May 2014

If you've never visited this blog, I suggest you scroll down to view a few of my posts along with the images I have here.  It will give you a pretty good idea what I'm all about.  I don't have a "Niche" or focus.  I'm pretty talented in most areas of photography; portraiture, fine art, events, nature, flowers and the list goes on.  It's because I get bored easily with just photographing one subject.  So I experiment.  I travel.  I engage people in my projects (most recently a project photographing people with tattoos) and currently I'm starting a project photographing horses and their owners.  If you'd like to be a part of any of my upcoming projects, please feel free to contact me.


Thanks for visiting here.  I hope you come back often to check to see what I'm up to.

Open Studio - April 19th from Noon - 5 p.m.

The Kamuda Photography studio will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 19th, 2014.  Light refreshments will be served. This will also be an opportunity to have an impromptu portrait taken which will be posted on Facebook and you use as a profile photo if you like.

If you have a Facebook Account, please visit my event page to RSVP or call me at 978-630-1953 if you are not on Facebook.

Open Studio - Kamuda Photography

Click on the link above to RSVP via Facebook.

My studio is located at 400 Pleasant Street in Gardner, MA.

I hope to see you there! 

Photos of Horses...

 

Horse Photography Project

I will be taking a series of images of horses from May through July.  If you own a horse and would like to participate in my project, please let me know.  For your willingness to allow me to photograph your horse and sign a model release, you will receive a CD of the unedited images that I take.  Please contact me at carolynkamuda@aol.com for more information.

Thanks.

Carolyn

Post by Carolyn A. Kamuda.

My first blog entry since my accident in March, 2013

Thank you all for visiting my blog again.  Due to my back injury, I was not able to sit for any length of time at the computer but now I'm almost back to normal (well, not normal, normal!) and so I'll be writing here again every time I have a new photo opportunity to share with you.

Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon driving to Melrose, Massachusetts where I went to Hunt's Camera and Video to have the sensors cleaned on both cameras (my Canon EOS 20D and EOS 5D).  Both sensors looked pretty good to the technicians but I wanted them crystal clear for the new images I'll be creating for you.

On the way home I stopped at D'Amici's Bakery and picked up a Lobster Tail and Ricotta Pie.  They have such great pastry.  I have to stop there each time I visit Hunt's.

Not to waste the afternoon on just driving and shopping, I nosed around Melrose to see what I could photograph while there.  I couldn't make it back to the Ox Bow Reservation (which is on the way home) so I drove around the Fellsway and Spot Pond was showing up on the GPS so I kept driving around it until I found a place to park (at a Trustees of Reservations parking lot).  The water was right there so I took several shots and this is one of them.

Breaking my Back was a Good Thing!

 

On March 21st I was in my basement lifting a box when I hit my head and fell on the cement floor.  It was the most painful experience I have ever had.  I called for help as I had visitors upstairs and they came down to help me.  I couldn't stand but was able to crawl across the cellar floor and up the stairs and onto the couch in the living room.  I had my friend Norm get me an ice pack and that seemed to calm down the pain.  After about 45 minutes I tried to get up and thats when the pain came back so I had to be brought to the emergency room where they diagnosed me with a bruise and sent me home with pain killers and Tylenol.  After two weeks of being on the couch and still in pain I went to my primary care physician who did an xray of my back and eventually a CT Scan.  Much to her surprise I had a burst fracture of the Lumbar Spine.   I went to the emergency room that night at UMass Memorial where they admitted me and told me I may have to have surgery where they fuse the vertebrae together.  That night I have never prayed as hard asking God to spare me from the surgery.  The next morning the surgeon met with me and said I was a good candidate for a back brace to be worn for the next couple of months. 

 

I've been in the brace for 4 weeks now and during that time I've made good use of my injury by watching educational photography videos.  I'm so excited to be able to put the techniques I've learned into practice.  In a few weeks I may be able to go to Physical Therapy.  Hopefully the therapy will help to relieve the spasms which are the most painful part of this ordeal.

 

Bad things that happen are not necessarily bad.  This accident turned into something which is not an accident at all but a vehicle by which I have been able to improve my photography skills and build my confidence.  I've been able to take a few portraits while in the brace but I am limited to what I can do, so I do what I can. 

 

Thank you for reading my blog.  I'm so looking forward to posting my new images when I'm healed totally.  My current project is Maternity Photography and Newborns.