make enlargements on my new printer. I chose to try this one first because this is a scan of an image I developed with my dad using his darkroom equipment. I remember watching it develop and thinking that there was so much more to photography that I wanted to learn. That it really is about “making” a photo not just “taking” one.
I’ve had this print in a frame in my office since then but it’s fading a bit and I wanted to make a new print. That’s my project for today!
This is a busy time of year for family photographers. We spend long hours in front of our computers, editing those photos that will end up on your holiday cards or as gifts for relatives. To help make those hours more fun, I’ve started looking for old 80’s songs I used to love in high school on You Tube and listening to them while I work. Songs that take me back to the days of crazy hair-sprayed Madonna hair when CNN’s John Roberts was “JD Roberts”, a VJ on Toronto’s MuchMusic video channel.
Thought I would share some of them here for those of you (Elma?) who might remember. Up first, “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie:
Now that I have an up-and-running 
