Just playin' around

CONTEST

CONTEST: Nominate a friend who has not used my services to win a $40 gift certificate. That would give your friend a free weekday studio session, or a $10 Saturday studio session, or $40 off an on location session! Not bad, right?  
    Email me with why you think your friend deserves/needs/wants this session. I will choose from the different stories which one I think should have the session.. for whatever reason! It could be that they just haven't had a family picture taken in ten years, or that their anniversary is coming up, or all of their family is out of state and never gets to see the kids.. use your imagination, just be honest. 

BONUS: If your friend wins - you also get a $10 gift certificate for yourself! 

 Send an email to Shutterbelle@hotmail.com with the subject line "Nomination". You don't have to include your friend's contact information if you dont want to. I will contact you to let you know they have won and find out then how to get in touch with them.

Andrew's 6 month session

 I went against my own usual advice and tried to take pictures of him when it was close to his nap time. The timing worked for me... just not for him! He wasn't his usual excited, happy, laughing, smiley self. I was disappointed and I dont particularly love any of these, but he's still cute. Here are the highlights of my brief attempt:

Will 9 months

Okay so this session was actually almost two weeks ago and I barely remember doing it now! Will is always a doll. In this session, he wore outfits that each of his parents wore as infants.. that is pretty neat!  I didn't have time to do real editing to most of these, but here are some highlights of his session:

Gianna

I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Gianna's family on Saturday. They were so sweet - and I appreciate their patience as my camera had a mind of its own just during their session. It worked fine for the next session so I dont know what that was about - sorry guys! Anyway, I think we got some lovely images to share. Here are my favorites (you can click on them to see them a little bigger):

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

Andrew

He's 5 1/2 months old now. Today we had nice weather. Although the breeze was brisk, the sun was shining and it was somewhere around 60 degrees.  I put this new hat on him and a jacket and went to test out his sitting up skills. Here are my favorites from our short quick session:

Ava is 1

Miss Ava is a year old already. We couldn't get a lot of smiles out of her yesterday evening, but she still has a doll face when she is not smiling. Here are my favorites:

Bella

Bella is only 4 weeks old and I had the privilege of being her photographer last Saturday. I just love new babies. Her four year old big sister was great too! Here are my favorites from the session:

 

And one of big sister Breanna. They let me use her as my first test model for my new floor prop:

And then I spent quite a while creating a picture of their feet together. We couldn't seem to get a good one during the session, so I looked through the images and found two I could photoshop together. Below are the two original files followed by the result.