Holiday Mini sessions are back! With so many calls and inquires about them I looked deep into my calendar and found 2 days that will work. All of the information is below, but please feel free to call or email me if you have additional questions. I look forward to another fun fall & holiday season.
Often when clients are ordering portraits they are doing so with the idea of creating a collage of images on a wall or walls within their home. I receive calls and emails asking me the best way to hang these images quite frequently. I’ve always said to use craft paper, trace the frame, cut out the frame, tape them to the wall until things are where you’d like them, then proceed to measure and pound your nails and hang. HOWEVER… I found this great tutorial using wax paper that I thought was worth passing along. I love that you can see through the wax paper to make sure you mark where the hanging mechanism is on the frame exactly without having to measure, what a smart idea!
Marissa over at Roost-Home has a long hallway that needed a sprucing up so she created this method and it worked great for her. Hopefully it will work equally as well for all of you. I plan on doing this when I finally get around to finishing up my great-room wall.
Happy Hanging!
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This one, she belongs to me. We made another trek out to the orchard late last week, with a little promise of dinner out my daughter Grace tagged along. It’s been a few months since I’ve taken some images of her so this was the perfect opportunity to grab a few new ones. While we focused a lot on the little ones, I did take the time to grab some of Gracie. She’s growing so quickly, there’s a good chance she’ll pass me up soon. It’s hard to believe she’ll be in 5th grade in the fall, when they say time flies they aren’t lying. Babies grow up to be toddlers, toddlers grow up to be children, children grow to be tweens, tweens migrate into teenhood and eventually you have young adults on your hands. I know I can’t stop time, but with the thousands of pictures I have of my children I’ll always be able to look back and remember the moments.
If there is one piece of advice I can give you it’s take your camera with you. It’s easier now than it was 10 years ago, because nearly everyone has a cell phone and so many of them have fairly decent camera’s attached. You won’t be able to blow those images up for the walls but they’re great for the photo albums and scrapbooks. If your cell phone camera isn’t great (my 1st generation iPhone camera is really bad), invest in a cheap point and shoot to leave in your purse, car, diaper bag etc. Every day moments are the ones you’ll cherish down the road, you’ll want to remember your child climbing up the ladder for the slide, or chasing the dog through the yard, peering at you through the badly fingerprinted plastic bubble at McDonald’s playland. I encourage you to think of these things when scheduling your portrait session too. Don’t be afraid to ask your photographer to come to your favorite park to capture images of you child playing, or to your home to get portraits of your child in their room, or taking a nap, what about on Grandma or Grandpa’s lap listening to a book being read to them. I wish I had taken more of those images while my babies were still babies.
Grace 10 years 5 months.
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these are gorgeous!!!
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is soooooooo beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stacy…she is STUNNING!!!! And I just love her style:) Not to mention, your shots are amazing as always!!
Oh Miss Grace, you are such a beauty!! Amazing work, Stac. How did our kids grow so quickly??
A few side by side images of Kimberly in the orchard one year ago and now with Baby Amelia.
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I LOVE them!!! I am so grateful that you captured this beautiful moments in our life. I will treasure them Forever!!!!
A little over a year ago as a friend and fellow photographer was expecting her 4th baby we started discussing options for her maternity portraits. We both had some great ideas, things we wanted to try, something out of the box, images that were fun and full of her expanding belly but not necessarily the “typical” maternity images. Over the course of 4 or 5 sessions we conquered them all. We planned, we schemed, we flew by the seat of our pants and we had a blast every single time. It was during these sessions we started discussing birth photography. Kimberly had had 3 quick and “easy” labors already and the thoughts of a home birth were getting stronger. We had talked about me photographing her 3rd delivery but as her due date approached it was decided it just wasn’t the right time. This time around we both agreed with her being at home it would be less intrusive and for me the chance of a life time. I had 2 c-sections so being able to be there for a “normal” birth was an amazing thing for me alone, much less being able to capture the images of Kimberly as she progressed through labor and then the first few minutes of baby Amelia. These are moments I was so very thankful to be a part of. I’m certain if every woman had that labor experience there would be a lot more babies in the world. Yesterday we came full circle. Kimberly and I returned to the orchard where I took the first maternity images to capture images of Amelia as she quickly approaches her first birthday. We’ve been waiting for the apple trees to blossom, every few days we’d check in with each other to see if there were any blooms on the trees yet. Over the weekend the first few blossoms started to sprout, knowing there are only a few days in which to photograph these beautiful trees we quickly made a plan to meet on Tuesday. It was a little on the cool side yesterday but the trees were beautiful, Amelia was amazingly patient with us as we put her in baskets and high chairs, tied cute birthday hats to her head and danced around like dorks to grab her attention (those trees are fascinating to a nearly 1 year old!). Thank you Kimberly for trusting me to capture all of these moments for you this past year. I am truly blessed and honored to have been there for Amelia’s first year.
Photographs and Video by Stacy Francis Photography, Music by Ashley Gramins
Full Circle from Stacy Peapenburg on Vimeo.
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LOVE THIS!!!! Beautiful!!
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