Met with with Grace’s mom this morning when she picked up the prints below. She spent time working on framing and she will be so happy when her prints are framed with the gorgeous frames I’m offering. I will post a photo of the finished product, but in the meantime here are the images she selected. I’m thrilled that so many of Grace’s expressions were captured.

Reminder to book early this season as I will not be shooting during July. Call soon!

Getting the hang of it but many of my first images were misses and out of focus.  It’s time to go back and read the manual in depth. Here are a few from the Boston Marathon. Hung around long enough to see the runners after they’ve completed the run. I don’t know how they do it.

I thought I had this runner in the center of my frame…

Same with this one…

Getting the hang of the ‘rangefinder’ now.

Look who I ran in to!  Lisa and Marc..:)

Lisa and Leah!

Now, that’s a face that tells it all.

check out her text message.

Met Maria from Mexico City. Congratulations Maria!

This woman just ran 26 + miles and looks like this. Wow. She’s from Texas. What does she know that we don’t know?

All in all I’m liking the camera. Still have a long way to go to get comfortable with it. Who wants to play?

Day one with a new camera. Working with this incredible smaller package. I am looking for a smaller, lighter camera to take with me to Peru, in addition to the d3s and d700. I know that there will be some days when I will not want to lug around a heavy dslr. I’ve tried the Nikon p7100 and I was disappointed. The images were grainy and not at all the quality I wanted. That camera was returned. I’m trying the Fujifilm – XPRO-1 now and a more detailed review will be posted once I’ve learned more about it and have practiced, practiced and practiced… did I say practice?  I believe that my camera must become an extension of my vision, of my body in order to create the images I do. I must know how to work the camera, evaluate the light, capture my subject all in a split second. Working with this camera will require a learning curve and I’m up for the challenge. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll try the Boston Marathon…

Here are a few images from the first attempt. And, then on to editing the lovely Newton Country Day senior from yesterday, post to follow.

I followed this couple for a while. They had such a cute gait. They just rocked from side to side as they walked.

I need to get this sharper and more in focus, but I loved the image just the same. Colors are untouched.

Just finished processing these two images of Helen. She is stunning, isn’t she? Sometimes at the end of a session I ask the girls, ‘do you ever wear your hair pulled back in a ponytail’? More often than not, they do. Somehow, this makes them relax and I’m able to get this type of shot. I’m so happy with them and I hope she loves them too!

Spent some time in the studio the other day with KK. I’m excited that I will be her sponsor for her senior project at Wayland High School. I have a good idea what she will be working on and I look forward to working with her.

There’s an upside to this for me as well! She and I explored the light in my available/natural light studio. I’ve been looking for an area to empty and paint the walls white. I didn’t have too look far, it’s the room right off of my studio. I installed a new wood floor and the walls were painted. I think it’s going to be so much fun to work in. It’s perfect for head shots and yesterday I added a black backdrop with another client and it worked perfectly. (Images to follow).

In the meantime, here are a few new shots of KK.

I’ve been absent from the blog, the studio and from my typical everyday life. I have recharged, I have renovated, I’ve lost weight and I am energized! The studio has been de-cluttered and feels awesome. It’s going to be fun to work in the space and am booking “Friends and Fun” sessions now. (Stay tuned for a fun contest to be announced very soon to win a session with you and your five best friends!).

I may have been absent from here, but I’ve been so busy! I have a new blog-site and that took months to do. I’m proud to say that I created it myself with Prophoto4. I love those guys. They are so helpful and amazing. At one point, all of the photos on the blog were ‘missing’, but it all worked out. I happily left bludomain and switched hosts to bluehost. Now, I should not have any ‘space’ issues. Client proofing is still being worked out, but truthfully? I’ve always preferred clients coming back to the studio to view their images. I love to watch their reactions when they view their images…

Since the flurry of the lovely Newton Country Day girls in late December, here’s a look at what I’ve been doing. I also used a Nikon p7100 for most of these images. I’m not thrilled with it, very grainy. I’ve got a Nikon d800 on order and I hope it arrives before the big trip to Peru in July.

Jonah turned 25 at 4:31 pm

Lisa and Riley snuggled.

I took one last look at the kitchen and decided the ‘pink’ cabinets had to go and embarked on a renovation…. blog post to come…

Had lots of comfy fires.

Jonah gave me five minutes to take a few images of him. Lucky me!

Alicia (above) and Ainsley (below) had photo sessions.

