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LAST DAY~~

Ok folks, get your orders in for prints and cds - today's the last day for the winter sale! I will be up late tonight checking emails and also getting all the nominations ready to be posted tomorrow on the blog for the 2009 Best OF contest. YAY!! I'm so excited! Can't wait to see what voting brings. Spread the word to friends and family to come put their votes in. The photos will be categorized and numbered so it will be easy to vote.

If you have ordered a CD from the CD sale I will have those ready for pickup by Wednesday of this week. If you live out of town I will be mailing your CD by Wednesday of this week.

If I haven't responded to you about an order, PLEASE resend it. I get many emails during the day and there's only one of me and many of you. I sometimes need the extra help!

Valentine's mini sessions went FABULOUS yesterday!!! What a great day for studio. The weather was horrible - I was so glad that it worked out that way. All the kids did wonderfully and I can't wait to get those pics edited and up for you guys to see. Next Saturday is Wright's Mill and Canton got changed due to the Super Bowl.

Spring minis are next on the list and they are going to happen over the course of two weekends. One weekend will be in the Madison/Reunion area and the other will be in the Brandon/Rez area. I will have specific locales picked out by next weekend along with the dates. Both spring weekends will be in March.

And lastly a few side notes - I am looking to tap into two new markets this year - daycares and seniors. Need your help though - I am looking for daycares in the area and do portraits in the spring and fall and that are maybe looking for a change. I have lots of ideas and will offer reasonable pricing and non-cheesy backdrops and ideas. For the senior market - I am looking for 4-6 soon to be seniors (current juniors) in the area to act as my senior reps for 2010/2011. This would include lots of freebies for them and would help me get my info out to friends, etc. Let me know if you know of any interested people.


Happy SUNDAY!!!

Profile picture etiquette and guidelines....

Lots of you guys are my fans on facebook and I will often post pics on facebook and tag clients in them. Please feel free to use these pics as your profile pictures - it's GREAT advertising for me. Only requirement is that my watermark stays in the picture. Please don't crop that part out. Let me know if you have any questions!!!! Happy weekend!

Murphy Family

Thanks Murphy Family for the fun session! The kids did great and I hope you all had a great time.

What beach???

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Now that the holidays are behind it is time to start thinking about summer and beach photos. I know, I know! It seems too soon, but.....people are already asking.

Last year I spent two weeks on the beach vacationing with family and did a total of about 15 sessions. It was great and those sweet families were fabulous guinea pigs! I learned so much about it and I can't wait to go back this year. My dilemma is where to go?? I will FOR SURE be in Orange Beach the first weekend of August. That's been decided and I'm leaning toward Destin/Sandestin in June. I would love some feedback on this because I want to be there for as many people as possible. Here's what I want to know - are you vacationing at the beach this year? Where do you plan on going? Orange Beach, Fort Morgan, Destin, Pensacola?? Do you plan on having beach portraits made?

My beach sessions this year will work like this:

$200 ($100 deposit required) ~ sessions will last one hour. No limit on the number of family members. Sessions will be scheduled for 7am and 7pm. Sunrise and sunset. No more than 2 sessions each day. Sessions will include a spiral bound proof book that includes all proofs and a cd with 10 images. Additional prints and packages may be purchased later.

Check back tomorrow for more contest nominations - I got behind on them due to Jackson's water "crisis" and the school shutdown situation. Thankfully, they went back today. Yay!!! Love them ~ precious angels. :)

First batch of nominations....

I will categorize these closer to February. I have a few more that will come up in a bit. So much fun!!

Update...contests and thanks!!

I'm very excited about how the contests are going so far. I will post the pics that were nominated tonight while I work. I can't wait to see how the voting goes in February. REMEMBER - We are currently nominating pictures, not voting yet. I will posts lots of reminders when that time comes and you can tell all your friends and family to drop by and vote. Also, I'm limiting nominations to one proof per gallery. Makes it easier and gets the best of the best on the blog. Tell your friends, too. I'm not sure if the messages are getting to everyone and I don't want to seem like a broken record with constant emails and FB updates. :)

I know most of you are on Facebook and I want to thank you all so much for "becoming fans" of my page. I am almost to the 500 member mark and that is just amazing to me!! I hope to hit 1000 by next year.

Have a great night!

Mauri

BEST of 2009 Contest...

This contest is for all sessions done in 2009. Here's how it works. I will have 4 divisions....

Best Smile (wins 11x14)

Best Eyes (wins 11x14)

Best Group (wins 11x14)

Best Style (wins 11x14)

Overall Winner (wins 16x20)

Contest will take nominations until the end of January and then February will be voting month. Awards will be given on March 1st. Email me with nominations, I will decide what division the pics will be placed in. Or comment here and I'll start adding them to the blog. When you nominate, tell me the gallery name and the proof number.

Have fun!!

FREE SESSION Contest!

First of two blog contests I'll be running in January and February....this one is easy...

Become a follower of this blog and you will be entered into a drawing for a free one hour on-location session in the spring.

This contest will end on February 14th and the winner will be announced that night.


It's that simple!!

Valentine's Mini Sessions!!! 2-for-1 SHARE the love!!

DATES ~ January 30th at the studio and February 6th at Wright's Mill in the morning and Canton in the afternoon.

Here's how it works ~~

Each person that signs up gets a 40 minute time slot. You can use that 40 minutes all for yourself or bring a friend and share the time slot and the session fee. I will have giant lollipops, colorful tutus and an array of hats and accessories.

COST ~ $50/session

Available times:

Studio (Saturday Jan30)
8:30 Anna Nelson
9:40 Myers
10:20 Patrick
11:00 Hayes
1:00 McDaniel/Brewer
1:40
2:20 Densmore
3:00 Hanks
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4:20

Wright's Mill (Saturday Feb6)
8:40 Fournet
9:20 Higbee
10:00 McKay/Ingram
11:20 Marshall
12:00 Childress

PACKAGES AVAILABLE!

$75
(2)5x7's
CD with 4 images

$100
(2)5x7's
(4)4x6's
CD with 8 images

$125
(2)5x7's
(4)4x6's
(1)8x10
CD with 10 images

Email me for a time slot!!!

CD Sale!!

In addition to my 15% off sale that I'm running in January, I'm also offering old sessions on cds....Here's how it works.....

2008 and older - $35 per gallery/session
2009 - entire session - $150; 10 images - $100; 7 images - $75; 5 images - $50

All images on cds are full sized files and can be used however you would like!!

THANKS so much and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

PICS from 2009...