To All My Dairy Farm Clients

Ellen Atkin Aerial and Fine Art Photography Presents the Best Display Aerials of your Farm.
So much has happened in the last 5 years.
You have been working on your barns and your houses, building your dreams.
And I have been working on my skills and products, honing my craft.
Many of you know me already.
I have been shooting BC aerials (primarily dairy farms) since 2007.
Here is a sample of the orders I have delivered in the last 2 years.
You can also see me on page 44 of this years Holstein Directory.

Over the years, I have come to recognize the honesty and integrity of Canada's Dairy Farmers.
I see the hard work, values and stability that you maintain and pass on to your families.
It is this sense of pride and achievement, that I impart into each finished fine art display piece.

I am not exagerrating when I say that my intention in creating your order is to bring you happiness when you look at it:
Julie de Boer of Forfield Holsteins
I still look at the picture every day and smile.
Such a great Birdseye view, the colours, the shadows ... I can imagine how low the sun would have been when you flew overhead!
Thanks Ellen! Scott was truly surprised and thrilled with the picture :)

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These works of art make great gifts.
Lots of my clients, like Julie, make them suprises.
Farmers are particularily hard to buy for.
They don't seem to want anything but farm equipment.
You can be sure of the value when you give one of these art works.

As a big thank you to all my clients, past and future, there is a 15% discount on all orders made before Nov. 30th.
Use this coupon code when you order on line: CHRISTMAS BONUS
By now there should be no aversion to ordering on line.
Just click the Add to Cart button and follow the steps.
You also pay no tax.

Find your farm in one of these galleries.
Please tell your friends and neighbours if you see their farm.

Your order will be delivered before Christmas.
The last day that I can guarentee orders by Christmas is Dec. 4th.

Give yourself and your family a gift of true lasting value.
If you do not feel comfortable with on line ordering or have any questions, please call or email me back.

Group Galleries
Agassiz Aerials
Chilliwack Aerials
Okanogan Aerials

Separate Galleries
Hammingview
Ridgeview
Twin Creek
Donia Farms
Elkview
Jansen & Sons
Hatt Farms
Farmhouse Cheeses
G&A Ferguson
Serene Lea
Swiss Farm

Thank you so much for believing in me these last few years. I produce over 100 finished art works each year now, each order carefully customized, including all photo edits.
Ellen Atkin

White Rock South Surrey Lifestyle Images

180 images and adding.. photos of White Rock and South Surrey Lifestyle plus Aerials.
Fresh, updated, and modern.
Clean, crisp and sharp.

Looking for good photos for your website and brochures?
Help yourself to the gallery.
Download at any time for one year as many times as you like, as many images as you like.

Why pay hundreds of dollars for a few images?
Get the whole gallery (currently 180 images) PLUS some aerials for only $300.00 for unlimited access for an entire year.

All images are professionally edited by Ellen Atkin.
Ellen Atkin is a recognized aerial, fine art and stock photographer.
She is represented by Getty Images and her work has been published all around the world.
Her image is on the cover of the new White Rock tourist guide published by Tourism White Rock and featured in the new website http://inwhiterock.com

Buy this photo gallery before the end of November 2011 and you will recieve 33% off.
Yes, the whole gallery for 1 year for $200.00.

Every subject you could want: Canada Day festivities, sand castles, fireworks, sunsets over the pier, walking down the pier, east beach, west beach, tour de White Rock, Whale Wall, Coast Capitol Playhouse, the promenade, windsurfing, kiteboarding, eagle, the clocktower, the Rock, tidal pools, the totems, promenade sculptures, spring summer fall winter, the tourist booth, shops, restaurants, the farmer's market, ect...

All images are model released.

How to buy:

Pay with your CC on line through instant invoicing.
You will receive an instant download access link that you will keep in your emails for reference.
This is your link which will expire exactly one year after purchase.

Easy and secure.

Don't hesitate, now is the time to buy.

Keso Cheese Art Show; New Tidal Pools

TIDAL POOLS LARGE FORMAT

Look at my new tidal pools with the family switched out. This one just keeps getting better.

The final was 33.5 x 76 inch canvas print laminated with brush strokes so it really had texture and looked like a 3D painting, which is what I strive for in all my work. 

It was also gallery wrapped over 1 and 1/4 inch stretcher bar. It was a non mirrored gallery wrap. The actual image continues over the edges. Since my clients have it hanging over the stairwell, it is well perceived from all angels except the top, so the gallery wrap really adds to the dimension of the piece.

I may be able to get one or 2 more of these in before I head out of here for winter. So book now or hold off till spring.