A few trips to Bridge Over Troubled Waters, the boys above were leaving the shelter to go to their new apartment!

Bodie and Emily came for a visit. Bodie is now double the size of Riley. Watch out Riley!

My new oven! and no more ugly cabinets!

Love playing with the filament in the new lights over the island!

Visited my brother’s home in NH and love this view of the ‘Notch’ .

A little hike with snow shoes through the Flume.

Cocktails at the Mt. Washington Hotel.

Couldn’t resist playing with the light above.

A wine tasting at the Skywalk at the Prudential with Lisa and Marc.

Look at all the cars below. They are all either black, white or taupe. Only two red cars. This is Newbury St., Marlboro St. and Commonwealth Ave.

In between courses… got camera? got to play.

Now I know why it’s not a good idea to delete images from a trip. Back  in ’09, when my daughter Lisa was experiencing her junior year abroad, I visited her in Florence, rented a little apartment and stayed for almost three weeks. We traveled to Cinque Terre and Venice. I spent a lot of time wandering around Florence, Lucca and Sienna. I will be posting the Italy images in an Italy gallery but I completely missed this first image. It was fun to see. The others are past favorites. Additional images can be found in the ‘FINE ART GALLERIES’,  ITALY  Galleries.

I offer two print sizes for sale. Please call or email me for information. Use the contact form on the menu bar.

In so many ways, the title of this post says it all.

For the past few months, I’ve thought about how I could make my studio’s online presence more effective. In the past, I did not enjoy having my clients visit the blog for updates and to see when their photos would be posted and then send them to my website for viewing their proofs. The different appearance of both tools was bothersome to me. I had spend a lot of time with first the website and then the blog to try to pull them together, but it didn’t work for me any longer.

My blog is created with a wonderful company, ProPhoto, and recently they have come up with some very cool templates. My website and mail had been with Bludomain, a company that has treated me well for years, but I have outgrown them. The main issue I had with hosting with them was that was that if I continued hosting with them I would run out of space on their server. I was constantly on the edge of crashing my website and I would have to limit posting on my blog and clamp down further on client proofing. This winter I decided it was a no brainer, it was time to move on and I had to first switch hosting companies.

I decided on Bluehost. First contact with them was awesome, they actually have live phone support. No more sending an email and waiting, sometimes for days to get a reply or an answer from Bludomain. I signed up and started building this new blog. It looked different at first while I tried out different templates and colors. I eventually decided that I wanted to keep some of the design elements I’ve been using and slowly update and revitalize them. However, I had so many images to transfer from one host the the other. The concept was to build this site temporarily while I remained online with bludomain. The options looked good and Matt at ProPhoto began the arduous process of moving the blog content. Days passed and it failed. He had to start over. Eventually, all of the content was copied to the new location.

I decided that once I almost had it designed the way I wanted it, I would notify bludomain that I needed a release from their hosting, renew my domains and start the official move to bluehost. Then, a seven day period occurs, while the internet ‘transfers’, ‘points’, ‘directs’, ‘moves’… all these words that seemed frightening to me.

I decided a few weeks ago that it was time to do it, approved the transfer process and I waited. While that was occurring, I changed my mind about the ‘look’ of the blog, of course and got to work on what you see now. I waited. And waited.  Day seven occurred, my old blog went dead, a message appeared about the ‘brand spankin’ new blog and I went on the admin section of the blog and my hundreds if not thousands of photos were gone. They didn’t make it to the new site. I can’t begin to tell you what that period was like while these two companies who have no phone support needed information from one another and I had to be the middle person. The issue could have been fixed in ten minutes but it took almost two weeks. That’s why I always say, ‘pick up the phone and call if you really want action’.

Panic?  Yes. After a two week period of worry and hard work, Matt came to the rescue and the images were found. He’s a big man to admit that he had made a mistake the first time, but, all is good now and here we are.

THE NEW BLOGSITE   |   WHAT IS IT?

Here, you will be able to view everything you want. You can read the blog, search for old posts, type in any word (or your name) in the search area and a grid of posts will show up. You can hover over the thumbnails to read the first sentence of the post and to view the photos. One thing that is not worked out yet is if I able to crop the photos in the thumbnails so you can see faces and not cut off heads. I might just have to deal with that for now.

You can link a post to facebook, you can share a post to facebook, you can make comments, pin to pinterest, email a post to a friend… this is fun!

