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Honored Speaker – Françoise Weeks

Joni — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:30:19 +0000

My good friend and fabulous floral artist, Françoise Weeks created quite the buzz at a recent floral industry conference held at the wholesale flower market on Swan Island. Françoise was one of four distinguished guest speakers invited to present and the only speaker representing the local Northwest talent. Attendees were invited to meet the guest speaker at the sponsoring wholesaler. Billingsley Wholesale Floral sponsored Françoise and was packed to the roof! The following is a collage of Françoise’s presentation show and the 10 lucky raffle winners that got to take home one of Françoise’s creations from her presentation. Read more about Françoise, her designs and learn about her design classes on her website and blog.

Practice Your Vision

Joni — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:00:01 +0000

I saw a piece on the National news about an ice festival in China and it inspired me to try to set up something different to showcase Françoise Weeks latest sculptures for bridal bouquets. Françoise’s vision requires a lot of technical “behind the scenes” research in terms of structure, architecture and materials to create such a one of kind design.

To create my vision of an “ice cave”, I found some plastic bags and glittering threads lying around. SB-800 speedlights were placed to reflect off the plastic bags and off to the side to light the floral design. Keeping the ISO low at 100 allowed me to achieve a dramatic look by keeping the background dark and only pick up the light from the speedlights and the lighted subject.

To keep stretching our creativity, seek inspiration and try to apply it to your photography!

Lovely Ladies

Joni — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:00:07 +0000

Collage of Favorites from Bio Photo Special

This event was filled with lots of fun and great positive energy in working with all the beautiful ladies that participated in my Bio Photo Special shoot on September 9th.

Just a few of my favorites are (left) Candace Petersen, President and COO of learning.com, (center) Linda Wion, Realtor with Prudential Northwest Properties, and (right) Sharona Tsubota, Wine and Spirits Explorer of In Great Spirits.

Special “Shout Outs & Props” to:

Layla Bauder and Lynn Hannah (e: lhannah@marykay.com), representing Mary Kay Cosmetics. These two little ladies worked their make up artistry and provided great tips and products to all the attendees.

Francoise Weeks, provided whimsically sweet miniature floral designs as thank you gifts to all the lovely ladies that participated in this fun event.