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 .. .
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Comments (93)
gunsan
Beautiful collection of photos. They are an interresting group of people.
aerodreams
nice work et very nice pictures
Gor111
A wonderful photography series you have created here! A fabulous collage really!!!
RGUS Online Now!
You either got a damn good stabilizing lens on ya camera or great springs int eh seat of your car... not going to mention anything about your bum being able to adjust automatically for teh bumps in the road.. they are all so clear... how do ya do it... it has got to be your self adjusting bum and the car seat springs...lol... just joking Lady.. you're the BEST!!!
fairyfreak
Oh these are excellent and I would never have guessed they were taken through a car window. ;-) I live on an island run for over a century by an austere presbyterian religion - a bit like the Amish. I find your photo's fascinating.
jeroni
Excellent COLLAGE!
claude19
An amish village and its inhabitants always seem a population living of the regrets of the past. Some of your photographs point out my childhood in France to me, in particular the horses drawing children and farmers returning of the fields... right are, are wrong to be courrir after progress? Are they socially frileux, or too are us ' modernes'? Isn't this makes a way of it of seeing the others?
Atom
Awesome collage, excellent work!
erlandpil
Excellent work erland
giareg
Excellent Amish compositiion...i love your work..bravissima!!
Hawk23
Excellent work Kimmers !!
Bossie_Boots
Wow incredible collage superb work hugs lou x
Biffowitz
Fabulous collage of this old world town!!
RodolfoCiminelli
Fabulous and creative photo series.....!!!
Valerie-Ducom
Wowww, so beautiful collection of picture and this landscape and color is wonderful !!!! Excellent !!! Good day :)
trishabadblood
Wonderful collage .... so beautiful... A peek into a peaceful setting...Very well done...
danob
Lovely collage of Amish life. I cant help but think these people got the right idea about the way to live..
hipps13
awesome work very interesting sunshine day to you warm hug, Linda
TwoPynts
I love a good collage and this is a GOOD collage. All the images are bright and cheery and convey the sense of the area well. My folks are "fans" of the Amish and regale me with stories of their visits to that part of the USA.
Loloe
Great collage!!! Bravo Kimarie!!!
Luka_30
Beautiful collage!
mark.spooner
Excellent work.
Valentin
All the images in this series are so clear, colorfull and moody!!
mojo1917
I really like the layout of the collage, my favorite images are of the farms and the "big sky" clouds. nice work.
drag
Wow a beautiful collage full of excellent photos of a simpler way of life. I love to take pictures though the car window. Wonderfully done Kimmers.
carlx
Amazing and very interesting series!!! Love it!!!
DefKisum
Beautiful collage Kimmers. Excellent work!!!!! :o)
Syltermermaid
Fantastic photos Kimmers!!! If you see them you feel like you go 100 years back in time!!! Thanks for sharing!!! HUgs Ute
MrsLubner
Its a matter of vanity that photos are outlawed. I was stunned to see you had these photos. And to see those kids on the trampoline and the buggy making its way down the street is marvelous. When I was young, we used to buy produce from an Amish cart that came down our street each week. Great shots you got-well done!
xxancroft
Thank you for sharing these photos Kim-Marie. There are many people (myself among them) who believe that sustainable communities such as Amish are leading the way forward into our oil depleted 21st century. Such communities would of course not exist without the religion that under-pins them and provides the values that direct them. People should take a good long look at these pictures and imagine themselves in such a society - because the status quo is simply not going to last forever. The garden design at the bottom RHC testifies that beauty in such a world is achievable but labour intensive and never the result of a five minute render.