On the tabs above, you can find all the information you need about senior portrait, family, corporate sessions. You can read about Riley and about why you would want to hire me, (About- Behind the lens), view galleries of seniors, corporate head shots, informal portraits, street work, kids and families. Also available are galleries of my Fine Art Work. Those galleries will continue to grow as I add images. This is a work in progress as I have years of images to go through. The images there will be available for prints in two sizes and framing is available now at Janet Wolbarst Photography.

That’s it for now. Next up:  what else is new here | kitchen renovation | studio organization | new dressing room and bathroom | 23 lbs lost … | loving this winter…

Stay tuned and have a great day!

To the class of 2012, I’d like to say, thank you.

Thank you for allowing me to work with you.

Every one of you brought so much excitement and joy that you made it very easy to capture the real YOU.

I never know what to expect at the beginning of any session, but each of you brought me the most amazing gift, YOU!

I hope you are all having a wonderful vacation and that you are doing well.

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Now for some business:

1. If you haven’t ordered your prints yet, NOW is the time to do it.

2. If your online gallery is still online, consider it a gift!

They will all be OFFLINE by January 2nd, with the exception of any Milton Academy seniors.

3. Newton Country Day seniors ~ it’s time to order.

Please make your appointment to view with me or call me with any questions you have.

4. ALL ~ Winter/studio/‘FRIENDS‘ sessions are being scheduled now for March, April and May. Gather your friends together and let’s do a memorable session.

You provide the food, music and props, and I’ll supply the hair blowing fan, the space and my incredible talent.

We, together will produce fabulous books for you all to bring to college with you.

Call me asap to schedule as there is limited availability for these sessions.  508-358-6173

Here are additional images from my trip to NYC. This time, I only took one new lens, a bit out of my comfort level. The Nikon D3s and the 28-300, the lens that Jay Maisel uses and loves. He often takes images of people without them knowing. When they do notice him, he typically will nod, smile and acknowledge him and then they move on.

I, on the other hand, prefer to forge a relationship with the person I am photographing and will shoot with my 50 mm 1.4. Shooting with the 28-300 was interesting. I found myself experimenting more and even trying landscapes

Third floor at Jay Maisel’s. The champagne bottles.

I love Haters? Look at that man’s sweat shirt…

Jonah found something fascinating between the floor boards of the bridge. Using his iphone.

Ah.. the love locks. I’d like to add a lock there someday…. maybe this year!

A sampling of the regular cast of characters on the Brooklyn Bridge on a typical Friday. I would say that it was 25/75 -  residents/tourists.

Don’t know this guy, but thank you for this shot.

The D3s at work…. taken at iso 5000  1/25th @ 5.6

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

Another beautiful girl from NCDS. Poised, beautiful, sweet and charming. Huge brown eyes and lots of soft confidence, Makenzie left quite an impression on me. She talked highly of her classmates, school and was such a pleasure to be with. It was late in the season and a little cool, taken after Thanksgiving, but the weather cooperated.

Just a reminder to those reading this, that I start senior sessions in June. This year, there will be no sessions in July and I will continue shooting in August. If you want an August session, please call in June to book it. I will not be scheduling during July, from July 2-24th as I will be in Peru, shooting portraits  and exploring the country with National Geographic Photographer Nevada Wier.

I will post this info on my facebook page: Janet Wolbarst Photography. Please ‘like’ it to keep up to date. Information will be posted here as well. Send me an email if you would like to be on my mailing list:  janet@janetwolbarst.com.

Back to Makenzie… enjoy her photos, she’s delightful!

Quick trip to NYC, stayed with Jonah in his sweet apartment in Park Slope. Did a little cleaning and organizing and then took off to see Lysistrata Jones, an interesting, fun and energetic play that just opened on Broadway. Alex Wyse, one of Jonah’s BU CFA ’09 classmates has a main role he’s great. It was a lot of fun.

The next morning we were back at 190 Bowery: www.jaymaisel.com/ I was there to pick up my print: http://studio.jaymaisel.com/collections/miscellaneous#tomatos-and-bottles-in-window. I was so excited to see that I have the first print of this limited edition. ( 1/25 ) I saw this print originally during the workshop in May ’11.

I just realized that this image was taken on August 16th, 2009. 0816. Good numbers if you know me…

We walked around the second and third floor, (just as amazing as the first time I saw it), and then I got a huge hug from Jay, I guess I made a memorable impression on him, he called to me, ‘hey gorgeous’ and either he did remember me or he’s a great actor. He invited Jonah and me to come in to a review session and Jonah and I jumped on the opportunity and participated. What a special day!

