Photographs and Fire

• January 14th, 2014 •

Photographs and fire just don’t play well together! You, like most people would probably say that after your family and pets, your photographs would be one of the first things you’d save in the event of a fire! The photographic memories of our kids growing up, with all of their (and our!) bad hair styles and crazy fashion choices are things we want to be able to remember and share with the next generations! Losing them to a fire or theft can be devastating!

Recently, one of my long-time clients, Christy, had a house fire. Praise the Lord, everyone escaped unharmed and after some renovations and repairs, they will, in the future, be able to move back into their home. However, many things were lost, including all of her family portraits. 🙁 She has been a client of mine for many years and when the firefighters were there, one of them commented on the loss of her family portraits. Her response: “It’s okay, we know the photographer!”

Yep, every single portrait I have taken of Christy and her family are safe! And we have worked together a lot over the last few years, so all of her family portraits, back to school portraits, ring dance portraits, portraits with Santa, Senior portraits, and more are safe and sound!!

When you book with me, I keep your portraits backed up in multiple places so in the event I were to have have a theft or house fire, your images will still be safe! (Think about it… are Sears, Picture People, Portrait Innovations and Walmart going to offer you that peace of mind? Nope!) When you have a house fire, I will work with you to make sure all of your past portraits will soon be back on display in your home!

(Sadly, the snapshots YOU have taken and stored in photo albums can still be lost though. So please don’t forget to save those digital copies in the “cloud” or on external hard drive that you leave in a fireproof safe.)

Please keep my friend Christy in your prayers and thoughts as she and her family transition through this difficult time of temporary housing, insurance claims, rebuilding and more.

(If you would like to help out Christy and her family, our church is taking donations to help them during this time! You can give at www.comegetfree.org and click on the “Join us in eGiving” icon. Just put “Christy Myers- Fire” in the Other category! Thank you so much from both Christy and myself!)

Here are a few images of Christy and her awesome family from when we first started working together to now! Soon her walls will be displaying some of these awesome memories once again!
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Welcome 2014

• January 10th, 2014 •

Here we are- already a 10 DAYS into the new year. It sure is moving fast isn’t it? I am so excited about this year but have SO much I need to have done yesterday!! Just a few things on the “To Do” list…

1. Helping my clients celebrate their birthdays with a special “Beautiful You” Birthday shoot each month!! Working on getting all the details and information now!

2. February is just around the corner… which means Valentine’s day!!! Scheduling Boudoir shoots, couple mini session and possibly even a children’s mini session too! So much LOVE to plan for… calendar get ready!

3. Paperwork, taxes and filing… yeah- i think it’s kinda boring too. But necessary to stay in business!

4. Lots of great marketing ideas for my Renew Shoots and my High School Seniors! So many ideas, so little time!!

5. New newsletters this year! I can’t wait to share them with you each month! They will be going out mid-month each month. If you weren’t getting them last year, they may have been going to spam… or you aren’t on my e-mail list! Just send me a message and I will get you on there!

6. Creating and perfecting my Baby’s First Year Plan. Capturing your baby from maternity to his/her first year is one of the things I love to do the most! I have a few little ones from last year about to celebrate their first birthdays and I have LOVED celebrating (and capturing) their milestones with them! I can’t wait for a whole new year of babies to photograph!

7. Classes, workshops, seminars! I am getting my calendar ready now for the next six months of classes, workshops and seminars that I will be attending and that I will be hosting! Can’t wait to learn and share!

8. Training new assistants! I am so blessed to have some great people helping me with all that comes with owning your own business!

As I work to get all of the above done, I am still making time to take, edit and share all your amazing images! I LOVE getting to capture all of your special moments and share in your joy! Here is a perfect little reminder of why I do what I do! Welcome Baby Brecken, the newest member of our photography family!

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(A little late) Wrap up of 2013!!

• January 6th, 2014 •

We have all said it multiple times these past few weeks, but WOW did this past year fly by! So fast in fact, it flew right past me and we are now FOUR days into the new year!! So, yes, I am late in sending out this 2013 wrap-up but I have decided to do it anyway, for you as much as for me! I love reflecting on the past- to see how much I’ve grown and to remember all the amazing people I photographed and portraits I created!

2013 was a year of faith for my family! As many of you know, my husband ended 2012 unemployed and we desperately needed a new start in his career. We prayed and talked for months and then made the difficult decision for my husband to go back to school fulltime while we relied on my photography business income to support our family. Talk about surprised and overwhelmed!!! While I LOVE my photography business, I wasn’t quite ready to be the sole provider for my family… but when God tells you to jump- you jump!! So we jumped and without surprise, God provided!!!

My business plan has always been to develop strong relationships with my clients, to be blessed enough to photograph families as they grow and experience life changes! And I was so very happy to strengthen some of those relationships this year as I photographed, weddings, graduations, pregnant mommies and newborn babies, sweet 16’s and more! Thanks so much to all of you who have been to see me again this year! You truly do make me do a little “happy dance” when you rebook me year after year!! Here are a few of my “favorite” shots of 2013 from some of you who have become so near and dear to my heart and who I now consider part of my photography “family!’

And just as exciting, I was able to photograph many NEW clients this year too! So many of you have referred and recommended me and I am so honored! I do not take it for granted when you tell your friends to visit me and I had sucha great time getting to know so many new amazing people! I am hoping that some of my new clients of 2013 will become repeat customers as well! Take a look at some of their, and my, favorite portraits!

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