Calling all NEWBORNS!!!

My first FOCUS will be newborns.  I will be doing sessions for a discounted price of $50.  I would love to be able to give you 15-30 pictures of the new addition to your family.  This is also a wonderful Christmas gift!  This session does not necessarily include other family members but Mom and Dad should be prepared to be in a few pictures as well as any siblings.  However, most of the pictures will be of just the new baby.  I do allow more time for feedings and diaper changes so please know this session could take up to 4 hours but if we have a sleepy baby who sleeps most of the time, it could be a lot quicker.  I will do a consultation first and we will shoot at your house to keep from taking the new baby away from home.  For $50 you will get a CD with 20-30 edited images to print as you wish and 1 pre-made announcement that I have designed for you.  You can purchase other announcements from me or use your images to print somewhere else.   So...whose having a baby?  Please forward a link to my blog to anyone you know that is having a baby in the given time frame.  This offer will expire when I have photographed 5 newborns or by the deadline!  All sessions MUST be shot by Febuary 1, 2010.  And...I am going to put this offer on craigslist, but wanted to offer to my freinds, family and followers first! 

FOCUS

So, I have been thinking about my focus.  Everyone in everything seems to have a focus.  An area they are really good at.  Doctors, Laywers, Artist, Military, and well even photographers.  But what is MY focus???  And, what do I WANT it to be?  I am not good at focusingin general, however coffee has been helping the last 3 days.  So, I am searching for my focus.  I have decided to take the next 3 months to start this search.  In January - March I will be offering specials to help me tweak some areas I do not get much practice in, to step out of my comfort zone and to find my focus.  My lack of FOCUS could be your savings!  Will it be infants?  Maternity? or maybe Seniors?  Or maybe something new?  So, stay posted, follow me or stop by and see what I will be focusing on next!

Peter's Family FINALE

This is one of those sessions where it is such a challenge to get the kids to look at the camera or smile.  They wanted to be kids and play!  Imagine that, a kid wanting to play.  So, we did a lot of playing!  Even Mom was hanging from a tree!  Heels and all!   It was fun, a challenge but I welcome a challenge and I hope to get to be challenged by them again one day!  They are a beautiful family on the inside and out which makes photographing them even more fun!  So Peter's family, here is your FINALE.  Your CD is in the mail!

A Sneek Peek of the Peters Family

What a sweet family with darling kids!  Their little orange outfits were pretty cute too!  thrid time was a charm!  Took us 3 sessions to be able to finally photograph them!  I was singing rain rain go away a lot!  Had a wonderful time with The Peter's family. Here is your sneek peek!!! 

The Pallesco Family FINALE

WOW, what a fun shoot and fun post processing!!!  There is something so special when you work with two people so in love.  I could not chose my favorite!  Enjoy Pallesco family!  Your CD will be in the mail tomorrow!

The Barbee Family Finale

An old friend from home and his georgous wife...

I have to tell you this story before you get a preview of this sweet couple. The husband, Rick, is from my home town. He has a twin brother and even though we are a few years apart we knew each other. I have not seen Rick in years, as we were not close friends. I did not know what happened to him or his brother. One day while walking through the commissary in Sicily I saw a guy that looked just like Rick and Eric. I kept telling Mike that he was a Sumter guy I was sure of it. Mike woud say, "Well then why dont you say HI?" I just could not believe a Sumter boy would be in Sicily the same time as we were and I had not seen him in so so long I was not sure. So, I never said a word. Then we left Sicily and as we were walking through the airport in Norfolk, the guy from Sicily walks up to me and says, "Allison? From Sumter right?" It was him the entire time! It was Rick from Sumter and now he was stationed in Norfolk, like us. It was just weird. I guess Sumter people are the ones who will understand the weirdness of this. Anyway, we became facebook friends (I {heart} facebook) and he ended up asking me to photograph he and his wife! Lucky me! It was a wonderful shoot at such a sweet place. They are such a sweet couple, laughing and grinning at each other the entire time. I am serious when I say they could not look at each other with out smiling or giggling like school kids in love. Such a treat to see two people so in love. So, check out this beautiful couple!

