I asked my daughter last night when we got home, if she wanted to pretend to be Elsa. Dress up in a white dress, white fake fur jacket and pretend to be my model basically. She jumped with glee at the chance. I think more for the one on one time than anything else. Totally get it! I have three kids, so there are always lots of various, activities going on around here.

So we had some fun making cute, silly and happy faces. Then I had some more fun editing. Nothing more fun than editing and totally changing a photo to something else entirely.

Having kids at home, gives me lots of opportunities to practice different posing-modeling variations. Then with editing, so many options.

Yeah, she's a ham! A happy happy happy ham, I am so blessed! She saw me editing and asked me to turn the pic purple. Too fun! Then we got even sillier. Love this new star prop of mine, so cute.

Weee! I just got a message that told me one of my artsy fartsy photos on a cell phone case sold! WEE! Love it, never ever get bored of this happening. So cool.

This is the one that happened to sell on Society6. My shop is here.

Society6 does most of the work on this, so they get most of the money. I don't care tho. Just happy my art is out there making folks happy! Unfortunetely they only have cell phone covers for certain brands of cell phones, so like my Windows Phone, they don't carry them. I know of a place online tho that does sell them for all cellphones. I have used them before and my case is still in perfect condition. I drop my phone ALL the time too. Nothing hurt the case. It was a strong little bugger. You can go directly to my flickr account and see my case here.

Or you can look at it right here:

I upgraded my cell phone, so sadly it no longer fits. I still have it tho. I kept it with the old cell phone, it will go to one of my kids once they are a little older. I need to get a new case soon for my current cell. I'll update here or another post when I do. If you want a new, fun artsy case message me via email. I'll be happy to help you out. You can use my art or yours! I'm also available locally if you'd like to get a photo taken of you or your loved ones & put that image on your cell phone case. I might do this with my kids for my cell case. We shall see. <3 Heather :)

Contact info:

So I didn't win Powerball, so I thought hey, that's not fair! I still have bills! Oh well, more of my artwork for sale! My paypal me link is: Paypal.me/3AMArt. Copy/paste it into any browser if you're interested in original artwork for your walls. Any of these photos can be had for $20 shipped and the 8x10 size. Contact me directly if you're interested in larger sizes or on canvas or other items. My email is below after the last image.

#7. Color version of The Millhouse in Moore State Park by my husband, Sean.

#8. Bokeh Lights on the Bridge.

#9. Macro Hot Pink Calliandra Flowers.

#10. Holiday Lights at Tower Hill Botanical Garden.

#11. Christmas Tree Bokeh Lights.

#12. Purple Macro Flower.

#13. White Cliffs Mansion in Northborough Winter 2015.

#14. Light Painting on the Rte 9 Bridge.

#15. Walpole Apples Plate.

All of my artwork can also be had in larger sizes, framed, or on canvas. Just contact (see last image for email address) me via email or call me. On the main page of this website there is a skype link. Contact me for help on this, I'd be happy to help! You can go here to see my etsy feedback, if you like. Or to buy my artwork directly from me via etsy.

Thanks for looking! <3 Heather :)

I am so glad I found out about this! This is so cool! A Paypal me link makes it super easy to buy my artwork, directly from me. All you have to do is take my link, copy/paste: Paypal.me/3AMArt and pop it into any browser and a page will pop open allowing you to send me money right to my Paypal account. So for example, any of these pieces of artwork below, you can have as an 8x10 for $20 shipped. You save a bit of money buying directly from me, and not using etsy or any of my other online shops too.

#1. Inside Sagendorph Family Mausoleum in Pine Grove Cemetery, Spencer, Ma. By me.

#2. This is the Millhouse in Moore State Park, by my Husband, Sean.

#3. Sagendorph Family Mausoleum, Front Door Scrolling.

#4. Bozo on the Train, by me.

#5. Butterflies from Boston.

#6. Bancroft Tower in Worcester, MA by me.

So super easy to order from me too. I ship within 2-3 days, priority mail always. I only use LB Wheaton for printing. You can contact their page for more information on their printing processes too.

You can view my positive feedback rating on etsy here. Any questions, message me anytime.

Thanks for stopping by! <3 Heather :)

I have been a photographer for many years. I got my first serious camera when my son Rory was born, before that I had a Kodak with the drop in film cartridges, a Sony Mavica that took floppies, and a "toy" camera in High School Photography class that I shot everywhere with. Cute little hand me down cameras as a child too. Now I'm shooting with Nikon, Fujifilm, and looking at getting a Canon next. I am really happy with my Fuji though, so I might get another one from Fuji for a backup camera.

I am looking into expanding my photography portfolio, so I can show on my website all the different kinds of photography I'm capable of doing. I'm interested in any kind of photography shoots, as many different kinds as I can learn.

