Holiday Cards and Images

For much of Nov and Dec I am busy with holiday card images and family portraits that will be used as gifts during the holiday season. Some cards I design, some people use photos I've taken to build cards elsewhere. The most fun (and the most work for me) is the concept card. I only do a few of these a year and here is a couple.

I worked with this family for the first time last year, you might remember the elves working hard with the baby santa giving orders from her highchair, this year we added in Mom and Dad. I take no credit for the wording they did that, but I think it pulls the concept together perfectly.

This next one is also a return client, 5th year in a row. The parents are totally open to whatever concept I come up with which is always great.

Front, Inside and Back of the card

and ANOTHER return client, for the 3rd year. Elegant is the word that comes to mind with these two girls this year, seeming so grown up since the year before.

This image was used on the front of a tiny print designed card, I took it at the end of a family portrait session. Two more of my photos were used on the back, but more from that shoot later.

Not all cards are concept based, most are a single nice portrait, or a series of lifestyle shots.

Here I took the photo and used a card design by florabelle

Some I never even see, some clients take the digital files and I never get to see what they do with them, but Im sure they make family and friends smile. And there is one every now and then that doesn't get used because I design a card and the client only needs prints.

Lots more to come from the season

Happy New Year 2012

Start of a new year means changes. Today I'm moving my blog back over here, I haven't posted here in a couple of years so bare with me as I get the design and layout figured out. I hope to redo my whole website this year.

My main areas of focus for the first part of this year will be environmental portraits and documentary photography.

The three projects I am most proud of from 2011 are a home-birth I photographed, the day I spent photographing children for Flashes of Hope, and a little street photo project I did one day, so I definitely want to work more in these areas.

Since having children family photography has dominated my work, this year I want to work a lot more with professionals developing their image, especially small business owners.

So anyone out there looking for a networking profile image, a new business portrait or a series of image to show who and what you do and where you do it please contact me, I am excited to get working on new projects.

moving the blog

For a couple of years I moved over to http://emphotography.net/Blog.html so click here to view 2011 posts

Home Birth

Anyone looking for a home birth midwife check out http://gentlebirthcare.com/ Hillary helped me birth my first child, unfortunately I missed her by a day for my second.

You'll also see many of my photos on the site.

color, mute, mono

Music Food and donuts

Morning at the Oak Park farmers market

around 820 again

Teen half price session

Now through June I am doing a recession session for seniors graduating high school, or moving from middle to high school, ok any tween/teen is fine with me. This is a 45 minute lifestyle shoot, 3 looks in the Oak Park area, weekdays or weekends. $125.
If there are 3 or more friends wanting to work together, I will spend 2 hours with them, and each will only pay $100.
They will still get an on-line proofing gallery, one small digital file for their on-line portfolio's (facebook/myspace etc...) Prints are at current price. They will also be given a small digital file of any prints ordered, for their web portfolios.
Call now to set up a time.