Officially Booked for November!

I am officially booked for November!  I am so excited!  I met my goal this month with number of shoots!  I am thrilled that the business I am getting is from word of mouth and from a wonderful local photographer who belives in me.  Thanks Becky Breedlove.  So, if you need or want Chrsitmas picture we must get on it!  We have very little time to get pictures taken, edited, to you and then cards printed.  If you are a past client of mine and are interested in Chrsitmas cards I will be offereing them for you.  Cards and prices will be out soon so...stay tuned!  Until then..Happy November! 

Dindial Family Finale

Thank you Dindial Family!  Your CD will be there very soon!

Look what I can do now!

The sweetest compliment

So, I was thinking of my plan this week, my plan for my business.  I was thinking about all the things that I need to do and decide upon such as my logo, a website, a printing lab and ways to keep learning more and more and more.  I had a sweet lady send me an e-mail that listed off several names of people she had referred me to and tell me how excited she was and I wanted to thank her.  I had another lady post several times on her blog how excited she was to be using me and she had not even had her family photographed yet.  I have to say, It was such a wonderful feeling!  I even blushed a little bit!  Then the family I photographed tonight was referred to me by 2 different people!  The sweetest compliment right there!  A referral!  It makes me so happy and I want to thank each and everyone of you who has referred someone to me.  That is how my business is being built!  So...I asked myself, how can I thank all these wonderful people who are sending their friends, family and co-workers to me???  What would be a sweet gift in return?  I thought and I thought and well, I decided that yall are worth a FAT discount off your next portrait session.  And if you refer another person, another person and another person that is 3 more discounts!  So, make positively sure you tell me who referred you!!  I want to thank them and I want to thank you!

REFER A FRIEND DISCOUNT
IF YOU REFER A FRIEND, FAMILY MEMBER OR CO-WORKED OR EVEN A STRANGER ON THE STREET, MAKE SURE THEY TELL ME THAT YOU SENT THEM.  I WILL GIVE YOU A $10 CREDIT TOWARDS YOUR NEXT SESSION AFTER THEIR PORTRAIT SESSION IS COMPLETE.  AND IF YOU REFER THE ENTIRE OFFICE, THE WHOLE MEETUP GROUP, THE GROCERY STORE OR EVEN THE SOCCER TEAM, FOR EACH PERSON YOU REFER THAT SCHEDULES AND ATTENDS A SESSION WITH ME YOU WILL RECIEVE A $10 CREDIT TOWARDS YOUR NEXT SESSION!  SO...WHO IS GETTING A FREE SESSION???   LIMIT?  THE SKY IS THE LIMIT.  HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I LOVE A REFERRAL?  IT MAKES ME HAPPY.  I ALSO LOVE MY PEEPS!

Another Georgous Family

Tonight I got to go back out to the beach to photograph the sweet Dindial family!  I was a little sad the sun was not out more, as I had planned!  Just when I was going with the flow and shooting away, out peeks the magnificent sun!  It was a lovely evening with a lovely family who had a piece of my heart when they told me they wanted to retire in S.C.! (I pink puffy heart S.C.)  Thanks Dindial family! 

The "B" Family Preview

Met this beautiful family at the Chesapeake Aboratum for a family shoot last night and let me tell you they were precious. All three children were stinking adorable and sweet to boot! I can only imagine that the dynamics of this family are amazing. Dad was so involved and you could just feel that Mom and Dad were so in love and were so proud of their sweet little family. They were a pleasure to hang out with and I hope to do it again sometime. The unfortunate part of our shoot is that we lost light super duper fast. I guess this means I need to start shooting earlier. So, check out the "B" family preview!

Man they would have some blue eyed babies!!!

Here is Ashley and Brian!  An adorable couple, and well she just happens to be one of my besties!  Check them out!