They call him "Dad"

Why? you ask? I did too. We photographed the local boys baseball teams this past Wednesday (the only decent day of the week!). This young gentleman has been playing baseball since his younger days. We have photographed him with the local team for the past 6 years. I alway remember him, as he truly IS a gentleman. I think the kids all look up to him, as a mentor of some sort. He is now a senior, and his way of being photographed for his last year on the team HAD to be different, so this is what he chose. I will miss him in the coming years. He was always so nice.

Now, onto these "snow days", if you are tired of this stuff, check out our web site at magicmomentsphotography.biz, click on the TRAVEL button, and catch a flight to somewhere warm. The Travel site is not only for our Brides and Grooms for honeymoons, but for family, friends and relatives. So keep our website in mind the next time you or a loved one has to travel. Our rates are comparable (if not cheeper) than the other on-line travel sites.

Until next time,

Keep Smiling

Thanks K (Career Day Student)

Today was spent with a young lady from our local school who had to spend a day with a business for her Careers class. It was a day well spent as we discussed many things. She had a lot of wonderful questions for me as well, such as: how do you spend your day?, Where do you photograph?, How do people hear about you?, etc, etc, etc.
As she was here, she witnessed my phone conversations with inquiring Brides, how I chat with them, get involved with them, etc. Then she was able to witness my phone conversation with a potential family wanting a family portrait created for them.
She was also able to get the real "picture" of what all goes into event photography on location. She helped with the loading of equipment, worked closely with the photographer and had many wonderful questions, all of which were very ligitimate questions of an inquiring mind.
At the end of the day, I and my husband felt very comfortable with her, and told her that she was more than welcome to come back for a day or more and "hang" with us for a FULL day and see what a photographic business is like during the REALLY busy season.
We hope to see more of her.
KS

What's with the White Stuff?

Ok, it's spring already, and it is time to get out and really enjoy the beautiful days that Minnesota can provide us with. This white stuff is just a teaser.

Senior season is upon us. If you should know of a student that will be graduating in the year of 2009, contact us. We will start with the sessions come the end of May. Our students that we photographed this past year during the summer of 2007 now have to get their announcements ordered. This young lady was one of our past clients the summer of 2007. She was fun to photograph. We had photographed her brother two years ago. It is so fun to get to know the family by photographing them as they grow up.

Hope you had a great weekend. I know I did. My sister was here for the weekend as we had a family gathering for my uncle who is turning 90 years old, and still doing great. Family is so important to me. I again want to remind you to get that family portrait done. As mentioned before, every two to three years is suggested!!!

Keep Smiling

Career Day Person

Yesterday I had the opportunity to chat with a young lady about learning a little more about the business of photography. She was calling from the school, in which the school requires students to contact a business of interest and spend 3-4 hours with that business. The date that the school requires these students to participate with a business is next Wednesday, April 9th. Well, this young lady will find out what it is like to go on location and photograph an event of sports. It just so happens to be that it will be with students she goes to school with, won't she be surprised?

Behind the scenes is a lot more than you can imagine. The post production of a session is more involved than you can imagine. This past Saturday, Wayne, my partner in this business held a session at a local venue to illustrate a little of what DOES go on before production of your image. Again, we are not the Walmart, Target, JC Penny, etc., in which we "print and go". There is always something special done to your image which shows we are professionals.

Attached is something fun that was created for a client. It is now in printing status, we do not have an image ready for you in just seconds. We take the time and care to produce a beautiful product for you.

KS

Anytime is good

This woman actually obtained this little girl just 3 months ago from over seas. She wanted so badly to have images of herself and her little one as if this little girl was actually born to her. The love is so deep, and "mommy" was so excited to have the images done. We have even created an actual portrait for her with all the little "toes, fingers, ears, nose, etc" into a collage.

So as I have indicated in my title, if you think that you are too late to have images of you and your little one created in this manner, you're wrong. Anytime is good. A child grows so quickly, and you will always enjoy the fact that you did at one time have these special "moments" created for years to treasure.

KS

Love is in the Air

Ok, you ask yourself, "What in the world in that?". Do you remember about a month ago when the Earth was between the Sun and the Moon? I took my camera out to photograph the "eclipse", but then I got a little creative. I opened the shutter of the camera, grabbed the image in the sky (moon) and drew a "heart" shape very slowly and this is what I got, but I drew the heart with my camera (with the shutter open) the normal way, not upside down...weird!!! Sometimes we, as a photographer like to try something just a little different. If you give us the time to create other than just the "norm", you'd be amazed at the results.

So again, this explains my "Love is in the Air" title. I love what I do, and yes I love my partner, my husband whom I work with in this business---so that is what the "heart" is symbolizing, as well.

Keep Smiling

Giggles

Looking at this image just makes me smile. This little girl has a beautiful smile. She is a very happy little girl as you can tell by this image.

We want you to know that when you come to our studio or we come on location to create your special image, we WILL have fun, we will make you smile, we will make you happy with what we create. Why go to the "Sears, JC Penny's, ProEx", etc. where you will be treated as a number? We go the extra step and spend time with you to create that something special. We have had many people come to us after trying those other "professional" locations as mentioned above as they WERE NOT happy with the service and quality. Oh yeah, they get a lot for cheaper, but now they know why. Give us a call. 763-295-2727. You will receive a FREE no obligation consultation.

Keep Smiling !!!