Restoring Old Memories

First, I would like to thank Debra for this award...I will say "I try"! ...and 'new' friendships made...

Many people have come to me once a loved one has passed and asked if I could help bring their loved one back to life...well, what I mean is in their old photos; they will bring me photos that have been found laying around their families homes, in old packed boxes, and brought down from the attic, and would like to display them, but they have either faded, cracked, or are peeling. Sure if we think about it our family took these photos to cherish their own memories, and we should keep that in mind and not put them back in the attic for further damage.

Damaged photographs can look as good as new, or even better. With the use of technology today, and with someone you trust, your photos will look just like new.

We specialists in repair stained, spotted, torn, cracked, bleached and faded photos like yours every day. Just take a look at some of our photo restoration work.

During a typical digital photo restoration or photo enhance, we always adjust contrast, sharpness, and color levels. We also remove scratches and replace missing or damaged areas. In short, we do whatever is required to produce the best possible results.

Photo colorization involves adding/enhancing selected colors on a gray scale (black & white) or faded color photo. Some of the basic procedures that can be done are adding text, changing the background, changing color, correcting color, removing bad shadows, fixing clothes, fixing hair, fixing skin, lighten/darken areas, motion effects, red eye repair, remove persons from group photographs, remove unwanted objects etc.

Special effects can also be added to the photographs, like focusing or defocusing parts of the photo, softening portraits, adding perspective, correcting distortions, adding optical lens patterns, glows, glints, sparks and flares to produce dramatic effects.

My company offers photo colorizing and restoration services, that is colorizing a black and white photo, restoring very old damaged photographs, which are faded and creased with marks, stains, dust and scratches etc; back to original condition.

Restoration is only the tip of the ice burg when it comes to taking your old and worn photos and making subtle changes...I will post some of even older ones in another blog.

Visit DK Photography at this website to see the quality you deserve...

A New Years Look

My husband and I traveled over from Central Texas to Shreveport and then hopped on over the Hot Springs, Arkansas...if you have never gotten in the car and just let the wheel take over; then you sure are missing some darn pretty sites...
This is a closer view of the water falls that dot the Hot Springs side roads...


Find a river and follow its path...sure it is cold outside, but you have to get out of the car now and then...here go take a look...

I have a program that allows me to paste a photo and then paint and distort what you actually see into a work of art...I have done this on many photos dotted about this site...

Hope you enjoyed some of the trip...there will be more to come...here is one of my lil sis Chef E's poems to go with this...

Pretty Brook (2)

Sputtering brook
winding down
as far as eyes can see
just past our way
fish jump
hearts pump
as lines are cast
the fresh taste of things to come

Cast iron heat
with a little oil, cornmeal
breading and baiting
patience and wait
listen to geese, bullfrogs
small birds, the breeze
the quiet moments we steal

Watch men in waders pass by
in and out of glory
their big fish stories
dip down
into watery holes
up to their knees


You and me,
a pole, wiggly worms and hook
sharing landscape
full of more history than fish
mile for mile
casting a new path
down off Pretty Brook



All Photos are the property of DbyDK and its owner ~ If you are interested in purchasing a photo in gift card form or posters please visit my website...

Introduction to a photonut

My name is Donna Kay, and I am a photographer that resides in Texas. Originally from Oklahoma, I have lived in Texas for more than a decade and been an active photographer for over thirteen years. My love affair with the camera and most of my subjects began way before I ever bought my first camera.

My goal is to give my clients the utmost in customer service and an outstanding final product. When you see my work I hope that you would see that I take great care in my job as a photographer.

For the past six years I have been the official photographer for the Dallas Summer Musical Guild. You can see my work displayed on my official website, www.dimensionsbydk.com.

I also have done work for The Dallas Epilepsy Foundation and La Toque, a charity dinner founded by a local chef, Gilbert Garza of Suze Restaurant here in Dallas for three years; as well as the United Way Foundation.

In the past year or so I have discovered painting my portraits and will post a few here and there as I go, blogging about the experience with the help of a friend, Elizabeth Stelling, who is a published writer and poet. We have been working together creating photo stories told in my work and her poetry, and or short stories. We hope you enjoy what you see!

Dimensions by DK Photography, Inc. has served the Dallas/Fort Worth area since 1995. For your convenience we bring our studio to you. All the pictures presented on our website have been taken on location or at the client's home. We believe this provides our clients a more warm and relaxed setting.

I love meeting people, and giving them beautiful portraits that capture the person, not a stiff, unnatural pose or look.

Remember me for your one-stop shopping for portrait photography, wedding photography and special occasion photography in the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex.

All art work on this site and our 'View Art' on the main website are for sale. Contact me for pricing and any other information.

www.dimensionsbydk.com