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A perfect winter day with the P family

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I can’t believe it is almost the end of January. It’s going by so quickly! This has been a crazy, busy month trying to catch up with sessions, fulfilling print orders, taking care of taxes and other stuff for the business. The tax part is not my favorite stuff and I’ll feel better once I get it out of the way. I am also upgrading to a new computer system and am hoping it will speed up my workflow. What did I get? If you are an Apple fan you will understand my excitement in getting one of these. Oh, and then I decided that I absolutely needed to get one of these too. The crazy thing is that the monitor is so huge that I am almost afraid to open it and set it on my desk as I am afraid I will need a new desk. And then a bigger office. It feels like the book, “If you give the Mouse a cookie” though I really am trying to de-clutter and scale things down (it may not seem like it). I really shouldn’t have walked into the Apple store.

I wanted to post a quick sneak peek for the P family. I had a chance to take pictures of the beautiful family last week on what turned out to be a pretty nice winter day.

Such a pretty girl. Her personality is so much like my son and she was on the move quite a bit.
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Anonymous - I really like what I see so far Alpana. Thanks for the sneak peek!

Wide-eyed and spikey-haired baby A

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My first newborn of 2008!

Congrats to Mommy R and family. A very special family for me as I had the opportunity to take pictures of her four children when I first started out in the photography business. I was “on call” to take pictures of the little guy scheduled to arrive around Christmas and he finally arrived about a week late after her due date. Check out that full head of hair and those adorable big eyes…isn’t he just yummy?

Little baby E

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Happy New Year!
I am still catching up with sessions from the last part of 2007 which was filled with baby sessions. Here are a couple of my newest little niece that I hadn’t had a chance to post for quite some time. Look at those lovely, big eyes…


good things come in tiny packages…

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like these sweet little newborn twin babies. Finally, a sneak peek for mom and dad. Hope they bring a smile through the holiday season.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!

a bowl of baby goodness…

yawn…
a moment with daddy

the votes are in…

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drumroll please…
for no. 11 Curly Haired Girl
This little cutie pie’s mama has yet to look at the proofs so this should be a nice surprise to have a 11 x 14″ print to order! Congrats to the T family and Miss M for winning the blog contest.

It was an amazingly close contest with the difference of one vote. Coming in a close 2nd was no.10 Freedom. Since it was so close I am going to give the 2nd place winner a 5 x 7″ print from their recent session. Please contact me to claim your prizes.

And then my little assistant helped me draw a name for the $25 Starbucks card. The gift card goes to Kimberley West.

Thanks to all of you that took the time to send in your votes. Wishing you all happy holidays!

picture perfect baby G.

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It was such a treat to take pictures of Baby G and his wonderful parents in their picture-perfect home. I loved their design aesthetic and wonderful modern furniture. And check out little G’s nursery which is the cutest ever room I have seen. Don’t you think??



At eight days old, little G didn’t sleep a whole lot in the course of my stay but I still got some great pictures. Here is one of the sweet little angel when he did nap.
And a tender moment in daddy’s safe arms.

Back in town from the midwest

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I am back! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

First things first… For all the clients waiting on prints, I know you must all be anxious to get your orders back and I have been working on them as fast as I can. In fact, I spent a good deal of my vacation processing the orders so you can have them back in time for the holidays. The normal time for custom art prints is between 2-4 weeks and your orders should be ready by mid-December with the exception of some custom fine art pieces (canvases, storyboards, etc). I will email you as soon as your orders are ready!

Brrr… It is so good to be back to our “warmer” weather. In the midwest, we were ill-equiped with winter gear and I had to run and buy some clothes to make it through our week plus long stay. I don’t take as many pictures of my boy anymore but we were sorta in the middle of nowhere (at my IL’s) and I got him to do a few pictures for me on the run. The tall grass made a wonderful foreground/background in taking pictures.

and he was done…I love the look on his face here.