Me!!! | Providence Photographer

Right after my last session on Sunday I met up with my good friend, Bernadette of BU Photography.  I did some family photos for her (coming in a few days) and after that we swapped head shots.  We swapped last year as well which is where my photo above came from.  Since it’s been a year and I am no longer 8 months pregnant as I was in that photo, I decided to go ahead and do some new ones.  Now I HATE photos of myself.  Seriously, I think that is part of the reason I became a photographer – so I would always have the excuse to NOT BE IN THE PICTURE!!  Seriously though, I just do not like photos of myself.  But Bernadette captured two shots of me that I absolutely and completely love, so I decided to share them here.  Soon one of them will appear at the top of the blog and on the website itself.  For now, though, they’re right here.  And yes, mom, I will give you one.  And send one to Grandma.  😉

To be fair and not mislead anyone, I will not show up to your session looking like this!!  Until I get contacts I will be wearing my glasses and have my hair pulled back.  And be wearing a white top of some kind, probably.  But the “real” me looks like this (after some editing to aid in the no-so-perfect look after 7 hours of driving and 6 sessions in 24 hours)  😉

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Philly Pt. 2 | Philadelphia Family Photography

After being in the city Saturday morning, I headed out to my favorite location in the world, the Newlin Grist Mill.  It so happens that not one of my clients from this past weekend had ever had a shoot there.  So while it was old hat to me, it was brand new to them.   🙂  First up was the P. family.  They are the P. family of one of my favorite family shots EVER.  I have done A.’s newborn and six month shots and now that he is getting ready to turn a year old, I got to do them again.  It is SO much fun to watch kids grow up!!  In fact, out of the six sessions I had this weekend, I had done newborn shots for four of them!!  A. just continues to get cuter and cuter even though he wasn’t full of his normal huge smiles this time around.  But you’ll see he is still absolutely adorable!!!

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Philly Pt. 1 | Philadelphia Family Photography

The first session of my marathon weekend was with the beautiful C. and family in downtown Philadelphia.  I got to do C.’s newborn pictures and saw her last year about this same time for photos.  And now this year.  It has been SO great to see her grow up.  She continues to just be a beautiful little girl 🙂  And the rest of her family ain’t bad either!! Though it was pretty chilly, everyone did great the entire time and by the end C. was totally hamming it up for me!!  I had such a great time seeing you guys again!!  Enjoy 🙂

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Published! | Rhode Island Family Photography

So as I mentioned yesterday in my Ten on Thursday post, I had spent some time the other morning with Amy Blau, publisher of The Baby Guide.  TBG is a yearly publication that goes out all over the New England area, targeting Boston, North & South Shore, Cape Cod & Islands and Rhode Island – over 70,000 copies.  I was convinced by a friend to buy advertising space in the magazine and I decided to take the plunge.  Amy graciously worked with me on getting everything ready and lots of friends had their input into the ad design.  I also, at the request of the magazine as they asked all photographers, submitted some photos that would be able to be used for editorial purposes.

To my wonderful surprise and delight, they chose one of my photos (my “famous” twins shot) to use for a large slot in the magazine on their photography article.  And I am also the first ad that appears in the photography section.  I know this probably makes me a big ol dork but I was so tickled that they chose my shot!! (Okay, to be totally fair, they chose one other big shot as well but that wasn’t mine so I don’t care about that one.)  So hopefully tons of families will see the magazine and rush to book me.  😉

I also, yes, took some photos of the magazine.  Keeping in mind that product photography is SO NOT my thing, enjoy the photos below!

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I am off to Philadelphia in an hour or so.  Wish me luck that weather and traffic cooperate for me!!!  I’ll see you all back here on Monday with lots and lots and lots to show!

Ten on Thursday | Providence Family Photography

1. I leave for Philadelphia tomorrow for a whirlwind weekend of sessions and I can’t wait!! Five family sessions and a session for a very good friend. All in a little over 24 hours. And that’s on top of driving down Friday night and back Sunday night. I am going to be one SUPER tired lady come Monday morning!! BUT I will have plenty of photos to share 😉

2. Speaking of tired, since the time change both kids have decided that 5:50-6:00 is a FANTASTIC wake up time. Before the change, they had been waking up between 7 and 7:15. I cannot be the only person with this problem can I? Darned early morning light!

3. I cannot believe I am already this.close to the end of the year!! It has just flown by. Last session is my wedding on the 28th with possibly a maternity in the first week of December. Then that’s it!

4. You may have noticed password-protected slideshow posts on the blog. This is something new that I have implemented as part of your client experience. I am proud to announce that I have joined the modern day world and partnered with Animoto. Every client will now have a custom slideshow set to music to view before they get their full proofing gallery. It’s a great way to share your photos with family and friends all over! Down the road I also plan to include video in the slideshows if I can ever get my act together.  I’ve included a nice example at the end for my #10.  No, that’s NOT cheating.

5. I got to meet with the fabulous Amy Blau, publisher of The Baby Guide, yesterday for something that you’ll see tomorrow 😉 Let’s just say I am SUPER excited!

6. Have you started thinking about photos for next year?  It’s never too early.  I will be accepting bookings for January, February and March starting in a few weeks.  The winter and early spring are the perfect time for newborn sessions.  So if you are pregnant or know someone who is, definitely keep a newborn session in mind.  And remember that each booked referral gets you a $50 credit for use at a future session for yourself!

7.  I am looking into some new product offerings for the new year that I am very excited about.  A gorgeous, high end album and some beautiful new mounting options for wall displays.  Yum!!

8.  We are going to be cat owners once again after this weekend!  When we moved here (we rent due to the time constraints of Fellowship) we were told that we couldn’t bring the cats.  SO after much heartache and soul-searching we placed our one cat with a great family and placed our other cat with a foster family.  That foster family was unable to keep her and we found out recently after more discussion that we COULD, in fact, have her.  So I will be returning from Philadelphia with our one cat.  I am SO happy.  Now we are just hoping after four months, she remembers us.  And forgives us.  And isn’t too scared of the monster baby 😉

9.  Speaking of monster baby, she has progressed from scooting to flat out taking steps.  Granted, it’s with her push-toy but she did two whole laps around the downstairs without my help today.  I was right behind her but not helping. And tonight we were walking her back and forth between us and there was one pass where she took two or three steps on her own without holding onto anything.  I am, however, in denial of that.  I refuse to believe she can possibly be that big.  Nolan didn’t walk until 14 or 15 months.  She’s 10.  Oy!

10.  Okay, I lied.  The video is #11.   Shhhhh…don’t tell,but I have a new website in the making.  New design, bigger pictures and new music.  I am slowly building it up.  Can’t wait to show it to you!!!!

11. And last, but not least, the video. Check it out! I think it comes in at about 3 minutes long but it’s definitely fun and worth watching!  Oh and the words are not supposed to match up with the pictures, I just spaced them out in there among them 🙂

That’s all for today!



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