Rita Martin ~The Kings Speech~ New Ebay Fees

Rita Martin was a photographer in England (1875-1958). She was THE photographer for those that were in the high social rankings in England and even photographed Queen Elizabeth, and the Queen mother as a young girl. There are many of her photos that hang in the National Gallery.....and I have some of her collection!! YEAH!!

So ....that means..the movie the Kings Speech..yep..THAT family...Rita photographed..only in real life!!

Her photos are incredible..soo nice..that I have a hard time putting them up for sale on eBay..
(I mean..do you have any idea how tempting they are to keep???)
but I have 3 of them up currently....and they are beautiful..and one is signed by Rita. ahhhh..


AND
News..
Ebay has increased our fees..they now charge us for shipping. They want us to offer free shipping (meanwhile they are charging us a percentage of the sale on shipping) and they want us to do Buy it nows.

So....
I do have buy it nows in my store..and all of them are free shipping..
BUT

i love a good auction...I mean..don't you?
Where else can you get a steal of a deal...and feel super great getting it..
or if you really love it..well you will pay for it...

I love auctions and I wish eBay would realize we still love them...

so...my shipping prices have to rise..(i am so sorry..i tried, i really did) but i still do great combined shipping...and
now...
I have RITA MARTIN photos...and I mean they are a true WOW WORK OF ART PHOTOS THAT YOU WILL REALLY LOVE!
I will try to list a few a week...but it is like pulling them out of my hands..i have a hard time letting them go......soooo beautiful...

say...isn't Spring lovely???
cathi

What do you do with all your old photos?

Often, when I am mailing out photos to some of my customers..I am caught wondering..
what do they do with their photos?

Now I have all kinds of customers..some are painters..so I imagine the photos hung all around the room for inspiration.

Then I know I have customers who use them for collage art, so I picture them scanning endlessly and working very carefully to create just the perfect image.

Others work with fashion, and I am sure they stare at the fashions deciding what can they do with the fashions of old to blend with today.

Then there are the advertisers.. I am still hoping to see one of my old photos on a Geicko commerical!

And there are the collectors....
I am one of those..

you can come into my home at any given time..and find all sorts of pretty images framed and around my house, hanging on a wall..and in a beautiful frame on a book shelf..
they look like family..but i have no idea who they are..

I collect because an image strikes me..not because it is a big name, tho there are collectors that do that..
or because it is a certain era..
nope it is all about the photo for me..

that is why I list from so many different eras..I just fall in love with the photos..

ahhh...
What do You do with all your photos???

Cathi

Springtime is trying hard to get here....

A few nights ago, there was the biggest moon because it was supposed to be closer to earth...in fact, it was so rare you weren't supposed to see another one like it until 2029

well...it was foggy, and rainy..and i kept checking and checking..
no moon!

then..the other day here in the Chicago area..it was getting warm..I had a light jacket on..it was so wonderful...

tonight it snowed..

but you cant fool me..i know that spring is coming...........
i saw the pregnant robin the other day...


saw this beautiful photo and wanted to share it with you...
it is on auction this week..

oh and i apologize for not updating..

i think it was between, a vacation with the hubby, then i got sick..a long cold that didn't want to go away, and then the hubby with a long cold that didn't want to go away..being glued to the television with all the latest news ...

anyhow..excuses aplenty..i just didnt post..

but i found this photo..and thought..

hmmmm
Spring is coming...

cathi

Winter & Summer

With almost 2 feet of snow outside in the Chicago area, it was fun to begin to list my latest aquisition of photos..

Photos of Kids enjoying summer fun! 1950s era..
Taken by a photographer in Palm Beach Florida..they are beautiful...

but why now??

When I was a young girl, my father had a trade convention in January in Florida. Right in the middle of a long cold winter, my mother and I would pack up and get ready to enjoy the sun..
what a wonderful break it would be...coming back, all sunburned and able to get through the next hard months ahead.

Sometimes we need to remember in seasons and in life...everything changes...there is winter...but then summer will come again...

during some of these hard years lately ...with people unemployed and hurting from the economy..it seems hard to believer that winter will pass...

but it does...it takes time...but it does pass..

grateful for big snow drifts and the hope for sunshine

cathi

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May 2011 be filled with Joy & Laughter
Loads of love
and if there might be any troubles
may they be small ...

cathi

Peace on Earth~ Good will to man

So, My daughter is learning film...

and she has made a film featuring Israelis, religious, secular, Arabs, Palestinians, Russians, Americans, Ethiopians..

she is learning film in the middle of one of the hot spots of the world..Israel.

This is her very short film..I wanted to share this with you all..
so proud of her

cathi

Christmas is just around the corner

I will confess...I have been so slow to update my blog...but i have been soo busy with getting my presents done..
amazing..it is now the 15th of December and I am almost done shopping..
I think it is a first..

and along the way..i found myself at a frame shop..
why..

well, i do have alot of photos...and so many times, i just have to frame them...they are true pieces of art.

There is this one photographer..( THE ABOVE IS ONE OF HIS PHOTOS...he titled it: A head c 1909 and it is for auction this week)
named CR Tucker..I don't know anything about him, except that I got these from a woman in the hills of Pennsylvania and she bought them at an estate sale..
well, it appears that he was some local artist..might have been famous in his day..although I have yet to find information on him..

anyhow..the more i see of his stuff...well the more i am a fan..

his photos are simply amazing..

but why they are amazing is why i love them...

the photos he did was when photography was in it's infancy, when photographers were experimenting with all different kinds of styles..

his was primitive in his style..yet there is such a softness to them..so unique and such a contrast to the studio photos that we all find from the early 1900s

anyhow..i will be introducing more of them.. I will confess, I have many sitting in my own collection but after going to the frame shop and looking at my walls i realize there is no way i can keep them all...
so be on the lookout...they will be showing up from time to time and these are quite magnificent..and so rare to find...

Hope your holidays are going well..and that you will be surrounded by love, light and laughter..
(oh and yes, just that right amount of art!)

cathi