After that we ate at Lombardi’s pizza and took off on our journey, to walk the Brooklyn Bridge. Here are a few images from that long walk.

‘Nailed’

Then at night, we saw the most amazing theatrical production of ‘War Horse’ at Lincoln Center.  Every second of this show was incredible. I stood up and cheered and cried at the end. It was just lovely and remarkably memorable. I think I’m forever changed after seeing it.

Today, looking out at the cloudy, dreary mist, I remembered a session that I did with Kenzie, earlier this summer. She brought her dog, Theo! If you know me, you would never know that I’m not a real dog lover, I’m actually afraid of {large} dogs. I just love Riley, because, if you know her, you know that she’s not really a dog. She doesn’t seem like a dog to me.

So, Kenzie and her mom, (who is the most wonderful, happy, cheerful mom… ) show up with this huge guy, Theo! He’s a teddy bear! I loved him! What a charming face and the love between Kenzie and her puppy is evident. What a wonderful boy!

Kenzie’s beauty just glows from her eyes, smile and from the energy she emits. We had a lot of fun during this session, the light was great and it was so hot out! We hung in there and had a fabulous time.

Thanks for the warmth today, Kenzie!

I can’t believe that it’s December and I’m still shooting seniors. It was quite warm today and yesterday was quite delightful as well. The images from those two sessions will be online shortly but I spent some time today with an image from Grace’s session. This image was shot mid November. More to come.

Ruth. A special young woman. She came in to our lives two summers ago. She was one of my dad’s first full time 24 hour caregivers. I spent a lot of time with them that weekend. I brought Riley with me and we went to Castle Island.

I’m not sure who was having the most fun that day, my dad? me? Riley? Ruth?  I think Ruth was getting a kick out of me and Riley. She couldn’t quite understand this hurricane of a person who came over that day, (me   ) and Riley was such an adorable puppy! But, for the first time in a long time since my mom had passed away, my dad started to get excited about people in general and was learning so much about himself as an 87 year old guy. His strengths and weaknesses and one very major quality, his ability to listen. One thing he told me over and over was how he was helping these girls who came to help him. He would listen to their stories, about their lives and engage them in conversations on every level. He always believed that he was helping them with their lives, more than they were helping him. This of course, changed over time and I believe when he felt that he became the bigger burden he didn’t want to live any longer.

Ruth was special because she always was a cheerleader but very authentic. He believed her. If she said he could get the strength to do one of his every day tasks, by golly, he did it.

Ruth came and went over the last year and a half. When he was in the hospital during the Hurricane during the summer, it was Ruth who stayed by his side 24/7. She hardly complained although we could tell that it was very stressful and too many hours but she did it and with hardly any sleep came back a day or two later when we were in a bind.

She was also there the last day. She had heard from her employer that dad wasn’t taking his meds. She didn’t realize that he was ending his life, that he decided the evening before that he did not want to inject insulin any longer, that he was ‘done’. She wasn’t told.

She came bouncing down the street toward his house with coffee in hand, towards us, like it was just another day. She saw us, my brother and I, with sick, sad expressions on our faces and knew something was up. She thought that she was going to cheer him up!

But, it was Ruth who was with us to almost the end. He was grateful, I’m sure.

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On a lighter note, Ruth! What a beautiful young woman! She should be a model, shouldn’t she?  I bet you could hire her!

I promised her that I’d spend some time with her and photograph her. My dad used to remark on how white the whites of her eyes are and her teeth!  For sure, these are not brightened in any way! She wanted to be serious but I love the images where she just sparkles.  Beautiful girl. I hope these images help her with a few modeling gigs.

Enjoy!

Emily and I had a blast. From the second she arrived, we laughed and goofed around while I had the pleasure of capturing her beauty.

She’s adorable, funny, energetic, spontaneous and embraces everything life has to offer.

A true gem! Enjoy.

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Shoots like this can go on and on and I will shoot until I’m empty. At the end of Grace’s session, we just had to stop because it could have gone on all day. She’s sweet, adorable and lot’s of fun. The beauty you see here comes from her soul. Way to go, Grace!