Delivering ART in Agassiz

I think I spent my last sales day on the road today in Agassiz before I head out of here. I have a lot to do and I can make sales from home and save up for next year too.

ART SHOW THIS Weekend

My LAST Public show before I head south!!! Come to Keso Cheese this Saturday the 24th of September, 2011 at 2982 152 St., South Surrey, BC, 778-294-0775.

I know it sound kinda funny, having an art show at a gourmet cheese shop, but it is a GOURMET CHEESE SHOP! And really, who is kidding who, this little area is one of the most affluent in the lower mainland.

There are also a lot of new builds so people REALLY need stuff on their walls. People also love to buy local art, but they are looking for something special, contemporary, unique and classy as well. Hello!

So Please join me from noon until 4 pm this Saturday. It is supposed to be a lovely sunny day.

 

Family Photos in White Rock with Tidal Pools

 I had so much appreciation for this image at the Art Fair at Michaelson's in July, that I wanted to present it again with an added bonus.

As suggested at the show, I am personalizing this shot by putting your friends, family and love ones INTO this image. 

This 33.5 x 73.70 inch laminated gallery wrapped canvas has a clear acrylic coating brushed onto it to give it a 3D painterly feeling. I was a real show stopper. Take a look at the actual finished product as it sat in the grove at the show.

So don't worry about the background, we just shoot the portraits and I photoshop you into this already proven art shot.

Book now while the sun is still out. You only pay for the production. After we shoot the perspective shot to, we will add to the session with a portrait shoot that will edit down to about 30 or 40 images.

Essentially, you get a personalized art piece and a free portrait shoot with all digital images.

What does it cost? This production technique costs $16.00 a united inch. So the size you see in the photo: 33.5 x 73.50 is $1,715. Half that size is 16.5 x 36.50 for $857. You can do the math for a custom size. Remember that the proportions stay the same.

We have 2 weeks of sunshine forecast so if you are thinking about doing this, then don't let the opportunity slip by.

I really don't know how to stress how original and wonderful this product is. You will get years of pleasure out of this image with your own image in it. It is fantastic on its own, now you can be in it. AND get a whole portrait session as a bonus.

Call me for more information and bookings. 778 552-1299

Aerial Panoramas of White Rock

Every Real Estate office or business in White Rock & South Surrey needs one of these aerial panoramas. Point to the house your client wants to buy. Show them where you live. 

See it in up close sharp detail in relation to the community. Have it on your wall, carry it in your sales kit, use it on your website. 

These images were all taken on June 21st of 2011. 

Join Gary McGratten, Stewart Peddemors and other top realtors in White Rock who have chosen to use these panoramas for their sales tools.

White Rock Aerial Pano San Juan View

White Rock Ocean Park Aerial Pano

White Rock Waterfront 1

White Rock Waterfront 2

sample detail at 100%

Canvas Gallery Wrapped around a 1 inch stretcher and Laminated for permanence and vibrancy.

OR

Metallic Photo Paper float mounted & laminated on 1/8 inch MDF with black edge.

SIZE & PRICE

$15.00 a united inch (height plus width). Up to 44 inches on the  short side. PLUS 35% off.

Recommended Minimum Order Size:

example:  19.5 x 50 inches = 69.5 united inches x 15 = $1042.50 - 35% = $677.62 including tax & delivery.

Special Time Limited Bonus: One year subscription to White Rock Lifestyles Gallery. Unlimited use, royalty free (except for resale) images. Constantly updated. Need photos for your website, promos? This is perfect. Regular value: $300.00 now free with the purchase of a White Rock Aerial Panorama.

778 552-1299

Aerial Panoramas and Fine Art Photography

Thank God, this season finally started. After an interminably long, brutal winter, the sun finally decided to shine for a few days, although it is still being shy. This year in the pacific northwest is a real reminder that we live in an northern rain forest. Cold, wet and grey.

So, on the first opportunity which happened to be the summer solstice, June 21st, I jumped into the sky and flew around my fair town of White Rock for a commission that I got from Gary McGratten, a local realtor with Sutton Realty. He sells a lot of ocean view properties, so he wanted to have that represented as a large format work of art. Stunning. I keep using that word but it is true. I float mounted it (30 x 70 inches) on MDF but still used metallic paper, so it looks very similar to my limited edition series mounted on aluminum, but much more affordable. Still it is not cheap.

