Archive for the 'Travel' Category

Location Photography Travel Special: Orange County, California

Janet will be available to photograph your family, pregnant belly, or baby in Orange County, California July 17th, 19th and 20th . One hour sessions with unlimited exposures are $450. Add $200 per additional hour. Standard travel special rules apply, and there are still 2 slots available. Hope to see you there.

Next Travel Special: Cape Meares, Oregon

Our next travel special is coming up soon. Janet will be in Cape Meares, Oregon June 27th-30th. Take advantage of this beautiful location and have a fun filled session with Janet!

Travel portrait special: Anchorage, Alaska

Hurry! Janet will be in Anchorage, Alaska doing Alaska location portraits through June 7th! For information on how travel specials work, see our former post here.

Even getting here is beautiful

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Kentucky Portraits — Indulging in the Race Track or Rolling in Bluegrass

Join me for one or two of the final Kentucky portraits.
$450 each for one hour including unlimited exposures and a private website.

Still available on Friday May 16th

10AM - Overlooking the rolling glow-green hills surrounding Louisville.

5PM- An Hour at the Churchill Downs. Overlooking the track from a private box, surrounded by manicured grounds or the stables.

Book today for a sure bet!

Last chance to book a Kentucky session!

In case you haven’t been obsessively checking the “Travel & Local Specials” section of our website (and why not? :) ) Janet will be doing sessions on location in Louisville, Kentucky, May 8 through the 16th. There are still a few openings, but contact us ASAP to schedule a session (before she gets on the plane!)

Other current and upcoming specials:

Mother’s Day album special: Book by Mother’s Day (May 11) and receive 20% off an Uno-style coffee table book or coffee table album.

June 2-7: Portraits with Janet in Anchorage, Alaska

All of June: In honor of Pride month, LGBT/poly individuals and families receive 20% off sessions with Portrait Associate Jane P. (check out her portfolio under “Associates & Design” on the main website.) Weekend sessions are available, except the day of the parade (but if you find her there, I’m sure she’ll have a camera handy!). Portraits are in-studio and immediate environs only.

College girls 22 years later, on Nantucket. Successful after all these years.

Sipping fine champagne on the beaches of Nantucket. Sunset made to order. Five adult girls indulge in giggles and cameras- just like 22 years earlier living together, traveling and playing at being professional photographers. Claudia Kronenberg and I have emerged from RIT and our year photographing abroad as successful photographers on different coasts. Annie Wiswal Widger’s creation of Gentle Thunder Farms is an equestrian Shangri-La. With her big-heart humor, Annie leads trial rides and boards/owns 20 horses. She also runs a gift shop with all things equestrian. Both Anne Sarsfield Morton and Laura Zeffer have found their personal peace through meditation and self-awareness. Anne occasionally teaches meditation after years of running an on-line fine art gallery featuring her fellow Vermont artists. Laura meditates under the guidance of the late world-renown guru for peace, Sri Chin moi. Laura and I both live in Seattle now so get to run and swim together.

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Anne, Annie, Laura, Claudia

Five years until our next official reunion, we College and Europe-traveling friends are happily bonded for life.

Photographing Sizzling Las Vegas Wedding at the Green Valley Resort and Spa

A formula for wedding photography disaster? Men in black tuxes, women in long dresses, outside on a 107 degree day? Not so. After 15 years of dating, Jenny Tang and Luan Li were determined to have a fabulous wedding day. As temps rose, these folks kept their cool; attitude, that is. Not a complaint was heard. Playful natures intact, Jenny, Luan, 14 attendants and family showed their true colors, even inside of damp clothing. Spirits were NOT dampened though, and I can’t remember when I last experienced this much fun at a wedding. And I’ve been to many a fun wedding!

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Green Valley Ranch was also fabulous, from modern Mediterranean poolside to soothing main lobby, to generous balconied suite. Even hallways and side entrances were designed as if with photography in mind. And my God, the food. Eating is often a quick experience for me while working. Even so I couldn’t help but enjoy the steak cooked to perfection, the potato tower light and dramatic in presentation, but the lobster was the highlight. Having lobster served atop it shell made the dinning experience all the more divine.
Good taste was part of not only food, but most of all, in choice of friends. The wedding party clearly loves this couple and showed it every minute of this memorable wedding day.