January 2008 – The Revolution Will Begin!
There is a new wave sweeping the country.
Artificial, unnatural posing… GONE
Overused cheesy special effects… GONE
Ridiculous gigantic foam numbers… GONE!
Left in their place will be creative, original sessions, focusing on and capturing who you are. What you’re about.
These aren’t your parent’s senior portraits.
The Revolution is Coming.
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Short and sweet. We’re about to save you some money on something you already want. Such a deal! For the holiday season, we’re offering our Double Dollars Gift Certificate. Purchase any gift certificate over $100 and we’ll give you double the face value. $200 gets you $400, $500 gets you $1000, $35000 gets you $75000 (I think you get the idea) The certifcates start at $100 and increase in increments of $50. Go ahead, stuff somebody’s stocking with something you know they’ll love and they’ll love you for it… the savings will be our little secret…
-sean
Those of you who have spent any time with us know that it’s not unusual for us to look at each other and say "I’ve got an idea…" This usually happens around midnight or so and those are the nights we don’t sleep much… Well, it happened much like that a while ago and we’re gonna be offering a whole new session "For Women Only." We have done a couple of sessions this past year for some beautiful women who don’t happen to be in their late teens. Reviewing the images made it clear that we should come up with something, so we have… we’ll be launching this line early next year and we think it’s gonna be a lot of fun. Here’s a teaser…
-sean
I’ve always said that I’ve got a lot of class… it’s all low, but I’ve got a lot of it. Well, we had the cultural week of weeks last week. Two trips to the theater and one to a photography show. We spent Wednesday night with a great friend of ours from way back (Happy Birthday Eileen) at a dinner theater production of South Pacific… I’m not a big musicals guy (okay, I’m not even a small musicals guy) so I’m going to simply say that it was great to see our friend and to meet some of hers. (Wen said that it was good, because she’s a lot more open minded than I am) Thursday night we were totally unprepared for the amazing production of Twelfth Night put on by the Mountain View High School WildActs. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t get Shakespeare and that I really was planning to go in support of the team, who we’ve recently done some work with. It would take too long to go into it right now (but feel free to ask me if you care to) but this little production has had an immense effect on our lives and the way we’re looking at the future (I’m not kidding!) Bad weather has turned out to be a lucky break for you… the show was supposed to be three nights, but has been expanded to two more shows. Seating is limited and I’m buying 6 tickets, so you better get there quickly. This thing deserves it’s own post, so I’ll leave this one where it is. Friday night we had a chance to see our good friend Ian Soper. He has recently published a book of his photographic diary of the first year of the Fredericksburg All Ages music scene. Ian’s a great guy and he has a huge heart. I haven’t been able to be as much a part of this scene as I woudl like to, but hopefully this will change next year. It’s easy sometimes to think that all of the exciting stuff is happening somewhere else. Things like these quietly remind us that even our own back yards hold unexplored treasures… I’m gonna go dig some up
-sean
Now that we’re doing so many senior sessions, it might seem that we only do seniors… that would be a bit of a stretch. Some of our favorite people are littler people. Wen’ started out creating breathtaking images of little ones and their families and we continue to look forward to seeing them grow up. With 5 kids of our own, we are obviously all about family and capturing those special moments in their lives. Take some time to slow down and be a family as the year comes to a close. I know we’re going to.
-sean
We spent some time with some great photographers from around the country this summer and as we talked with them, they all suggested that we specialize in something… we thought high school seniors sounded like fun, so we went for it. And you know what, it has been fun. We’ve met some really great kids and seen some great relationships with parents and siblings. We’ve got a lot of stuff in the works for next year and are already hearing from kids who tell us that they’re planning to have us take their senior portraits (some of them are freshmen, which makes us smile) We hope that those of you who have chosen us have enjoyed it and that those of you who are looking will give us a look. If you see us around town, please say hi, we love to see you guys!
Here’s some of the most recent stuff.
-sean
