Does that title even make sense?  Does any of this really make any sense?  If you’ve answered no to both questions, you are not alone.  But I like to amuse myself and come up with these little word ditties about the lovely people that stop by our studio to spent a little QT (that’s ‘quality time’ for you squarez that just don’t get it.  And I know I put a z in there.  That was just an even deeper square test.  Did you pass, or did you fail?) with us.  The lovely individual that I’m going to talk about today?!  It’s Kristin!

Let me tell you a little bit about something that I like to call ‘free market capitalism’…I kid.  But, in a small sense, here’s the story.  Kristin needed some senior pictures taken.  We just happened to have a photographer, equipment, studio, wiener dogs – pretty much everything that allowed us to provide that service for her.  But it was more than just a service.

My friends – the time we spent with this lovely lady were filled with magical and fantastial, with super and natural, with…well, you get the point.  And the point is…she was awesome!  But if you choose not to believe these words, instead take a little bit of time to gaze upon the samplesnaps below.  So, let us close up this meandering word mash and get to the part where we give MuchLove to Kristin for being so awesome, and where we tell all of our happy little people out there in Blogland to – Enjoy!

I have a fondness for the word ‘jive.’  I think it has to do with the fact that I used to love to watch the show Good Times when I was a kid.  Which is weird, because according to my official bio, I’m only 24 years old, so that would be impossible.  Because I’m hip.  I’m cool.  I’m not really a 37 year old creep that tries desperately to hold on to some sort of a dream that he can be a part of the world of the young and the lovely, even though the sad reality is that he’s just a couple of years from 40.  Ugh.

I’m sorry.  My mind wandered.  Now, where was I?  Yes…jive!  So here’s the deal.  I’m gonna lay down some sweetlysweet pictosnaps of a lovely lady that goes by the name of Brianna.  And I’m going to do this straight up.  And there’s gonna be no jive.  You dig?  Good.  Now that we’re all on the same wavelength, I think it time to tell you that on a day that was most likely some time ago, the doors of the FunCenter opened up and Brianna briefly stepped into our lives so that we may experience smiles and happiness and rainbows and I’m rambling now.  Regardless, she came into our lives, brightened up our day, and was on her way – but not before she created pixelriffic magic!

Seeing as how I just typed the word ‘pixelriffic’, I think the time is right for us to give MuchLove to Brianna for being so awesome, and to  all you wonderful peeps out there in Blogville just tryin’ to make it through the day – Enjoy!

If you are like me, and you’re sitting at home on a Friday night in front of your computer blankly staring at the o&j website whilst pressing the refresh button over and over and over and over again just hoping that it will be updated, then I’m about to rock your world.  Because I have the power to change what you see on this website.  And what you are about to see is the ever-lovely, the lovely & talented…Julie!

You see, I was just like you.  Sitting there.  Refreshing the web page in hopes that someone would update it.  But then I realized that I am the only one that can log in and actually put something up on this here thing.  This awesome responsibility rests upon my shoulders and my shoulders alone.  I know.  You must be wondering how I can carry this burden but yet find so much time for naps in the Sun, and I wish I could give you an answer to that question, but I can’t.

Back to what really matters – and that is the fact that Julie came down to the FunCenter on a day that was some time ago now – I think it was when the leaves were on the trees and the city of Minot had a funky river odor going on (thank God for winter), but it doesn’t matter when it was, all that matters is that Julie was – and continues to be awesome!  So, enough of all these words – we need now to give MuchLove to Julie for letting us be a part of her life for that brief moment in time, and to all of you refreshing the webpage – Enjoy!

I’m sure that some of you might have been sitting there in your lovely homes of blog thinking that there hasn’t been anything new at all in the world of Otis & James, but you would be wrong, my friend!  There have been a billion different things going on, and not just Otis taking naps and trying to get out of doing any form of work at all costs (although, some would beg to differ.)

Quite the opposite – we’ve been sitting in front of our digital computer boxes making all sorts of happy pictures for people, and we’ve even held the camera, to my eye, so I…I’m sorry, that’s a song. But we’ve even been taking all sorts of new pictures, it’s just that why on Earth would we want to put up pictures on our website or social networking sites to keep them actively updated – that just seems foolish.  That just seems so, 2011.  But as usual, I digress.

This past summer we had the goodlygreat pleasure of working with the ever lovely Danielle!  She joined up with the Otis & James Caravan of Love as we toured here and there, to and fro, in search of the perfect picture spot – but we soon learned that every spot we took a picture at was the perfect picture spot because she is perfect!

