The Blog of Wen McNally Photography

Yep, we’re gonna get a jump on ‘em. At least the big box stores wait until October to put out their Holiday stuff… Not us baby. By October, our Early Bird Special will be all be history!

Grab your calendars and pick a date – September 27th, 28th or 29th. Now, fire up your e-mail or dash to the phone and give us call to lock in your date. Your $200 session fee will include 50 photo cards or an 11×14 wall portrait. Or better yet, book your session by August 31st and get the cards AND the wall portrait. Looks like we’re giving the presents out early too…

Ding dang, has the last week flown by! Must be the end of Summer racing toward us. Anyway, we’ve had a good time with a bunch of great people (and a couple of non-people). Here are a few images for you to enjoy

-sean

Okay, we admit it… we’ve got a thing for old furniture (and the funkier the better…) We’ve always got our eye out for that cool old chair or bench (we’ve bought about all the sofas we can handle right now) and then we thought, "hey, we’ve given away lots of furniture we didn’t need any more… maybe some of our friends have some that they’re looking to get rid of."

So, here’s the deal. Take a look around and if you run across a chair (we’re thinking like living room kinda things… unless you’ve got a really cool wooden chair or rocker…) or other piece of furniture (an old trunk, coffe or end table) snap a picture of it and slip it in an e-mail to us. If it strikes our fancy, we’re gonna hook up the trailer, swing by your place, snatch it up and give you a free session… you’re happy, we’re happy… everybody’s happy! So muster up your courage and forage around in your garage or basement or attic and see what ya got!

-sean

Here’s your chance. We’re going to have a table at a charity event for the Stafford County Foster Children Program. It’s Thursday night, August 23 from 6 – 9 at Bogey’s in Central Park. There is a suggested donation of $5 at the door and the proceeds go toward sending the kids to King’s Dominion for a day (apparently the trip is in jeopardy due to funding issues…) Each vendor is giving away two door prizes, so you might even win a free photo session. This is a very last minute event (we just found out about it yesterday) but an extremely worthwhile cause. We are currently noodling through some ideas about how we could get really involved with this program. We would love to have everyone come out to support this cause and we’d love to have you stop by the table and say hello… see you there?

Okay, before we begin this post, let me say thanks to everyone who has recently checked out our blog (which from the stats we’ve received, is well over 200 in the first two days!!) Please check back regularly, as keeping it updated is one of my job responsibilities… also, please leave comments so that we know you’re keeping up with us… c’mon, show us some love. And be sure to tell all of your friends too… Okay, commercial is over, now back to the regularly scheduled post already in progress…

We spent an amazing couple of days kibitzing with a very cool group of photographers from around the country and even one from The Great White North. (can you find me and Wen’ in the photos?) We saw some incredible work, received lots of encouraging words, ate way too much great food, drank our share of our favorite beverages (I can’t even get Belhaven around here!) and I even found time for a couple of cigars. Special thanks goes out to D.J. who almost missed his plane because we were so busy sharing stories that gave each other goose bumps… it was truly that kind of trip.

Here are a couple of images from a shoot we took part in… oh yeah, and I’m pretty sure that my official job title is now SHERPA…

If you haven’t seen our studio yet (or even if you have) give us call and drop by sometime… we’re having a blast!

-sean