PADS Have a Heart

I did volunteer work on Sat. night for my favorite local non-profit, West Suburban PADS. They had their 20 year “Have a Heart” celebration at the River Forest country club and it was a beautiful night from the red candy table to the dancing.
Hearing the story of one couples evolution from homelessness to prepairing for their wedding with their two children really shows the extent of what PADS does for people.
The place was full, it’s nice to know so many people in the community care.

ALL the photos can be seen over at http://emphotography.zenfolio.com/pads

Last fall my 7 years old son Taron and I spent an evening at one of the night shelters serving the guests dinner, my son loved helping and felt honored when a few of the guests thanked him and told him he did a good job. It’s such a win win situation for everyone involved.




And staying on the Heart theme, my daughter needed valentine cards to hand out at school this morning, so here is what we put together yesterday.

Grand Designs Architect

I have taken business portraits of him, I have photographed his architecture, I have taken shots of him building and many of him visiting great archtecture so it's time I took a few of what his does most of these days, and that is standing at his desk designing, okay he's on the computer drafting it all a lot too, but that doesn't look as interesting.

catching up

okay! so whats worse, not to have a blog or to have one I can't seem to keep up to date? With all the processing, galleries for clients, backing up and more backing up there never seems to be time for doing new creative work or posting here. I was going to try and put together a post from all the pre-holiday sessions but I think I'm going to just jump in and add a few right now for fear I don't get around to all of them. So here's some random family stuff

maybe more to come, click to enlarge

Head Shot

"Start the new year with a fresh new look"
Now is a good time to get a fresh headshot for your business or social networking profiles.
First impressions! you don't want yours to be a blurry blob, and at only $125 it's worth the investment.

If any of you go to the YMCA in Oak Park you might notice this ad running on the T.V's there.

Want more than a head-shot?
would you like to show your place of work, you and your staff in action then you might what the full package. First step lets set up a meeting to discuss your needs.

Maybe you need just one shot, but you want a conceptual image, I would be delighted to work on that, first step let's meet and brainstorm.

Founding Mom, Jill Salzman

The founding Mom of The Founding Moms, Jill Salzman had her book launch last night at Maya Del Sol and I was there to be the "photog" for the night.
"Found it" A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs is now available for purchase from The Book Table one of the sponcers of last night event.

There was lot's of great food, so great I never got to take a photo of a full plate. Brill illustrations from the book up on display and crafts by Aunt Peaches for the young at heart.

And the snow did not keep people away, the place was over flowing with a wonderful mix of people.

A fun night was had by all, for all the photos visit http://emphotography.zenfolio.com/foundingmoms

Snow Day 1

It's here, the snow is finally falling.
And who better than my little companion Siofra to share the first few steps in the fresh show with.

Click images to enlarge.

She was pretty happy to get outside and crunch around.

I will be available for snow shoot in the next few days.

Birth photography discount

My first discount of the new year is on birth photography. Up until now the births I have photographed have been home-births but I am available to photograph where ever you are planning to birth your baby.

The intensity and emotion is so powerful during these shoots I just want to do more. Birth photography is priced a little different than most of my other sessions. It is done in a documentary style. Although one may not want large prints of all the images on the wall most people would like a copy of each image to tell the story from start to finish, so I give the client a disc with all the images (usually in B&W, some color additions) so they can then make an album or book. The fee is usually $600, birth can take a long time, but for anyone planning a Jan or Feb birth I am offering it for $400. If you are interested drop me a line to discuss the details of how it all works. Since one usually doesn't know when the baby is going to say the time is right, we have to makes plans so we're all in the right place at the right time.

Pricing for Fine Art prints has come down a little this year. I will also be adding framing and archival mats to my products since a lot of you ask about framing. Check back in Feb to see example of what I have to offer.