With mini sessions just around the corner, I am now releasing the 2012 customized holiday cards that I will be offering this year! I offer 5×7, two-sided, flat cards with white envelopes. Sold in sets of 25, colors and text are completely completely customizable!
I also offer ornate, die cut and folded cards, which will truly impress your friends and family. Please ask me about special pricing!
The temperatures have been so high as of late that it’s really hard to think about the holidays! But, soon enough, the trees will be changing colors, cookies will be baking, and we’ll be cutting down Christmas trees! That can only mean one thing; the holidays are just around the corner and it’s time for Holiday Mini Sessions with Five Petals Photography!
Here are the details:
*If it rains on November 3, I’ll have rain dates available so please keep the mornings of November 4 and November 10 as tentative makeup days.
*Your gallery of images will be available within two to three weeks, definitely before Thanksgiving. The deadline to submit your Holiday Card order will be December 3, which will allow enough time for delivery to you in time for the holidays.
*Mini sessions are available for child and family sessions, but are not available for newborn or extended family sessions due to time constraints.
**Are you an existing client who is not available for mini sessions, but also didn’t get a chance to schedule your holiday family portrait session? I’ll be happy to create a custom holiday card for you using images from your 2012 session with Five Petals Photography.**
In case you missed the last in the series of The Simple Things, click here.
So many times as a photographer, I get caught up in striving for perfection. I want the perfect light, the perfect expression, the perfect picture. Sometimes I achieve this perfection, but it’s at the sake of capturing the every day, those simple moments that make each day special. To help me remember these important snapshots of real life, I’ve joined a group of fellow photographers in a little blog series called “The Simple Things.” Each month we will shoot one of those simple moments in our lives that we have been neglecting with our cameras. At the bottom of this post you will find a link to the next photographer’s blog. Click through all of them until you complete the circle!
For the first time since I started The Simple Things, I’m choosing not to highlight my kids, but to show you the person who started my entire family – my grandma. My grandma is a fabulous lady. She is also really really talented, smart, clever and crafty. And sometimes, I find myself stumped by something and then think, “I bet my grandma would be able to figure this out!” You know all those clever tricks you see in a magazine or on Pinterest? I bet my grandma has either thought of or done half of those things without anyone else thinking of it. 🙂
Some years ago, my grandma helped out an elderly neighbor who repaid her with quilt tops, pieces of fabric sewn together, but not yet quilted. Sometimes, she just received scraps of fabric in bags, all of which were various colors and shapes and so, being the amazing quilter she was, she started piecing them all together. We started to expect to see grandma finishing one quilt, while she was setting up another on her quilting frame. And then her grandchildren started to get married, and we started receiving the most amazing presents-quilts! When I opened mine, I cried. It was an amazing patchwork work of art; one that hasn’t left my bed (except to visit the washing machine!) since I received it. I love to look at the different colors and fabrics, often picking a favorite to find every time I come into the room. It reminds me of the one I had on my bed growing up, though it’s bigger and now it not only keeps me warm at night, but my husband too.
Recently, my uncle and my cousin got the idea to have a quilting day with grandma. We made the plan and almost all of the women in our family were able to gather for a morning of quilting, even our out of town. I will be the first to admit, it’s a lot more difficult than I thought, but the conversation and company were excellent. It is easy to see why families and friends quilted together back in the day. We quilted, we laughed, we had lunch, we laughed some more and then we finally called it quits when our fingers were sore and our necks hurt from looking down. Grandma told us we weren’t making the prettiest quilt, but we didn’t mind! We knew we weren’t there for a real lesson, but to celebrate the generations sitting around that quilt and to learn a little something from a wonderful and amazing lady, my grandma.
I can’t take credit for every picture here. I’m the blonde on the far left in the first picture and the one making the silly faces. It’s nice when my family is willing to take photos for and of me as long as I get my camera set up for them!
Be sure to continue through our blog circle. Next up is Shannon at Shannon Stroubakis Photography of The Woodlands. Enjoy and thanks for visiting!
In case you missed the last in the series of The Simple Things, click here.
So many times as a photographer, I get caught up in striving for perfection. I want the perfect light, the perfect expression, the perfect picture. Sometimes I achieve this perfection, but it’s at the sake of capturing the every day, those simple moments that make each day special. To help me remember these important snapshots of real life, I’ve joined a group of fellow photographers in a little blog series called “The Simple Things.” Each month we will shoot one of those simple moments in our lives that we have been neglecting with our cameras. At the bottom of this post you will find a link to the next photographer’s blog. Click through all of them until you complete the circle!