Our time together was all to fleeting, but we will always have Paris.  Or this pictures.  Whichever.  So, a huge MuchLove to Danielle for being so awesome, and for all of our peeps out there in Land of Blog for being so patient – Enjoy!

My dear Peeps of Blog!  I come to you today with the good news – the good news that it is now time to take a gander, a gaze, a loving look at the SuperSeniorSampleSnaps of the one & only, the ever lovely & gracious, the effervescent…Kylie!

For those of you sitting back in your happy little blog homes, and some of your blog homes may also be log homes, and some of these homes may be surrounded by a bog, and some of you may be drinking egg nog (’tis the season, after all), I invite you to sit back with your glass of egg nog, in your blog log home and go back to a time when the weather was lovely, when the trees were green, when we had the goodly golden opportunity to spend some time with this lovely lady.  The reason why you should do this?  Well, because if you didn’t, you would be missing out on all of the wonderfulness that these pics can bring your day.

But!  Before we do that, we need to send MuchLove to Kylie for giving us some of her sweet & precious time, and to all my good egg nog drinking friends out their in log land of Blog – Enjoy!

I know that as I type this it is a Monday, and nobody really likes Monday’s all that much, but one thing that can exponentially increase your Monday happiness is taking a little bit of your busy day, sitting back, relaxing and enjoying the supersenior samplesnaps of the one and only, the ever-lovely Theandra!

Now, when I type these things up (and I do use a typewriter and then send the manuscript off to a company in Thailand which employs school age children to sit in front of computers and type these things up and most likely are paid about $1.75 a day – but hey baby, that’s commerce!) I am often faced with the dilemma of what name to type up.  For example, on the paperwork that we have, it says ‘Theandra’, but I’m pretty sure that she likes to go by ‘Thea’ – and since I don’t want to call her up and ask her because that would just be stone cold weird (Jamie says I can’t call seniors & talk to them) I just have to go by what the paperwork says.  And, in this case, it’s Theandra – which is a beautiful name, no matter if it is in the full or abbreviated version.

Now that you know that, it is time for us to do what we do best, and that is to offer up MuchLove to Theandra for giving us some of her sweet & precious time (you were awesome x100), and it has now become time for me to tell all of you goodly people out there in your happy blog homes to – Enjoy!

Due to a computer snafu, when creating this post I accidentally gave it two titles.  And when looking at it, I realized that what I had thought was a mistake was instead a bit of poetry.  And, I can say with confidence that after all of these years of putting happy smiling people up on blog, this is the first time that one of these posts has a double title – and when you can have a ‘first’ after a few thousand posts, that’s a big deal.

And you want to know what else is a big deal – or rather, who else is a big deal?  Well, it’s a good thing that you asked, because MaKayla is!  And how do we know this?  Well, we do because we had the lovely good fortune of working with her on a day that wasn’t all that long ago, but very well may have been a few months ago (I’m having a ‘space/time’ thing going on right now and I’m not really the one that you will want to go to if you have some sort of a need for advice on how much time has past since an event occurred, but that’s a conversation for a different time) – either way, we got to spend some time together taking some sweetlysweet seniorsnaps!

MaKayla was awesome, and that’s just a fact, jack.  No debating the question.  Just straight up truth.  But enough of all these silly words, we need to move on from them and give MuchLove to MaKayla for giving us some of her sweet & precious time, and to all of the goodly peeps out there in Land of Blog getting ready for a Merry Christmas – Enjoy!

This Is How Santa Pics Used To Look. There Is So Much Wrong With This.

Thank you to everyone that came out this past Saturday for pictures with Mr. & Mrs. Claus – we had a wonderful time and we know you did too!

The online gallery is now up and ready for viewing, just click this link to view the images!  Please let us know if you have any additional questions, and thank you again to everyone that helped make this event happen!

MuchLove!

You ever just sit there and think, ‘Man…this world of ours is all crazy like.  Always so much crazy stuff going on.’  Well, if you’re like me and you do just that, then it’s time to relax for a moment, for we’re about to get all up into some superseniorpictures of a lady that we like to call Brandi!

My plan for the world (besides domination) is that if everyone just sat down for a second, beeble-bopped the old o&j up on their computer boxes and took a look at these lovely pics, peeps would probably just mellow out for a second or two, and then maybe some of their harshness will have subsided.  We’re talking peace in the Middle East sort of thing.  I think we can pull this off, but it wouldn’t be possible without the absolutely fantastic job Brandi did during her Senior Portrait shoot.  She rocked it, and now she has the opportunity to save the world.

Before she goes off and does that, we just gotta send MuchLove her way for giving us some of her sweet & precious time, and to my good peeps out there in this big ol’ crazy world just trying to bring a little sunshine in – Enjoy!

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