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 (42)
Snow_Angel
Well good thing you are safe! Great shot! I like the sign,lol! :)
cynlee
man... & you didn't even get your coke doing all that laundry! 4 girls i can just imagine & then this fire! what excitement & scarey too... like the humor in the shot & fine clarity & frame too... :] hehe, i'm spinnin...
Akinom
OMG... scary! A fire so close to your house! Glad you are all safe! Excellent capture with a humour in it! :o)
watapki66
Wonderful image!
tvernuccio
ah man, that's horrible, Kimmers! terribly frightening!!! you took a fantastic pictures though girl!!! sure thankful they contained the fire and that it didn't spread out of control!!!! did you say 30 loads of dirty laundry??????? YIKES!!!!! :(
visionart
qmont
I was wondering if those fires were close to you, Damn that is close , but glad to know all is ok with you and your family.......outstanding capture on this..keep up the great work Kimmer..........V......John
ana-maria
Excellent "hot" shot! Love the colors and details. Beautiful presentation!
bkhook
Awesome shot but a scary thing sooo close. I'm glad they got it out in time. I too live in an area that is fraught with fires in the summer and have been evacuated once so I know just how scary it is. Glad everything is okay and I must say, this is a very beautifully composed photo. Excellent!
Mikan
@ it is not the light, it is not the beauty, it is not the subject....sometimes is just the moment! you could have a super camera, if you don't have "that eye" that you're telling about...you could have all the conditions from the world's perfection, if you don't know where to point the camera! you could have all that and still you cannot have a great picture, if the viewer cannot find in the scene something from your...heart! @ I used to be a fireman and I know that a fire - simple and that - is not something to play with; sure we'd like to have super pictures with fires, but I prefer to think that there's no fire to take pictures of! Of course, I have to agree that all the dramatism that you can have in this kind of photos, could tell you thousands words more than a simple warning about fires! I know, I know - where's drama, there's a hidden beauty - I know that because I look for it everyday...I'm attracted to chaos and I see order in it; everything's a subject of my questions, although I cannot find all the answers - so what? @ funny thing is that I do exactly the same as you when I'm in "nice" situations....I even had a good laughing in a day when I've had an accident! I guess that this is the very best way to get out from tenssion! ****@ sorry to be off-topic too much...
sossy
such a fantastic and interesting scene! that must give a giant fire! ;o)
KiwiMiss
Lovely compo Kimmie. Must have been a scary day, glad things weren't any worse