These portraits are a unique collage of your life. For long distance portraiture, you wil be asked to submit a brief written biography describing your important places, images, symbols, etc. Portraits can be created for friends or relatives as gifts. However, because of the personal nature of the process, the issues of privacy are discussed before the commission is undertaken. Carol has created portraits for those who are critically ill or deceased and for those she has never met.
Commercial photographs are acceptable for creating the portrait.
Also, if you want, it is quite easy to take your own. Ask a friend to take photos of you. Plan to take a whole roll of 24. Be relaxed and comfortable, and allow for laughter and smiles as well as more pensive and quiet moods. Take shots from different angles and as close-up to head and shoulders as possible.