Dreamscape photomontages -- photo collages that look like a snapshot from a dream -- are a great way to celebrate all the times of your life:
Coming of Age
Bar-mitzvah/ Bat-mitzvah
For 13 years, your son or daughter has been molded by a long line of relatives, family friends, and mentors. On a large poster standing at the entrance, wouldn't it be fabulous to see every one of these people engaging with your child ... even when such photos don't even exist? I also make custom bar mitzvah photo collage invitations from your photos, like this one for Benny G.
Birthday
For a personalized photo collage birthday gift, I can combine multiple photos into a meaningful story that the Birthday Girl or Boy can frame or use as a photo collage invitation to the party! I can collage together all sorts of personal photos depicting family, hobbies, artwork, office shots, school chums, vacation spots and the old homestead - and make it look like everything was there when you snapped the picture!
Sweet 16
Issues revolving around their relationship to parents, God, new crushes, coaches and teachers can put a teenager into a tail spin. Yet if you play back back to your adolescent all their achievements and dreams, the burdens of growing up lightens up quite a bit. By far, the best messengers of a custom made Sweet 16 photo collage gift are grandparents, who faithfully record everything that's wonderful and good in their grandchild's life.
Graduation
What's cooler for a 21 year old than a contemporary photo collage they can hang up in their new apartment or wear as a photo-purse? Or if they have a new career they're crazy about, I can play it up in their photomontage by finding specific photographs for experiments with monkeys or the hospitality business. I can also add some special art effects to match their décor - from psychedelic to minimalist. In fact, let them choose!
Holidays
Christmas
Instead of a studio shot of the family in matching bow ties, try this: a custom photo collage holiday card that blows all the other Christmas and New Year cards out of the water. Gather your favorite photos (and stories) from all year and I will make you an exquisite family portrait that gets right to the heart of the family ... like this one created for a family obsessed with Sudoku.
Father's Day
Whatever the reality, I can create the perfect relationship between you and your Dad when we throw in a little wishful reality. Don't have any good photos of the two of you together? Watch me improvise and make you a Father's Day photo collage out of the best photos of each of you. Dad will swear he was there when the picture was taken!
Hanukkah
Let's come up with a noble theme for this year's holiday card, or just have fun with your year in pictures. Want to include the family dog on your last vacation even though he was actually home in the kennel? Or maybe do a little subliminal campaigning for a President, as we did for Judith's Hanukkah card?
Mother's Day
You've praised Mom, Mama and Bubby ever since you could pick up a crayon. So what do you do for an encore? Find the photos that capture the quirky or heroic part of her character. Watch how I can make an artistic photo collage portrait from your oldest and most current photos.
Love
Anniversary
Make your sweetie an artistic anniversary portrait. Select the best photo when you first met, and another photo taken within the last couple of years. I'll find the perfect backdrop to bring these two photos together in an exquisite collage layout for framing.
Valentine's Day Wedding
A poem costs nothing and works wonders. But accompany your poem with a Valentine's day photo collage, and you've got pure poetry. Tell me what you love about your mate, and I'll add some funny/mysterious/romantic images to an existing photo that will flip for you all over again.
Sometimes we have the dream wedding, but not the dream photographer. Whether it's surgically removing hillbilly relatives from the background, or adding a child from your first marriage into your second -- anything and everything is possible in my custom photo collage wedding portraits, wedding invitations and day-of-the-wedding Dreamscapes.
Nostalgia
Reunions
How many times have you tried to take a group portrait, and the spot's spoiled because of a fidgety grown-up or a restless pet? Ever want to retrofit a person who couldn't be there that day? I love creating artistic family reunion portraits made up of many photos. By picking through your candid shots from that day or another day, I can create a formal portrait with everybody smiling - an almost unheard of thing in portraiture. Take a look at Walter S's custom family reunion photomontage. There are a zillion types of reunions we can work on together: sports team reunions, college reunions, camp reunions.
Keepsake
Remember the great time you had staying at your friend's summer house in the Salt Springs? Or the cross-country trip you did in a Winnebago with your neighbor and her family? Good friends deserve a custom keepsake photo collage to help everybody remember all the crazy things you did together.