Love This Family | Plymouth Area Family Photographer

I photographed one of my nearest, dearest cousins and her family this weekend at their home out in the country. With an unexpected snow cover that arrived over night, my cousin, J, did’t exactly have the “Fall” setting she was going for, for this session:) However, the pretty snow on the ground played the perfect part for some awesome props she bought for a family photo with plans on going on a Christmas card. She found these awesome hats last week and called me to tell me all about them. She hid them from the kids until the time came to get them out for the pictures, and let me tell you, they were OH-SO thrilled about this!:)

 

2 Little Cuties | Plymouth Area Photographer

Yesterday I braved the very cold fall day along with these two adorable little ones and their mom! It was freezing outside, and these guys were troopers! Big sis A will be 4 in a few weeks, and what a little firecracker she is! Such a spunky personality and constantly on the go! Little brother T is just 3 months and had his fussy moments while he was waiting  his turn, but in the end we got a few little smiles out of him! I had a great time getting to know mom in between the normal tantrums and fusses of the kiddo’s!

 

Thanks again S family for allowing me to capture this special part of your life! I had a great time getting to know you and your adorable little babies!

NEW PRICES (take effect January 1, 2011)

 I finally had some time to sit down and get some work done on the website, updating prices for next year.

 But first, here are some of the other changes coming for 2011 as well:

 1. Sessions that are booked will be required to pay a $50.00 non refundable retainer towards your session before your session is considered “booked”. I will have a contract to mail to you to sign and return with your retainer to hold your session. Hopefully this will help limit the number of last minute cancellations I have been having lately.

 2. *Newborn Sessions* VERY IMPORTANT: If you are expecting and I am not made aware of your due date at least one month in advance, I will not be doing your newborn session. I have to have some sort of an idea what to expect from month to month, since newborn sessions can’t actually be scheduled in advance. I can not just drop everything to “fit” you in at the last minute. It is very important that newborns be within a certain age range for the photo’s I prefer to get. I appreciate plenty of notice, even if you are 4 weeks pregnant! I am a planner, and I have to have a good view of what I can expect that is coming my way.

 3. I will no longer be using a referral program. I have had quite a few people trying to take advantage of it, and honestly I can not keep track of who sent who to me. I appreciate those of you who have spread the word, and I honestly believe that has been my best advertisement aside from Facebook.

 And now, the real reason you are all reading this post:) Price increases. Here you have it!

(Please note, these prices will not take effect until 2011, but I wanted to get things down in writing before I started booking sessions for the new year)

 Standard Session

Session Fee – $100.00 Includes up to 4 related people, please add $25.00 per additional person.

Newborn Session

Session Fee – $150.00

Senior Session

Session Fee – $150.00 Includes up to 2 locations of your choice, please add $35.00 per additional location.

Disc of Images

$75.00 – You will recieve a disc containing each image from your session. Some images will be in color and some will be in black and white, it will be my preference while editing.

 $100.00 – You will recieve a disc containing 2 copies of each image from your session. You will get each image in color AND black and white.

This is different from how I was doing it before, so please take note. 

I am still offering prints at 50% off  if you choose to order them as well:

Prints

4X6 – $2.00

5X7 – $3.00

8×10 – $4.00

11×14 – $8.00

16×20 – $25.00

Wallets (sets of 8, same pose) – $5.00

 *I will travel within 30 miles of the zip code 46563. A travel charge of $35.00 will be added for anything more than 30 miles of the zip code 46563.

 *Prices subject to change. Prices honored at the time of booking a session.

 I hope this is made clear enough for everyone to understand. If anyone has any questions about anything, please feel free to send me an email! I will do my best to answer any questions you may have.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Braving The Cold | Plymouth Area Family Photographer

Yesterday I braved the VERY COLD fall weather with the M family for some pictures at a golf course here in Plymouth. They were all troopers though, and we were wrapped in blankets in between shots to get warm:) Mom and I went to school together, and have gotten to know each other pretty well over the last year.  I had the pleasure of taking pictures of the two kids, big bro A and lil sis C, at the beginning of the year! Mom had been wanting some family pictures taken (finally) since they had never had any taken since C had joined the family! It was long over due and I am pretty happy with the outcome considering the uncomfortable weather we had to deal with! But, like I told K, at least it didn’t rain:) Here are some of my favorites:

 

M family, thanks once again for being so brave and taking on the cold! It was fun hanging out with you guys once again and I look forward to seeing you again in the future!

Family Fun! | Plymouth Area Photographer

This past weekend I had some awesome family visiting from Ohio who I don’t get to see very often. My cousin’s wife had contacted me to see if I would be willing to do some family pictures for them while they were here for the weekend, so Saturday after the rain stopped we headed to the park to take some! Their family along with some other family that was in town, spent some time at a Halloween party after that and the next day we had a family get together at my parents house.  I had a great time getting the chance to spend some time with some awesome people that I rarely get to see!

The beautiful family

And here you can see just how crazy the people in my life are:) We actually did a photo shoot with these three gorgeous ladies:)

In this photo: Myself, my cousin Amy, my good friend Windie (who you have seen in past photo’s;), and my cousin’s wife Heather

To those of you who spend the weekend with me, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for everything! I don’t know how I would have made it through this weekend with you guys! I definitely have the best friends and family anyone could ask for!

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