This post is a long time coming. I started collecting the images of my seniors interacting with Riley over the past two years. I would dump them in a folder after a session and then forget about them. Tonight, I opened the folder and couldn’t stop laughing. This girl gets some serious attention! The kids do love her. As a matter of fact, one day a few weeks ago when I went to photograph the musical groups for the yearbook at Wayland High School, I was doing my ’1-2 3′ thing and the kids yelled out ‘RILEY!’ (instead of ‘cheese’.) I looked at them and laughed and said, ‘did you just say Riley in unison?’ They did and it was so cute.  Anyway, here’s a glimpse of how this little pup makes everyone happy…

Another sweet, mature young lady from Newton Country Day… MaryClaire is a busy girl! She’s got a way about her that made this shoot very easy. She jumped right in and got to work with me. For some reason, knowing that our time was limited, we explored lots of different locations and looks. Very enjoyable and a blast to work with!

I thought the season was coming to a close until Hayley came last Sunday morning. We caught the awesome color of  Autumn beauty. She’s from Newton Country Day and I hope to meet all of her classmates!  So sweet and I believe she took quite an interest in image processing after the shoot!  What could be better than that?

and of course, Riley was watching the entire time….

Took a day off from shooting (right) and walked around Boston yesterday. It’s clearly a tough shoot, the people aren’t as open as I’ve noticed in other parts of the world. But, the colors were pretty, the ducks were out and of course, there’s always the Nespresso boutique…

Photos now. Text later:

Natalie arrived on the most beautiful fall day and I was delighted to meet her. She came with half of her wardrobe and the biggest smile ever. Her energy was contagious and I could have continued this shoot another hour but the sun left us. Just sweet as can be and obviously very talented!

I had the chance to get out of town for a few days. I really needed this break following my dad’s death. I hadn’t realized that I didn’t stop working and shooting following the funeral until I got away. My brother, Mark and his wife, Lynn, built a gorgeous home in NH and I was lucky to have a place to ‘run’ to with Riley. We hiked and walked and relaxed. It was wonderful.

Foliage was ‘so-so’, but it was beautiful just the same…

Today’s session was nuts. It started out sunny when the girls arrived. As they opened the doors, Riley jumped into the car and grabbed something dark brown. “what is it?” I asked (loudly).  It was a brownie!  Damn! Riley kept running away from us as we tried to get it from her. Back and forth across the yard for what seemed like a half and hour. Senior session or Riley?  Well, Riley comes first… but you knew that!

We tricked her with the promise of a cookie and the brownie went down the disposal. Sorry kids! Melissa got ready and we went outside and it began to pour. I felt horrible that Riley had wasted all that time with the brownie and Melissa and Merry looked so cute…

so we went up to the studio. We turned on the fan and Melissa’s hair was going haywire, but it looked great.

Merry jumped in…

and then I got this…

By the time we got outside, the sun was out and we continued the session. This was by far one of the most fun sessions I’ve had with two delightful Lincoln/Sudbury sisters. They were fun, energetic and very flexible!  Thank you girls!

I’m working hard to get through all of my orders and just finished this image. I love it. Julia came here right after Hurricane Irene. Her life at home was a little chaotic but she came to me with a sense of calm and beauty.  I want to share this image while I continue to print and move forward. There are more and they will be here as soon as I can process… 

and another…

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What fun she is!  Just a terrific kid. She’s beautiful inside and out and very together. This was a fun session but it was also interesting. Emma was caring and sensitive towards me and that was special… she did hear me scream as I thought Riley was getting too close to a car driving towards my house… maybe that’s why… Seriously, a delightful girl. Emma.

Adorable. Sweet. Photogenic. Freckles. Lovely. Happy.

Loved this session.

Enjoy.

Just a reminder to make sure you either call me at 508-358-6173 to schedule a review appointment or place your orders.The deadline of October 14th is quickly approaching. I am more than happy to help you out any way that I can.

Please call soon. I’d like to be all caught up by the 11th of October so I can upload the images of all the seniors by the 15th.

(Sudbury kids have a December deadline, so no worries here, just a reminder to keep the process moving)

If you are receiving this reminder and you have verbally given me your order, please send an email with image number, quantity and size.

ex:  I want my package 1 8×10, 2 5×7′s and 8 wallets to be image #  _______________.  I would like extra copies of image # _____________. Please print ____________ (size and quantity).

Email me for a price list for a la carte prints.

If you have an appointment scheduled soon, thank you. If not, please contact me….

Thank you!

Janet

Alicia showed up with energy and spunk and she was the perfect young lady for me to work with,  after an emotional week. Right off the bat, she nailed her session. This session was amazing.

