Calling All Vendors!

Hey guys and gals

I'm starting a new vendor page with my favorite vendors on there.  Please remind me of yourself if you are reading this.

Also, my brides and grooms, of past, present and future - do you have some other vendors you LOVED!?  Please let me know so I can talk with them and consider adding them in.

Whew! It has been a busy spring!

Seems like every time I sit down to write a blog entry I remember something else that needs to be done!  I didn't want to let it go much longer, though so here's a short recap to let you know what we have been up to. 

If you haven't heard, we have lots of new and exciting props and products we are offering!  I blogged about our new "antique" wooden floor prop - it's been getting A LOT of attention- seems everyone likes it as much as we do!  It's great for baby sessions - set a wooden bowl on it, fluff a soft cozy blanket inside and baby gets to relax comfortably while getting his/her picture taken.  These make great sepia toned images as well as natural color - the skin tones contrasts beautifully with the brown tones.  Here are a few examples of our favorites:

Recently, I had asked Melissa and Heather to come up with some ideas for session props and while the collection keeps growing (they are shop-a-holics!) some of our new props include adorable baby cocoons, hammocks and slings for newborns, knit caps, angel wings, baskets, and fabric backgrounds.  We are working on getting more cute hats and clothing props for older kids.  Melissa and Heather have some great ideas and are thoroughly enjoying the task of giving the studio a more "womanly" touch!

One of our new favorite products is Metal Prints - I have to admit these are REALLY neat!  You can have your image printed on brushed aluminum in either matte or glossy finish. We offer them in all our standard print sizes from 4x6 to 24x30, as well as circles, squares and decorative shapes.  We used circle metals to create a wall display in our studio:

 

 
The standard metal prints come mounted and ready to hang.  They stand about 1" off the wall.  Specialty shapes come as is, or you can have holes drilled and a ribbon laced through to hang it on the wall or use it as an ornament or gift decoration.  To get the full effect of how cool they are, you really need to see them in person - the pictures just don't do them justice!




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I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer so far and I look forward to sharing more exciting studio news with you in the coming weeks. 

Easter Cousins

It doesn't get any cuter than four little cousins all prettied up in spring dresses and posing for the camera!  Madalynn, Morgan, Skylar and Jenna certainly were not shy for their Easter portrait session!  Their brightly colored dresses were a nice contrast to our new wood floor prop, and they had fun playing, laughing and getting their pictures taken.

New Hardwood Floor Photo Prop!

Being inspired by his friend and colleague, Steve Seebeck’s hardwood floor prop, Tim decided he needed one of these gorgeous floors for the Artisan studio. 

You can buy these floors specifically made for photography, but seeing as Tim is an artist in many regards, he couldn’t help but build his own! Growing up having a father gifted in carpentry as well as fine arts obviously rubbed off on Tim – the floor looks fantastic and it’s not even finished yet! While he had fun constructing his new prop, it was a lot of hard work – he spent hours cutting, scoring, scraping, adding raised pieces and sanding it down again to give the floor character and it’s one of kind antique feel.

Of course, I thought it was only appropriate that I sneak out to snap a few surprise pictures of the craftsman hard at work!

 

The floor is almost finished and when it is, Tim is going to be giving away a few sample sessions – if you would like to be one of the lucky few to receive a free sample session on the new hardwood floor prop, give us a call. We will only be doing 2-3 sample sessions, so don’t wait!

 

Clients get creative with our work!

Julie and Andy came in for a newborn session with their adorable baby girl, Claire. They were a fantastic family to work with, and we were impressed with their creative display of their final images! They sent us a picture of how they used alternating black and white mats to make a more interesting composition of the frames. We would love to see more examples of how our client's display their photos, so send them in to us and we may feature it on our blog. Thanks Julie and Andy! We love it!