Kimarie Chartier here- 43. I live in Canyon Country /Newhall area , Southern California. I have always been an artist . I started drawing at age two. My Mother said when I was a child I always had something to draw with in hand and I would cry when the paper ran out (LOL) ..I went to art school for a short while and have taught art to elementry school kids. I have done many oil paintings , pastels and watercolors , but recently , have been intrigued with digital photography and computer photo art in paint shop pro. now, I mainly work in Paint shop pro 7 and 11. I now also just beginning to work in ADobe photoshop cs2 ! I also am a full time Mom with three girls ( who are all over my gallery) Annie 16, Janel 13, and Christina 10. Between my parenting, photoshoots, Renderosity and playing in paint shop/ photoshop I keep very busy ! I also have a sweet, loving cocker spaniel named Candi who is very needy of much love and attention lol She goes with me on photoshoots-oh- 'cept when I am shooting birds haha cause she is a bird hunter by nature!!
 I LOVE any kind of art .like to draw and paint with basically anything I can get my hands on (LOL)!
I have fallen in love with photography
opening up light and dark and seeing the limitless possiblities! But I do still love to paint too!!  Works like Nightfears , came from nothing but my immagination -drawing/ painting with only a mouse paint and smudge tools from a blank page in paintshop 7. I started out with a Nikon 7900 pocket cam and am at the moment working in photography..now also have two other canon pocket cams a sl900
and sx 100is - mainly all my work in my gallery is done with my little pocket cams - they go with me everywhere and is an an extention of my right hand!! I have a canon rebel as well but it isnt working all that great so manly using the pocket cams for now . Learning..growing and sharing on here is the best!! I don't know what I would do without this site it has helped me learn so much..( this site motivates me so much ) I love it here ! yeah so I got the photography bug ..and I also love to do photo art...!! I, every now and then I will do a painting or a smudging as I call it.( you can see most of my smudge painting works hand done with a mouse on the first two pages of my gallery!!)
 Here is the link to an older webpage of mine ( need to seriously get it updated )... ! http://www.kimarie.xoom-arts.com
Feel free to email me or say hi anytime my everyday email is kimarie_davis@hotmail.com ! always love to hear from you!
 Thanks for stopping by .. .
Comments (76)
GOLDILOCKSUK
What a lovely old car and those sunflowers are huge and beautiful! You are brave going through all that mud lol V Cathy xoxoxo
chrysalide
The old car is very cool and the composiiton with the flowers too. it's an excellent photography. have a good day
Hidinthesierras
How cool is this? I just love it! It is very unique, and I think you did an excellent job on this. I like the way the sunflowers are bowing down, they kinda look like they are paying homage to this old truck! What a find! 8-)
odie
Well...it was worth getting mud up to your ears, wasn't it? So cool. :0)
Snow_Angel
Amazing find! Very interesting old car! Looks really cool in the Sunflowers! Excellent capture Kimarie! :)
tvernuccio
oooooh, this is just my kind of image, Kimmers!!! i love old cars and i adore sunflowers!!!! i really like the composition and POV! can't tell this is 3 images stitched together. you did an awesome job! :)
Gepeto1
Magnificent photo extraordinary image I vote bravo
jcv2
Oh wow, you might need a good old t-ford hard-drive! :) Fantastic find, what a joy to find something like this!
morin3000
Others of your beautiful photographs! Excellent composition with this and sunflowers! Excel work!
ovag
Great picture Kim. The texture of the car is really good (and your new camera makes it gorgeous).
silverhalide
Antiques are always fun to find...your pov with the surroundings is really nice...you can barely make out the Ford emblem on the front
DIANE603
OUTSTANDING!! Always an adventure with you!!
Ti-Paul
No bloody way girl!This shot rocks indeed! What of beautiful finding!This is a classic combination! Pimbotin's favorite i'm sure!Great POV and composition! It does'nt any better than that!Your new cam is awesome,maybe a new PC now!:)Great stuff Kimmer! Have a great day!
sossy
fantastic composition in this photo! gorgeous comparison of machine and nature! love the rusty colors! first class impression! ;o)
Beemer
What a picture, I saw this the other day but did not leave a comment. I am glad to have been drawn back to it. Your guess that this seems to be a "1929 Ford" seems to be pretty close. I owned a 1932 Ford model B, pickup truck, it looked just like this. (no, I am not that old, it was an antique when I owned it) 1932 was the first year that they came up with a "fuel pump". Prior to this, the fuel tank was located in the dashboard, and the filler cap was located top center in front of the windshield. This gravity feed system was fine until you had to climb a steep hill, where you would virtually run out of gas halfway up. (You could, however, drive up the hill backwards to fix this problem). In 1932, when the fuel pump went in, the gas tank was put under the seat. (Great picture!)-Randy
benitezdk
What a jump back in time.... well done! best benitez :))