Finally!  Matt is such a great kid. I remember so well the first time I met him. He was walking up the driveway as a sophmore and his intent was to sell me an ad for the high school website. I was interested in purchasing an ad and when he finished with his sales pitch, I was hooked and thrilled to say yes to this fresh faced young man. And now, he’s a senior. It seems like yesterday when I first met him. I wish him well!

Reminder to everyone who has had a session with me, if you haven’t ordered yet, now is the time to do it. If you need an appointment with me, please be flexible.

I’m not able to chase everyone down to select their prints/photos. It’s up to you to get in touch with me, make your appointment and place your orders.

Please do not email me with appointment requests.

Call me @ 508-358-6173.

Family portrait sessions are available and it’s a wonderful time of year to do it. Sessions are $250 and all prints are a la carte. There is a minimum purchase for family sessions of $650. (including session fee).

Corporate and pet portrait sessions are available as well.

Enjoy the autumn glowy light!

Book now!

My dad passed away last week.  My brother, Mark, (my best friend) and I were with him, holding his hand, when he passed. Neither of us slept for the 48 hours after my dad made peace with his decision to stop taking the insulin that had kept him alive for 73 years. He was one of the longest surviving diabetics in the world. Mark and I had fought hard to keep him happy and well taken care of for the past year and a half with 24 hour care in his home. He never wanted to go to a nursing home or to a hospital at the end of his life and we kept that promise to him.

I wrote his obituary  and for some reason, I find it comforting to read. It will give a little glimpse of who he was.

I’m back. It’s been a long difficult week. I’ll miss my dad terribly. He would want me to be doing what I love, and I’m back. I’ve started rescheduling appointments and now we have rain in the forecast until Thursday. If I haven’t called you already, please call me to reschedule if the weather is not going to be good on the day your are booked.  508-358-6173.   Don’t worry!  You will be not be late for the deadline….    I promise.

Hello (especially to my dear clients),

I’m writing to let you know that my dad’s health is declining rapidly. I am staying with him until the end. I’m not the one in control, but it may be a day or two. We knew this was eventually going to happen, but I did not think it would be right now. It’s his choice, he’s an 89 year old Type 1 diabetic (since he was 16), and he’s made his decision to stop taking insulin. He’s sleeping mostly, not eating, drinking water still, on morphine and resting somewhat comfortably.

I will not be processing orders, although please feel free to send emails with your orders, I will get to them as soon as possible. I will try to call you back as soon as possible, but as I have only been home for a few minutes to check mail, email and to write this post, there are a lot of you who have questions and want to schedule sessions and review sessions.

I’m asking for your patience, I’ll be up and running asap, will answer your questions and be back shooting. Feel free to call me if you haven’t heard from me. (just not today or tomorrow… )

If you are reading this and you have a friend who has said they have a session scheduled, please let them know what is happening, in case they haven’t read this post.

Thank you ~

All the best,

Janet

(Matt, you are next, I promise!)

Michela, what a beautiful girl!  Tall, slender and so very sweet. She came late afternoon and it was a great session. The girls are all amazing and Michela just added to the list…. I’m so lucky!

Lincoln/Sudbury students: your deadline is later than Wayland’s, so it’s time to call and get your session scheduled. Enjoy the gorgeous fall light in the afternoon and take advantage of it!  It’s definitely not too late.

Little Ones:  Parents, If the morning works for you, now is a great time to get your shots of your precious little ones for your holiday cards. I’m available to come to your home or you can come here. Whatever works best for you! Casual and authentic portraiture… the time is now! Grab those precious fall moments and schedule your sessions now for the fun fall light.

Call now.  Limited availability…  508-358-6173

My Goodness! Hair of the year!  And so much fun. Caitlyn said she had never done anything like this before, but you’d never know that! It only took minutes for her to come alive and have fun with this. I mention to the kids that ‘texture’ is important. Scarves, or folds, pleats, smocking and layers in their clothing will make for a much more interesting composition, plus it give you something to play with. Apparently, it works!  Great job Caitlyn!

Adorable, sweet, darling…cutest smile ever and a total joy to work with. How can I go wrong with this complete package?  Fun session Taylor, lots of laughs and you did great!  Thank you!

Apparently, Amy has been following my work and arrived at her session with excitement and ready to shoot. She had tear sheets (which I saw after the shoot, and thank goodness we did everything she wanted!)  and had done her homework. She has a winning smile, gorgeous curls, adorable clothing, (that polka dot dress and boots! Way to go Amy!) and a wonderful, positive attitude. Quite a well traveled and talented young lady!