Time to move the blog under our new website - the archives have been moved as well, so come on over and browse around!
One more piece of news: our book is now available!
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Are we connected?
Are you on our specials heads-up list? Connect with us to hear first about what's new! Emails go out just a few times a year:
Also, for quick offers and impromptu updates, Facebook is best, come check us out!
Oana Hogrefe Photography's Facebook Fan Page
Monday, September 12, 2011
Are we connected? Tutu/Dress Up info going out today!
{atlanta themed portraits}
Are you on our specials heads-up list? Connect with us to hear first about what's new! Emails go out just a few times a year:
Also, for quick offers and impromptu updates, Facebook is best, come check us out!
Oana Hogrefe Photography's Facebook Fan Page
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Your image, your message -- come to our Headshot and Bio Extravaganza!
On December 4th from 9am to 1pm, Oana Hogrefe Photography together with writer Nicole Bazemore, in partnership with Ladies Who Launch Atlanta and Authentic Beauty are holding a unique event! We are offering professional headshots and bio writeups for business and personal use, as well as additional services, such as image consultations, hair and makeup.
Click here for details (or see below). Half of the available spots have been filled already, to claim yours email oana@shutterview.com
I hope to see many of you there, and help you create a custom image that does justice to your beauty and your style!
Click here for details (or see below). Half of the available spots have been filled already, to claim yours email oana@shutterview.com
I hope to see many of you there, and help you create a custom image that does justice to your beauty and your style!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
What I believe about love, time and presence
I want to share with you what is it that drives me to do what I do, what I believe my purpose to be, what I have learned and wish to teach others, what I need to learn and wish to absorb from others and from my own deeper, quieter corners of the heart.
I believe love is what moves everything. Love, its absence, its universal appeal, its quest, its presence, the fear of losing it, the fear of finding it, are all powerful motors for all we do, we don’t do, we wish we did.
I’ve always been in love. There’s always been a quest for deeper love, wider love, more love, love in various forms, to guide me and take me from one state to another.
What I delight in offering others is an excuse to love freely. To love who they are, who they want to be. To love those they are with, their past and present together. To marvel at what they have, the often overlooked beauty of what is already in front of them.
Photography allows me to do much of this. The time we take to create our images is a time that asks of people to be present, fully. There is no driving this through, phoning it in, delegating it, multitasking it. You have to show up and be you. Be looked at, be listened to, be remembered here and now. With a family, there is a heightened awareness of who your children are, who they are to you, how they are when seen by others, how they like to be seen.
Much can be understood from a lifestyle photoshoot, especially when children are free to be themselves. My clients often marvel at the facets of their child’s personality revealed through such a session. The labels become transparent, and the child’s signature expressions are revealed side by side with glimpses of deeper, harder to notice moods and looks. It’s the space between the highly self-aware moments that moves and inspires me. The space where the child becomes so engaged in what she sees, or what she expresses, that all the “shoulds” melt away and her face is not merely smilingly beautiful, but animated with that which is hers alone, her inner joy and wonder and love.
If I am able to hold the space for even a few minutes of true connection, of focused interaction among those who love each other, of undistracted self expression, I can hear my heart sing, and the images always show it.
People come to me for what they see in my images. I come to them for what I see in their hearts. The pace of modern life is often harried and as such can seem less profound. Short moments of heightened awareness of ourselves and the ones we love are essential, I feel, in helping us stay grounded, and move through the days with heart-centered purpose.
Long after the session is over, the images we create serve as focus points, as beautiful reminders of who we truly are, who our children are at heart, what our relationship means to us. It’s my dearest hope that these one-of-a-kind pieces of life-art are being looked at often and help take families back from a day’s race to a haven of essential, basic, strong and ever-present love.
In a nutshell, what sets me afire and makes me feel aligned with my life force is to enable in people lasting feelings of acceptance, tenderness, appreciation and love for themselves and for others.
More specifically, I am deeply moved by children and feel a constant loving commitment to allowing their self-worth to blossom unhindered, so they can grow into their destiny and allow this growth of their own children, one day.
I believe love is what moves everything. Love, its absence, its universal appeal, its quest, its presence, the fear of losing it, the fear of finding it, are all powerful motors for all we do, we don’t do, we wish we did.
I’ve always been in love. There’s always been a quest for deeper love, wider love, more love, love in various forms, to guide me and take me from one state to another.
What I delight in offering others is an excuse to love freely. To love who they are, who they want to be. To love those they are with, their past and present together. To marvel at what they have, the often overlooked beauty of what is already in front of them.
Photography allows me to do much of this. The time we take to create our images is a time that asks of people to be present, fully. There is no driving this through, phoning it in, delegating it, multitasking it. You have to show up and be you. Be looked at, be listened to, be remembered here and now. With a family, there is a heightened awareness of who your children are, who they are to you, how they are when seen by others, how they like to be seen.
Much can be understood from a lifestyle photoshoot, especially when children are free to be themselves. My clients often marvel at the facets of their child’s personality revealed through such a session. The labels become transparent, and the child’s signature expressions are revealed side by side with glimpses of deeper, harder to notice moods and looks. It’s the space between the highly self-aware moments that moves and inspires me. The space where the child becomes so engaged in what she sees, or what she expresses, that all the “shoulds” melt away and her face is not merely smilingly beautiful, but animated with that which is hers alone, her inner joy and wonder and love.
If I am able to hold the space for even a few minutes of true connection, of focused interaction among those who love each other, of undistracted self expression, I can hear my heart sing, and the images always show it.
People come to me for what they see in my images. I come to them for what I see in their hearts. The pace of modern life is often harried and as such can seem less profound. Short moments of heightened awareness of ourselves and the ones we love are essential, I feel, in helping us stay grounded, and move through the days with heart-centered purpose.
Long after the session is over, the images we create serve as focus points, as beautiful reminders of who we truly are, who our children are at heart, what our relationship means to us. It’s my dearest hope that these one-of-a-kind pieces of life-art are being looked at often and help take families back from a day’s race to a haven of essential, basic, strong and ever-present love.
In a nutshell, what sets me afire and makes me feel aligned with my life force is to enable in people lasting feelings of acceptance, tenderness, appreciation and love for themselves and for others.
More specifically, I am deeply moved by children and feel a constant loving commitment to allowing their self-worth to blossom unhindered, so they can grow into their destiny and allow this growth of their own children, one day.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
StartupNation Leading Moms in Business
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Featured in the CRAVE Atlanta business guide
{featured photographer crave atlanta}
Late last year, the CRAVE Atlanta guide to women-owned businesses in Atlanta was published.
I am excited to announce that Oana Hogrefe Photography has a double feature inside, once for our children work and one for our image photoshoots.
Click on the images below to see them larger, and also read one of the interviews at this link on the CRAVE website.
This guide also features over 80 images created by me -- you can purchase it via amazon or borders, and also directly from me, just let me know -- the first 5 people to inquire get the book at half off the cover price. It's a great resource for local, business-owned unique businesses and products!
I am excited to announce that Oana Hogrefe Photography has a double feature inside, once for our children work and one for our image photoshoots.
Click on the images below to see them larger, and also read one of the interviews at this link on the CRAVE website.
This guide also features over 80 images created by me -- you can purchase it via amazon or borders, and also directly from me, just let me know -- the first 5 people to inquire get the book at half off the cover price. It's a great resource for local, business-owned unique businesses and products!
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