I want to meet models that are interested in trading time with me. My photography skills for their modeling skills. If this is you, please get in touch with me. I have a project in mind, I'd like to work on with a model (s). I'm looking for both male & female models, and children as well. Several locations I'd like to try out. I am bursting with ideas for photo shoots.

Thanks for looking, Heather O'Connor :)

Today, I have some new artwork up for your perusal. I have added some new items to my Society6 shop. First item is; "Oh the Bokeh"

You can get; "Oh the Bokeh" on many things, different types of paper, printed, framed, even on a mug, cell phone case or pillow. Just look for this listing here. Or go right to my society6 shop directly. If you see any of my other work and would like it printed onto something please message me. I'd be happy to help folks out! This is my portfolio aka gallery on flickr.

My etsy shop is also back up now. So I'm available again for folks looking for blog banners, or other banners or web design or home decor projects too. Convo me on etsy for all your photography or graphic editing & design projects. I'm getting things organized over there still, but totally ready to start helping folks once again.

Soon I'll have some other handmade items on etsy as well. Looking forwards to adding loom knitted items to my shop, and also some baby lemon trees. My lemon trees are currently growing this years crop!

Thanks for looking, Heather :)

Check me out on Instagram to see more!

This past weekend, we took a trip to the top of Massachusetts. We attended my niece's first play. It was also my daughter's first time sitting still in a crowded place with tons of people all listening to their friends or family sing & act. It was a little scary for me, three year old in her own seat, having to hush, for a long period of time. She did amazingly well, flying colors, as they say. No one was more surprised than me. She whispered to me, when she saw where her cousin was and so forth, but she was really good, really quiet.

I snapped a few photos before the event that I'm quite happy with. Been trying to snap my mom and step-father for a while now. The photo (below) is of my son being a meddler or a muggle, as I like to fondly call the three kids. He's supposed to be in the group photo (3rd pic) with his grandparents. But he had his own ideas. I like it, I think it works.

Always nice to have some candid family photos captured. I also did a few more edits once I returned home. Editing some of the photos to black & white, some punching up of the colors, some draining of the color photos too. I always like to do several of each photo. First off it's fun. It's addicting fooling around with lightroom, photoshop and picmonkey. I have GIMP and Photo Director as well. Editing photos is my most favorite thing to do, right after clicking the shutter. Secondly, changing the color or lack of color of a photo really is nice, it gives the images more depth or more warmth. Just so much fun! Fun to look at too.

Sometimes you just capture something that makes your heart sing. The two cousins (above) hugging is just so magical. They haven't been able to see each other in a little while and it shows in their sheer glee at seeing each other again. Love Love love! At the very end of the play, the cast all sang their way up the aisles of the crowd gathered there. My daughter was finally allowed to get up & she went down the steps to her cousin to sing with her & the rest of the cast. That's one of the most favorite memories of that matinee. Just such a special time. <3

A few more BW photos to show how you can completely change the look of a photo taking the color out of it.

Or even black and white and adding other layers over the black & white. Love it! So much fun.

My niece totally happy with her surprise of seeing her Aunty, Uncle, Grandparents and cousins at her first play. <3 We all had a great time! A very enjoyable day. So much love all around! Bring on the Holidays! Can't wait to see more family! TY for checking out my new site! Hope you and your family have a wonderful Holiday too! <3 Heather :)

I have reopened my etsy shop here, and I'm working on putting up some new listings. One item I've added is photos printed on canvas. I use a very well known, highly reccomended site for printing canvas. I just listed this image on canvas this evening. The image on etsy is a smaller version of the photo, a preview of the image. Click the image and it will get bigger, so you can see it more clearly.

Bancroft Tower in Worcester, MA is a wonderful place. A great vantage point in the city for looking out over the whole valley. Sadly they do not have it open all the time. Once in a while they do open it up, however and it's gorgeous! Wish they could open it up more often! It's a great place for photo shoots.

Thanks for checking out my new website! I'm having so much fun over here! Meeting new people and making new friends. So happy I decided to do this! <3 Heather :)

The other day I decided to turn my blog into a website, and add a brand new shiny template to it, so that my photography would look nicer. I added the template to the blog & sadly since I had used lower res on some photos, it didn't look good. So I decided to go back to the old template & keep that blog my blog and turn this site into my website. WHEW! Lots of typing & editing, but I feel it's well worth it. This is the test blog, to see how editing and htmling works here. A test run for lack of funner wording. So ah, BEAR with me.. I'm still editing and figuring things out over here! :) So far so good, I think. It's a little different editing here & adding photos, but now I can really show off the photos better at a much larger resolution. I hope it will help folks see the details in my photography and hopefully we can work together sometime! Course now I'm going to have to get new business cards. Hahahah, oh well. Change is good, but never simple or easy or totally pain free. ;) My new template is wonderful though. I really like it. I got it from OddThemes. Now back to editing. Thank you for checking out my new site! --Heather :)