For now, I will leave you with a couple of mini-sneak peeks that I will be blogging on here real soon.

My Charleston trip with Alin.

My trip to Fuquay-Varina for the High Grove tasting. (Amazing venue near Raleigh).

Tobi Lyn’s newborn session.

Some of my boys.

And of course my little princess.

A fun engagement session.

Some more of my kids

And last (but definitely not the least) a gorgeous prego mama!

All comin’ up soon!!

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And then as if that wasn’t exciting enough I noticed that Vintage Glam also posted it to their site this morning! Vintage Glam features some very neat vintage inspired and unique real weddings, so I urge you to go over there and take a visit. I subscribe to both blogs and I send all of my brides their links to get their daily fill of eye candy for their own wedding ideas. Thank you both Rock n’ Roll Bride & Vintage Glam! You guys are the best!

I tried pulling an all-nighter last night to get as much as I could done during that time frame and one of the things that I was working on was the start of my new Etsy store where I will be selling my fine art prints. Visit my fine art shop to see some of the prints that I am currently offering. Most of everything that I will be selling will be limited editions (no more than 10 of each print will be sold), and for $95 you can get a beautiful 16×24 print mounted on mat board and spray finished for protection! I have MANY MANY more to add to my shop this week so keep checking in!

Another thing I was working on was what this year’s Christmas promotion will be about. It will ONLY be available to those who have signed up for my newsletters and I won’t even announce it on my blog, nor on any other site. So if you want in on this AMAZING deal, I suggest you add yourselves either via the blog’s main page where it says: “Sign Up For My Email Newsletter!” or you can do it here:

After signing up, please tell all of your friends, family, and co-workers about this promotion. I will be collecting email from now until August 31st, 2009. I will then be sending out the email with the AMAZING Christmas Promotion Package to those who have signed up during that time frame. Christmas sessions will take place from September 14th, 2009 through November 21st, 2009 and spots will fill up very quickly. Sessions will done in a non-traditional and creative point of view with some photo journalistic flavor in there. Please DO look around my websites and blog to get a feel for the type of work that I do. I do consider myself an artist and by asking me to take pictures of everyone in matching black turtlenecks and jeans next to a tree and telling you to say cheese “altogether now”, just won’t work. Although I will honor your requests for a traditional family shot or two in the session, please be prepared to have fun, relax, be yourselves, and create some art together! Again, TELL EVERYONE to sign up!

Now on to the CONTEST! In order to enter, all you need to do is post a comment below with something funny. I LOVE to laugh. My favorite thing to do is laugh. Make me laugh and you may win…*drumroll* a FREE Christmas Promotion Package! Oh yea! While everyone else is paying for theirs (even though it’s a good deal), you will get yours FREE! I want to hear funny real-life stories, riddles, jokes, quotes -anything! Pass this along to everyone you know too! I will announce the winner on August 4th, 2009 at 9:00pm EST! I will be in Phoenix, AZ from November 12-November 16 which means that if you live in the Phoenix area, YOU CAN ENTER!

Thank you to everyone who follows the blog. I love reading all of the comments and emails that I get each day from everyone of you! Stay tuned for much more blogging this week! God bless, and have a beautiful week!!

I will also be on a MUCH NEEDED vacation from May 20-May30 where I will have no internet access, so I will not be able to answer any inquiries until I get back.

I have been getting MANY requests for 2010, ESPECIALLY for May 2010, so if you are a May 2010 bride, I would highly suggest getting in contact with me via email, phone, or in person to book your wedding date as soon as you can. I have also been getting an unusually high volume of requests for July, August, and October 2009 as well (procrastinators ; ) and I would also urge you brides with wedding dates that fall in that range to contact me as soon as possible.

So currently I’m sort of on “maternity leave” if you can really call it that. I’m not taking any new portrait sessions in May (except for one), but I still have a few album designs that I am trying to finish before I go on my vacation, AND tons of editing and ordering to finish as well. Also, June is mega-busy for me. I mean SUPER busy. With three weddings and one being out of state (8 day trip in AZ), and TONS of portrait sessions lined up, AND four kids to take care of… I would say it is definitely a busy month…but I can’t wait ; ) That means I will have many more blog postings during June and after wards. You will notice that there won’t be many blog posts for the month of May and that is because I am trying to focus on more “productive” things and get them finished before my vacation in June.

Anyway, the wedding promotion details are below once again, for those of you who need to see it again. I look forward to speaking with all of my future brides and hopefully meeting you as well!!!

Offer applies to any session fees, collections, products, and prints from my Portrait Photography Website.