I spent last weekend and will be spending the one coming up exhibiting at the 38th annual Arnold Michaelson Art Fair in South Surrey. 3 acres of old growth forest with about 50 artists set up in the sun dappled grove. My Lucid Dreaming show looked very good set against the nature. I was very happy to have sold the first edition of Semiahmoo to a local couple. Equally important, was the endless praise and appreciation I got for these works. I tell ya, it makes a big difference. I sacrificed a lot last year to produce that series, but it really appears now to be paying off.

Out of the June 21st aerial shoot, I produced 3 other aerial panoramas that I will test market through GS & Co. Art Gallery here in White Rock. I have been working with Gary there for a while to come up with some local affordable art.
(I had two clients named Gary at the same time). So 5 more in all, (two other local scenes), will be at  the show this weekend to see how they go over.

Plus I have the Tidal Pools large format gallery wrap canvas with brush strokes added that I produced for my friend Debbie that she let me show before taking possession. People really oohed and awed over that one as well. That was 35 x 75 inches.

And after massaging Chilliwack, I am starting to get some juice. I did another flight there last week on the clearest day of the year so far. It was brilliant.  Jeanine from Principal Air is one of the most skilled and confident pilots I have ever flown with. She is really relaxed but really good at the same time. She has the ability to visualize spatially and fly a plane at the same time.

And next week I am off to Okanogan to shoot for several clients on hold. Happy Happy Happy, Thankful.

I met a Lightbearer today on my Sales Calls

Man, that day felt like work. And the Canucks are playing. Wanted to get out of Dodge (Chillwack) and get back to the Rock. Peaceful, sunny. I suppose I could turn on the tv and find out what's happening to the nucks. another knucklebiter. no score in the 3rd.

anyway, I had to rationalize my day so as not to feel too depressed about not bringing home a boat load of money. I had every conceivable excuse. I didn't fight it, but it was worth reminding myself of that old sales job I used to do. It is better than that, but that job cut my teeth at sales. SCORE!

So, the highlight of my day was meeting this woman, Laura Taylor-Jensen BA, MAc, who is now the primary custodian of the works of the great master himself. I swear, how on earth, I could of met her after all the farmers I spoke to that day, is beyond me. So we had a bit of enlightened chat that I could AT LEAST say that there was some divinity to my day.

Maybe I should go back to being 100% raw. Today, I ate a bowl full of the clam chowder I made last night with the clams Eva and I dug up the night before. I think Val can attest that it is the best manhattan clam chowder either of us have ever tasted. Green drink and my morning chocolate shake. 7 or 8 roaste3d cacao beans from Guatamala, 2 bananas, sunflowerseed milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, ice, hemp oil. OMG... it is so incredibly good.

I found myself wanting to fall asleep but was being pulled home. I didn't realize Chilliwack was such a sketchy place. Roving security guards in the Price Smart parking lot; Got majorly searched just going into the law courts to use the bathroom. I nearly had a heart attack. Note to self, don't do that again.

Lots of dark energy there in the town. The farms arn't too bad. Nice country. That's the problem with it there. It is beautiful. But the rivers are breaking the dikes and the city won't do anything, except study it. So that blew one sale right there. When they were all positive and wanting to see it, I didn't have it. Overlooked. sigh.

Someone was hit by a car and lying on the road after I left another homeless abode. Weird. A lot of people were stopped, so I figured he was okay. I was turning the other way.

I have a lot to say, a lot of catching up to do, but for now, I have to move forward and just happy that I reunited with my original blog ULR, RawTraveling.blogspot.com.... AHHHHH... I made a mistake... ! It really takes time for google to recognize you, so don't go throw 4 years of ramblings out the window for some attempt at "re-invention".. Another lesson learned. I am already getting my rankings and followers back.. OOps, sorry... ! I love you all. Jesus loves you too.

Chilliwack Aerial Photos: Dairy & Chicken Farms

142 beautiful images of farms in the Fraser Valley. It really was the first nice day of the year, June 4th, 2011. It looked and felt like spring.

Check out the flooding in some of the shots. The hay has had one crop off and the corn is just being planted.

The website is all set up to take online orders but I have a better deal if you order in person or by phone.

BONUSES if you order from me by phone or in person.

1) a free 10 x 18 inch photographic print of one of the aerial panoramas
camp river pan 2
or
camp river pan

2) no shipping charges or tax

The products I offer are on the Products & Services page.

Please be sure to quote me the image name which will look something like this: IMG_8103.JPG, located on the bottom left side of the image.

Call me ASAP. I will be in Chilliwack for home viewings on Friday, June 10th and Wednesday, June 15th.

I will be shooting the rest of Chilliwack over the season. Call me to make sure you are included.