Autumn fair

I photographed a few families/kids at a local school's Garden Fair today.

Here is an early peek for a mommy of a lion and a puppy, to whom I promised I'd post some on the blog tonight.

I'll share a few of some other characters, critters, bugs and heroes tomorrow.

Enjoy!

Get carded

Two more beautiful cards, these ones from the Designer Couture collection:

More Designer Chic card samples

Two more sample cards (I love these colors and patterns!) :

Greetings, greetings everywhere!

Over the next few days I will show some examples of the stunning styles I offer my clients for this season's greeting cards.

Cards can be purchased in packs of 24, in 4x5.5 and 5x7 sizes, flat or folded. Folded cards can be imprinted on the outer covers only (two sides) or on the inside spread as well (four sides). See Services, off my website, for regular pricing.

Here are a couple of looks from the Designer Chic card collection (using some images from recent sessions of my good looking families). Text, fonts colors (and evidently the images) are customizable. I will present you with a few choices to pick from (typically two choices for 4-side-imprinted cards, three choices for 2-side-imprinted cards), based on the images we have to work with, your personal style and preferences and my artistic vision.

Cards are a wonderfully versatile and affordable way to share your family's beauty in style -- look at the ongoing specials for offers which make getting cards more affordable and fun than at any other time during the year!

Sweet

A clean, crisp storyboard of a beautiful little girl! (click to see it larger)

Anticipation

From a mini maternity session with my beautiful friend and doula client Sophia. Stay tuned over the next month for images of her (no doubt) gorgeous baby daughter!

Boy at the park

Some favorites from a recent shoot at a nearby park -- can't ever pass up on the yummy golden afternoon light...

Acrobat:

Sweetness:

Joy:
Timelessness:

Symbolic:

Boy on the prowl...

Thoughtful... (look at that light!!)

Monkey business:

Touched by an Angel

A few months ago, I had the privilege of meeting baby CJ and his parents and paternal grandparents, as part of the volunteer work I do as an area coordinator and affiliated photographer for NILMDTS (The Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation ).
CJ was born on my birthday, and when we met he was almost two weeks old. We spent a couple of hours together, at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospital, and took many bitter sweet pictures.

CJ's time here ended after 40 days and 40 nights. He was at home in his parents' bed, surrounded by love and grace, as he passed away. His journey has touched many people, everyone who met him and many who have not. His parents are simply amazing. Their commitment to their family, to making CJ's time here a celebration of love and faith and a testament to the strengthening bond of their love, is just beyond words. To meet them all was to experience the way grace can move through our daily lives, take them over and transform them into something purer and truer, something without end.

His parents continue to work towards keeping CJ's memory alight, and his legacy full of meaning. They are glad to spread the word about the miracle of his life, and as such have agreed that I share their story with you via my blog. Many people who love CJ have planted memory trees in his name. Perhaps someone reading this will do the same. Visit www.treesforcj.com, as well as their caringbridge website to learn more about this family and their special journey.

Life here is precious and fragile. Love is everlasting. And there is joy and grace to be uncovered in every moment. This is what I learned by meeting CJ.

Thank you, Maggie and Chad, for who you are.

Click on the image below to see CJ's slideshow:



With the Month of October being recognized as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, The Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation holds its Annual Fund Drive for six weeks starting in mid-September and ending in October. As the giving season is coming near, consider supporting this volunteer organization which is committed to creating everlasting memories for families of children whose lives are ending much too soon.

Slides, smiles and sunlight

Girl in the sun (click to see larger):

My guys

I love early Fall in Atlanta. And I love my boys:

October's Special Offer

Fall in Love, Share the Love!


Fall is here, and this is the time to snuggle near the ones we love, and to share our joy with loved ones far away.

In this spirit, this month's offer includes:

a 1-hour session, on location (up to 5 people), resulting in at least 30 images available for purchase
a 1 week online link to the pictures
24 5x7 folded art greeting cards using images from this session (or $85 print credit) -- (to share with extended family)
one mounted 8x8 4 image collage, with tabletop display easel (to showcase your family in style) -- see example below
20% off all orders from this session placed 48 hours after the link is made available
(perfect for holiday gifts!)
20% off any additional cards using the same image (perfect if you need more than 24)

All for just $200!

Most of these time slots are weekend slots, so make sure you reserve yours before they all get filled.

This is indeed a wonderful time of the year, I hope to see you and yours during October!

A few more teasers

Here, again, are Catherine and Mike and their five children; it was a perfect day, in the perfect forest!

PIF session sneak peek

A quick image of the wonderful family which I chose for my PIF session.
Mike and Catherine, of In The Moment Photographs, and their super-cool five kids:

I will post a few more tomorrow -- thanks, guys, for being such great models!

The Other Side

Earlier this Summer we were photographed by the one-of-a-kind John Michael Cooper, of AltF. He and Dalisa were on a tour across the country to teach their anti-workshop, and along the way launched a Roadside Families Project. This involved a pay-it-forward ("PIF") approach to providing family photography for other photographers along the way.
In turn, each of the 37 photographers whose families benefited from this wonderful experience, are to pay it forward to another photographer in their area.
This is such a great concept, as most photographers rarely have professional images of their whole family together.
It was interesting to be on the "wrong" side of the lens, and it felt particularly unusual to have someone other than me photograph my kids!

Here is our image (which we also received as a canvas for our family room!), and a solo portrait of myself.

Again, these images are taken by John Michael Cooper. Thank you, John and Dalisa!

(stay tuned in the next couple of days to see pictures of my PIF family!)

Must... share... more....

I just love these images!

Some sweet twin moments:

And one more of Nicole, the wonder-mom: doesn't she look like a movie star?