Before I head to bed, I just wanted to share some of the mini sessions we did in October.  We had originally scheduled these to take place downtown.  But I realized the day before that there was a big festival going on that day.  So everyone was very understanding and agreed to move our location to Florida Southern College.  It worked out really well.  This was the first time I have offered local mini sessions and I will definitely be doing this again next year!  Thanks to my hubby who was my assistant that day.  He made my job sooo much easier by hamming it up for the kids.  Here are the first few families that came out to see us. 

Here are two more awesome sessions I had in October.  I love the variety of being able to do both studio and outdoor/natural light sessions.  This first family met me at Florida Southern college.  Their kids are adorable!  I love meeting all these new families this time of year.

And this baby was only two weeks old and absolutely beautiful.  His brother was so good with him too. 

I promised this proud mama a sneak peak...so here you go Gretchen!  It'll be another week or so before I get the rest of your proofs done.  This is only a very small sampling of the many amazing images we got last week!

Mini session folks - your proofs should be hitting your inboxes by the end of the weekend (Lord willing!).

I have been so busy this past month, I have to split this post into two segments!  It's been a lot of fun that's for sure.  And lots of variety, which is what I love about what I do.  Hope you enjoy the highlights.

This little guy turned 1 in October.  For his session we got to explore his grandparents' barn...

This is my husband's cousin and his family. We did a family session for them while on vacation at Myrtle Beach...

This is their new baby named Carter after my husband's grandfather.   He is 1 day older than Austin...

This is one of the pastors from our church and his family...

I only have 3 session times left before the holiday deadline.  If you are interested in booking a session this month, give me a call ASAP!

Saturday - 7th - afternoon

Friday - 13th - morning

Saturday - 21st - morning

I only do a limited number of sessions in December - on location only.  Studio sessions are not available in the month of December. 

I am now offering an option for completely unique, completely customized cards - for Christmas, birth announcements, party invitations, you name it!  A good friend of mine, Lydia Paterson, is a very talented graphic designer who lives in Orlando.  We actually met at Florida Southern College where we both earned our Accounting degrees.  After we both worked in the corporate accounting field for a few years, we both ended up migrating over to the arts.  She went back to school and earned a degree in graphic design, whereas I started my photography business on the side.  We laugh how neither of us are in the business world anymore, and now we both own our own artistic businesses.  She has actually branched out into photography as well, starting with commercial jobs and now weddings and portraits. 

We've talked for a while about figuring out a way to team up with my photography and her design talent.  Last month I had a client that was looking online for a birth announcement.  Nothing she found really fit her style or her desire to showcase 5 images of her little baby girl.  So I thought that would be a great opportunity to try out Lydia's design expertise.  I sent her the images, along with pictures of my client's nursery and asked her to match the lady bug theme of the baby's room.  This is what she came up with.  Of course we were so pleased with how adorable these announcements turned out! 

If you would like to have Lydia design something completely unique to you, not to be used by any other client like my other templates allow, then please let me know.  The upcharge for this service is $30 in addition to the price of the cards.   Be sure to check out her website to see some of her other design work she's done on a commercial and freelance level.  www.brightideasstudio.com
 
 

I'm very grateful to be able to say I've been super busy the past few months.  So busy in fact that I don't really have much time to do anything besides shoot and edit...and take care of a baby and a toddler.  Blogging is pretty low on the list.  But tonight I wanted to take a break from editing October sessions to share a sampling of my end of summer sessions.  Soon I'll share a sampling of my fall sessions so far.  Happy Halloween everyone!