Oh I can feel your pain re: dance photos that are less than wonderful: my dgd has been dancing for 10 years and probably 1/2 of her photos are what I would call nice. YOu did a beautiful job with the sketch and I love the mix of alphas in the title. They work perfectly.
You are so diligent about scrapping the dance photos. My daughter danced for years too and I have had a very haphazard approach to scrapping the portraits. You are an inspiration. I can see why this is not your fav photo, but the subject of the photo is still a fav, she is special , talented and looking at the page in future years will bring back great memories.
She's cute no matter what pose or if you had an inexperienced photographer! Your page is cute too and I love the letters in the title. She is one amazing young woman to be in all those classes and remember 9 dances. I have a cousin how is gifted in dance and she is 8 and this month she is in 5 dances at her recital and she has a solo. Kids these days are amazing. Awesome page.
Beautiful layout...great design and love the flourishy things. Loved your story. Now that my girls are grown I seem to now love all the photos I didn't love when they were younger.
Love all the black and white....beautiful flourishes! I have a few pictures like that of my daughter where the photographer didn't even capture my dd smiling...instead her annual pictures were of her crying (something she hardly ever did for pictures). I cursed the photographer after the photos were taken!
Lisa, you should of been behind the photographer pointing out all the things that are wrong!! But bless Cassie and her smile :) love the black and white flowers!
Love the title work, the pretty black and white florals - everything is so crisp and clean. It's a lovely lo despite the fact that it's not one of your faves. To the untrained eye - it's a lovely photo.
This is so nice! I really like the clean b/w design. It certainly makes your wonderful photo pop! No one would know she was having trouble with the pose, she looks totally professional!
VEry pretty, I really like seeing Cassie progression in the dances, it reminds me of the 10 years of dance my did and reminds me I have ALOT of recital photos to scrap!
Your description is funny! Your daughter is beautiful and so is her costume. I remember when my oldest danced. It was a fun and stressful time. :)
This layout came out beautiful!
In 2011, my daughter was in 9 dances in her studio's recital, and this is the first one I'm getting to. It is my least favorite of her dance portraits ever, but it is what it is. I don't know if the photographer was having an off day, or if it was just the pressure of the first time we had to come up with so many poses and do so many costume changes in one day (the previous year, she was in 5 dances), but of the nine, I only really like three, and two others are 'okay.' Of the other four, two are not bad photos, but her expressions don't fit the dances so I don't really like them, but two are terrible - unfortunately, those 2 were her ballets. In this one, she's wobbling in a balance check, and the photographer had her pointing to the camera so that she looks like her leg's been amputated at the knee. Sigh. But, my poor daughter has trained herself to smile at all costs in the presence of a camera since I have had one pointed at her almost non-stop since she was born, so I'm sure he couldn't tell by her face looking at her proofs that this wasn't a good pose. LOL
Anyway, this is her portrait for a ballet class she wasn't even in. Another girl dropped out of this class a month before the recital, and since Cassie was at the studio anyway at this time for her break between assistant teaching and her own classes and it would be no problem for her to learn because it was a class 3 levels below hers, the teacher asked her to step in so that she wouldn't have to redo all the choreography. They danced to Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror. You can see the LO's I've completed for earlier years in my Dance LO's Album in my gallery. All her professional dance portraits have been taken by Cass Photography.
This is for: 1) February Monthly Sketch Challenge Week 2 with the twist to scrap someone I love.
2) February Girls Girls Girls - my third LO.
3) February One Photo.
I rotated the sketch 90degrees. The top scalloped strip is black velvet pp, and there is a strip of black sequins along the top of it to match the top of her costume. The photo mat is silver glitter pp. I pulled the flower centers out of the large black Petaloo and one of the white Paper Studio flowers because they were ugly and replaced them with gems. The 'o' in Mirror is a rub-on on top of a mirror, and I put other mirrors among the flowers.
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