I must say that one of my favorite things about being a photographer is that I can take any day and turn it into a photo session. I do this often when I need to scout a location, when the kids and I have time to kill or we find ourselves with a free day. I rifle through their closets, dress them according to my vision (if I have one) and out we go! They think we are going to the park and that they are getting a special treat; I think I am going to end up with some cute pictures of my kids. And I am super lucky; I almost always end up with super cute pictures of my kids! Here is our 20 minute, scouting journey. Enjoy!
Sometimes they are so cute, I think, “Maybe I should stop while I’m ahead!”
No bribery required for these kids!
I have to let them get creative on their own too. It keeps them happy and cooperative!
Audrey has what I call her ‘pretty girl smile.’ It works for almost every picture! However, there are times when I’d actually like to get a natural smile from her so I asked her to practice. Below is a genuine smile vs. her fake smile. When I showed these to her, she said,”Hey, I look like I am frowning!” Now she is on a mission to figure out how to show off her ‘natural’ `smile!
My littlest lady is getting so big!! If this were a ‘real’ session, we wouldn’t have all this messy hair in our eyes, but oh how I love my kiddos just like this!
Today, Audrey pulled out this hat. A year ago, I couldn’t bribe her with anything to convince her to wear it for me. Today, she wore it on her own accord!
And finally, when I shoot for fun, sometimes I process the same way. Soft and pinky colors!
And my favorite…because they are mine!
Be sure to continue through our blog circle. Next up is Helen Savage of the Lisburn, Northern Ireland! Enjoy and thanks for visiting!
Leslie C.
WOW! These are terrific! Your kids are seasoned models and you take such wonderful photographs of them!
The D family braved the triple digits to make sure we captured milestones for E (3!) and H (6 months!). Even in the early evening is was HOT! So very hot. The kids were sweaty and rosy cheeked and in SUCH. Good. Spirits. Bless their hearts! My job is so easy when kids are this cute!!
In case you missed the last in the series of The Simple Things, click here.
So many times as a photographer, I get caught up in striving for perfection. I want the perfect light, the perfect expression, the perfect picture. Sometimes I achieve this perfection, but it’s at the sake of capturing the every day, those simple moments that make each day special. To help me remember these important snapshots of real life, I’ve joined a group of fellow photographers in a little blog series called “The Simple Things.” Each month we will shoot one of those simple moments in our lives that we have been neglecting with our cameras. At the bottom of this post you will find a link to the next photographer’s blog. Click through all of them until you complete the circle!
This month, this little lady:
gained a whole lot of personality.
We think maybe it’s because of her new found independence that came with this:
She made us wait almost 15 months before she ventured out on her own, taking four steps one morning, eight more later that day and then 26 steps to her big sister the next morning. And with each step comes a smile, a giggle and a whole lot of happiness. As soon as she mastered walking, she decided that it was time to also learn to climb and run and talk. Her language has exploded and she will repeat almost anything we say, and has started using words even when we don’t prompt her. Her favorites being ‘Mommom,’ which sometimes means ‘Mama’ and sometimes means she is hungry and wants to eat (like ‘yumyum’), and ‘PAH!’ as she holds her chubby little fingers up to me. She is saying, “Up!” and says it that way because as I was teaching her, I kept saying, “Do you want Uh-pah?” to emphasize the ‘P’ sound. I love it.
I captured her second set of first steps on video, but it took me almost a month to remember that I hadn’t taken an actual photograph of her walking. And I am so glad I captured these simple little baby steps. Now that she has forward motion, there will be no stopping this wonderful little lady of ours!
Be sure to continue through our blog circle. Next up is Shannon Stroubakis of the Woodlands, TX! Enjoy and thanks for visiting!
Shannon Stroubakis
She is too cute! I love the processing here, so bright but also soft and girly.
Leslie Crane
I *love* this post. Such beautiful pictures and subject matter.
Nikki
Beautiful set of pictures :0)
Amber Erickson
Oh my goodness! What a cutie pie! Love these!
Sara T
Too stinkin cute. Love these, Laura!
Jackie
oh my, these are adorable!!
My nieces are the cutest little things, and I am super lucky to get to sneak them away mid-week for photoshoots. I don’t even have to take mom along, which usually works out in my favor. I get to be silly and goofy and pose them how I want and they aren’t distracted by wanting to spend extra time with (i.e. compete with one another for time with) mom. 🙂 And then I get to surprise mom with super cute smiles that she wasn’t witness too. Love these ladies! Happy 2nd Birthday!
Little C was such a cutie. Being a little under the weather made his smiles hard to come by, but he warmed up to all the fun we were having!
Two year olds aren’t always the easiest subjects to photograph, but I love them so! Maybe because my kids are little, but I love being silly and finding just the thing to make them smile. Of course, Miss D was super easy to please and made our morning so fun! I can’t believe this little lady is two already!!
What a wonderful memory, beautifully captured!
Laura, that was so sweet! Your lead-in to the quilting pics made me tear up! 🙂 🙂