Saturday, June 9, 2007

Congrats Brian and Kara!!!

Today we were privileged to be able to capture the wedding celebration of
Kara and Brian.
We had alot of fun with them. They were so great to work with.
Thank you guys for being soo fun and willing to be silly.
From sneaking in to "off limit" places ;-), to playing in the water and (for some)...jumping with your pants around your ankles ...it was a great day. We were happy to be apart of it!! May God truly bless your marriage for years to come!!











This is my Favorite...there is at least one clown in every bunch!!! This week there were 8!!! ;-)







Thursday, June 7, 2007

God's Hugs!!!

I feel like a little kid...getting excited over something soo small but....there are times in this business when you just need to be reminded that you are doing a great job....It is always great to hear from my clients and I LOVE when God sends Little hugs my way. At least that is the way I look at it. He knows just when to boost my ego or remind me I am doing a great job. Just when I start to wonder am I doing a good job, does anyone notice, and so on....God sends me one of his Hugs!! Here are two "Hugs" He has sent me recently!

God's Hug #1
Channel 20 is doing a wedding show this weekend that will be aired 3 times and the guy in charge of getting different area wedding vendor to participate saw our display up at the mall and loved it and called to ask if we would be the featured Wedding Photographer/Videographer for the show. Of course we said YES!! We are so excited that of all the photographers he could have asked, he called us. And now the show is going to air in Springfield and Champaign. It is so fun that the little things can still tickle you pink. I know it is not a huge deal but how fun it is for all the bride and grooms who will have there pictures and video used in this segment. It was soooo hard to narrow all our footage and pictures down into a 3 minute segment. It was only suppose to be a 2 min segment but they loved the footage so much they asked us to do a 3 minute instead. So if you see if and your not in there we are really sorry we were in a crunch for time.

If you see the segmaent and email me " A Hug From God" (that is your feedback) I will send you a Gift Certificate to be used toward any of our packages.

And then after the Wedding Segment airs on Saturday we have decided to run some commercials focusing on our Senior Photography!! So if you are a Senior and we have taken your pictures look out because you could be on the commercial. I will let you know when they will air.

God's Hug #2

Then yesterday a lady in Rockford called and she is the coordinator for her area mall and saw our mall display and said our work was very creative and that they have nothing like that in there area would I be willing to expand and come up to there area and have a booth up there. She really wanted for us to have a display up there. I was very flattered but of course I declined. I am busy enough with my clients here let alone more 4 hours away. But she continued to ask and even asked if I would be apart of a photography expo they have once a year. I said I would think about that... maybe book a few weddings up in the Chicago land area would be fun. So even though I did not take on more work...I love that someone else thought our work was creative enough to ask me to do more and to expand our teritory.

Speaking of the mall display....We will updating the mall display in the next month...if anyone has any ideas for what we could do I would LOVE to hear it. Submit your ideas and if your idea is picked we have a special prize just for you!!

Thanks Brandy

Sara Senior Pictures 2nd Session

Here are few more of Sarah from our other session. She was so cute to capture. I love some of these pictures. Thanks Sarah I had a blast with you. Hope you love the pictures!!











Love is in the air!!!

Here are a few pictures from two engagement sessions. I am so excited about both of these weddings the couples are both amazing and it has been so much getting to know them and be apart of this special time with them!!!

Here is Melissa and Derick


And this is Kimberly and Aaron

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Mandy - A few more!!!

A Girl must Accessorize!!!!!



Mandy- CHS Senior Model

This is Mandy a terrific Senior from CHS. This session was absolutely a blast!!!! She is one of our Senior Models and boy does the camera love her!! I got the chance to capture her brothers senior pictures a couple of years ago and he too had that photogenic image. This was just one of the many model shoots we did for Mandy. Check out our gallery of pictures on the web-site to see more of Mandy's amazing smile!! www.creativecandids.net
Thanks Mandi for the fun photo shoot, rain, sun, splashing and all.
You need to be on a cover of a magazine!!!