Turning back time by one month.

I love my job! I've found a way to foil Mother Nature! What more power trip is there than THAT?!? One of my clients putting together a TV Commercial Ad needs images of their locations in addition to some of their clients, and a residence... and guess what... it's NOVEMBER! For you New Englanders, you don't need me to say anymore, but as a November birthday girl all too familiar with the trees newly stripped bare, browning and wilted perennials, the dying grass; I can tell those of you not from here that this is NOT the time to be photographing your office buildings. Without a doubt, this month and March are the two N.E. months full of ugly. It's that pause between seasons that lacks any charm, and usually adds its own dose of discomfort with rain and gusty wind. Well, today at least was a beautiful still day with very nice temperatures... so I photographed the building and re-introduced the landscape that should have been around it with my trusty retouching pen, stroke by stroke using a fall foliage image I shot earlier this year.... and look! Last month's landscape in today's architectural image. My clients, both commercial and portrait, all enjoy the benefit of the tricks and skills I've acquired over many years... never overdone, always believeable, and never in place of bad photography, but always to improve what can't be changed. So, it's November in reality, but, for this client, I've conjured October for their marketing needs. What a rush! I'd better watch out, because pride goes before a fall, and I'm feeling pretty darned proud!